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Gazan youth dies of wounds from clashes with Israeli troops

Tuesday, 17 July 2018 12:37 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 17 July 2018 1:00 PM ]

This undated picture shows Palestinian youth Sari Daoud al-Shawbaki at St. Joseph Hospital in East Jerusalem al-Quds. (Photo by Arabic-language Safa news agency)

A young Palestinian man has died more than two months after being shot by Israeli military forces during clashes between a group of Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

The spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health, Ashraf al-Qidra, said in a statement that 20-year-old Sari Daoud al-Shawbaki passed away on Tuesday morning at St. Joseph Hospital in East Jerusalem al-Quds, where he had been taken for medical treatment.

He had been shot and wounded in the neck during “The Great March of Return” protests on May 14. The gunshot wound caused him quadriplegia, also known as tetraplegia.

Shawbaki’s death brings to 140 the number of Palestinians, who have been killed by Israeli forces ever since the “Great March of Return” began in the Gaza Strip on March 30.

A total of 14,811 Palestinians also sustained injuries, of whom 366 are reportedly in a critical condition.

The Gaza clashes reached their peak on May 14, the eve of the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day (Day of Catastrophe), which coincided this year with the US embassy relocation from Tel Aviv to the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.

Palestinian mourners carry the body of 18-year-old Nassir Shurab during his funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 14, 2018. (Photo by AFP)

On June 13, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a Turkish and Algerian-sponsored resolution, condemning Israel for Palestinian civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip.

The resolution, which had been put forward on the behalf of Arab and Muslim countries, garnered a strong majority of 120 votes in the 193-member assembly, with 8 votes against and 45 abstentions on Wednesday.

The resolution calls on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to make proposals within 60 days “on ways and means for ensuring the safety, protection, and well-being of the Palestinian civilian population under Israeli occupation,” including “recommendations regarding an international protection mechanism.”

It also calls for “immediate steps towards ending the closure and the restrictions imposed by Israel on movement and access into and out of the Gaza Strip.”

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