🎥 14 dead and wounded 1200: it happened at the border of Gaza where 17000 Palestinians are protesting against Israel

   

The Israeli army estimates that around 17 Palestinians are taking part in protests along the border of the Jewish state with the Gaza Strip. 5 dead due to the reaction of the Israelis including a farmer, killed at dawn by Israeli artillery, and a 17 year old. Thousands of Palestinians gathered near the security fence to celebrate "Land Day", which commemorates the Israeli government's expropriation of Arab-owned land on March 30, 1976, and subsequent demonstrations in which they were killed. you're Israeli Arabs. The demonstration is the beginning of the so-called "March of Return", announced by Hamas earlier this month and which will last for six weeks until May 15, the anniversary of the founding of Israel, known as Nakba, the catastrophe, between the Palestinians. This year, the anniversary coincides with the eve of the Easter week in Israel. Among the demonstrators there is also the former Palestinian premier and leader of the armed movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh. According to the army, demonstrators concentrated in 5 different locations along the security fence, burning tires and throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at the soldiers. The military claims they will not allow demonstrators to "violate Israel's sovereignty" by crossing the security barrier. Today, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman warned that any Palestinian from Gaza who approaches the security fence with Israel is putting their own life at risk. According to Israeli media, Liberman has been at the army headquarters this morning to monitor the situation minute by minute. The army has declared the area around the security fence that divides Israel from the Gaza Strip "a forbidden military area"; and has deployed more than a hundred snipers at the border to face the demonstration. According to General Gadi Eizenkot, Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, the military is authorized to open fire “if the lives of Israeli citizens are endangered.

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