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A10 WORLD NEWS
Saturday 9 June 2018
Palestinians killed in protest near Gaza-Israeli border

By FARES AKRAM been reinforced along the
Associated Press border.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip The military escorted
(AP) — Israeli troops fired journalists to a sniper
live rounds and tear gas as position along the fence
thousands of Palestinians along Gaza's northeast
protested near the Gaza border. Crowds of several
border fence Friday, and dozen Palestinians could
at least four demonstrators be seen approaching the
were killed, including a fence constantly, as soldiers
teenage boy, with over fired tear gas to scatter
600 wounded, Gaza health them. Some Palestinians
officials said. launched kites rigged with
More than 100 of the incendiary devices, which
wounded, including a were intercepted by small
photographer for the military drones. Snipers,
French news agency perched about 50 meters
Agence Press France, (yards) from the fence and
were hit by live fire, the protected by sandbags
officials added, as the and concrete barriers,
demonstrators burned frequently fired warning
tires, threw stones and flew shots into the air.
flaming kites in the latest in The mass protests have
a series of mass protests to been aimed at a border
call attention to a decade- blockade imposed by
old blockade of Gaza by Israel and Egypt in 2007,
Israel and Egypt. Israel says after the Islamic militant
Gaza's Hamas leaders are group Hamas overran the
using the protests as cover territory. The marchers have
to carry out attacks. also pressed demands
Late Friday, Israel said for a "right of return" for
Gaza militants opened fire descendants of Palestinian
and struck an Israeli military refugees to ancestral
post. No injuries were homes in what is now Israel.
reported. More than 700,000
The march coincided with Palestinians were expelled
the annual "Jerusalem or fled in the 1948 Mideast
Day," instituted by Iran to Palestinian medics and protesters evacuate a wounded youth near the Gaza Strip's war over Israel's creation.
protest Israeli rule of the border with Israel, during a protest east of Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip, Friday, June 8, Two-thirds of Gaza's 2 million
holy city. Israel and Iran 2018. residents are descendants
have been archenemies Associated Press of refugees.
since Tehran's 1979 Islamic Protester Fadi Saleh said
Revolution. Agence France-Presse said groups walked closer to it. suffering and the Holocaust the frequent marches have
In the capitals of Iran and one of its photographers, In a camp east of Gaza was bound to draw angry helped revive sympathies
Iraq, thousands of Shiite Mohammed Abed al- City, activists burned tires, reactions. Israel was in the Arab world for the
Muslims marked Jerusalem Baba, was wounded at a releasing black smoke. established in the wake Palestinians, but that more
Day with protests, with mass rally after Israeli forces Others threw stones or of the Holocaust, marks could be done.
some chanting "Death to opened fire. AFP said al- flew kites with burning rags an annual remembrance "We need real Arab
Israel" or burning Israeli flags Baba was wearing a press attached, aiming to send day for the 6 million Jews support and solidarity with
and effigies of President vest and helmet about 200 them over the border and killed by the Nazis and is our cause," said Saleh, a
Donald Trump. meters (yards) from the set Israeli fields on fire. home to the world's largest student of Arabic literature
Since the near-weekly border when hurt. Israeli troops fired volleys population of Holocaust who wore a medical mask
protests began on It said he was wounded of tear gas, including from survivors. against the tear gas.q
March 30, more than 120 below the knee while drones, that sent protesters In a statement, the Israeli
Palestinians have been trying to take a photo of running for cover. military said protesters
killed and over 3,800 a wounded protester after One man with a bullhorn had launched dozens of
wounded by Israeli army Israeli troops opened fire. shouted, "America is the kites and balloons with
fire. The overwhelming The photographer's injury biggest evil." explosives toward Israel.
majority of the dead and was not life-threatening, At one point, seven activists It also said a number of
wounded have been but he was to undergo in black-and-white striped "explosive devices and
unarmed, according to surgery. shirts meant to resemble a grenade" were hurled
Gaza health officials. Israel's military had no concentration camp during the protests and
Among the dead Friday comment on the incident. uniforms from World War II later said the military post
was 15-year-old Haitham After Muslim prayers at approached the fence. had been struck by gunfire.
al-Jamal. His family said he noon Friday, thousands of "We want to remind the "At the expense of the
was taking part in a protest Gaza residents streamed world that the Israeli people of Gaza, the Hamas
in Rafah, in southern Gaza, toward five protest tent occupation is committing terrorist organization
when he was shot. A total camps that were erected the same massacres that continues using terror in
of 12 children under age more than two months the Nazis committed," said order to damage security
16 have been killed in the ago, each several hundred activist Ahmed Abu Artima. infrastructure and harm
protests. meters (yards) from the The attempt to draw a security forces," it said,
French news agency fence. From there, smaller parallel between Gaza's adding that troops had