[News] Israel kills teen, disabled man in Gaza protests
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https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-kills-teen-disabled-man-gaza-protests
Israel kills teen, disabled man in Gaza protests
Maureen Clare Murphy
<https://electronicintifada.net/people/maureen-clare-murphy> - 21
December 2018
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Israeli occupation forces shot and killed three Palestinians
<http://mezan.org/post/27454>, including a 16-year-old, during protests
in the Gaza Strip on Friday.
The slain boy, identified as Muhammad Mouin al-Jahjouh, was shot in the
neck.
Maher Atiyya Muhammad Yassin, a 40-year-old man with physical
disabilities resulting from polio, was killed by a live bullet to the
head. A photo of Yassin was published by Palestinian outlets following
the announcement of his death:
الشهيد ماهر عطية ياسين (40 عاماً) من النصيرات والذي ارتقى متأثراً
بإصابته شرق البريج وسط قطاع #غزة
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
جرّاء قمع قوات الاحتلال لفعاليات مسيرة العودة، اليوم.
pic.twitter.com/Q93fAMh4VF <https://t.co/Q93fAMh4VF>
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Abd al-Aziz Abu Sharia, 28, died after being shot in the stomach:
الشهيد عبد العزيز إبراهيم أبو شريعة (28 عاماً) من حيْ الصبرة والذي
ارتقى متأثراً بإصابته برصاص الاحتلال شرق مدينة #غزة
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>،
اليوم. pic.twitter.com/YPJhZKFHYJ <https://t.co/YPJhZKFHYJ>
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Gaza’s health ministry said
<https://twitter.com/press221/status/1076134822244945921> that 40 others
were injured by live fire during protests along Gaza’s eastern perimeter
on Friday, including two journalists and four paramedics.
Photojournalist Sami Misran was reported to have been hit by Israeli
gunfire in the leg while covering Friday’s protests east of Bureij,
central Gaza:
إصابة المصور الصحفي سامي مصران بطلق ناري في قدمه خلال تغطيته فعاليات
مسيرة العودة شرق مخيم البريج، وسط قطاع #غزة
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>.
pic.twitter.com/LpAQUs0eNA <https://t.co/LpAQUs0eNA>
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A camera belonging to The Electronic Intifada contributor
<https://electronicintifada.net/people/mohammed-asad> Mohammed Asad was
destroyed
<https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205038418435682&set=a.3438529657535&type=3&theater>
by an Israeli bullet during the protests.
This video shows smoke inside an ambulance after it was hit with a gas
canister east of Gaza City:
قوات الاحتلال تستهدف بشكل مباشر سيارة إسعاف بقنبلة غاز انفجرت
داخلها، شرق مدينة #غزة
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>.
pic.twitter.com/QQOuFj4ee1 <https://t.co/QQOuFj4ee1>
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Children killed
More than 175 Palestinians, including 35 children, have been killed
during Great March of Return protests along Gaza’s boundary with Israel
since their launch on 30 March.
The youngest among those killed was 4-year-old Ahmad Abu Abid
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/gaza-boy-4-dies-israeli-fire>,
who died on 11 December after having been struck by shrapnel while being
carried in his father’s arms four days earlier.
“Ahmad sustained injuries to his head, chest and abdomen which caused
his death,” according to
<https://www.dci-palestine.org/four_year_old_dies_of_shrapnel_wounds_from_israeli_forces_fire>
Defense for Children International Palestine.
“An MRI revealed that shrapnel had entered Ahmad’s brain through his
eye,” the group added.
Israeli occupation forces have killed more than one Palestinian child
per week on average during 2018.
Soldiers shot and killed Qasim Muhammad Ali al-Abbasi, 17, at a
checkpoint near Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority in the
occupied West Bank, on Thursday night.
The military claimed
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-shoots-dead-palestinian-injures-another-as-car-runs-west-bank-roadblock/>
that it opened fire on a car that ran through a roadblock.
Surviving passengers in the car said that the group was attempting to
reach Nablus when they realized they had accidentally turned onto a road
leading to an Israeli settlement.
Muhammad Hani al-Abbasi told the Ma’an News Agency
<http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=782141> that as the group tried
to get back to the main road, “we were chased by either Israeli soldiers
or settlers, we could barely see as there were not enough lights and it
was very dark.”
Muhammad added: “We were surrounded, they randomly opened fire at us, we
did not stop, we kept going fast, the vehicle’s glass broke and the
tires were punctured.”
Israeli soldiers forced the group out of the car and made them carry
Qasim out of the vehicle.
Muhammad said that Qasim was kept on the ground for an hour before being
transferred to an ambulance.
Qasim’s family in Silwan, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem, are
demanding <http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=782143> an
investigation into the teen’s death, including an autopsy. Israel is
withholding the boy’s body.
Israel is also withholding the body of Hamdan al-Arda
<https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-israel-refuses-to-return-body-of-palestinian-shot-by-soldiers-1.6765917>,
a 59-year-old businessman who was killed in the town of al-Bireh in the
Ramallah area last week, not far from where Qasim al-Abbasi was shot.
Israel claimed that al-Arda was killed as he attempted to attack
soldiers with his car but doubt was soon cast on that narrative.
An eyewitness told the Israeli daily /Haaretz/ that al-Arda was taken by
surprise by a large group of soldiers in the road as he was driving
towards his aluminum import business, where the military was
confiscating security cameras.
According to /Haaretz/, “When al-Arda approached in his car, the
soldiers who were either outside the shop or suddenly exited the shop
shouted at him, ‘Stop!,’ and aimed their rifles at him.
“Instead of braking, al-Arda pressed on the gas. The witness concluded
that he was startled and therefore pressed down on the wrong pedal.”
Four soldiers opened fire simultaneously at al-Arda. The military did
not allow Palestinian paramedics to approach al-Arda and his body was
taken away in an armored vehicle.
Soldiers prevented medics from reaching teen
Israeli forces also prevented medics from treating Mahmoud Nakhla
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium--1.6765800>, an
18-year-old shot and killed
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-forces-kill-teen-west-bank-crackdown>
in Jalazone refugee camp near Ramallah last week.
Nakhla was shot in the back by a soldier, according to a Palestinian
investigator with the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem.
An eyewitness saw a soldier nudge Nakhla with his foot, “apparently to
see if the teen was still alive,” /Haaretz/ reported.
“They then pulled up his shirt and pulled down his pants, apparently to
check whether the stone-throwing youth was a dangerous, booby-trapped
terrorist.”
The soldiers carried away Nakhla by his hands and feet, ignoring pleas
by Palestinian residents to provide access to the medics who had arrived
to the scene.
Soldiers only allowed an ambulance to approach after 15 minutes,
according to /Haaretz/.
“A video clip shows Nakhla raising one hand limply to the back of his
neck, proof that he was still alive,” the paper reported. “Half-naked,
he’s placed on a stretcher and put in the ambulance, which speeds off,
its siren wailing, to the Government Hospital in Ramallah.”
The teen died on the way to the hospital. Nakhla died from “loss of
blood after a bullet entered his lower back, struck his liver and hit a
main artery, damaging other internal organs.”
Israel claimed that soldiers had fired at “a Palestinian holding a
suspicious object.”
“Inconsistencies in the official Israeli narrative”
Both the businessman Hamdan al-Arda and the teen Mahmoud Nakhla were
killed during a week of increased violence in the West Bank in which
three additional Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers were killed.
A baby also died days after being born prematurely following the
shooting of his mother at a bus stop near the Ofra settlement.
Days later, soldiers reportedly killed Salah Barghouti, a 29-year-old
Palestinian suspected by Israel in the drive-by shooting in which the
woman in her seventh month of pregnancy was critically wounded and six
others were injured.
The Palestinian rights group Al-Haq stated
<https://twitter.com/alhaq_org/status/1075414585677701120> this week
that its documentation “indicates inconsistencies in the official
Israeli narrative.”
Eyewitnesses
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/netanyahu-promises-more-bloodshed-west-bank>
and a rights group
<http://www.addameer.org/publications/past-5-days-israel-kills-5-palestinians-and-arrests-187>
have said that Barghouti was alive when he was detained.
“The family has the right to be informed of the circumstances of
[Barghouti’s] arrest and detention and possible death,” Al-Haq stated.
“The lack of evidence to the effect that he has been killed amounts to
ill-treatment, collective punishment and enforced disappearance.”
Israel has named
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-palestinian-suspects-in-killing-of-soldiers-baby-said-to-be-brothers-1.6766259>
Salah Barghouti’s brother Asim as the gunman who killed two soldiers at
the Givat Assaf outpost near Ramallah last week. He is also suspected of
involvement in the shooting attack at Ofra.
Israeli forces raided the village of Kobar, where the Barghouti family
lives, and took measurements in preparation for the demolition of the
family’s home:
#شاهد
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%AF?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>|
جيش الاحتلال ينشر فيديو يتضمن عملية أخذ قياسات منازل منفذي العمليات
الأخيرة في عوفرا وجفعات آساف تمهيدا لهدمها.
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