{"id":33764,"date":"2019-03-01T21:23:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T21:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33764"},"modified":"2019-03-01T21:23:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T21:23:26","slug":"israeli-troops-shoot-17-palestinians-during-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33764","title":{"rendered":"Israeli troops shoot 17 Palestinians during protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1459996\/middle-east\" readability=\"95\">\n<p>\nGAZA CITY: Israeli troops on Friday shot and wounded 17 Palestinians during a protest on the Gaza-Israel border, where rallies have been held for nearly a year, the enclave\u2019s Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>\nA ministry statement reported \u201c17 injuries by the Israeli occupation forces with live ammunition,\u201d without giving details on the condition of those shot.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt said that three paramedics and one journalist were hurt by tear gas grenades. The Israeli army told AFP that troops used live fire \u201caccording to the rules of engagement\u201d with violent demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThere are close to 8,000 rioters who are throwing stones, who are burning tires and throwing explosive devices and grenades at troops and at the (border) fence,\u201d a spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIn response we are using riot dispersal means and also firing, according to the rules of engagement of course,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe conclusions of a UN probe published on Thursday said Israeli forces responding to protests on the Gaza border had committed \u201cviolations of international human rights and humanitarian law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cSome of those violations may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity,\u201d said the report, by a commission of inquiry set up by the UN Human Rights Council. Protests and clashes began along the Gaza border on March 30 last year.<\/p>\n<p>\nDemonstrators have been calling for Palestinian refugees to be allowed to return to their former homes now inside Israel, which Israeli officials say is akin to calling for their country\u2019s destruction.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsrael accuses Gaza\u2019s rulers Hamas of using the protests as cover for infiltrations and attacks, while rights groups and Palestinians say protesters posing little threat have been shot by Israeli snipers.<\/p>\n<p>\nAt least 251 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since March 2018, the majority shot during weekly border protests and others hit by tank fire or air strikes in response to violence from Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\nTwo Israeli soldiers have been killed over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsraeli leaders strongly condemned the findings of the UN inquiry, which investigated possible violations from the start of the protests last March through to Dec. 31.<\/p>\n<p>\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel \u201crejects outright the report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nForeign Minister Israel Katz called it \u201chostile, deceitful and biased\u201d and insisted that \u201cno institution can negate Israel\u2019s right to self-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nIsrael and Hamas, which has controlled the blockaded Gaza Strip for over a decade, have fought three wars since 2008.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAZA CITY: Israeli troops on Friday shot and wounded 17 Palestinians during a protest on the Gaza-Israel border, where rallies have been held for nearly a year, the enclave\u2019s Health Ministry said. A ministry statement reported \u201c17 injuries by the Israeli occupation forces with live ammunition,\u201d without giving details on the condition of those shot.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}