During the recent unrest in the Gaza Strip, "the leaders of Hamas used women and children as human shields, hiding behind them. They were sent ahead to face the soldiers and hit Israeli sovereignty ". Therefore the responsibility of the victims "falls on Hamas": Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman affirmed on the military radio, commenting on Friday's death of four demonstrators - among them the 15-year-old Muhammed Ayub - who were hit by Israeli fire. Lieberman has therefore rejected the criticisms of Israel directed by the UN emissary Nickolay Mladenov and the European Union for the killing of the adolescent. "Every day hundreds of people are killed in the Middle East and I have not heard that the EU has been upset," said the minister. Rather than criticizing Israel, the EU, according to Lieberman, should rather blame Hamas. "But we know very well that hypocrisy and double standards", he concluded.
Four deaths and more than 400 injured the balance of the clashes at the defensive barrier between the Strip and the Jewish state, last Friday, the Gaza Ministry of Health announced.
From the 30 March, for six weeks, the Palestinians have issued a major protest demanding that the descendants of refugees who have lost their homes in the 1948 can return to their family's property in the territories that currently belong to Israel.