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<h1 class="reader-title">Israel kills teen, disabled man in Gaza
protests</h1>
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<span class="field field-author"><a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/people/maureen-clare-murphy">Maureen
Clare Murphy</a></span> <span class="field field-blog">-</span>
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content="2018-12-21T22:38:31+00:00">21 December 2018</span></span>
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<p>Israeli occupation forces <a
href="http://mezan.org/post/27454">shot and killed
three Palestinians</a>, including a 16-year-old,
during protests in the Gaza Strip on Friday.</p>
<p>The slain boy, identified as Muhammad Mouin
al-Jahjouh, was shot in the neck.</p>
<p>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:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">الشهيد ماهر عطية ياسين (40
عاماً) من النصيرات والذي ارتقى متأثراً بإصابته
شرق البريج وسط قطاع <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#غزة</a>
جرّاء قمع قوات الاحتلال لفعاليات مسيرة العودة،
اليوم. <a href="https://t.co/Q93fAMh4VF">pic.twitter.com/Q93fAMh4VF</a></p>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1076217057979629569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December
21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<p>Abd al-Aziz Abu Sharia, 28, died after being shot in
the stomach:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">الشهيد عبد العزيز إبراهيم
أبو شريعة (28 عاماً) من حيْ الصبرة والذي ارتقى
متأثراً بإصابته برصاص الاحتلال شرق مدينة <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#غزة</a>،
اليوم. <a href="https://t.co/YPJhZKFHYJ">pic.twitter.com/YPJhZKFHYJ</a></p>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1076211677232803841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December
21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<p>Gaza’s health ministry <a
href="https://twitter.com/press221/status/1076134822244945921">said</a>
that 40 others were injured by live fire during
protests along Gaza’s eastern perimeter on Friday,
including two journalists and four paramedics.</p>
<p>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:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">إصابة المصور الصحفي سامي
مصران بطلق ناري في قدمه خلال تغطيته فعاليات
مسيرة العودة شرق مخيم البريج، وسط قطاع <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#غزة</a>.
<a href="https://t.co/LpAQUs0eNA">pic.twitter.com/LpAQUs0eNA</a></p>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1076094570222551041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December
21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<p>A camera belonging to The Electronic Intifada <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/people/mohammed-asad">contributor</a>
Mohammed Asad was <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205038418435682&set=a.3438529657535&type=3&theater">destroyed</a>
by an Israeli bullet during the protests.</p>
<p>This video shows smoke inside an ambulance after it
was hit with a gas canister east of Gaza City:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">قوات الاحتلال تستهدف بشكل
مباشر سيارة إسعاف بقنبلة غاز انفجرت داخلها، شرق
مدينة <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#غزة</a>.
<a href="https://t.co/QQOuFj4ee1">pic.twitter.com/QQOuFj4ee1</a></p>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1076127953170452481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December
21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<h2>Children killed</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The youngest among those killed was <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/gaza-boy-4-dies-israeli-fire">4-year-old
Ahmad Abu Abid</a>, who died on 11 December after
having been struck by shrapnel while being carried in
his father’s arms four days earlier.</p>
<p>“Ahmad sustained injuries to his head, chest and
abdomen which caused his death,” <a
href="https://www.dci-palestine.org/four_year_old_dies_of_shrapnel_wounds_from_israeli_forces_fire">according
to</a> Defense for Children International Palestine.</p>
<p>“An MRI revealed that shrapnel had entered Ahmad’s
brain through his eye,” the group added.</p>
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<p>Israeli occupation forces have killed more than one
Palestinian child per week on average during 2018.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The military <a
href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-shoots-dead-palestinian-injures-another-as-car-runs-west-bank-roadblock/">claimed</a>
that it opened fire on a car that ran through a
roadblock.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Muhammad Hani al-Abbasi <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=782141">told
the Ma’an News Agency</a> 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.”</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>Israeli soldiers forced the group out of the car and
made them carry Qasim out of the vehicle.</p>
<p>Muhammad said that Qasim was kept on the ground for
an hour before being transferred to an ambulance.</p>
<p>Qasim’s family in Silwan, a neighborhood in East
Jerusalem, are <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=782143">demanding</a>
an investigation into the teen’s death, including an
autopsy. Israel is withholding the boy’s body.</p>
<p>Israel is also <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-israel-refuses-to-return-body-of-palestinian-shot-by-soldiers-1.6765917">withholding
the body of Hamdan al-Arda</a>, 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.</p>
<p>Israel claimed that al-Arda was killed as he
attempted to attack soldiers with his car but doubt
was soon cast on that narrative.</p>
<p>An eyewitness told the Israeli daily <em>Haaretz</em>
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.</p>
<p>According to <em>Haaretz</em>, “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.</p>
<p>“Instead of braking, al-Arda pressed on the gas. The
witness concluded that he was startled and therefore
pressed down on the wrong pedal.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Soldiers prevented medics from reaching teen</h2>
<p>Israeli forces also <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium--1.6765800">prevented
medics from treating Mahmoud Nakhla</a>, an
18-year-old <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-forces-kill-teen-west-bank-crackdown">shot
and killed</a> in Jalazone refugee camp near
Ramallah last week.</p>
<p>Nakhla was shot in the back by a soldier, according
to a Palestinian investigator with the Israeli human
rights group B’Tselem.</p>
<p>An eyewitness saw a soldier nudge Nakhla with his
foot, “apparently to see if the teen was still alive,”
<em>Haaretz</em> reported.</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Soldiers only allowed an ambulance to approach after
15 minutes, according to <em>Haaretz</em>.</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>Israel claimed that soldiers had fired at “a
Palestinian holding a suspicious object.”</p>
<h2>“Inconsistencies in the official Israeli narrative”</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>A baby also died days after being born prematurely
following the shooting of his mother at a bus stop
near the Ofra settlement.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The Palestinian rights group Al-Haq <a
href="https://twitter.com/alhaq_org/status/1075414585677701120">stated</a>
this week that its documentation “indicates
inconsistencies in the official Israeli narrative.”</p>
<p><a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/netanyahu-promises-more-bloodshed-west-bank">Eyewitnesses</a>
and <a
href="http://www.addameer.org/publications/past-5-days-israel-kills-5-palestinians-and-arrests-187">a
rights group</a> have said that Barghouti was alive
when he was detained.</p>
<p>“The family has the right to be informed of the
circumstances of [Barghouti’s] arrest and detention
and possible death,” Al-Haq stated.</p>
<p>“The lack of evidence to the effect that he has been
killed amounts to ill-treatment, collective punishment
and enforced disappearance.”</p>
<p>Israel has <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-palestinian-suspects-in-killing-of-soldiers-baby-said-to-be-brothers-1.6766259">named</a>
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.</p>
<p>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:</p>
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جيش الاحتلال ينشر فيديو يتضمن عملية أخذ قياسات
منازل منفذي العمليات الأخيرة في عوفرا وجفعات
آساف تمهيدا لهدمها. <a
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— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1076019246277316608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December
21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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