IDF soldiers kill 1 Palestinian, wound 19 others at Gaza-Israel border 2 days after ceasefire
One
adult has been killed and 19 others injured after Israeli soldiers
opened fire at the Gaza-Israel border. The incident happened east of
the village of Khuzaa in southern Gaza.
RT,
23
November, 2012
One
adult has been killed and 19 others injured after Israeli soldiers
opened fire at the Gaza-Israel border. The incident happened east of
the village of Khuzaa in southern Gaza.
The
deceased was identified as 21-year-old Abdelhadi Qdeih, Palestinian
emergency services told AFP.
The
clash erupted after a group of Palestinian farmers wandered into the
disputed 300-meter buffer zone along the border.
The
farmers reportedly may have entered the buffer zone to check on their
crops after hearing a news report claiming that travel restrictions
had been lifted for the area.
“They
were not rioting. They were really trying to see if it was possible
for farmers to return to their land. Now if we accept that Israel had
to shoot 500 meters into the Palestinian territory, injuring 19 and
killing 1, then really there can not be a ceasefire realistically for
the people of Palestine, because the farmers can’t return to
work,” journalist
Sarah Lauren Booth told RT from Gaza.
In
a separate, contradictory account, the group approached the border
fence to salvage scrap from an Israeli army jeep damaged during the
conflict, AP quoted a Gaza health official as saying.
“Under
the ceasefire, most Gazans [thought] that the no-go military buffer
zone which Israel had imposed on the Palestinian side of the border
had been raised and that the farmers in that area…would now be able
to farm there. So Palestinians went to what they thought was now
again Palestinian territory to look at an Israeli Jeep…and one
Palestinian was killed,” Gaza-based
journalist Harry Fear told RT.
Israel
claimed that a group of about 300 people approached the fence and
that some attempted to break through.
The
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) initially said only that it had fired
"warning shots" after seeing a group walking towards the
fence, but later stated that soldiers shot at the group’s legs
after the warnings were ignored.
Hamas
spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said the group would discuss the incident
with Egypt, which brokered the recent ceasefire between Israel and
Hamas.
This
is the first incident since Israeli troops and Hamas fighters laid
down arms two days ago, following eight days of heated conflict.
“Looking
at the situation politically on both sides of the border, I don’t
think the ceasefire will break, even though this man has been killed.
It’s not in the interest in the state of Israel. It’s not in the
interest of Hamas. And I think this is going to be one of the gravest
tragedies of these last couple of weeks,” Fear
said.
The
IDF bombardment of Gaza and the retaliatory shelling of Israel by
Hamas mortar and rockets both ended on Wednesday night. Hostilities
in the region broke out when the IDF assassinated Hamas military
leader Ahmed Jabari on November 14. A reported 163 Palestinians and
six Israelis died in the conflict.
A wounded Palestinian is treated at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip November 23, 2012.(Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)
An Israeli army vehicle rides along a security fence standing on the Gaza border with Israel, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, during a demonstration by Palestinian youths on November 23, 2012.(AFP Photo / Said Khatib)
Palestinian youths gesture during a demonstration next to the security fence standing on the Gaza border with Israel, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 23, 2012.(AFP Photo / Said Khatib)
Palestinian youths gesture during a demonstration next to the security fence standing on the Gaza border with Israel, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 23, 2012.(AFP Photo / Said Khatib)
#GraphicImage: 20 years old, Anwar Qadiah, killed today as israeli forces opened fire at Palestinian farmers. #Gaza
For the 2nd time in 24 hours; Israeli army violates the truce by opening fire at palestinians.. Yesterday night, they killed a palestinian in the "Buffer zone" and today morning they opened fire at the Palestinian Farmers East Khanyounis city where 1 was Killed and 19 injured, 7 in critical conditions..
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