[News] Israel kills children and protester despite ceasefire
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Israel kills children and protester despite ceasefire
Maureen Clare Murphy
<https://electronicintifada.net/people/maureen-clare-murphy> - 29
October 2018
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Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian protester in Gaza on
Monday, one day after killing three children in an airstrike.
Muhammad Abd al-Hay Abu Ubada, 27, was fatally shot
<https://twitter.com/press221/status/1056904507236515841> during a naval
march <http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=781636> in protest of
Israel’s air, sea and land blockade on Gaza, approaching its 12th year.
Eighty others were injured during the protests, including 15 wounded by
live fire. Seven medical workers, including volunteer paramedics, were
injured by live fire and tear gas, according to
<https://twitter.com/press221/status/1056937607882518528> Gaza’s health
ministry.
Video appears to show a medic who was shot in the leg on Monday:
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) October 29, 2018
<https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1056950174482923520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
Palestinians across Gaza also protested the killing of three teenage
boys in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday. Many demanded that Palestinian
resistance groups retaliate against Israel:
وقفة على مفترق حي الشجاعية شرق #غزة
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
قبل قليل لمطالبة المقاومة بالرد على جريمة قتل الأطفال الثلاثة يوم
أمس.#ذبحوا_الأطفال
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B0%D8%A8%D8%AD%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B7%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
pic.twitter.com/qiktEaJ9dC <https://t.co/qiktEaJ9dC>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) October 29, 2018
<https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1056972123070255104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
جانب من المسيرة التي خرجت في البريج وسط قطاع غزّة، لمطالبة المقاومة
بالرد على جريمة قتل الاحتلال لثلاثة أطفال بقصف الطيران#ذبحوا_الطفولة
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B0%D8%A8%D8%AD%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>#قتلوا_الطفولة
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D9%82%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
pic.twitter.com/xJnf4anB7x <https://t.co/xJnf4anB7x>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) October 29, 2018
<https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1056699636910571520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
"يا مقاوم يا حبيب..أضرب أضرب تل أبيب".. هتافات شبّان خلال مسيرة
عفوية غاضبة في شارع الهوجا شمال قطاع غزّة، عقب استشهاد ثلاثة أطفالٍ
بقصف الاحتلال#ذبحوا_الطفولة
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B0%D8%A8%D8%AD%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
pic.twitter.com/ifmALAC67a <https://t.co/ifmALAC67a>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) October 28, 2018
<https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1056676560214876160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
"لأطفال غزة الانتقام..يا سرايا ويا قسام".. هتاف الشبّان خلال مسيرة
عفوية غاضبة في مخيم جباليا شمال قطاع غزّة، تنديداً باستشهاد ثلاثة
أطفال بقصف الاحتلال شرق دير البلح#ذبحوا_الطفولة
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B0%D8%A8%D8%AD%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
pic.twitter.com/cg73xB6xZF <https://t.co/cg73xB6xZF>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) October 28, 2018
<https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1056680110227636224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
The children – identified as Khalid Bassam Mahmoud Abu Said, 14, Abd
al-Hamid Muhammad Abd al-Aziz Abu Thahir, 13, and Muhammad Ibrahim
Abdallah al-Satari, 15 – were struck by at least one missile near the
Gaza-Israel boundary fence east of Deir al-Balah, according to
<http://mezan.org/post/27096> Al Mezan, a rights group based in the
territory.
Israeli forces fired at paramedics and prevented them from reaching the
children, who were wounded by shrapnel throughout their bodies, for two
hours.
Israel stated
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-strikes-palestinians-trying-to-place-explosive-near-gaza-border-1.6601279>
that it had targeted a group of Palestinians who were attempting to
place an explosive device near the boundary fence.
That claim was rejected <http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=781633>
by the boys’ families, who said that the young friends were trapping
birds on land owned by one of the children’s families when they were hit.
Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization
executive committee, condemned
<http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=781630> the “deliberate”
killing of the children and appealed to the International Criminal Court
to investigate Israel’s “flagrant war crimes being committed against the
Palestinians.”
The UN’s Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov expressed his sympathies to
the boys’ families, saying “such tragedies must be avoided at all costs”:
My sympathies go out to the families of the 3 #Palestinian
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestinian?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
children killed yesterday as a result of an #Israeli
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israeli?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
airstrike in #Gaza
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>.
Such tragedies must be avoided at all costs. Children must be
protected, not exposed to #violence
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/violence?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
or put in danger @UNICEFpalestine
<https://twitter.com/UNICEFpalestine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> #UN
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/UN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
— Nickolay E. MLADENOV (@nmladenov) October 29, 2018
<https://twitter.com/nmladenov/status/1056881749223989248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
The killing of the three children came after intense military escalation
in Gaza overnight Friday.
Military escalation
Israeli warplanes struck dozens of sites across Gaza, including densely
populated areas, late Friday and early Saturday after armed groups in
Gaza fired rockets into Israel.
Israel’s air force said it hit 95 targets
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-strikes-80-hamas-targets-in-gaza-after-30-rockets-launched-at-south-1.6595018>
on Friday and Saturday before a ceasefire was reached between Israel and
Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian resistance and political group in Gaza.
Israeli officials attributed
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-gaza-rockets-are-result-of-internal-power-struggle-over-israel-agreement-1.6601103>
the rocket fire from Gaza to a power struggle between Islamic Jihad and
Hamas, which administers the internal affairs in the territory, and has
been involved with indirect talks with Israel to ease the blockade and
tensions along the boundary.
The Israeli military destroyed a four-story building in Gaza City that
it said served as Hamas’ general security forces headquarters. Israel
has taken the line that it will hold Hamas responsible for any fire from
Gaza even if it doesn’t believe the group is behind the launching of
rockets.
In addition to terrorizing Gaza’s civilian population and destroying
buildings, the bombing caused schools to suspend class
<http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=781611> on Saturday.
The Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza was damaged when Israeli
warplanes bombarded a nearby military training site. No injuries were
reported.
Photos showed damage to the hospital:
Indonesian Hospital in #Gaza
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
damaged after escalation in the vicinity last night. Vital health
services were disrupted, with seriously ill patients evacuated.
WHO calls for the protection of health facilities at all times.
Health care is #NotATarget
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/NotATarget?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>.
pic.twitter.com/oihEcnffLF <https://t.co/oihEcnffLF>
— WHO-oPt (@WHOoPt1) October 27, 2018
<https://twitter.com/WHOoPt1/status/1056237999132999681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
Gaza’s health ministry deplored
<https://www.facebook.com/Ashraf.ability/posts/1126639854180276> the
targeting of the area of the hospital, “causing serious material damage,
as well as terrorizing patients and medical crews,” and disrupting
operations at the facility.
COGAT, the bureaucratic arm of Israel’s military occupation, took to
social media
<https://twitter.com/cogat_israel/status/1056632718648315904> to defend
itself from accusations that it deliberately caused harm to a hospital.
“Israel does everything in its power to prevent damage to hospitals and
civilians, however, Palestinian terror groups continue to purposefully
place military sites containing weaponry adjacent to civilian
infrastructure,” COGAT claimed
<https://twitter.com/cogat_israel/status/1056632726579748865>.
During Israel’s 51-day bombardment of Gaza in summer 2014, however, 24
ambulances and 70 medical facilities were damaged or destroyed
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/video-did-israel-target-gazas-ambulances>
and 11 ambulance drivers and civil defense workers were killed.
In some cases, ambulances and facilities appear to have been
deliberately targeted by Israel.
The damage to the Indonesian Hospital comes one month after a school run
by the United Nations was hit by an Israeli artillery shell
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-kills-6-palestinians-24-hours>
in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.
COGAT decries damaged checkpoint
Meanwhile COGAT decried
<https://twitter.com/cogat_israel/status/1056109392008015873> damage
caused by Palestinian fire to the ambulance crossing at Erez checkpoint,
where the Israeli military controls movement of people in and out of the
Gaza Strip.
COGAT described
<https://twitter.com/cogat_israel/status/1056109398060400640> the
crossing as one through which “children in need of life-saving
treatment, terminally ill patients for whom this is their last hope to
extend their lives, and those in need of the progress of world medicine
to provide a response to their diseases, enter Israel on a daily basis.”
Israel denied exit permits to nearly 800 patients in Gaza during the
first seven months of 2018.
Palestinians in Gaza requiring treatment in the West Bank or Israel have
their cases referred to the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, which
pays for the treatment, and then on to Israel, which has the final say
in whether an individual may travel.
Patients who require multiple procedures and follow-up care are
repeatedly subjected to bureaucratic delays and sometimes even
interrogation and arrest at Erez checkpoint.
The result is that patients often die
<https://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-killer-bureaucracy/17226>
from diseases and conditions that could be treatable under normal
circumstances.
“They have not a single drop of compassion for children, the elderly, or
the unfortunate patients among them,” COGAT stated. “The terrorist
organizations harm the residents of Gaza, first and foremost.”
Last year, the World Health Organization documented
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/54-patients-died-waiting-israel-let-them-out-gaza>
that 54 Palestinians, most of them cancer patients, died while waiting
for Israel to let them out of Gaza for treatment, as the rate of
approvals issued by Israel fell to the lowest level since records began.
Meanwhile two Palestinians wounded during protests along the eastern
perimeter under the banner of the Great March of Return on Friday died
of their injuries <http://mezan.org/post/27092> over the weekend.
bringing to six the number of Palestinians fatally injured during the
day of protest
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-forces-kill-5-gaza-teeters-brink-war>.
Mujahid Ziyad Zaki Aqil, 24, from Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza,
died on Saturday after being shot in the thigh east of Bureij refugee
camp the previous day.
Yahya Bader Muhammad al-Hassanat, 37, from al-Mughraqa village in
central Gaza, died on Sunday after he was shot in the head east of
Bureij on Friday.
Al Mezan called on third states to end the siege on Gaza, which it
described as “the gateway to all its economic and social problems,” and
to take steps to ensure accountability for those suspected of having
been involved in violations of international law.
Electricity increases up to eight hours per day
On Sunday, the electricity company in Gaza announced
<http://maannews.net/Content.aspx?id=965579> that it would be providing
households with power for eight hours, followed by eight hours of
outage, an increase made possible by a donation from Qatar to pay for
fuel to run a third turbine at Gaza’s only generating plant.
For years, Palestinians in Gaza have had as little as two to four hours
of electricity per day.
With the 3rd turbine running, #Gaza
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>’s
Power Plant (GPP) is producing 74MW. The last time the GPP produced
this amount of electricity was in March 2017. https://t.co/5Pal8wk1yl
— UNSCO (@UNSCO_MEPP) October 28, 2018
<https://twitter.com/UNSCO_MEPP/status/1056569883541102593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
#BREAKING
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>:
As #Gaza
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>’s
Power Plant runs 3rd turbine, people see electricty supply increase
to 8 hrs. An opportunity that must not be wasted to de-escalate,
resolve all #humanitarian
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/humanitarian?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
issues and reunite #Palestinians
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestinians?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
under a single, democratic, national government. #UN
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/UN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
— Nickolay E. MLADENOV (@nmladenov) October 28, 2018
<https://twitter.com/nmladenov/status/1056534928773537797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
Gaza’s Great March of Return protests aim to end Israel’s siege, in
addition to demanding the right of Palestinian refugees to return to the
lands from which their families were expelled during, before and after
the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.
Two-thirds of Gaza’s population are refugees, many of them originating
from areas just beyond the boundary fence where the protests are held.
More than 225 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since 30 March,
which marked the launch of the Great March of Return protests. Around
170 of those killed were fatally injured during demonstrations,
including 33 children, one woman, two journalists, three paramedics and
four persons with disability, according to
<http://mezan.org/en/post/23304/Four%20Palestinian%20Protesters%20Killed%20and%20297%20Wounded%20by%20the%20Israeli%20Military%20at%20Friday%20Demonstrations%20in%20Gaza>
Al Mezan.
Israel announced that it would suspend operations at the Kerem Shalom
checkpoint, through which goods are transferred in and out of Gaza, on
Tuesday due to local elections.
The Israeli rights group Gisha stated
<https://twitter.com/Gisha_Access/status/1056850640285122560> that
“there is no justification for denying Gaza’s two million residents,
most of whom are children, access to … basic provisions” by closing the
checkpoint.
“The residents of Gaza have no possibility of participating in and
influencing the political system denying them the fundamental human
rights they deserve,” the group added
<https://twitter.com/Gisha_Access/status/1056850926856818689>.
On Monday Israeli protesters reportedly blocked a road
<http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=781628> leading to the
checkpoint in an attempt to prevent goods from entering Gaza.
Video shows dozens of trucks queued on the road leading to the
checkpoint on Monday:
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