Israeli occupation forces shot, on Sunday, a number of Palestinians, including children, with live rounds and tear gas canisters, and caused dozens more to suffer the toxic effects of tear gas inhalation, along the separation fence, on the eastern border of Gaza.
Hundreds of Palestinian young men and teens, gathered near the separation fence, east of Jabalia in the northern part of Gaza and east of the Bureij refugee camp in the central part of the besieged Gaza Strip.
Media sources said that Israeli soldiers, positioned in military barracks and armored military vehicles, fired many live rounds and tear gas canisters at Palestinian demonstrators, who burned rubber tires and carried the flag of Palestine.
Shehab News correspondent reported that occupation forces shot five Palestinians, including at least two children, with live rounds, while two young men were shot with tear gas canisters. They were transported to hospital for medical intervention.
Dozens of other demonstrators sustained inhalation injuries as a result of tear gas exposure, and were treated at the scene by local medics.
Shehab News correspondent stated that the army, “directly targeted ambulance and rescue crews with gas bombs, in the vicinity of the demonstration sites east of Jabalia, in the north of the Gaza Strip, and Al-Bureij in the central Gaza Strip.”
Hebrew media said that incendiary balloons released by Palestinian youths, started four fires near Israeli settlements east of the Gaza Strip.
Shehab correspondent added that young men detonated a crude explosive device on the separation fence east of Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip.
Palestinian youths in Gaza have been gathering along various points along the eastern border every day since September 13, to protest the inhumane siege imposed on the Gaza Strip since 2007.
