[News] Israeli forces shoot down Gaza protester as warplanes launch new airstrikes

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  Israeli forces shoot down Gaza protester as warplanes launch new
  airstrikes

March 7, 2019
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GAZA/PNN/

Israeli Occupation Forces have fired at Palestinian protesters during a 
night-time protest in the Gaza Strip, killing a teenage boy, on the same 
night when the regime’s warplanes launched fresh airstrikes on the 
besieged enclave.

The 15-year-old boy, identified as Saif al-Deen Abu Zeid, was shot dead 
by the Israeli forces during a protest rally held in eastern Gaza on 
Wednesday night, medical sources in the enclave confirmed.

Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said that the boy died “due to 
the wounds he sustained a few hours ago.”

Several other Palestinian youngsters were also injured by live bullets.

The shooting came as Israeli warplanes also launched fresh air raids on 
the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis.

Israeli warplanes have in recent weeks increased their airstrikes on 
various parts of the besieged Strip, mostly targeting posts belonging to 
Hamas movement forces and their military wing, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam 
Brigades.

The killing of the Palestinian teen came a couple of weeks after the 
Israeli regime’s forces shot dead another Palestinian boy on February 22 
and injured dozens more in mass protests along the fence separating the 
besieged Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied territories.

The blockaded Gaza Strip has been witnessing tensions since last March 
following anti-occupation protests.

Palestinians have held weekly protests on the Gaza border since last 
year over the siege on the enclave and the right for refugees to return 
to their homes they were forcibly expelled from during the 1948 creation 
of Israel.

More than 260 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces ever since 
anti-occupation protest rallies began in the Gaza Strip on March 30, 
2018. Over 26,000 Palestinians have also sustained injuries.

The Gaza clashes reached their peak on May 14 last year, on the eve of 
the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day (Day of Catastrophe), which coincided 
with the US embassy relocation from Tel Aviv to occupied East Jerusalem.

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