Seven Palestinians were added today to the 199 killed during protests at the Gaza-Israel border throughout 29 successive weeks of the Great March of Return since the protests began March 30.
Another 250 were injured on Friday’s protest by the Israeli forces’ live fire, including one critically injured and five seriously wounded, the Gaza health ministry reported. Some 15,000 Palestinians were protesting at the border.
The soldiers killed five men east of Al-Bureij refugee camp. Young demonstrators were able to retrieve the bodies and they were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. The sixth was killed east of Rafah in the southern enclave, while the seventh was killed in the “Malaka” area east of Gaza City. Local sources said.
The seven victims identified so far are Ahmed Ibrahim Zaki al-Taweel (27), Mohammed Abdulhafiz Ismail (29), Ahmed Abu Naeem (17), Abdallah al-Daghma (25) Afifi Mahmoud Afifi (18) Tamer Abu Ermana (22) and Mohammed Abbas (21).
Through the thick black smoke of burning tires, the crowds that gathered at the eastern border of the Strip could see scores of young men dragging wire fencing away from the Israeli border.
Many of the protesters wore gas masks made out of soda cans and pieces of cloth, as tear gas rained down periodically.
At the scene, ambulances roared through the fields gathering the wounded. When there were not enough vehicles, demonstrators lifted wounded people in their arms or onto gurneys to move them out of the impasse.
Walking slowly with a cane along the Malaka fence, Suliman Abu Arar, 80, was urging the young protesters to move forward to the barbed wire. He said: “Go ahead sons, run closer to the wire.. seventy years being refugees are enough…Do not waste your youth life living in siege.”
Ali Masoud, 27, who was wounded in both legs earlier in June, says that what is happening is a really like a “hell day”. “I don’t know which way to run away from the bullets buzzing everywhere. We are living in hell in central Gaza, and here their bullets are chasing us beside the border like hunting ducks in a closed lake,” Masoud told Mondoweiss.
Since March, protesters have orchestrated near-weekly protests along the fence, pressing to lift a stifling Israel siege imposed 11 years ago.
Today’s protest ended by sunset, and Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced he had instructed that fuel deliveries to Gaza through Israel be halted because of violence at the border. Lieberman said that “Israeli will not tolerate a situation in which fuel tankers are allowed to enter Gaza on the one hand, while terror and violence are used against IDF soldiers and Israeli citizens on the other.”
Hamas’ chief, Ismail Haniyeh, said, “The determination of the Palestinian people will break the siege.”
Earlier Friday, Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar reported that Hamas had received a letter from the UN’s deputy envoy to the Middle East James McGoldrick, which includes terms to ease conditions in the Gaza Strip in order to prevent further tensions.
According to the report, Israel demands the freezing of the weekly Palestinian protests, known as the March of Return, which started in March, as well as ending all attempts to cross the border, launch incendiary balloons and kites, and return to the cease-fire conditions of the summer of 2014.
At the same time, Hamas demands a 50-megawatt increase in the supply of electricity to Gaza and a solution to the enclave’s electricity service problems. Other demands include expanding the fishing zone to 12 miles from the coast, and then to 20 miles as was agreed to in the 1990s; unlimited entry of goods to Gaza; exports of goods; and Israeli work permits for 5,000 Gazans.
The protesters are demanding an end to an Israeli and Egyptian blockade on the narrow coastal strip, which is home to around 2 million Gazans.
They also seek the right to return to lands that Palestinians fled or were driven from upon Israel’s founding in 1948.
By the nightfall, the old man who was staring at the almost deserted protest location told Mondoweiss that “One dreary day has been added on Gaza’s thousands of such days”.
Rabbinical Judaism features the god Moloch to whom children were sacrificed.
In modern Judaism Israel is Moloch.
For the record re Gaza:
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“Meet ten corporate giants helping Israel massacre Gaza protestors” Mint Press News, Oct. 12/18 by Joe Catron, Mint Press, Oct. 12/18
“As Israeli soldiers gun down unarmed Palestinian demonstrators in the Great March of Return, their lethal operations depend on an array of contractors and suppliers, many of them companies based outside Israel.”
“’The Israeli military relies on a network of international companies, supplying everything from sniper rifles to tear gas, to carry out its massacres of protesters in Gaza,’ Tom Anderson, a researcher for Corporate Occupation, told MintPress News. ‘These companies are knowingly supporting war crimes, and are complicit in state-orchestrated murder.’
“‘Since the mobilization began on March 30, Israeli forces have killed 205 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,’ the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory reported on October 4.
Caterpillar, Inc. – “Caterpillar is known internationally for Israel’s use of its bulldozers to demolish Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank and inside Israel itself, as well as for its role in the killing of Rachel Corrie, an International Solidarity Movement activist from the United States, who was crushed to death by one of the company’s Israel-operated machines in the southern Gaza Strip on March 16, 2003. In Gaza, Caterpillar is notorious for Israel’s deployment of its equipment to reinforce a military barrier around the Strip, as well as to level Palestinian farmland inside it. These leveling operations both destroy Palestinian agriculture, keeping Gaza a captive market for Israeli producers, and maintain a clear line of fire for Israeli soldiers to shoot Palestinians.”
Combined Systems, Inc. – “Combined Systems — a Jamestown, Pennsylvania-based manufacturer owned by Point Lookout Capital and the Carlyle Group — supplies light weaponry and security equipment, such as tear gas and flash grenades, to repressive governments worldwide. In May, Corporate Occupation researchers spotted an Israeli vehicle, with police markings but obviously intended for military use, equipped with the company’s ‘Venom’ tear gas launcher next to the Gaza barrier.”
Ford Motor Company – “While other manufacturers, like General Motors, also provide vehicles used by the Israeli army to deploy its soldiers along the Gaza barrier, Ford’s are distinctive for their creative use. In 2003, Israeli vehicle manufacturer Hatehof began retrofitting Ford F550 trucks as armored personnel carriers. By 2016, Israel had moved on to F350s, modified by Israeli military electronics company Elbit Systems as autonomous unmanned vehicles capable of remotely controlled fire.”
Monsanto – “Along with herbicides from the Dow Chemical Company and ADAMA Agricultural Solutions, an Israeli unit of China’s state-owned National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina), Israel sprays Bayer subsidiary Monsanto’s notorious Glyphosate (marketed as Roundup), a known human carcinogen, on Palestinian fields across its military barrier with Gaza several times annually. As does its deployment of Caterpillar bulldozers to level the same fields, the aerial application, conducted by two civilian Israeli companies under contract to the army, serves both Israeli economic and military interests — preventing Palestinian self-sufficiency in agriculture, while allowing its forces to easily detect and fire upon Palestinian farmers and other civilians using their own land.”
G4S plc – “Formerly one of Israel’s biggest occupation contractors, G4S sold its major Israeli subsidiary, G4S Israel, in 2016, but kept a stake in the construction and operation of Policity, Israel’s privatized national police academy. Israel claims that its police enjoy civilian status, but routinely deploys them in military operations against Palestinians in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, including their use of both Combined System’s ‘Venon’ tear-gas launcher and weaponized drones to repress the Great March of Return.”
Hewlett Packard – “Now three companies with interlocking operations — HP Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and DXC Technology — HP equips the Israeli military with computers and has undertaken contracts to ‘virtualize’ IDF operations, starting in 2007 with a pilot program for the Israeli navy, which enforces the blockade of Gaza.”
HSBC Bank plc – “HSBC provides extensive financing to some of the most notorious military manufacturers in the world, several of them Israeli.
“’HSBC holds over £800m worth of shares in, and is involved in syndicated loans worth over £19b to, companies that sell weapons and military equipment to the Israeli government,’ Huda Ammori, campaigns officer for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, told MintPress. ‘These investments include Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest private security firm, which markets its weapons as ‘field-tested,’ due to them being tested on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.’
“A leading drone manufacturer, Elbit has played a key role in aerial attacks on the Great March of Return.”
Motorola Solutions Inc. – “Motorola provides the encrypted smartphones the Israeli military uses to deploy soldiers, as well as radio and communications services for the Israeli police.”
Remington – “Among casualties of the Great March of Return, Amnesty International reports, some “wounds bear the hallmarks of U.S.-manufactured M24 Remington sniper rifles shooting 7.62mm hunting ammunition, which expand and mushroom inside the body,” along with others indicative of Israel Weapon Industries’ Tavor rifles. “In the United States this is sold as a hunting rifle to kill deer,” Brian Castner, a weapons specialist for the human-rights organization, said in April.”
Sabra Dipping Company, LLC – “The White Plains, New York-based food manufacturer, co-owned by PepsiCo and Israeli foodmaker Strauss, has donated food packages to the Israeli Army’s Golani Brigade, notorious for its human-rights abuses in both Gaza and the West Bank.”
“’We must channel our rage’ – As the Great March of Return, now in its 29th week, continues, participants and supporters say targeting firms complicit in its repression is one of the most effective means of solidarity.
‘We must channel our rage at Israel’s atrocities into effective actions to hold Israel accountable,’ the BDS National Committee said in a statement on April 12. ‘Together, we can escalate Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns.’
“‘Israel is meeting the Palestinian protesters with live fire, massacring over 190 Palestinians to date,’ Ammori told MintPress. ‘Israel’s racist discrimination and brutal violence is evident, and the campaign to end complicity is vital.’
“Joe Catron is a MintPress News journalist covering Palestine and Israel. He is also a solidarity activist and freelance reporter, recently returned to New York from Gaza, Palestine, where he lived for three and a half years. He has written frequently for Electronic Intifada and Middle East Eye, and co-edited The Prisoners’ Diaries: Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag, an anthology of accounts by detainees freed in the 2011 prisoner exchange.”
About an hour ago a rocket from Gaza hit Beersheva, not far from here. We’re Ok.
” provides the pretext for another mass slaughter of civilians in a year leading up to the israeli elections and torpedoes the current Egyptian endeavors?”
When it comes to pretexts with Israeli Zionists a photograph of a full moon can be evidenced as a bomb loaded Hamas “terrorist” balloon (apologies to David Niven).
Serial liars like leopards do not change their spots(Jeremiah 13:23)