Fifty Palestinians have been killed in Gaza鈥檚 eastern perimeter since March 30, five of them children and two journalists, writes Maureen Clare Murphy. The vast majority were participating in the Great March of Return protests, during which no Israelis have been killed or injured.
Israeli occupation forces killed three Palestinians in Gaza including a child, in two separate incidents on April 29.
One of those killed was听听by Palestinian media outlets as 16-year-old Yusif Abu Jazar, killed east of Rafah. He is the fifth child reported killed in Gaza during Israel鈥檚 lethal crackdown on听听protests that began on March 30.
Israel was reportedly holding the bodies of all three Palestinians killed that day, as it听 the bodies of Musab al-Saloul and Muhammad al-Rabaia, two Palestinians killed in the eastern boundary of the central Gaza Strip on March 30.
Israel continues to spin the protests launched on March 30 as听听听the political and resistance group of 鈥渁ttempting to disguise terror activities as a civilian-led riot鈥.
Several human rights groups have petitioned Israel鈥檚 high court over the military鈥檚 shooting of unarmed protesters in Gaza.
Human rights lawyer Michael Sfard听听that the high court case is the first broad review of the military鈥檚 open-fire regulations in nearly 30 years.
The military told the court that 鈥渢hese are incidents that are part of the armed conflict between the Hamas terrorist organization and Israel, with all that this implies鈥.
Adalah, one of the groups challenging the open fire regulations, rebutted the military鈥檚 claim.
鈥淎ll the eyewitness testimony and video documentation from the past several weeks clearly reveals the Israeli military has been using live fire in Gaza, resulting in the killings of dozens of unarmed protesters taking part in civilian demonstrations,鈥 the rights group stated. 鈥淎t no point did the protesters endanger the lives of others.鈥
The military鈥檚 open-fire regulations are听听and the army has said it would only show them to the judges in a closed session, making it impossible for human rights defenders or the public to assess the claims made in court.
After the Israeli military fatally wounded 18 protesters on March 30, the first day of the protests, it听听an admission of responsibility for the deaths and injuries.
鈥淣othing was carried out uncontrolled; everything was accurate and measured, and we know where every bullet landed,鈥 the tweet from the Israeli military spokesperson stated.
The shootings of several Palestinians killed during Great March of Return protests have been captured on video. A video shows Abdallah al-Shamali, 20, standing amid a group of men and children when he is shot in the chest without warning on April 20.
Al-Shamali posed no conceivable threat to any Israeli soldier, positioned hundreds of metres away, when he was听.
The fatal injury of journalist听, who was wearing protective gear identifying him as a member of the press when he was shot on April 13, was likewise documented on video.
A听听shows听, 18, being shot in the head as his back was turned to the soldiers positioned behind the Gaza boundary fence on April 23.
听that Muhammad Ayyoub, 14, posed no conceivable danger to heavily armed Israeli occupation forces when he was killed on April 20.
听Abd al-Fattah Abd al-Nabi, 19, being shot in the head as he ran away from the boundary fence on March 30.
Israeli soldiers operate under an apparent听听in Gaza鈥檚 boundary areas. The exact range of the zone is undeclared but is generally understood to be within 300 meters of the Gaza-Israel boundary.
Israeli forces killed 19 Palestinians inside the Gaza boundary between the start of 2017 and March 3, 2018,听.
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