Israeli troops kill Palestinian teen at Gaza protest, Palestinians say

 

Relatives of a Palestinian teenager who was killed near the border fence, mourn at the hospital in the southern Gaza Strip November 29, 2019. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

 

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian teenager near the border fence with the Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian officials said.

 

Israel's military said soldiers had been fending off Palestinians who had approached and tried to sabotage its security fence. The military also said the demonstrators threw a number of explosive devices.

 

Residents in Gaza said a few dozen Palestinians had approached the border fence, an area in which Israel's military, citing security concerns, enforces a "no go" zone. Some in the crowd hurled stones at the barrier, residents said.

 

One 16-year-old was killed and four other people were wounded by live fire, Gaza's health ministry said.

 

An Israeli army spokesman said soldiers had "identified a number of attempts to approach the fence as well as a number of attempts to sabotage it".

 

"Troops responded with riot dispersal means and 0.22 caliber rounds," the spokesman said. "A report regarding the death of a Palestinian is being looked into."

 

Israeli soldiers have been confronted by frequent Palestinian protests that often turn violent along the Gaza border.

They have used tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition against demonstrators who the military said hurled rocks or petrol bombs at them.

 

The organisers of those protests said they had called off this week's mass-demonstration, but a smaller crowd still gathered.

 

Egypt, Qatar and the United Nations have been working to keep the border calm.

 

Gaza officials say about 210 Palestinians have been killed since the weekly protests began in March 2018. In that time an Israeli soldier was shot dead by a Palestinian sniper along the frontier and another was killed during an undercover raid into Gaza.

 

(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Editing by Gareth Jones and Giles Elgood)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-11-30

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 tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition vs hurled rocks or petrol bombs.

RIP young man. 

38 minutes ago, Elfin said:

 tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition vs hurled rocks or petrol bombs.

RIP young man. 

Moral of the story, do not throw petrol bombs at a military person holding a rifle.

Simple realy.

7 hours ago, Elfin said:

 tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition vs hurled rocks or petrol bombs.

RIP young man. 

Tear gas, rubber bullets and live fire against rocks, petrol bombs, live fire, makeshift explosives, slingshots, pingpongball bombs and anything else available.

What was he doing there?

Probably paid to wreak havoc, try to reach the border to start slaughtering Jews.

Hope he burns in hell.

26 minutes ago, rhyddid said:

The incredible and unpunished genocide by the right wing Zionist Israeli forces it's going on on daily basis. The international media and governments community is always absent or null in denouncing 

the true tragedy happening to the Palestinian people. 

What genocide? 20 percent of Israeli citizens are Arab. 

 

Nothing wrong with fair criticism of Israeli government policies but if their actual policy is genocide they're remarkably incompetent at that.

it is pathetic, trying to use the Hollocaust of the 1940's to attack Israel, which actually, as you said, has a 20% Muslim Arab population, and the population of Gaza is increasing. 

 

It is the language of the those obsessed with Jews and Israel.

 

12 minutes ago, toast1 said:

it is pathetic, trying to use the Hollocaust of the 1940's to attack Israel, which actually, as you said, has a 20% Muslim Arab population, and the population of Gaza is increasing. 

 

It is the language of the those obsessed with Jews and Israel.

 

Where did he state anything about the holocaust?

 

Genocide is not exclusive to Jews.

32 minutes ago, Sujo said:

Where did he state anything about the holocaust?

 

Genocide is not exclusive to Jews.

Of course it isn't. 

Anyway describing Israeli government policy towards the Arabs as genocide is inaccurate hyperbole. 

I suggest that critics of Israeli government policies try to temper their rhetoric if they hope to win over any new people other than extremist Israel demonized.