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Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Gaza man killed as Israel, Hamas reportedly near deal
Palestinian protesters sieze an Israeli sniper position east of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on 3 August.APA images
Yet another Palestinian was shot and killed during protests along Gaza’s
eastern perimeter as indirect negotiations to loosen the Israeli
blockade on the territory were reportedly nearing conclusion.
The slain Palestinian was identified by Gaza’s health ministry as Ahmad Yahya Atallah Yaghi, 25.
At least 120 Palestinians have been killed during the Great March of Return protests that began on 30 March, more than 20 of them children.
Forty more Palestinians in Gaza were killed by Israeli fire in other
incidents during that period, and one Israeli soldier was killed by
Palestinian gunfire from Gaza.
Children at risk
The theme of this week’s protest was the remembrance of “The Jerusalem Intifada and the Martyr Muhammad Dar Yousif.”
The latter refers to Muhammad Tareq Yusif Abu Ayyush, a 17-year-old Palestinian who was shot and killed after stabbing three Israelis in a West Bank settlement, one fatally, last Thursday.
The rights group Defense for Children International Palestine warned this
week that children living under Israeli siege in Gaza are “vulnerable
to nearly every kind of human rights risk, including the risk of
recruitment.”
The group cited the case of Odai Ahmad Mansour Abu Hassan, 11, who died
when an improvised device exploded on the rooftop of his Gaza City home
in July. The boy’s father, who was also killed in the explosion, was in
charge of a rocket unit belonging to the military wing of Fatah,
according to Defense for Children International Palestine.
Another child, Hashem Abdulfattah Othman Kallab, 17, was among a group
belonging to the military wing of Islamic Jihad when all four were
killed in an accidental explosion in southern Gaza in April.
“The Palestinian Authority, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups
obligated themselves to not recruit children when they signed a code of
conduct in 2010,” Ayed Abu Eqtaish, a director with the children’s
rights group, stated.
This week the heads of three UN bodies – while condemning Israel’s
killing of children during Gaza protests – deplored “the too often
cynical use of children in political rhetoric and propaganda on all
sides.”
The trio said “of particular concern” was last week’s call by Great
March of Return organizers for Palestinians to protest under the banner
of “Friday of our Child Martyrs.”
“Children should never be the target of violence and must not be put at
risk of violence nor encouraged to participate in violence,” the
officials stated.
The march theme was likely intended to focus attention on Israel’s
violence against Palestinian children whose deaths have often been
ignored or downplayed by international officials and media.
During this Friday’s protest, Palestinians managed to break through part
of the militarized Gaza-Israel boundary fence and seize an Israeli
sniper position:
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