Palestinians
in Gaza staged an unarmed protest Friday, part of a planned
multi-week event, near the Israeli line of control. They are
demanding the right to return to their homes.
The
Israeli army indiscriminately opened fire on the protesters with live
ammunition, killing at least 17 and wounding dozens (perhaps
hundreds). Hundreds were also sickened by military-grade tear gas.
This was shooting fish in a barrel. There is no reason to think that
the Israeli troops were in danger or received deadly fire themselves.
There was rock throwing toward the fence that imprisons the
Palestinians. No Israeli casualties have been reported. Some video
circulating, which IC cannot confirm, appears to show victims shot in
the back or while praying. This was more like a US police shooting of
an innocent, unarmed victim.
Although
the US press is reporting that those killed died in “clashes,”
they appear all to have been on the Gaza side of the line of control
and never actually to have encountered any Israelis. There was no
“clash.” Shooting down innocent unarmed people on their own land
is typically termed “murder.”
In 1948,
lean, mean Jewish immigrants into British Mandate Palestine attacked
Palestinian villagers and townspeople in the south, in places like
Beersheba and Nejd, and drove them into the Gaza Strip, where they
live to this day, many of them still in refugee camps. On Nejd lands
the Europeans formed the Israeli town of Sderot, which they have
peopled not only with Israelis but also Thai agricultural guest
workers.
Families
in Gaza displaced from Nejd could walk home in half an hour if
allowed to.
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