For a year now, Palestinians demonstrate in Gaza against the Blockade by Israel. The Israeli military shoots sharp and justified: The movement of one of the Hamas failure.
Peaceful protests had to be tens of thousands of Palestinians at the border fence with Israel, an agreement between Israel and the Gaza strip’s ruling Hamas. But it was nothing: According to Palestinian reports, a 17-year-old young man during violent clashes with Israeli soldiers has been shot. In addition, a minimum of 244 Palestinians had been injured, including ten by gunfire, the Ministry of health in Gaza and the rescue service of the red Crescent on Saturday. Already in the Morning, a Palestinian has succumbed to his injuries that he had sustained during confrontations on the eve.
One of the most important agreements between Israel and Hamas is at risk. After the recent escalation had agreed to a report by the Israeli newspaper “Haaretz”, on Friday on both sides of the restraint. The Hamas would stop the demonstrators, directly up to the fence. In return, the Israeli army would refrain from the use of weapons, as far as possible.
This agreement, an unnamed representative of the Palestinians, “Haaretz”, was accompanied by other agreements. So Israel would open the Crossings to the Gaza strip, which extend to the Palestinians, granted to the fisheries zone and the limitations of the quality went into the Gaza strip, cancel. In fact, “Haaretz”, the wool of Israel, to come to the inhabitants of Gaza some relief. This should be at least 9 to. April happened, the day of the Israeli parliamentary elections. Until then, the Israeli government wants to avoid unrest in the Gaza strip.
Israel’s military in the criticism
If it were possible, the agreement in spite of the violent incidents on Saturday to maintain, this would set a new accent in the handling of both sides since a year ongoing demonstrations of the Palestinians by the fence to Israel – a fence that marks not an official of the state border, because Palestine is not recognized internationally as a state.
“Lifts the siege”: protester in Gaza
30. March 2018 had gathered there for the first time demonstrators to protest against the Blockade of the Gaza strip, Israel has imposed and the Egypt also maintains. 30. March, applies to the Palestinians as the “day of the earth”. He recalls the death of six Israeli Palestinians on the 30. In March 1976, who were demonstrating against the expropriation of their land by security forces shot and killed.
The violence of that day continued at the “March of return” in Gaza: Since the beginning of the protests a year ago, according to the aid organization of the United Nations for Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) were up to 22. March of this year, 195 Palestinians killed and 29,000 residents of Gaza were injured. The UNRWA for all the cases of the Israeli military responsible. According to news agencies there were in the past twelve months, almost 260 Palestinians and two Israeli victims.
The Israeli, for reconciliation with the Palestinians work to end human rights organization B’tselem charges in a statement in March of this year, serious allegations against the Israeli military. The deaths were “a direct result of the apparently illegal shooting of the commands that were given to the soldiers on the ground”. At the same time, called on’tselem, the international world of States, to condemn this action. “The international community must make the whole of their Power and influence to force Israel to cease fire and to change its policy.”
Hamas and the protest movement
The Israeli military defended itself on its Website. The listed arguments lead directly into the heart of the debate about the origins of the protest movement in Gaza.
Expansion of the combat zone: Also in the West Bank protesting young Palestinians
The demonstrations, declared in the independent Internet portal “+972” the Palestinian political analyst Tareq Baconi, were originally assumed to be a group of about 20 predominantly secular or left-wing activists. Many Palestinians had observed these actions with great hopes, as they showed a new political culture. “The Palestinians are at a fork in the road”, so Baconi. To demand “instead of their state, they are now calling for their rights. It is a development towards a civil rights movement, and Gaza is showing the way.”
But then, so Baconi, took over the Hamas, the leadership of the movement. “I believe that Hamas intervened in everything. But Hamas, provided the movement with the necessary infrastructure, so that they could expand.”
The arguments of the army
This analysis is consistent – although rather involuntarily – with the help of the Israeli military, the Israeli Defensive Forces (IDF). Hamas had hijacked the movement, the representation of the IDF. You see Hamas as a highly dangerous organization.
Full use: the Israeli military
Throughout the year, the Hamas have fired more than 1,300 rockets and mortar on Israeli civilians. In addition, the IDF would have neutralized since the end of 2017, a total of 17 tunnels, many of which are in the vicinity of the border. Through the Tunnel things of the daily life in the blockaded Gaza strip as weapons.
Hamas (as the IDF) “allegedly” civilian Initiative, the border fence and infiltrated. Protesters had soon fired Molotov cocktails, grenades, and other explosive items. “Under the protection of this violence also led to breakthroughs in the Israeli defense infrastructure, followed by infiltrations into Israeli territory and attacks on forces and positions of the IDF as well as the military infrastructure. These penetrations threatened to develop Mass gaps in the security infrastructure and a mass-like Infiltration to Israel.” The would have prevented the IDF.
The Hamas use the high number of victims to propaganda purposes. The goal is to delegitimize the operations of the military.
The future of the protests
Open is how the demonstrations develop in the long term. The protests were for the Hamas is quite risky, writes the Israeli newspaper “Haaretz” in view of the fact that better living conditions in the center of the movement “We want to live”. It is not excluded that the demonstrations at the border fence at some point against Hamas.