Palestinians say Israeli troops kill three, including a child, at Gaza protest

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Palestinians say Israeli troops kill three, including a child, at Gaza protest

 

Demonstrators wave Palestinian flags during a protest calling for lifting the Israeli blockade on Gaza and demanding the right to return to their homeland, at the Israel-Gaza border fence in the southern Gaza Strip October 5, 2018. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

 

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed three Palestinians including a child at a border protest in Gaza on Friday, Palestinian officials said. The Israeli army said it was defending against members of the crowd who were throwing grenades and explosives at its soldiers.

 

Thousands of Palestinians had gathered for a weekly protest along Israel's border fence with the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the Islamist group Hamas.

 

Gaza's Health Ministry said three Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy, were shot dead by Israeli forces. At least 126 others were wounded by bullets, it said.

 

Israel's military said in a statement that some Palestinians were "throwing explosive devices and grenades, rolling burning tires and hurling rocks" at its soldiers and the border fence. A group even crossed the fence into Israel to throw grenades before returning to the Gaza Strip, it said.

 

No Israelis were wounded.

 

Israeli army gunfire has killed at least 195 Palestinians since the border protests began in March, Gaza medics say. An Israeli soldier has been killed by a Palestinian sniper. Tracts of Israeli land have been burnt up by incendiary materials flown over the border by kite or balloon.

 

Gaza protesters demand an end to an Israeli and Egyptian blockade and rights to lands that Palestinian families fled or were driven from on Israel’s founding in 1948.

 

Israel accuses Hamas of orchestrating the protests to provide cover for attacks and distract from Gaza’s economic plight, allegations it denies. Hamas seized control of Gaza from Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007 and has since fought three wars with Israel, most recently in 2014.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-10-06

[The manic]

The sad thing is the family of these cannon fodder kids, effectively killed by their own families, will be rewarded with a stipend. Thus not only are the terrorists motivated financially to kill Jews they benefit financially by letting their  children die as pawns.

[ezzra]

2 hours ago, The manic said:

The sad thing is the family of these cannon fodder kids, effectively killed by their own families, will be rewarded with a stipend. Thus not only are the terrorists motivated financially to kill Jews they benefit financially by letting their  children die as pawns.

The thing is that not even that is available now as Abbas placed a chokehold on all funds going to Gaza and Hamas as their biter feud escalates at the expense of their people and while Hamas is sqsquanders 100 million dollars in aid Iran sending every year on tunnels digging and arms to fight israel...

[ivor bigun]

What person in their right minds takes a child to a protest where they are throwing grenades and shooting? Just goes to show what sort of people the Palestinians are.

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[sanemax]

1 hour ago, ivor bigun said:

What person in their right minds takes a child to a protest where they are throwing grenades and shooting? Just goes to show what sort of people the Palestinians are.

Its good for publicity . 

[connda]

Video?

[radiochaser]

That reads more like guerrilla warfare than it does demonstrator protesting.

 

[baboon]

1 hour ago, ivor bigun said:

What person in their right minds takes a child to a protest where they are throwing grenades and shooting?

Desperate ones?

[ezzra]

30 minutes ago, baboon said:

Desperate ones?

Indeed, desperate one, terrified to raise a voice or to criticize Hamas which means one thing, being pulled from your bed in the dead of night never to seen again at worst, at best indefinite prison term, the same goes to the protestors who don't dare to say no...

[ivor bigun]

Desperate ones?

Stupid evil ones,would you risk your childs life,no decent person would

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[lanista]

Did they really have grenades or are the Israeli's saying whatever they want because they know DC will say nothing.

They can kill (murder) with impunity.

The silly Palestinian boys use sling shots but do they have real grenades??

[Morch]

1 hour ago, baboon said:

Desperate ones?

 

Calculated ones.

[metisdead]

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