TEHRAN – An Israeli rights group says Israeli forces regularly fire atPalestinian protesters who pose no threat to them in the eastern part ofthe besieged Gaza Strip.
B’Tselem said the Israeli military is pursuing the policy of suppressingdemonstrations using live bullets, Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported on Friday.
The rights group said that Israeli soldiers take positions in concretetowers or behind bulwarks and shoot at Palestinian demonstrators.
According to the report, the number of demonstrations increased since USPresident Donald Trump on December 6, 2017, announced his decision torecognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s “capital” and relocate the USembassy from Tel Aviv to the occupied city.
At least eight Palestinian protesters had been killed and 322 othersinjured in Gaza by the end of December, it said.
The Israeli military regularly opens fatal fire on Palestinians, accusingthem of attempting to carry out stabbing attacks against its forces.
Human rights groups have repeatedly criticized the Tel Aviv regime for itspolicy of shoot-to-kill as a large number of the Palestinians killed at thescene of attacks did not pose serious threats to Israelis.Palestinian protesters burn pictures of US President Donald Trump in thesouthern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on December 6, 2017. (Photo by AFP)
The number of Israeli attacks have sharply risen since Trump’s announcementon Jerusalem al-Quds, which triggered demonstrations in the occupiedPalestinian territories, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria,Iraq, Morocco and other Muslim countries.
On December 21, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly voted infavor of a resolution that calls on the US to withdraw its controversialrecognition of Jerusalem al-Quds as the Israeli “capital.”
Jerusalem al-Quds remains at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,with Palestinians hoping that the eastern part of the city would eventuallyserve as the capital of a future independent Palestinian state.