The Daily Journalist.
Seven Palestinians, including a teenager, in the Gaza Strip have been killed by Israeli fire this afternoon and over 80 were injured in the incidents caused during a popular march organized after the Muslim Friday prayers to the Green Line as confirmed spokesman of the Ministry of Health Ashraf al Qidra.
It is the first Palestinians killed in Gaza during the escalation of violence between Palestinians and Israelis began on October 1. Mohammed al Regeb, 15, and Adnan Abu Alayan, 22, were shot dead by Israeli soldiers from the other side of the fence separating Gaza from Israel territory, in response to the throwing of stones Gazans gathered east of the town of Khan Younes (south).
Ahmad to Hirbawi, Shadi Dula and Abed al Waheidi, all 20, were killed in similar fashion on the east of Gaza City near an Israeli military post. Nahal Oz on the green line. The number of injured in the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources, amounts to more than 60.
The clashes started when demonstrators have come to the green line throwing stones at Israeli soldiers who responded with tear gas and firing weapons of fire. Four of the injured were in critical condition, one with a gunshot wound to the head, explained Al Qidra Efe.
“About 200 Palestinians have come close to the security fence, throwing stones and burning tires to the positions of the Israeli security forces “, said France Presse a spokeswoman for the Israeli army.
“Security forces have replicated firing on the main instigators to prevent their advance and to disperse the mob,” he added, pointing out that the incidents are ongoing. At Shifa Hospital in Gaza City more injured arrive of the Palestinians injured in the clashes and has declared a state of alarm.
All this comes in a new “Friday of Rage” in which the Palestinians were called to participate in protests against Israel, which keeps Gaza under a tight blockade since Hamas took power in 2006. While in the West Bank and East Jerusalem clashes continue in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, former prime minister of Hamas in Gaza, said in his Friday sermon that are prepared to fight this “Jerusalem Intifada”.
For its part, the second Palestinian Islamist movement with greater number of followers, Islamic Jihad in Palestine, celebrated Friday the 34th anniversary of its establishment with a march in Gaza City where representatives from all Palestinian factions were, including Fatah movement of Palestinian President Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas).
The Fatah official presence alongside other Palestinian Islamists and leftist parties in Gaza is almost unprecedented that only happened earlier in the protest organized by the assassination of Palestinian Dawabsha family, burned in an attack by settlers on the West Bank home.
