Israeli troops shot dead a wheelchair-bound man with no legs in Gaza today as three other Palestinians were killed during protests, medical officials said.
Another 150 were hurt as protests over US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital enter their second week.
Disabled Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh, 29, was taken to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City after being shot by troops but was later pronounced dead.
Abu Thurayeh, who had previously lost both his legs, was shot along the border east of Gaza City in the north of the Palestinian enclave, the Palestinian health ministry said.
It came shortly after another man nearby was killed in similar circumstances, they added.
Local media reported that Thurayeh lost his legs during the 2014 Gaza war with Israel, but this has not yet been confirmed.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Kidra said the two Palestinians in Gaza City were killed from gunshots to the head.
The man in the wheelchair had taken part in several border skirmishes recently, images on social media show him carrying a Palestinian flag
Most of the casualties today were on the Gaza Strip border, where thousands of Palestinians gathered to hurl rocks at Israeli soldiers beyond the fortified fence.
In the occupied West Bank, another territory where Palestinians seek statehood along with adjacent East Jerusalem, medics said one protester was killed and five wounded by Israeli gunfire.
One was a man who Israeli police troopers said was shot after he stabbed and moderately wounded a member of their unit.
Reuters witnesses said the Palestinian had a knife and wore what looked like a bomb belt. A Palestinian medic said the belt was fake and pictures showed it still attached to him as he was loaded into an ambulance.
Another Palestinian also died from wounds sustained in clashes near Jerusalem, the health ministry said.
Today’s deaths increase the number of Palestinians killed since Trump’s declaration to eight.
Palestinians – and the wider Arab and Muslim world – were incensed at Trump’s December 6 announcement, which reversed decades of US policy reticence on Jerusalem, a city where both Israel and the Palestinians want sovereignty.
Gaza’s dominant Hamas Islamists, which want to see Israel destroyed, called last week for a new Palestinian uprising, but any such mass-mobilisation has yet to be seen in the West Bank or East Jerusalem.
There have been almost nightly Gazan rocket launches into Israel, so far without casualties. Israel has responded with air strikes on Hamas facilities, one of which killed two gunmen.
The Israeli military said that about 3,500 Palestinians demonstrated near the Gaza border fence today.
‘During the violent riots IDF (Israel Defence Force) soldiers fired selectively towards main instigators,’ the military said in a statement.
It said that about 2,500 Palestinians took part in riots in the West Bank, rolling flaming tyres and throwing firebombs and rocks at soldiers and border police, who responded.
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I saw this headline here earlier today but I could not take it in, yet something kept pullin’ back to it. The original link at Daily Mail has horrific pics. And as I read the story it once again occurred to me the level of evil we are up against. How difficult it is to see people fighting for their homeland be met with such brutality/murder, and at the same understand who stands in support of this.
There are no leaders. There is only us.
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Thanks Galen I also have no words what government are doing to the people around the world