On Calmest Friday Since the beginning of Return and Breaking Siege March, Israeli Forces Wound 52 Civilians, including 6 Children, 1 Woman and 2 Being Seriously Wounded | Palestinian Center for Human Rights
November 2, 2018
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On Friday afternoon, 02 November 2018, Israeli forces wounded 52 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children, 1 woman, and 2 being seriously wounded, in the peaceful demonstrations in eastern Gaza Strip despite the decreasing intensity of the demonstrations there and absence of many means usually used during the demonstrations since the beginning of the Return and Breaking the Siege March 7 months ago.
According to observations by PCHR’s fieldworkers, for the first time since the beginning of the Return March on 30 March 2018, the demonstrators abstained from setting fire to tires while almost completely the attempts to cross the border fence and throw stones and incendiary balloons were absent.
Though the demonstrations were around tens of meters away from the border fence, the Israeli forces who were stationed in sniper positions and military jeeps along the fence continued to open fire and fire teargas canisters at the demonstrators. The fieldworkers noticed that the Israeli forces exceedingly decreased opening fire at the demonstrators and activated the use of rubber bullets, but heavily fired teargas canisters, causing hundreds teargas inhalation. Moreover, some of those canisters reached the vicinity of the two field medical points in Khan Younis and al-Bureij refugee camps.
The relatively calm incidents translate the outcome of the Egyptian security delegation’s meeting with the Palestinian factions and Supreme National Authority of Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege which emphasized in a statement following the meeting held yesterday afternoon, 01 November 2018, in Gaza “the importance of maintaining the peaceful and popular nature of the demonstrations and their means that promote the national revitalization.” (...)