Posted on 10/09/2015 9:23:57 PM PDT by FourPeas
Israeli fire killed six Palestinians and wounded scores during clashes Friday near Gaza's border, the first unrest-related deaths there after days of violence in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, medics said.
The clashes came as Hamas' chief in Gaza called violence that has hit the occupied West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem an intifada, or uprising, and urged further unrest.
Ahmed al-Hirbawi, Shadi Dawla, Abed al-Wahidi and Nabil Sharaf, all aged 20, were killed when soldiers responded after youths threw stones at them on the Israel side of their common border east of Khan Yunis, Gaza medics said.
Mohammed al-Raqab, 15, and Adnan Abu Alian, 20, were killed in similar clashes east of Gaza City.
Medics said another 80 Palestinians were wounded, 10 of them seriously.
An army spokeswoman said about 200 Palestinians had approached the fence while hurling rocks and rolling burning tires toward security forces.
"Forces on the site responded with fire toward the main instigators to prevent their progress and disperse the riot," she said.
The spokeswoman confirmed “five hits” without elaborating.
In a sermon for weekly Muslim prayers at a mosque in Gaza City, Hamas' Gaza chief Ismail Haniyeh said "we are calling for the strengthening and increasing of the intifada."
"It is the only path that will lead to liberation," he said. "Gaza will fulfill its role in the Jerusalem intifada and it is more than ready for confrontation."
Stabbing attacks in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Israel itself along with rioting have raised fears of a third Palestinian intifada, following a first that began in 1987 and a second in 2000.
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Maybe it happened. Maybe it didn’t. With the Palestinians you never really know.
I’m just saying. . .
Doesn’t matter, the Jews will be blamed.
A little population control, sympathy from The Devil (Media) and cash flow to “heal the wounds” (buy more weapons)...
Victimology takes many forms across most cultures...
Palistinians are such uncivilized losers. No wonder no one wants to be near them. They fully embrace murder.
Naharnet is the leading Lebanese news destination
The only good palestinian is a dead one.
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