An Israeli rights group
says Israeli forces regularly fire at Palestinian protesters who pose no
threat to them in the eastern part of the besieged Gaza Strip.
B’Tselem said the Israeli military is pursuing the policy of
suppressing demonstrations using live bullets, Al-Hayat
al-Jadida reported on Friday.
The rights group said that Israeli soldiers take positions in
concrete towers or behind bulwarks and shoot at Palestinian
demonstrators.
According to the report, the number of demonstrations increased since
US President Donald Trump on December 6, 2017, announced his decision
to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s "capital" and relocate the US
embassy from Tel Aviv to the occupied city.
At least eight Palestinian protesters had been killed and 322 others injured in Gaza by the end of December, it said.
The Israeli military regularly opens fatal fire on Palestinians,
accusing them of attempting to carry out stabbing attacks against its
forces.
Human rights groups have repeatedly criticized the Tel Aviv regime
for its policy of shoot-to-kill as a large number of the Palestinians
killed at the scene of attacks did not pose serious threats to Israelis. Palestinian protesters burn pictures of US President Donald
Trump in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on December 6, 2017.
(Photo by AFP)
The number of Israeli attacks have sharply risen since Trump’s
announcement on Jerusalem al-Quds, which triggered demonstrations in the
occupied Palestinian territories, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia,
Algeria, Iraq, Morocco and other Muslim countries.
On December 21, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly
voted in favor of a resolution that calls on the US to withdraw its
controversial recognition of Jerusalem al-Quds as the Israeli “capital.”
Jerusalem al-Quds remains at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, with Palestinians hoping that the eastern part of the city
would eventually serve as the capital of a future independent
Palestinian state.
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