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Israeli Troops Kill Gaza Protester
Israeli
soldiers have shot and killed a 19-year-old Palestinian during
a protest against a buffer zone being built between the eastern Gaza
Strip and Israel, Gaza medical officials have said.
Moaweya Hassanein, was shot in the abdomen, the head of Gaza's emergency services, told reporters.
He was evacuated to hospital in critical condition, where he later died of his wounds.
Apr 29, 2010
Israeli
soldiers have shot and killed a 19-year-old Palestinian during
a protest against a buffer zone being built between the eastern Gaza
Strip and Israel, Gaza medical officials have said.
Moaweya Hassanein, was shot in the abdomen, the head of Gaza's emergency services, told reporters.
He was evacuated to hospital in critical condition, where he later died of his wounds.
An Israeli
human rights group, B'Tselem, released video footage shot by one of its
Palestinian field workers, which showed a relative peaceful crowd of
several dozen demonstrators being taken by surprise by a gunshot
apparently fired by an Israeli soldier on the other side of the nearby
security fence on the Gaza-Israel border.
The Palestinian teenager who was shot is then seen being carried away on a stretcher.
No armed protesters could immediately be noticed in the unsteady video footage.
'War zone'
An Israeli military spokeswoman in Tel Aviv said the Israeli army was investigating the incident.
She
called that the protest had been violent, saying the protesters hurled
rocks at the soldiers guarding the border fence and "lit fires that
potentially could have damaged and reached the security fence".
"An
IDF [Israeli army] force operated in order to drive the group away from
the security fence, including firing warning shots," she told the
German Press-Agency DPA.
The buffer area, she argued, is considered a "war zone" used by armed groups to carry out attacks against Israel.
Palestinians say the aim of the peaceful protests is to prevent the
establishment of the zone which they say is resulting in large areas of
farmland being confiscated and farmers being prevented from reaching
their fields.
Gaza has seen relative calm since the end of Israel's devastating
three-week offensive on the Strip in the winter of 2008-2009 that left
at least 1,400 Palestinians killed.
Since the Gaza war, both
Israel and Hamas have largely observed an unwritten truce, but in
recent weeks fatal incidents in the area have increased, sparking some
fears among observers that they may build up to a new cycle of violence.
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Israeli
soldiers have shot and killed a 19-year-old Palestinian during
a protest against a buffer zone being built between the eastern Gaza
Strip and Israel, Gaza medical officials have said.
Moaweya Hassanein, was shot in the abdomen, the head of Gaza's emergency services, told reporters.
He was evacuated to hospital in critical condition, where he later died of his wounds.
An Israeli
human rights group, B'Tselem, released video footage shot by one of its
Palestinian field workers, which showed a relative peaceful crowd of
several dozen demonstrators being taken by surprise by a gunshot
apparently fired by an Israeli soldier on the other side of the nearby
security fence on the Gaza-Israel border.
The Palestinian teenager who was shot is then seen being carried away on a stretcher.
No armed protesters could immediately be noticed in the unsteady video footage.
'War zone'
An Israeli military spokeswoman in Tel Aviv said the Israeli army was investigating the incident.
She
called that the protest had been violent, saying the protesters hurled
rocks at the soldiers guarding the border fence and "lit fires that
potentially could have damaged and reached the security fence".
"An
IDF [Israeli army] force operated in order to drive the group away from
the security fence, including firing warning shots," she told the
German Press-Agency DPA.
The buffer area, she argued, is considered a "war zone" used by armed groups to carry out attacks against Israel.
Palestinians say the aim of the peaceful protests is to prevent the
establishment of the zone which they say is resulting in large areas of
farmland being confiscated and farmers being prevented from reaching
their fields.
Gaza has seen relative calm since the end of Israel's devastating
three-week offensive on the Strip in the winter of 2008-2009 that left
at least 1,400 Palestinians killed.
Since the Gaza war, both
Israel and Hamas have largely observed an unwritten truce, but in
recent weeks fatal incidents in the area have increased, sparking some
fears among observers that they may build up to a new cycle of violence.
Israeli
soldiers have shot and killed a 19-year-old Palestinian during
a protest against a buffer zone being built between the eastern Gaza
Strip and Israel, Gaza medical officials have said.
Moaweya Hassanein, was shot in the abdomen, the head of Gaza's emergency services, told reporters.
He was evacuated to hospital in critical condition, where he later died of his wounds.
An Israeli
human rights group, B'Tselem, released video footage shot by one of its
Palestinian field workers, which showed a relative peaceful crowd of
several dozen demonstrators being taken by surprise by a gunshot
apparently fired by an Israeli soldier on the other side of the nearby
security fence on the Gaza-Israel border.
The Palestinian teenager who was shot is then seen being carried away on a stretcher.
No armed protesters could immediately be noticed in the unsteady video footage.
'War zone'
An Israeli military spokeswoman in Tel Aviv said the Israeli army was investigating the incident.
She
called that the protest had been violent, saying the protesters hurled
rocks at the soldiers guarding the border fence and "lit fires that
potentially could have damaged and reached the security fence".
"An
IDF [Israeli army] force operated in order to drive the group away from
the security fence, including firing warning shots," she told the
German Press-Agency DPA.
The buffer area, she argued, is considered a "war zone" used by armed groups to carry out attacks against Israel.
Palestinians say the aim of the peaceful protests is to prevent the
establishment of the zone which they say is resulting in large areas of
farmland being confiscated and farmers being prevented from reaching
their fields.
Gaza has seen relative calm since the end of Israel's devastating
three-week offensive on the Strip in the winter of 2008-2009 that left
at least 1,400 Palestinians killed.
Since the Gaza war, both
Israel and Hamas have largely observed an unwritten truce, but in
recent weeks fatal incidents in the area have increased, sparking some
fears among observers that they may build up to a new cycle of violence.
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