25th February 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky-ekZSTsec
(Video by Marco Varasio)
At al-Shifa hospital Mohammed Helles, age 14, is laying in a coma with an uncertain outcome after he was shot, with what appeared, to be a tear-gas canister in the head and parts of it penetrated his brain. He had an operation, but fragments are still left. Kamal hospital reported thirteen injures, from both gunshot wounds in the legs and tear-gas canisters.
Israeli forces struck a Palestinian protester in the head with a tear-gas canister in Jabaliya, in the northeastern Gaza Strip.
— ISM Palestine (@ISMPalestine) February 21, 2014
Friday’s demonstration on the hillside east of Jabaliya gathered about 400 people, mostly young men in their late teens. Protests against land seizure, mixed with dissent at the consequences of the occupation such as a broken economy, soaring unemployment and loss of hope for the future, were met by tear gas and live ammunition, with ambulances shuttling back and forth .
Over the slope an Israeli drone hovered at a low altitude, but at an even lower altitude two Palestinian kites floated close over the fence. Cheers and applause broke out when one tore and three Israeli soldiers rushed after it. But it was also the only thing protesters had over which to rejoice. The protests will probably not change the occupying power’s policy towards the Palestinian people. According to figures from OCHA, 17 percent of the Gaza Strip, including 35 percent of its farmland, is unavailable due to the Israeli-established “buffer zone.” More than 100,000 people are directly affected, and the protests against the occupying power, as well as its military response to them, are likely to continue.
An Israeli drone is hovering over Palestinian protesters by the separation barrier in Jabaliya, in the northeastern Gaza Strip.
— ISM Palestine (@ISMPalestine) February 21, 2014
