The World Health Organization says the number of protesters wounded in border clashes with Israel was “very overwhelming” for Gaza’s health system.
Citing figures from the Health Ministry and a group of aid agencies, WHO official Mahmoud Daher told The Associated Press Tuesday that 2,771 people were wounded in Monday’s unrest. Of those, 1,360 were wounded by live fire, 400 from shrapnel and 980 from gas inhalation. He said the majority of those wounded by live fire were struck in their lower limbs.
Daher says that nearly 1,800 of the wounded sought hospital care, putting additional pressure on Gaza’s already stressed hospitals, which endure equipment and medicine shortages and face power cuts like the rest of the territory.
Daher says the numbers were comparable to wartime situations. “It is really massive in terms of numbers,” he said
Turkey has lowered flags to half-mast to mark three days of mourning for the Palestinians killed and wounded in the Gaza border protest.
The gesture comes as the government invites members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for an extraordinary session Friday.
Speaking late Monday, the Turkish government’s spokesman announced the official mourning period after Israeli forces killed 58 Palestinians, most by gunfire, as they protested the Gaza blockade and the relocation of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
Bekir Bozdag slammed Israel for the “massacre” and said “the U.S. now has Palestinian blood on its hands.” He said the day would be remembered as “bloody Monday.”
The word “fighting” usually implies some equal footing between the capacity of each side to engage in conflict.
I read that the Palestinians lit a kite on fire and sent it over the wall. In the eyes of the media I think that counts.
I thought Jared was going to fix that.
How’s the whole ‘move the Embassy to Jerusalem thing’ working out so far?
Add dropping out of the Iran nuclear deal and we’re talking real Middle East peace.
But, there’s always North Korea … where you can give Kim everything he has wanted.
“Now, I have to tell you, it’s an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew (middle east politics) could be so complicated.”
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Ditto “border clashes.” There’s no way that doesn’t mean two-way fighting. But it was strictly one-way, as far as I can tell - last time I checked, Israeli casualties were zero.
Shoot thousands, kill dozens, just to make sure no Palestinian gets close enough to throw a rock at an Israeli soldier.