GAZA,
Wednesday, August 25, 2021 (WAFA) – A Palestinian injured in protests along
Gaza’s eastern border succumbed to his wounds on Wednesday morning, according
to WAFA correspondent.
He
reported medical sources at al-Shifa Hospital
confirming that Osama Khaled D‘aig
succumbed to his wounds he sustained after being shot by Israeli military
gunfire while participating in protests east of Gaza city on Saturday.
On
Saturday, Israeli forces cracked down on protests marking the 52nd
anniversary of the burning of Al-Aqsa Mosque in
Jerusalem, injuring 41 protestors by
live ammunition, including 15 children.
The
protest was also organized to draw attention to the 14-year-old blockade that
Israel has imposed on Gaza since 2007 and Israel’s obstruction of Gaza reconstruction.
Fourteen
years following the Israeli “disengagement” from Gaza, Israel has not actually
disengaged from Gaza; it still maintains control of its land borders, access to
the sea and airspace.
Two
million Palestinians live the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a
punishing and crippling Israeli blockade for 12 years and repeated onslaughts
that have heavily damaged much of the enclave’s infrastructure.
Gaza’s
2-million population remains under “remote control” occupation and a strict
siege, which has destroyed the local economy, strangled Palestinian
livelihoods, plunged them into unprecedented rates of unemployment and poverty,
and cut off from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories and the wider
world.
Gaza
remains occupied territory, having no control over its borders, territorial
waters or airspace. Meanwhile, Israel upholds very few of its responsibilities
as the occupying power, failing to provide for the basic needs of Palestinian
civilians living in the territory.
Every
two in three Palestinians in Gaza is a refugee from lands inside what is now
Israel. That government forbids them from exercising their right to return as
enshrined in international law because they are not Jews.
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