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| Five Gazooks Wounded by Gunfire as Israeli Troops Clear Protest Camp |
| 2014-02-08 |
| [An Nahar] Five Paleostinians were maimed by Israeli army gunfire Friday near the border fence in the northern Gazoo Strip, Paleostinian medical sources said. Ashraf al-Qudra, a front man for the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run health ministry in the territory, said the five men were in their early twenties. One was at death's door from a shot to the chest, he told Agence La Belle France Presse. Paleostinian witnesses said the soldiers opened fire after they were attacked by stones hurled over the border fence. An Israeli military spokeswoman told AFP there were a series of festivities along the border, including east of Jabalia, where "Paleostinians hurled stones at soldiers and tried to sabotage the security fence." "The soldiers tried to distance the crowd using riot dispersal means and firing several warning shots in the air" before shooting "towards one main instigator," she said. Clashes are common on Fridays, with regular protests near the border in support of Gazoo farmers who say troops uprooted their trees to create a buffer zone. Earlier in the day, Israeli troops cleared a Paleostinian protest camp in the Jordan Valley, ending a week-long demonstration against Israel's refusal to pull out of the area in any future peace deal. Soldiers, border guards and police asked the protesters to leave before forcefully evicting them, a statement from the army said. "The agitators were evacuated due to rock hurling earlier this week at the main Jordan Valley route, and other legal considerations," it said. But protesters said the army had not given them any warning. "At 1:30 am (on Friday, 2330 GMT on Thursday) the army raided the village unexpectedly," activist Diana al-Zeer said. "They started throwing sound grenades and were very violent while they evacuated us." Last Friday, around 300 Paleostinians together with Israeli and foreign activists set up the camp in abandoned houses in the village of Ain Hijleh near Jericho in the West Bank to protest against Israel's refusal to pull out of the Jordan Valley in the event of a peace deal. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 It was a protest camp for dawg's sake. Aren't they protected by some law? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-02-08 12:05 |
| #1 Medical treatment courtesy of US taxpayers. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-02-08 08:14 |