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Sunday, May 13, 2018
Israel amassing its forces ahead of Nakba protests
Israeli soldiers are seen during Great March of Return protests east of Gaza City on 11 May.ActiveStillsMaureen Clare Murphy- 11 May 2018
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian protester and injured hundreds more during the seventh consecutive Friday of the Great March of Return demonstrations along Gaza’s eastern perimeter.
Jaber Salem Abu Mustafa, 38, died after he was shot in the chest east of Khan Younis. Forty-one Palestinians have been fatally injured during the protests that were launched on 30 March.
During that same period, Israeli forces killed 13 additional
Palestinians in Gaza who were not participating in the protests when
they were fatally wounded.
Nearly 200 people were injured by live fire on Friday. Ten persons were said to be critically wounded.
Three medics and six journalists were also reported injured.
Reporter Motasem Ahmed Dalloul was hit by live fire to the stomach, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported.
Mass protests are expected to continue next week with the opening of the
US embassy of Jerusalem on 14 May, the 70th anniversary of the
declaration of the state of Israel on Palestinian lands.
The Israeli military has “begun reinforcing battalions exponentially in
the Gaza Strip and the West Bank” in the lead-up to what it says will be
protests “far more violent and extensive than anything seen thus far,”
the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.
“According to assessments, 100,000 protesters are expected in 17
flashpoints along the Gaza [boundary], compared to the five flashpoints
during last Friday’s protest,” the paper stated on Friday.
Israeli forces fired tear gas towards the protest area where Hamas leader Ismail Haniya is - Palestinian mediatwitter.com/gazaaln/status…
The leadership of the Gaza protests has called for a Million Person March of Return next week.
Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza, gave his blessing for
the breaching of the Israeli boundary fence by thousands on Monday and
Tuesday, when Palestinians will mark Nakba Day, the annual commemoration
of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
Two-thirds of Gaza’s population of two million are refugees from the
lands on which the state of Israel was declared in 1948. Israel has long
prevented Palestinian refugees from returning to their lands and homes
because they are not Jewish.
A graphic published by Visualizing Palestine shows the villages of origin of refugees killed during the Great March of Return protests:
40 Palestinians have been killed by Israel during the #GreatReturnMarch demonstrations. This visual highlights their villages of origin. #Gaza bit.ly/vp-gazareturnm…
Three Palestinian human rights groups are calling on diplomats and
United Nations officials to boycott the opening of the Jerusalem
embassy.
The relocation of the embassy to Jerusalem “only entrenches Israel’s
longstanding impunity for its widespread and systematic violations
against Palestinians,” the rights groups Al-Mezan, Adalah and Al-Haq stated in an open letter to the UN ecretary-general and High Commissioner for Human Rights this week.
“The longest unresolved question to fall under the responsibility of the
UN, Palestine has become a litmus test for the efficacy of the
international system as a whole and the willingness of the international
community to abide by the rule of law and act in the face of widespread
and systematic violations of international human rights and
humanitarian law,” the groups add.
Fewer than half of the foreign diplomats invited to a reception on
Sunday marking the move of the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem have
accepted, according to Israeli
media reports. The event will reportedly be attended by Ivanka Trump
and her husband Jared Kushner, as well as the US treasury secretary and
elected American officials.
Protests broke out across the West Bank and Gaza Strip after Donald Trump declared US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on 6 December, breaking with decades of US policy.
That month the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution reaffirming
the illegality of Israel’s annexation of Jerusalem following its
capture in the 1967 War and called on states to refrain from
establishing diplomatic missions in the city.
More than a dozen Palestinian human rights groups condemned the upcoming embassy move on Friday,
stating that “By recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the US is
deliberately denying the existing situation of occupation and the
applicability of international humanitarian and human rights law.”
The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council called on the
Palestinian Authority to “immediately cease cooperating with the US as
an arbiter for peace” and for states to halt aid to Israel and impose
sanctions until it “ends its annexation and unlawful prolonged
occupation of the Palestinian territory, ceases all breaches of
international law, and ensures justice and accountability.”
Israel’s shooting of unarmed protesters in Gaza was meanwhile raised at
the 95th session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination that convened over the past two and a half weeks.
In a statement issued under its early warning and urgent action
procedures, intended to prevent and respond to violations of the
International Convention Against All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the
body expressed its grave concern that many protesters were killed or
injured when they posed no imminent threat.
The body called for “an immediate end to the disproportionate use of
force against Palestinian demonstrators,” lifting the blockade on Gaza
and the implementation of appropriate measures “to combat the
proliferation of racist acts and manifestations of racist hate speech
that particularly target Palestinians in the territories under
[Israel’s] effective control.”
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