[WALLS WORK] Over 35 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since start of "protest"

Nice job celebrating killing

 

Militarized walls are fairly effective. The wall with Mexico won't be nor should it be militarized.

Killing protesters isn't my idea of a successful wall. What a horrible goal.

 

OP is being facetious here right, or is he actually celebrating killing protesters? LOL.

 

I don't see the problem.

 

Murder works.

 

Well yeah, that's what I'm saying. I see nothing wrong with what is going on. Seems like everything is working just as it should.

 

Build The Wall

 

This certainly raises the question as to whether Palestinian non-violence can be effective when confronting the Israelis. Even folks like Natalie Portman are finding it hard to support the Israeli brutality,
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Natalie Portman, one of the most famous Jewish celebrities on the planet, just announced she was boycotting a major Israeli event.

Portman was scheduled to travel to Jerusalem to receive the Genesis Prize, a prominent award sometimes referred to as the “Jewish Nobel.” On Friday, she abruptly canceled her visit, writing that she “did not want to appear as endorsing [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu” in an Instagram post explaining her decision. It’s not yet clear what’s happening to the $2 million in prize money that comes with the award.

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/4/23/17270180/natalie-portman-israel-boycott

 

This wasn't about Palestinian non violence, this was about Palestinian violence leading to 35 of them getting killed....which is absolutely fine.

 

you can't make an accusation like that and not back it up...35 people including children lost their lives.

 

When you stop valuing human life, you stop being human.

 

A few options for the Palestinian resistance against the brutal Apartheid regime:
- hunt Israeli's officals abroad
- target nuclear sites,stop the non sense peaceful protests
-or wait patiently like OP for Jesus to burn them in hill

 

Is this your same stand with protests here in the US? Shoot to kill?

 

The same type of being victimized by propaganda that led poor Bobbie to allegedly go to Iraq to find wmd's.
Fool you once etc.

 

Exiled, why are you Saudis and MBS becoming such good allies with the Israelis?

 

This murderous blood shead by the Israelis is why BDS boycott, divestment and sanctions is so needed. The Palestinians can't win with violence, and it will be very bloody as they are gunned down by the hundreds and probably thousands in non-violent protests till international pressure causes the Israelis to change like their fellow Apartheidists did in South Africa.

 

I wonder what Trailer Park Bob's opinion of Black Lives Matter is?

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-killed-in-israel-gaza-protests-idUSKBN1HE0A2


April 7, 2018 / 4:56 AM / 17 days ago
Palestinian journalist killed in Israel-Gaza protests

GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian journalist died on Saturday after being wounded by Israeli fire on Friday while covering deadly protests along the Israel-Gaza border, health officials said.

Colleagues of Palestinian journalist Yasser Murtaja, 31, who died of his wounds during clashes at the Israel-Gaza border on Friday, mourn during his funeral in Gaza city April 7, 2018. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
Yaser Murtaja, 30, a cameraman for Palestinian Ain Media, was the 29th Palestinian killed in the week-long protests.

Photos showed Murtaja lying wounded on a stretcher wearing a navy-blue protective vest marked ‘PRESS’ in large black capital letters. Health officials said a live bullet had penetrated the side of his abdomen and he succumbed to his wounds in hospital.

A statement from the Israeli military said: “The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) does not intentionally target journalists. The circumstances in which journalists were allegedly hit by IDF fire are not familiar to the IDF and are being looked into.”

The daily protests, dubbed “The Great March of Return”, began on March 30 along the Israel-Gaza frontier, reviving a longstanding demand for the right of return of Palestinian refugees to towns and villages from which their families fled, or were driven out, when the state of Israel was created.

Eight Palestinians were wounded there on Saturday, Gaza health officials said, and an Israeli military spokeswoman said she was checking the report.

Israel has stationed sharpshooters to stop attempts by Palestinians to breach the border or sabotage the security fence.

Freelance photographer Ashraf Abu Amra told Reuters he was next to Murtaja, whom he said was wearing a helmet and protective vest. Abu Amra said they were both clearly marked as journalists.

“We were filming as youths torched tyres. We were about 250 meters from the fence,” said Abu Amra. “Israeli forces opened fire and injuries began. Yaser and I ran to film when suddenly Yaser fell to the ground.

“I screamed to him ‘Yaser are you alright?’. He didn’t respond and there was blood on the ground underneath him. I knew it was a bad injury and people carried him away,” said Abu Amra.

Video footage showed Murtaja being carried to an ambulance with crowds around and black smoke rising from where protesters had set tyres alight, east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Secretary-General Christophe Deloire condemned what the group described as Israel’s disproportionate response and called for an independent investigation into the incident.

The Foreign Press Association echoed the call and urged the military to show restraint.

Murtaja was married with a two-year-old son. Hundreds of mourners, among them many journalists, attended his funeral on Saturday.

His body was covered with a Palestinian flag and his press jacket laid beside him on the stretcher as it was carried through the streets of Gaza City to his home for a last farewell.

“I made him breakfast, he ate quickly, he was in a hurry to go to work,” said Murtaja’s mother, Yusra, recounting the morning of the protest.

“I thought he would recover from his injury, I didn’t expect his death, but God has chosen him as a martyr, thank God,” she said, sitting on the ground as mourners came to the house to pay their respects.

Israel Radio, citing an unnamed source in Gaza, said Murtaja had been operating a camera drone on Friday.

“I don’t know who he was, cameraman or no cameraman, anyone operating drones above IDF soldiers must know he is putting himself at risk,” Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman told reporters. “We won’t take any risks.”

Abu Amra and two other Palestinian journalists said Murtaja was not operating a camera drone when shot.

Murtaja, on his Facebook page, had posted two aerial photos taken at the border in the past week. It was unclear if he had taken them himself.

Palestinians evacuate mortally wounded Palestinian journalist Yasser Murtaja, 31, during clashes with Israeli troops at the Israel-Gaza border, in the southern Gaza Strip April 6, 2018. Picture taken April 6, 2018. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
At least three other journalists were wounded on Friday in other locations, Gaza officials said. There have been no Israeli casualties in the protests.

Israel’s response to the protests has drawn international criticism, with human rights groups saying it involved live fire against demonstrators posing no immediate threat to life.

The European Union in a statement said the killings raised serious questions about the use of force. It added reports by Israel of stones and fire-bombs being thrown along with attempts to cross the fence into Israel “must also be clarified.”

Israel says it has been warning Gazans for weeks not to approach the border fence.

“The IDF uses means such as warnings, riot dispersal means, and as a last resort firing live rounds in a precise, measured way. The IDF is committed to preventing infiltration into Israeli territory and threats against IDF troops and Israeli civilians,” the military’s statement said.

Hamas, the Islamist group that runs Gaza, says the protests demanding the right of return of refugees will continue.

The Israeli government has ruled out any right of return, fearing the country would lose its Jewish majority.

Israel says many of the dead were militants and that Hamas, which is designated a terrorist organization by the West, is using the protests as cover to launch attacks along the border and ignite the area, while putting Gaza’s civilians at risk.

Hamas rejects this.