Tijdens
Palestijnse protesten heeft Israël gisteren 16 ongewapende
demonstranten vermoord (waaronder 2 kinderen), voorts werden meer dan 1.000 Palestijnen verwond (waaronder een aantal zwaargewonden)…… De demonstraties waarvoor Israël het nodig vond met zwaar geweld in te grijpen vonden plaats
op ‘Land Dag’, de dag waarop door de Palestijnen wordt herdacht dat Israël op 30 maart
1976, tijdens een protest tegen het stelen van Palestijns land, 6
Palestijnen vermoordde……
In
de Gazastrook heeft men besloten vanaf de ‘Land Dag’, 6 weken lang te blijven demonstreren, waar
deze zullen eindigen op 15 mei, de dag waarop wordt herdacht dat in 1948 met
grootschalige en bloedige zionistische terreur het grootste deel van
de Palestijnen van hun land en uit hun huizen werden gejaagd; ofwel wat de Palestijnen ‘al-Nakba’ (de ramp) noemen….. (overigens werden er destijds door de zionistische terroristen ook een groot aantal Palestijnen vermoord….) Deze 6 weken lang durende demonstraties noemen de Palestijnen de ‘Great Return March’.
Zoals
al vaak op deze plek verzucht: hoe lang kan Israël doorgaan met haar
gewelddadige, fascistische terreur tegen mensen die zich amper kunnen
verweren tegen een misdadige overheid met één van de modernste
legers ter wereld, voordat die wereld ingrijpt, voordat het land
internationaal geboycot zal worden………
Op Radio1 gistermiddag, in het NOS programma ‘Nieuws en Co’ ook aandacht voor het extreme geweld van Israël tegen ongewapende demonstranten. Je zou verwachten dat men dan vooral aandacht had voor de slachtoffers in deze, maar ongelofelijk genoeg begon men na het nieuws van 16.00 u. met een gesprek tussen Arlene Gelderblom en de uitermate vervelende presentator Lara Rense. Gelderblom vertelde dat Israël voorafgaand aan de demonstraties heeft beloofd het vuur te openen als men met stenen en ‘vuurbommen’* zou gooien……
Aangezien Israël het vuur had geopend, stelde Rense de vraag: “En hebben ze dat?” (met vuurbommen en stenen gegooid). Gelderblom antwoordde bevestigend om daar meteen aan toe te voegen dat ze dat niet zelf heeft gezien, maar gehoord in een kibboets vlak bij de grens, waar ze ergens binnen zat. Voorts hebben de Israëlische media bevestigd dat de Palestijnen met stenen en ‘vuurbommen’ gooiden, aldus Gelderblom…… Goh, je meent ‘t Gelderblom? Zo te horen is deze ‘journalist’ overtuigd van de eerlijkheid die deze media ten toon spreiden….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Gelderblom stelde dat ze wel aan de grens geweest was en daar de tenten en demonstranten heeft gezien……. Dus ze heeft wel demonstranten gezien echter geen geweld van deze demonstranten….. Na 18.00 u. is Gelderblom nogmaals aan het woord geweest en daar was de eerste die ze sprak een vrouw die woont in de kibboets waar zij op bezoek was…….
‘Uiteraard’ was de vrouw uit de kibboets bang voor de Palestijnen, logisch immers de Palestijnen ‘hebben ten slotte veel meer joden vermoord dan Israël Palestijnen’ (mocht je het niet weten: het is juist andersom: de aantallen vermoorde joden kunnen niet eens in de schaduw staan van het enorme aantal vermoorde Palestijnen)…… Bovendien als je de media in Israël en veel westerse mediaorganen moet geloven, kan je bijna niet anders dan de conclusie trekken dat de Israëliërs en niet de Palestijnen het slachtoffer zijn in deze……
‘Nieuws en Co’ is een programma van de ‘onafhankelijke’ zendgemachtigde NOS, waarvoor jij en ik belasting betalen…….
Lees
hier een uitgebreid verslag over de vreselijke gebeurtenissen in de Gazastrook
en de West Bank:
Israeli
Troops Shoot and Kill Unarmed Protesters, Over 1,000 Injured
March
30, 2018 at 9:50 pm
Written
by Middle
East Eye
(MEE) — Israeli
forces killed at least 16 Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip on
Friday, according to authorities, as tens of thousands demonstrated
across the occupied territories and Israel on “Land Day”.
Land
Day stems from 30 March 1976, when Israeli forces killed six
Palestinian citizens of Israel during a protest against land
confiscations. Palestinians have marked the day for the past 42 years
to denounce Israeli policies to take over Palestinian land. This
year, it comes on the heels of months of anger over US President
Donald Trump’s decision to move the American embassy to Jerusalem,
largely perceived as the United States rejecting Palestinian claims
to East Jerusalem as their capital as part of a two-state solution.
In
the Gaza Strip, where 1.3 million of the small territory’s two
million inhabitants are refugees, protest organisers have called
for six
weeks of demonstrations called
the “Great March of Return” along the border of the besieged
Palestinian enclave and Israel, starting on Land Day and culminating
on 15 May for Nakba Day, marking the displacement of Palestinians by
Israel in 1948.
With
Israeli political discourse veering further to the right under Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinians have grown increasingly
disillusioned regarding the likelihood of negotiations or an
improvement in their living situation in Gaza, the West Bank, East
Jerusalem and Israel itself.
Thousands of Palestinians gathering east of the Gaza City neighbourhood of Shejaiya for Land Day demonstrations on 30 March (MEE/Mohammad Asad)
The
ministry added that more than 1,000 demonstrators had been hurt as of
late afternoon. A spokesperson for the Palestinian Red Crescent
Society told MEE they estimated that about 800 protesters in Gaza had
been hit by live fire.
Hours
before the protests, an Israeli tank shell killed one Gaza farmer and
wounded another, the health ministry said.
“Omar
Samour, 27, was martyred and another citizen was wounded as a result
of targeting of farmers east of Qarara village,” a Gaza health
ministry spokesman said. Residents of the southern Gaza Strip village
said Samour had been gathering crops.
An
Israeli military spokesman confirmed the incident. “Overnight two
suspects approached the security fence and began operating
suspiciously and the tank fired towards them,” the spokesman said.
United
Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an independent
and transparent investigation into the deaths and injuries in Gaza on
Friday, his spokesman said in a statement.
“He
also appeals to those concerned to refrain from any act that could
lead to further casualties and in particular any measures that could
place civilians in harm’s way,” UN spokesman Farhan Haq said.
‘Brutal
Violation’
The
Gaza Ministry of Health confirmed at least 16 Palestinian
demonstrators had been killed by Israeli forces on the border with
Israel, and identified some of the slain Palestinians as: Mohammad
Kamel Najjar, 29, who was killed near Jabalia in northern Gaza;
Mahmoud Abu Muammar, 38, near Rafah in the south; Mohammad Abu Amro,
a well-known artist in the Gaza Strip; 16-year-old Ahmad Odeh, north
of Gaza City; Jihad Farina, 33, east of Gaza City; Mahmoud Rahmi, 33;
Ibrahim Abu Shaer 22, near Rafah; Abd al-Fattah Bahjat Abd al-Nabi,
18; Abd al-Qader al-Hawajra, 42, killed in central Gaza; Sari Abu
Odeh; and Hamdan Abu Amsha, near Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.
Human
rights NGO Adalah** denounced the Israeli army’s use of live fire as
a “brutal violation of the international legal obligation to
distinguish between civilians and combatants,” and called for an
investigation into the killings.
The
Israeli army announced in a statement that it had declared the border
area of the Gaza Strip a closed military zone – meaning all
Palestinians getting close to the border fence could risk getting
shot.
“The
march has achieved its goals, it has shaken the pillars of the entity
(Israel), and laid the first brick for the road of return,” Ismail
Haniyeh, one of Hamas’ top political leaders, told MEE, while
visiting a protest camp in Gaza.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh at a demonstration in Gaza for the “Great Return March” (MEE/Mohammad Asad)
According
to the left-leaning Israeli outlet +972 Magazine, an Israeli group
called the Coalition of Women for Peace plans to join the protest on
the Israeli side.
“The
gap between what we’re hearing from within Gaza about the events
and the incitement that we’re hearing in the Israeli media is
massive and leaves no doubt about the violent intentions of the
Israeli authorities. We hope that our fears of a violent military
response will be proven wrong, but regardless we will show up on
Saturday to support the demonstrators, who have the right to demand
their rights and their freedom,” said Tania Rubinstein, a
coordinator for group.
Palestinians wave flags and fly kites during a demonstration as part of the Great Return March on 30 March (MEE/Mohammad Asad)
“Seven
hundred metres away from those soldiers lies my right and the
Palestinian people’s right to return home after 70 years of
displacement. We will not wait another 70,” Alaa Shahin, a young
Palestinian man who was celebrating his wedding at a protest camp
near Jabaliya, told MEE.
“I
still keep the original documents for our land in Nilya, which I
inherited from my father,” said Yousef al-Kahlout, a retired
history teacher who attended one of the Gaza demonstrations on Friday
with five of his grandchildren. “Today, I explain to my
grandchildren that they have the right to regain possession of it if
I am not alive to achieve my dream to return.”
Youssef al-Kahlout and his grandchildren hold signs bearing the name of their village of origin in a tent protest camp in northern Gaza (MEE/Mohammad Asad)
While
Gaza organisers have insisted that the demonstrations will be
peaceful, several
incidents of
Gazans being detained after entering Israel in recent days –
including three Palestinians who
were carrying weapons –
have seen Israeli forces keen to prove their control of the
situation.
The
Israeli army confirmed in a statement that it was using “riot
dispersal means” – a term typically used to refer to tear gas and
sound bombs – as well as firing at “main instigators” of the
protest.
The
Great March of Return also saw Israeli forces use drones to drop tear
gas on the demonstrators – a technology that has only been used a
few times in Gaza by Israeli forces.
Israel’s
military chief said on Wednesday that more than 100 snipers had been
deployed on the Gaza border ahead of the planned mass demonstration
near the frontier. Heavy earth-moving vehicles have built up dirt
mounds on the Israeli side of the border and barbed wire has been
placed as an additional obstacle against any mass attempt to breach
the border into Israeli territory.
A wounded protester is carried away after being shot by Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip (MEE/Mohammad Asad)
Land
Day Protests in Israel, West Bank
Meanwhile,
Palestinians also demonstrated in Israel and the West Bank on Friday
to commemorate Land Day. In the Palestinian-majority town of Arraba
in the Galilee region of northern Israel, thousands, including
Palestinian MPs from the Israeli Knesset, heads of municipalities,
and religious figures, took to the streets.
Prior
to the march, members of the Knesset’s High Follow-Up Committee for
Arab citizens of Israel visited the graves of the six Palestinian
citizens of Israel who were killed during the first Land Day March in
1976, in cemeteries in Arraba, Sakhnin, and Deir Hanna.
“Israel
is still stealing and confiscating our lands, and the oppression
continues against our people inside ’48, in the diaspora, and in
Gaza,” Arraba Mayor Ali Asleh said in a speech, using a term to
refer to the lands on which Israel declared its state in 1948.
Palestinian citizens of Israel march in Arraba to mark Land Day (MEE)
According
to Palestinian media, clashes took places in some West Bank towns,
including Ramallah-al-Bireh, Hebron, Bethlehem, Nablus, Qalqiliya,
and a number of villages.
A
spokesperson for the Palestinian Red Crescent told MEE that the
organisation treated at least 63 demonstrators in the West Bank, most
suffering from excessive tear gas inhalation, while at least 10 were
wounded by rubber-coated steel bullets.
Alarming developments at Gaza border as Hamas once again using its civilians – inc children – as pawns. We call for calm & a return to negotiating table, resulting in a secure, Jewish & democratic Israel alongside a viable & vibrant Palestinian state. timesofisrael.com/6-gazans-said-…
Army prepares for massive ‘March of Return,’ readies to stave off Palestinian attempts to break through security fence
Ali Abunimah says: “Israel’s massacre of unarmed protesters today proves once again what has always been true: Israel’s problem is not the form of Palestinian resistance. It is the Palestinians’ mere existence.” @AliAbunimah #GreatReturnMarch
Nakba
Day this year will also mark 70 years since the creation of the state
of Israel and the forced displacement of 750,000 Palestinians, whose
descendants now number in the millions living as refugees abroad or
in the occupied Palestinian territory.
By MEE
and agencies / Republished
with permission / Middle
East Eye / Report
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* Vuurbommen, ofwel molotovcocktails. Het woord ‘bom’ klinkt een stuk heftiger, vandaar het gebruik van dit woord door Israël en in het grootste deel van de Israëlische reguliere media……
** Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.
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en: ‘Israël gebruikt nieuw chemisch wapen tegen Palestijnse demonstranten in de Gazastrook‘
en: ‘Israël test nieuwe smerige technologie op demonstrerende Palestijnen‘
en: ‘Schieten op ongewapende vreedzame demonstranten volgens Israël uit zelfverdediging……..‘)
en: ‘Netanyahu misbruikt geheel hypocriet de Holocaust voor oorlogshitserij tegen Syrië en Iran……..‘
en: ‘Palestijnen en groot deel wereld rouwen om tweede door Israëliërs vermoorde journalist……….‘
en: ‘Gazastrook: waarom vooral jongeren demonstreren en daar zelfs hun leven voor op het spel zetten‘
en: ‘Moeder van vermoorde Palestijnse medisch hulpverlener Razan al-Najjar maakt werk dochter af‘
en: ‘At Least 525 Palestinians Wounded by Israeli Troops on Gaza Border‘
en: ‘Israëlische advocaat benoemd tot voorzitter van het Mensenrechtencomité van de VN…….‘
en: ‘Gaza Freedom Flotilla tegen de blokkade van de Gazastrook, met een overlevende van de USS Liberty‘
en: ‘Israëlische ‘helden’ schieten weer een ongewapend kind dood‘