Saturday 10 October 2015

The Occupiers or the Occupied: Who is Responsible for the Violence?

Posted on October 9, 2015

Gaza – a bloody Friday

in Features, Gaza, In the Media, Reports October 9, 2015

9th October 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza team | Gaza, occupied Palestine

UPDATE – 8pm: 9 martyrs and close to 100 persons injured at today’s demonstration in Shijaia

Palestinians demonstrating in Gaza

Israeli forces as seen from Gaza

Palestinian man shot in the stomach by Israeli forces

Injured Palestinian carried to an ambulance

Injured Palestinian carried away

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UPDATE – as of 6 pm today: From Osama al Jaro, Public Relations head at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza: 6 dead, 60 injured, 11 injured under the age of 18. Israeli forces are using exploding bullets, fired at the chest and head.

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The situation in Gaza this Friday has taken an even more dramatic turn, when this morning a large group of young people were demonstrating in support of Jerusalem and against the occupation, near the border of the Strip, in Shishaia.

The unarmed rally was cowardly and violently attacked by Israeli snipers, killing at least four people and injuring more than forty. In some cases the gun shots were fired directly at the heads of the demonstrators.

Also in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, another rally was brutally repressed, this time two adolescents, 15 and 19 years old, were killed and the number of injured is around twelve.

This is cruelty towards the unarmed young people, exercising their right to protest against the brutal actions of the illegal Israeli occupation, as the Gaza Strip is surrounded by military turrets, tanks, drones and fences equipped with high technology. Therefore the Israeli soldiers, from their hidden and protected distance, set about to kill unarmed and defenseless Palestinian adolescents in cold blood – just for the pleasure of killing.