Israeli soldiers opened fire on three Palestinian civilians near a settlement west of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the Palestinian News and Info Agency reported. Badawi Khaled al-Masalma, 18, was seriously wounded and Palestinian medics were not allowed to approach him for several minutes. He later died.
Israeli mistaken attack on Gaza November 14 killed Yusra Sawarka and her sons Moath and Waseem, and seriously injured daughters Reem, Nermin, Noor, and Salem, the father of the children, Mohammad Salama Sawarka, 40, has succumbed to injuries. In all 9 members of the extended family were killed in the attack.
Palestinian militants fired two rockets deep into southern Israel from Gaza on Saturday, and the Israeli military responded with a number of air strikes on militant targets, shaking an already tenuous truce, Reuters reports. Sirens sounded in the middle of the night in Beersheba, the largest city in southern Israel, some 35 km (18 miles) from the Gaza border, warning of incoming fire.
After the Israeli army publicized soldiers cutting off their hair to help cancer patients, Sarah Leah Whitson of Human Rights Watch was among many who pointed out that the Israeli government prevents many cancer patients in Gaza from getting medical treatment.
“We won’t surrender to settler violence, and will stand with Palestinian farmers.” About 100 activists from Rabbis for Human Rights and an Israeli grassroots movement Standing Together sought to protect Palestinian farrmers harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank, but were driven out by the Israeli army and Border Police forces, the Jerusalem Post reports.
In Gaza on Friday, 95 Palestinian civilians, including 43 children, a woman, 2 paramedics and a journalist, were shot and injured by Israeli forces, who fired live rounds against peaceful Palestinian protesters at the 80th Great March of Return.
Some 51 Palestinians were injured on Thursday, by live and rubber bullets, with many cases of tear gas exposure reported, during violent confrontations with Israeli forces, as hundreds of Israeli settlers raided Joseph’s Tomb, to the east of Nablus.
Seventy-one Palestinian civilians, including 28 children, were injured due to Israeli soldiers’ excessive use of force against peaceful protesters at the 78th Great March of Return, yesterday, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported. Hundreds of civilians protested near the fence across the Gaza Strip. Some protesters attempted to throw stones, Molotov Cocktails and firecrackers at the Israeli forces.
Israeli forces attacked non-violent protesters in Gaza Friday, killing one Palestinian and wounding 57. The Palestinian protest organizers called this Friday’s protest the “Friday of 78 Children”, in honor of the 78 children killed by Israeli forces since the weekly marches began in March 2018.