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58  Peaceful Palestinian Nakba Protesters Killed, 2771 Injured Inside Gaza by Israeli Occupation Soldiers

May 15, 2018 

Editor's Note:

While brutal force has been used to create Zionist Israel and sustain it thus far, Zionist claims to Palestine are false. Actually, from the five thousand years of known written history, there has been a continuous Palestinian-Canaanite presence in the Holy Land. Despite the Zionist false claims, the ancient Israelites ruled part of the land for only 85 years (during the reign of David, Solomon, and Solomon's son).

 After that, the Egyptians conquered Palestine-Canaan in 925 BC, followed by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, before the Arab Muslim rule, starting from 636 AD.

By the Time Jesus started his mission, the three population groups of Canaanites, Palestinians, and Israelites were melted together in religion and language. Most of them became Christians when Constantine converted in 313 AD. Then, most of them became Muslims in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.

So, Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and Jews are the ones who have the right to claim descent from ancient Israelites, Palestinians, and Canaanites, not Zionists from other continents.

Nakba protester injured in Gaza city by Israeli occupation soldiers, May 14, 2018	Nakba protester killed in Gaza city by Israeli occupation soldiers, May 14, 2018

Nakba protesters in Gaza city attacked by Israeli occupation soldiers, May 14, 2018	Nakba protesters in Gaza city attacked by Israeli occupation soldiers, May 14, 2018

DEATH TOLL 58 in Israeli Military Assault on Gaza Protests

May 15, 2018 1:45 AM IMEMC News

The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that Israeli occupation soldiers killed, Monday, 58 Palestinians, including six children and four officers of the Palestinian Ministry of Interior and National Security, in the Gaza Strip, and injured 2771.

Among the slain Palestinians are six children, including an infant, only eight months of age, identified as Laila al-Ghandour, who died from teargas inhalation due to the army’s use of high-velocity teargas bombs.

Among the wounded are 122 children, and 44 women, the Health Ministry added.

The Palestinian Health Ministry reports that 1,204 Palestinians were injured with live ammunition. 79 were shot in their necks, 161 in their arms, 62 in the back and chests, 52 in their stomachs, and 1055 in their lower limbs. At least 203 of the injured were reported to be children, and 78 women.

27 of the wounded Palestinians suffered very serious wounds, 59 serious injuries, 735 moderate wounds, and 882 suffered light wounds.

Other injuries were as follows: three with rubber-coated steel bullets, 91 with shrapnel, 100 cuts and bruises and 737 suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.

The Ministry of Interior and National Security said the four slain officers were performing their duties and national services when the soldiers shot them dead.

The soldiers also caused damage to at least one ambulance and injured one medic and eleven journalists.

In addition, the Health Ministry called on Egypt to urgently send emergency medical supplies and specialists, mainly surgeons, intensive care physicians,  anesthesia specialists, and to allow the transfer of a large number of the wounded to Egyptian hospitals, especially those indeed of urgent surgeries, since Gaza hospitals lack the needed supplies due to the siege on the coastal region.

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Palestinians on US Embassy Opening in Jerusalem & 70 Years of the Ongoing Nakba

May 15, 2018 12:41 AM IMEMC News & Agencies

Reversing decades of US foreign policy, the Trump administration is moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem today. The move coincides with Israel’s celebration of its establishment on the ruins of the towns and villages from which the majority of Palestinians were expelled 70 years ago.

The United Nations and international community do not recognize Israeli sovereignty over any part of Jerusalem and consider East Jerusalem as an integral part of the occupied Palestinian territory.

Tomorrow, Palestinians commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, or “Catastrophe”, marking the systematic mass expulsion of indigenous Palestinians from their homes to establish a Jewish-majority state.  In Gaza, where most Palestinians are refugees, thousands will participate in Great Return March demonstrations, calling for the right of refugees to return to the lands from which they were  forcibly expelled. These demonstrations are expected to be the largest since they began over seven weeks ago.

Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist paramilitaries, and then the Israeli military, made 750,000 to one million indigenous Palestinians into refugees, massacred Palestinian civilians, and destroyed hundreds of Palestinian communities. Israel used force to prevent Palestinian families from returning to their homes, and continues to deny Palestinian refugees their UN-sanctioned right of return.

A key Palestinian demand, prominently expressed by demonstrators in Gaza and recently echoed by Amnesty International, is for a comprehensive military embargo on Israel, similar to the one that was imposed on apartheid South Africa to end its egregious violations of human rights.

Abdulrahman Abunahel, a Gaza-based community organizer and coordinator for the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), which leads and supports the global BDS movement for Palestinian rights, said,

For us Palestinians, the Nakba is not just a crime of the past. It’s ongoing, it has never ended. My grandparents were violently expelled from their village in 1948 and forced to live as refugees in the Gaza Strip. Their beautiful village, called Barbara, is only 10 miles away. I can almost see it, but I have no way to reach it.

The ongoing Nakba is why I’ve grown up as a refugee living under Israeli military rule. It’s why I live in what many of us call a suffocating, open-air prison crammed with two million people, denied my basic rights, including freedom of movement. Israel will not even allow me to leave Gaza temporarily to receive important medical care. My hardships are not exceptional, tens of Palestinians died last year, just waiting for Israel to grant them permits to seek life-saving medical care outside Gaza, and thousands couldn’t make their medical appointments.

The ongoing Nakba is why I participate in the Great Return March and support the BDS movement – I simply want the right to live in the land where I am from, in freedom, in peace and with dignity. I was born a refugee, I do not want to die as one.

Omar Barghouti, a co-founder of the BDS movement for Palestinian rights, said,

The Trump administration’s decision to open the US embassy in Jerusalem as Palestinians commemorate 70 painful years of displacement signals that it’s giving Israel freer reign than ever to try to push us out of our homeland. The Trump-Netanyahu far-right alliance is wreaking havoc in Palestine and, by extension, the world.

In Jerusalem, Israel has long destroyed Palestinian homes, revoked the right of the indigenous Palestinians to live in their city, and encouraged illegal Israeli settlers to evict Palestinian families and openly steal their homes. The Trump administration is now not just an enabler, but also a full partner in Israel’s accelerating ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Jerusalem and beyond.

Still, I have hope in popular, creative Palestinian resistance, now invigorated by the Great Return March. I have hope because growing numbers of people around the world are seeing the connection between our struggle for freedom, justice and equality, and their own justice struggles. This is why they are increasingly supporting the Palestinian-led BDS movement.

This growing international alliance of progressive communities working to defeat the hateful agenda of the far-right is what gives me hope that we can, and shall, eventually end the ongoing Nakba, end the ongoing destruction of Palestinian life, and create a better world for all.

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) is the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society. It leads and supports the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights.

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Israeli Occupation Army Injures Many Palestinians In Hebron

May 15, 2018 2:55 AM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation soldiers injured, on Monday at night, many Palestinians in the al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers attacked dozens of Palestinians, who marched against the ongoing illegal occupation, and marking the Nakba Day.

The soldiers fired dozens of gas bombs, and rubber-coated steel bullets, causing scores of Palestinians to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation.

In addition, the army invaded and ransacked many homes in the southern part of Hebron city, and interrogated many Palestinians for hours, after the soldiers claimed shots were fired at their vehicles in the area.

The invasions also targeted the Ibrahimiyya area, and Jaber neighborhood, allegedly looking for the Palestinians who fired at them.

The Palestinians are marking the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day when Israel was created in the historic land of Palestine in 1948.

It is worth mentioning that the soldiers have killed, Monday, 58 Palestinians, including six children and four officers of the Palestinian Ministry of Interior and National Security, in the Gaza Strip, and injured 2771.

During the Nakba of 1948, prior to the establishment of Israel is the historic land of Palestine, 1.4 million Palestinians lived in 1,300 towns and villages all over historical Palestine. More than 800,000 of the population were driven out of their homeland to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, neighboring Arab countries, and other countries of the world.

Thousands of Palestinians were displaced from their homes but stayed within the Israeli-controlled 1948 territory. According to documentary evidence, the Israelis controlled 774 towns and villages and destroyed 531 Palestinian towns and villages during the Nakba. The atrocities of Zionist forces also included more than 70 massacres in which at least 15 thousand Palestinians were killed.

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Ten Palestinian Journalists Attacked by Israeli Forces

May 14, 2018 10:01 PM IMEMC News & Agencies

About ten Palestinian journalists were injured by Israeli fire on Monday, while covering the Israeli aggression against Palestinian protesters along Gaza border, the government media office reported, according to Al Ray.

The office condemned, in a statement, deliberate Israeli attacks on Palestinian journalist crews while covering the Great March of Return.

Office chairman Salam Maroof said that six Palestinian journalists were injured by live fire. They were identified as Yaser Qdaih, Omar Hamdan, Hashem Abu Hadaid, Mohammed Abu Dahrouj, Ahmad Zaqout, Mohammed, Abd Allah Ashourbajee.

He also said that journalist Rabee’ Abu Nqairah was suffocated with Israeli tear gas fired against Palestinians east of Rafah.

Maroof explained,  in an official statement, that Israeli occupation forces deliberately attack Palestinian journalist crews to prevent them from covering crimes against Palestinian civil protesters.

He called for the formation of an international investigation committee to look into Israeli attacks against Palestinian journalists, calling to cease the membership of the Israel  in all international forums concerned with the freedom of opinion and expression and defending the rights of journalists.

In praising their great effort, Maroof called on Palestinian journalists to carry on revealing Israeli crimes against Palestinian civil protests. He also stressed the importance of documenting Israeli crimes in order to file them with the International Criminal Court (ICC).

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Israeli Occupation Army Injures Many Palestinians North Of Jerusalem

May 14, 2018 3:25 PM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation soldiers injured, Monday, dozens of Palestinians after the army assaulted protesters near Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied East Jerusalem.

Hundreds of Palestinians marched from the refugee camp towards the Qalandia terminal, before the soldiers started firing live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades at them, while many protesters hurled stones and empty bottles at the army.

The Palestinians marched marking the 70th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) when Israel was created in the historic land of Palestine, and carried Palestinian flags in addition to signs written in several languages.

They also chanted against the opening of the U.S. embassy in occupied Jerusalem, in direct violations of International Law and Numerous United Nations resolutions. 

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Palestinians who were identified among those who were killed by Israeli occupation soldiers, inside Gaza, on May 14, 2018, are as follows:

Laila al-Ghandour, 8 months.
Mousa Jaber Abu Hassanein, 35 – medic, Civil Defense Department.
Mo’taz Bassam an-Nuno, 31 – Internal Security Department.
Mos’ab Yousef Abu Laileya, 28 – Military Intelligence Department.  (East of Jabalia)
Jihad Mohammad Mousa, 31 – Internal Security Department.
Mo’tasem Fawzi Abu Louli (20), from Rafah, was hit with a live bullet to the chest;
Mohamed Mahmoud ‘Abdul’al (39), from Rafah, was hit with a live bullet to the chest;
Ahmad Fawzi Kamel al-Tatar (28), from Rafah, was hit with a live bullet to the back;
Anas Hamdan Qudaieh (21), from Khan Yunis, was hit with a live bullet to the head
Ezzedeen Mousa al-Samak (14), from al-Bureij, was hit with a live bullet to the upper limbs
‘Obaidah Salem Farhan (30), from Khan Yunis, was hit with a live bullet to the head
Ezzedeen Nahed al-‘Owaiti (23), from Khan Yunis, was hit with a live bullet to the head
Bilal Ahmed Abu Daqqah (26), from Khan Yunis, was hit with a live bullet to the head
Jihad Mofeed al-Farra (30), from Khan Yunis, was hit with a live bullet to the chest
Fadi Hassan Abu Salah (30), from Khan Yunis, who in 2008 lost both of his legs by an Israeli missile, was hit with a live bullet to the chest
‘Ali Mohamed Khafajah (21), from Rafah, was hit with a live bullet to the head
Mohamed Riyad al-‘Amoudi (31), from Gaza City, was hit with a live bullet to the head
Wesal Fadel Sheikh Khalil (24), from al-Bureij.
Mohammad Ashraf Abu Sitta, 26.
Ahmad Awadallah, 24.
Ahmad Adel Mousa Sha’er, 16.
Mohammad Abdul-Rahman Miqdad, 28. (live round in the back)
Said Mohammad Abu al-Kheir, 16.
Ibrahim Ahmad az-Zarka, 18.
Emad Ali Sadiq Sheikh, 19.
Zayed Mohammad Hassan Omar, 19.
Mohammad Abdul-Salaam Harraz, 21.
Yahya Ismail Rajab Daqour, 22.
Mustafa Mohammad Samir al-Masri, 22.
Mahmoud Mustafa as-Saf, 23.
Ahmad Fares Haarb Shehada, 23.
Khalil Ismail Mansour, 25.
Ahmad Majed Atallah, 27.
Mahmoud Rabah Abu Moammar, 28.
Shaher Mahmoud al-Madhoun, 32.
Ahmad Mohammad Hamdan, 27.
Ismail Khalil ad-Dehouk, 30.
Ahmad Mahmoud Rantisi, 27.
Ala’ Anwar al-Khatib, 28.
Mahmoud Yahya Hussein, 24.
Ahmad Abdullah al-Odeini, 30.
Sa’adi Said Abu Salah, 16.
Ahmad Zoheir as-Shawa, 24.
Mohammad Hani Najjar, 33.
Fadel Mohammad Habashi, 34.

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