{"id":36831,"date":"2019-03-22T21:23:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T21:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36831"},"modified":"2019-03-22T21:23:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T21:23:11","slug":"israeli-forces-kill-two-palestinians-in-gaza-border-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36831","title":{"rendered":"Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in Gaza border clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1470881\/middle-east\" readability=\"47\">\n<p>\nGaza City:\u00a0Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in renewed clashes along the Gaza border Friday, the health ministry in the enclave said.<br \/>The clashes took place a week before the first anniversary of the weekly protests, when organisers have pledged larger than usual demonstrations.<br \/>Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra told AFP the two men, aged 18 and 29, were shot in separate incidents along the fractious border.<br \/>The teenager was shot in the head east of Gaza City, while the older man was hit in the chest near the Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, Qudra told AFP.<br \/>He did not name them but said at least 55 other people were shot.<br \/>The Israeli army did not comment on the deaths but said &#8220;approximately 9,500 rioters and demonstrators&#8221; gathered in various locations, &#8220;hurling explosive devices, hard objects and rocks&#8221; at troops.<br \/>Troops were &#8220;firing in accordance with standard operating procedures,&#8221; a spokeswoman said.<br \/>At least 257 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza since protests began on March 30 2018.<br \/>Most have been killed during protests, though others have died in airstrikes and by tank fire.<br \/>Two Israeli soldiers have been killed.<br \/>The often violent protests are demanding Palestinian refugees and their descendants be allowed to return to former homes now inside Israel.<br \/>Israeli officials say that amounts to calling for the Jewish state&#8217;s destruction, and accuse Hamas of orchestrating the protests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaza City:\u00a0Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in renewed clashes along the Gaza border Friday, the health ministry in the enclave said.The clashes took place a week before the first anniversary of the weekly protests, when organisers have pledged larger than usual demonstrations.Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra told AFP the two men, aged 18 and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36831","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=36831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}