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UN Security Council holds emergency meeting over deadly Israel-Palestine border clash
Published time: 31 Mar, 2018 00:00 Edited time: 31 Mar, 2018 05:30
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Palestinians run from tear gas fired by Israeli troops during clashes, during a tent city protest along the Israel border with Gaza, demanding the right to return to their homeland, east of Gaza City March 30 © Mohammed Salem / Reuters

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The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting concerning 'Great Return' protest clashes along the Israeli-Palestine border. The UN chief has called for an investigation into the violence that reportedly killed 16 Palestinians.
In a statement issued in the wake of the UN Security Council emergency meeting, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that “his thoughts are with the families of the victims” that were killed or injured during the violent clashes at the Gaza border.

“The Secretary-General calls for an independent and transparent investigation into these incidents,” the statement, issued by his office, reads.

The meeting was called by Kuwait, which, along with Turkey, Egypt, Jordan and other countries with predominantly Muslim population, voiced their anger over the way the Israeli army retaliated against mass unrest that erupted along the border with Gaza Strip on Friday.

The meeting was set to kick off at 6:30 pm local time [10:30 pm GMT]. It was initially reported that the meeting would proceed behind closed doors, meaning that neither Israeli nor Palestinian representatives would be able to partake in the discussion. However, the session was ultimately held in the open.

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Israeli troops used live fire, rubber-coated bullets and tear gas to disperse the protesting Palestinian crowds that flocked to the border fence in their hundreds. At least two men, who Israel claims were "terrorist infiltrators," were killed by tank fire.

The UN has urged Tel Aviv to promptly conduct investigations into the killings of protesters, calling on it to abide by international human rights norms and humanitarian law when dealing with dissent.

"Lethal force should only be used as a last resort with any resulting fatalities properly investigated by the authorities," UN deputy political affairs chief Taye-Brook Zerihoun said, as cited by Reuters.

Speaking at the meeting, Russia’s deputy envoy to the UN offered Moscow’s help in arranging talks between Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

"We confirm our readiness to offer a Russian platform for a meeting of Israeli and Palestinians leaders," Vladimir Safronkov said, noting the need to hold direct negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis on all pressing issues, including the status of Jerusalem.

The Israeli representatives, meanwhile, chose not to attend the meeting because it coincided with the start of the Passover holiday. Riyad Mansour, the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations, was present at the meeting and took to the floor after all the UNSC permanent and non-permanent members made their statements.
Israel’s absence at the session was lamented by US diplomat Walter Miller. “We are deeply saddened by the loss of life today. We urge those involved to take steps to lower tensions and reduce the risk of new clashes,” he said, as cited by Reuters.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) cracked down hard on the crowds amassing in the area, using drones to dispense tear gas at protesters. Over 100 snipers were on standby, authorized to use live ammunition in case someone ventured to cross into Israeli-occupied territories.

Some 1,416 people were injured in the altercation and at least 16 were killed, according to figures provided by the Gaza Health Ministry. Roughly half of the injuries were inflicted by live fire, the ministry said, while many protesters were also targeted by tear gas and rubber bullets.

The planned six-week-long ‘Great Return’ protests, calling for the right for Palestinian refugees to return to the territories now occupied by Israel, are expected to reach their climax on May 15, with a march to break through the heavily guarded border, according to Hamas.

 

[JohnTan]

I don't see Muslims demanding the UN to step in when muslims run wild and burn non-muslim homes and kill them. Why should the UN intervene when Israel shoots dozens of foreigners who threaten to breach Israel's borders?

 

[Tony Tan]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-protest-clashes.html

Israeli Military Kills 15 Palestinians in Confrontations on Gaza Border
By ISABEL KERSHNER and IYAD ABUHEWEILAMARCH 30, 2018

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Israeli soldiers shot tear gas across the border with Gaza on Friday as Palestinians gathered for demonstrations expected to last six weeks. Credit Jack Guez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
JERUSALEM — Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered along Gaza’s border with Israel on Friday to vent their pent-up frustration in a protest that quickly turned violent, with Israeli forces killing 15 at the border fence.

As many as 30,000 arrived early in the day at tent encampments on Gaza’s side of the fence to stage what was billed as the start of a peaceful, six-week sit-in. They were protesting against Israel’s longstanding blockade of the territory and in support of their claims to return to homes in what is now Israel.

But as some began hurling stones, tossing Molotov cocktails and rolling burning tires at the fence, the Israelis responded with tear gas and gunfire. The Israelis said they also exchanged fire with two gunmen across the fence and fired at two others who tried to infiltrate into Israel.

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Mohammad Obaid, an 18-year-old protester, said that holding a Palestinian flag in one hand and a rock in the other would be enough to get him killed by an Israeli soldier.

“We can bring back our lands with the power of guns and weapons, not with a march, a stone or a knife,” he said after the violence erupted.

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Friday’s flare-up, ignited by isolation and economic deprivation, was the worst in years in the small Mediterranean enclave. In recent years, neighboring Egypt has joined Israel in the blockade, and the Palestinian Authority, which administers the West Bank, has imposed sanctions. With the territory’s economy collapsing, fears of an explosive backlash have mounted.

In December, some Palestinian leaders had called for mass protests when the United States declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel and said it planned to move the American Embassy there. Such demonstrations never materialized.

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Protesters carrying a wounded man near the Gaza Strip border with Israel on Friday. Credit Khalil Hamra/Associated Press
Instead, it was a call to protest over the most sensitive issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — the land itself — that brought Palestinians out in huge numbers on Friday. And the question, as always, was whether confrontations would spread or escalate.

The Palestinians are pressing demands to return to lands that became Israel 70 years ago. A majority of Gaza’s two million residents are either refugees of the 1948 war that broke out over Israel’s creation, or descendants of those refugees.

Israel’s blockade of Gaza, which it describes as a security imperative, is more than decade old and restricts the movement of people and goods in and out of the Palestinian territory.

The protest came at a particularly charged time, as Jews prepared for the start of the Passover holiday on Friday evening, and as Palestinians observed Land Day. The day commemorates the events of March 30, 1976, when Israeli security forces shot and killed six Arab citizens of Israel during protests over the government’s expropriation of Arab-owned land in northern Israel.

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Muslims at Friday Prayer at one of the tent cities set up for the demonstrations. Credit Mohammed Abed/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The Palestinian organizers of the protest bused men, women and children to tent encampments that popped up in recent days about 700 yards from the border with Israel. They intended for the six-week campaign to culminate in a mass march toward Israel, putting Israeli officials on edge.

Even before the protests started, Israel began a campaign to hold the Islamic militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza, responsible for any violence. The country’s hard-line defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman, warned Gazans to keep away from the border in a post on Twitter in Arabic.

“The Hamas leadership is risking your lives,” he wrote. “I advise you to get on with your normal everyday lives and not to participate in the provocation.”’

Those tensions were also fed in recent weeks by Palestinian militants planting explosives along the border, with some cutting through the fence. Armed with knives and grenades, they set fire to Israeli military equipment — apparently testing Israeli preparedness and worrying local communities.

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Relatives of Omar Samour, a 27-year-old Palestinian farmer who was killed by Israeli tank fire, mourning on Friday. Credit Said Khatib/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Israel had almost doubled its forces along the border, deploying snipers, special units and drones, and warning that it would act to prevent any breach of the border fence. B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, had warned that any shoot-to-kill policy against unarmed demonstrators would be illegal unless soldiers’ lives were threatened.

Most of the protesters in the tent encampments remained well away from the border fence and did not participate in the violence.

After the violence began, the Israelis declared the area surrounding Gaza a closed military zone, and said they had responded with riot-control methods and had fired toward the “main instigators.” The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza put the number of deaths at 15; the Israeli military said it was not able to verify the number.

The idea for border encampments was initiated by a Gazan social-media activist, Ahmed Abu Artema, a political independent. It was quickly adopted by Hamas, which promoted the protest on its social media platforms and urged Palestinians to participate.

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Setting up a large tent in preparation for the demonstrations on Thursday. Credit Adel Hana/Associated Press
“Our will in achieving the actual return to our lands is more powerful than jet fighters and a gun,” Mr. Abu Artema said by phone on Friday as he was on his way to the protest. “This march is rightful and will not be used and exploited for political agendas.”

Before the main confrontation broke out, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported that a Palestinian man, a farmer, was killed near the border zone early Friday by Israeli artillery fire — one of the 15 it reported dead later in the day, along with some 1,000 injured. The Israeli military’s account said one of its tanks had fired on two Palestinians who approached the border and were “acting suspiciously.”

“We are raising the flags of peace and have nothing to harm the enemy,” said Hamed Jundiya, 63, an educational supervisor who erected his tent a few hundred yards from the border fence. Gazans are desperate, he said, “living without work, electricity and open borders.”

The peak of the Gaza protest was supposed to take place on May 15, when Palestinians commemorate what they call the Nakba, or catastrophe, the anniversary of Israel’s declaration of independence and the 1948 war in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians lost their homes through flight and expulsion.

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Palestinians are protesting the more than a decade-long economic blockade of Gaza by Israel, and to demand a right of return for Palestinian refugees to the lands that became Israel 70 years ago. Credit Mohammed Abed/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
This year, May 15 is expected to be particularly sensitive. It comes a day after the expected move of the United States Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, a step that has provoked international criticism and Palestinian outrage. It also coincides with the start of Ramadan, the Muslim holy fasting month.

Organizers of the border protest had hoped to create an almost festival-like atmosphere to attract families, setting up portable washrooms and providing free food, water and Wi-Fi. But tensions in Gaza had been building for weeks.

Friday’s protest also fed on Palestinian anger over the failing reconciliation process between Hamas and Fatah, the rival, mainstream movement led by Mahmoud Abbas, whose Western-backed Palestinian Authority holds sway in parts of the West Bank.

Mr. Abbas, whose forces were routed from Gaza during factional violence in 2007, has vowed to tighten economic sanctions on the enclave, where most of the population lives in poverty and lacks such basics as regular electricity.

Mr. Abbas declared a national day of mourning on Saturday.

Israel has fought three wars in Gaza over the past decade and has invested heavily in combating the threat posed by rockets fired by Hamas and other militant groups, and from tunnels crossing under the border.

Isabel Kershner reported from Jerusalem, and Iyad Abuheweila from Gaza. Ibrahim El-Mughraby contributed reporting from Gaza.

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[tanwahtiu]

Dickhead. US owned UN.

I don't see Muslims demanding the UN to step in when muslims run wild and burn non-muslim homes and kill them. Why should the UN intervene when Israel shoots dozens of foreigners who threaten to breach Israel's borders?

 

[JohnTan]

Dickhead. US owned UN.

China and Russia hold veto votes in the security council. Are they owned by the US? You are a moron.

 

[tanwahtiu]

As if. Chinese joined UN to get inside info using 孙子兵法 36 strategies.

China and Russia hold veto votes in the security council. Are they owned by the US? You are a moron.

 

[JohnTan]

As if. Chinese joined UN to get inside info using 孙子兵法 36 strategies.

Chinkland joined the UN as a victor of WW2. But like France, the chinks were overrun and had to be bailed out by the actual victors USA, Britain and USSR.

KMT Chink was eventually replaced by Commie Chink.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Prove yr worthy comment.

Chinkland joined the UN as a victor of WW2. But like France, the chinks were overrun and had to be bailed out by the actual victors USA, Britain and USSR.

KMT Chink was eventually replaced by Commie Chink.

 

[JohnTan]

Prove yr worthy comment.

The chinks did not possess any heavy industry capable of manufacturing their own weapons for a modern war back in the 1930s. Where do you think they got their rifles, machine guns, bullets from?

The famous Flying Tigers air squadron was set by the yankees, trained in Burma with help from the Brits.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Nonsense. As if gunboats cannot be made by Chinese. Sink one BE gunboat is all you need to make a duplicate one.

Besides, you think just give away ports rights to angmoh for nothing in China.

Chinese send scholars to BE to learn make gunboats and make better ones that scare the shits of angmoh pees in their pants.

The chinks did not possess any heavy industry capable of manufacturing their own weapons for a modern war back in the 1930s. Where do you think they got their rifles, machine guns, bullets from?

The famous Flying Tigers air squadron was set by the yankees, trained in Burma with help from the Brits.

 

[JohnTan]

Nonsense. As if gunboats cannot be made by Chinese. Sink one BE gunboat is all you need to make a duplicate one.

Besides, you think just give away ports rights to angmoh for nothing in China.

Chinese send scholars to BE to learn make gunboats and make better ones that scare the shits of angmoh pees in their pants.

You seriously need to stop smoking all that opium.

The chinks bought or received donations for nearly all of their modern arms from the 19th century until the 1950s, when the soviets transferred some tech to them to make their own AKs, tanks and small arms.

 

[tanwahtiu]

You stop smoking American cigars. Their cigar contain opium.

You seriously need to stop smoking all that opium.

The chinks bought or received donations for nearly all of their modern arms from the 19th century until the 1950s, when the soviets transferred some tech to them to make their own AKs, tanks and small arms.

 

[tanwahtiu]

As if China were broke.

You are wrong. China were still rich nation during Mao period.

Stop reading books rewritten by white trash on China.

You seriously need to stop smoking all that opium.

The chinks bought or received donations for nearly all of their modern arms from the 19th century until the 1950s, when the soviets transferred some tech to them to make their own AKs, tanks and small arms.