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Gazan youth dies of Israeli gunfire wounds sustained in anti-Israel protests

Tuesday, 24 July 2018 1:51 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 24 July 2018 1:54 PM ]

Palestinian youths carry the body of killed protester Mohammed Badwan to the morgue at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 20, 2018 after he was shot by Israeli forces during protests along the border east of Gaza City. (Photo by AFP)

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 26-year-old Majd Suhail Mohammed Aqil passed away on Tuesday afternoon at Rumah Sakit Indonesia Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip city of Jabalia, located 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) north of Gaza City.

He had been shot and wounded during “The Great March of Return” protests east of Jabalia on May 14.

Nearly 150 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces ever since anti-occupation protest rallies began in the Gaza Strip on March 30.

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

Paramedics carry away a Palestinian youth, who was injured during clashes near the border with Israel east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 20, 2018. (Photo by AFP)

The Gaza clashes reached their peak on May 14, on 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 occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds.

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

The resolution, which had been put forward on 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.

Palestinians protesters, who have gathered near the border with occupied territories, flee from Israeli bombardment near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 20, 2018.

The resolution called 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 called 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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