Hamas and Islamic Jihad delivered on promises to keep the weekly Friday protests in the Gaza Strip peaceful. Reports on the ground are that the protests were the quietest in several months, and that protesters stayed far away from the Israeli border.
Though Hamas has denied directly organizing the protests, many of their supporters participate weekly. Israel has long demanded that they force an end to the weekly protests, and has threatened to invade to impose an end to the demonstrations.
Quiet, peaceful rallies would seemingly be good news, though the Israeli military appears not to have taken it that way, using their usual strategy of opening fire on protesters with live ammunition, and firing tear gas into the crowds. At least 32 protesters were reported injured, seven of them shot.
That’s fewer wounded than most weeks, but that the Israelis still cracked down so much, even with no indications of serious advances on the border fence, suggests Israel intends to continue to greet protests, no matter how peaceful, with violent reactions.
They were not “injured.” They were maimed, limbs blown off. They were shot, deliberately by snipers with high powered rifles.
Don’t call it what Israel calls it to cover it up. Call it what we’d call it if it was done by a terrorist to an American.
“That’s fewer wounded than most weeks, but that the Israelis still cracked down so much, even with no indications of serious advances on the border fence, suggests Israel intends to continue to greet protests, no matter how peaceful, with violent reactions.”
Does this sound amazingly like what will meet the refugees coming up from Central America here in the USA? Bibi, the Trump Whisperer, strikes again!
With the USA’s help and encouragement it is no wonder that the Israelis keep going with their cruel and vicious “reaction” with impunity. The Israeli government has already caused huge disruption to the world, being the only beneficiary of the destruction of the Iran agreement, and finding all its wishes granted by the “American Congress” which seems to have no interest in its own well-being, only that of the Israeli régime. Why not now really exterminate the indigenous people of Palestine?