ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/VIOLENCE-GAZA Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinian teenagers at Gaza's border - medics

Record ID: 134627

  • Title: ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/VIOLENCE-GAZA Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinian teenagers at Gaza's border - medics
  • Date: 10th October 2015
  • Summary: PARAMEDICS AND PEOPLE MOVING INJURED TO BED PARAMEDICS TREATING INJURED
  • Embargoed: 25th October 2015 12:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: General
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  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES
    Israeli security forces on Saturday (October 10) shot dead two Palestinians aged 12 and 15 in protests along Gaza's border fence, Palestinian medic officials said.
    Israeli soldiers shot dead the Palestinian boy and teenager as they were taking part in protests near the Israeli border security fence, the officials said.
    An army spokeswoman said the protesters, in an Israeli-declared no-go security zone by the border, were hurling burning tyres and stones towards the soldiers, who fired warning shots in the air before shooting "at the main instigators".
    The demonstration was called in solidarity with Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.
    Palestinian youth, Ahmad Safi, was in one of the protests at the border area and was injured during clashes with Israeli forces.
    "What happened is that the people were throwing stones and the Jews (Israeli forces) were shooting at them. Two were shot and a child was among the dead," said Ahmad Safi.
    Eleven days of bloodshed in which four Israelis and 19 Palestinians have been killed in Jerusalem, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Gaza and in Israeli cities have raised concerns about a new Palestinian uprising.
    Earlier on Saturday two Palestinians were shot dead by police after stabbing at least four Israelis in separate knife attacks near Jerusalem's walled Old City, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
    Protests have also spread to several Arab towns in Israel. In Nazareth Israeli Arab member of Knesset (Israeli Parliament) Ayman Odeh called on Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to resume negotiations with Palestinians.
    "The message is clear, we are part of the Palestinian people and the Palestinians struggle. Our stand is clear from the (Israeli) occupation, Netanyahu (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) can control the conflict the way he wants but at the end it will explode. So what is needed not to control the conflict but to go directly for a real negotiations to end the occupation and establish a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders," said lawmaker Ayman Odeh.
    The violence has been fuelled by Palestinian fears that visits by Jewish groups and lawmakers to the Jerusalem Old City plaza revered in Judaism as the site of two destroyed biblical temples, are eroding Muslim religious control of the al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest shrine.
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said repeatedly that he will not allow any change to the arrangements under which Jews are allowed to visit the site but non-Muslim prayer is banned.
    His assurances over conditions at the site, known as Temple Mount to Jews and Noble Sanctuary to Muslims, have done little to quell alarm among Muslims across the region.
    The almost daily Palestinian knife attacks and clashes between Israeli soldiers and stone-throwing Palestinians are not at the levels of violence of past Palestinian uprisings, but the escalation has prompted talk of a third "intifada".
    Both Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have called for calm and Palestinian police continue to coordinate with Israeli security forces to try to restore order, but there are few signs of the violence dying down.
    Palestinians want East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza - lands Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war, for a future state. U.S.-brokered peace talks broke down in April 2014.
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