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Palestinians mass at Gaza border to mark protest anniversary

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

 

Palestinians gather as tear gas is fired by Israeli forces during a protest marking Land Day and the first anniversary of a surge of border protests, at the Israel-Gaza border fence east of Gaza City March 30, 2019. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

 

GAZA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied at the Israel-Gaza border on Saturday, facing off against Israeli tanks and troops on the first anniversary of the 'Great March of Return' demonstrations.

 

Israeli forces had massed the other side of the fortified frontier, with tensions already high after a rocket attack from Gaza and Israeli air strikes earlier in the week.

 

Four Palestinians were killed on Saturday, Gaza medical officials said. Three were 17-year-olds shot dead by Israeli troops while protesting, they said, adding another person was killed at an overnight protest hours before the main rally.

 

But Saturday's rally was smaller than expected, despite concerns that the anniversary would see a major escalation.

 

Loudspeakers at border protest camps played Palestinian nationalist songs and Hamas, the armed Islamist movement which controls Gaza, had ordered schools to shut for the day to encourage participation.

 

The protesters are demanding the end to a security blockade imposed on Gaza by Israel and Egypt, and want Palestinians to have the right to return to land from which their families fled or were forced to flee during Israel's founding in 1948.

 

Israel rejects any such return, saying that would eliminate its Jewish majority.

 

Hundreds of Palestinian men, some from Hamas, were deployed in bright orange vests to deter people from going near the fence. There was also less acrid black smoke swirling around with little sign of tyre-burning, as on previous weekends.

 

The Israeli military said there had been around 40,000 protesters, some hurling grenades and explosives.

 

Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Conricus, an Israeli military spokesman, said the day had "lots of rioters but significantly less violence", adding that it showed Hamas was able to stop violence when it wanted to.

 

But many protesters still managed to get near the border and throw stones at Israeli soldiers.

 

YEAR OF PROTEST

 

Around 200 Gazans have been killed by Israeli troops since the protests started on March 30 last year, according to Palestinian Health Ministry figures. An Israeli soldier was also killed by a Palestinian sniper.

 

"In a year I will finish school. My father is unemployed so I will be unable to go to university. Who is responsible? Israel," said 16-year-old protester Mohammed Ali.

 

"I don't know how many years will pass before our lives improve but we should continue (protests) as long as the occupation and the blockade exist."

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the protest was under close scrutiny at home in the build-up to Israeli elections on April 9.

 

The veteran Israeli leader faces a serious challenge from a centrist party led by a former general and pressure from hawkish allies in his right-wing coalition to be tough on security.

 

Netanyahu said the Israeli military's massive deployment had ensured violence at the protests remained relatively low.

 

TENSE BUILDUP

 

The week before the anniversary saw a flare-up of cross-border violence after a rocket fired from Gaza wounded seven Israelis north of Tel Aviv on Monday. In response, Israel launched a wave of air strikes and ramped up its forces at the border.

 

Egyptian mediators intervened to avoid further escalation, and to ease tensions by persuading Israel to lift restrictions on the movement of goods and people in and out of Gaza.

 

A long-standing Israeli-Egyptian blockade on Gaza is cited by humanitarian agencies as a key reason for impoverishment in the narrow coastal enclave, into which 2 million Palestinians are packed.

 

Hamas leaders said on Saturday progress had been made in the Egyptian talks but that they still had a list of demands from Israel.

 

"In the coming days we hope to conclude the negotiations and achieve a real breaking of the blockade," Yehya Sinwar, Hamas's leader in Gaza, told Reuters at one rally.

 

Israel seized Gaza in a 1967 war and pulled out its troops in 2005. It says the security blockade is necessary to stop weapons reaching Hamas, which has fought three wars with Israel and fired thousands of rockets at it in the past decade.

 

Israel's use of lethal force at the protests has drawn censure from the United Nations and human rights groups. U.N. investigators last week said Israeli forces might be guilty of war crimes for using excessive force.

 

Israel says its troops have no choice because they are trying to stop militants breaching the fence and attacking Israeli communities nearby. Palestinians have also launched incendiary balloons and kites into Israel.

 

March 30 also marks "Land Day", an annual commemoration of six Arab citizens of Israel who were killed by Israeli security forces during demonstrations over land confiscations in 1976.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-03-31

[malagateddy]

Ah..the inglorious hamas ordered schools to be shut in order that kids could participate in the demo.
In other words..we need patsies as we don't have the guts to do it ourselves!!!

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[BestB]

2 minutes ago, malagateddy said:

Ah..the inglorious hamas ordered schools to be shut in order that kids could participate in the demo.
In other words..we need patsies as we don't have the guts to do it ourselves!!!

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Also note they want blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt to be lifted yet not a single protest at Egyptian border.

 

OP stated after a rocket was fired into Israel where it was not A rocket but rocketS

[malagateddy]

Yip..they're rather selective re where they protest..strange??[emoji6]

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[dexterm]

OP..
"The protesters are demanding the end to a security blockade imposed on Gaza by Israel and Egypt, and want Palestinians to have the right to return to land from which their families fled or were forced to flee during Israel's founding in 1948.

Israel rejects any such return, saying that would eliminate its Jewish majority."

 

70% of Gazan Palestinians have families that were born in Israel. They have been ethnically cleaned by mainly European colonists. Refugees have a right to return to their homes. Not allowing them to return is a war crime. 

 

The only reason they refuse to allow Palestinians to return to their homes even in a gradual process with the most stringent security vetting is pure racism.

 

A state that can only maintain its racist supremacy over the majority indigenous Palestinians by killing them for protesting their civil and human rights, is doomed to fail ultimately. 
 

[JingerBen]

14 minutes ago, dexterm said:

OP..
"The protesters are demanding the end to a security blockade imposed on Gaza by Israel and Egypt, and want Palestinians to have the right to return to land from which their families fled or were forced to flee during Israel's founding in 1948.

Israel rejects any such return, saying that would eliminate its Jewish majority."

 

70% of Gazan Palestinians have families that were born in Israel. They have been ethnically cleaned by mainly European colonists. Refugees have a right to return to their homes. Not allowing them to return is a war crime. 

 

The only reason they refuse to allow Palestinians to return to their homes even in a gradual process with the most stringent security vetting is pure racism.

 

A state that can only maintain its racist supremacy over the majority indigenous Palestinians by killing them for protesting their civil and human rights, is doomed to fail ultimately. 
 

Some of those Palestinians still have their house keys.

[BestB]

20 minutes ago, dexterm said:

OP..
"The protesters are demanding the end to a security blockade imposed on Gaza by Israel and Egypt, and want Palestinians to have the right to return to land from which their families fled or were forced to flee during Israel's founding in 1948.

Israel rejects any such return, saying that would eliminate its Jewish majority."

 

70% of Gazan Palestinians have families that were born in Israel. They have been ethnically cleaned by mainly European colonists. Refugees have a right to return to their homes. Not allowing them to return is a war crime. 

 

The only reason they refuse to allow Palestinians to return to their homes even in a gradual process with the most stringent security vetting is pure racism.

 

A state that can only maintain its racist supremacy over the majority indigenous Palestinians by killing them for protesting their civil and human rights, is doomed to fail ultimately. 
 

As oppose to banging your head against the wall bound to succeed ????????????

[JingerBen]

3 hours ago, BestB said:

As oppose to banging your head against the wall bound to succeed ????????????

I totally agree.

As opposed to banging their heads against the wall, Palestinians should keep it non-violent and support the worldwide movement to impose comprehensive economic, academic, and cultural sanctions on the hardline Zionist regime until they live within their internationally recognized 1967 borders.

Stop stealing land and building illegal settlements to realize the old dream of Eretz Israel - it's not going to happen - the whole world is against you.

 

[BestB]

2 hours ago, JingerBen said:

I totally agree.

As opposed to banging their heads against the wall, Palestinians should keep it non-violent and support the worldwide movement to impose comprehensive economic, academic, and cultural sanctions on the hardline Zionist regime until they live within their internationally recognized 1967 borders.

Stop stealing land and building illegal settlements to realize the old dream of Eretz Israel - it's not going to happen - the whole world is against you.

 

Better yet do not start wars that you can not win and after loosing start crying ????

 

after all arab world has given to humanity so much????????????

[dexterm]

46 minutes ago, BestB said:

Better yet do not start wars that you can not win and after loosing start crying ????

 

after all arab world has given to humanity so much????????????

Israel has started every single war in the Arab Israeli conflict, apart from the 1973 war. And they started the violence in the OP Great March of Return a year ago this weekend murdering 15 peaceful protesters on the first day, and haven't stopped killing since.

 

Is this a Monty Python sketch?
Yeah, what have the Arabs ever done for us?..besides algebra astronomy algorithms medicine literature music..zero..yes they invented the zero sign too.
Try...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_world_contributions_to_Medieval_Europe

[BestB]

42 minutes ago, dexterm said:

Israel has started every single war in the Arab Israeli conflict, apart from the 1973 war. And they started the violence in the OP Great March of Return a year ago this weekend murdering 15 peaceful protesters on the first day, and haven't stopped killing since.

 

Is this a Monty Python sketch?
Yeah, what have the Arabs ever done for us?..besides algebra astronomy algorithms medicine literature music..zero..yes they invented the zero sign too.
Try...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_world_contributions_to_Medieval_Europe

Of course ????????????