GAZA CITY: Israeli forces on Friday killed five Palestinians and injured 15 during clashes near Gaza’s border after days of violence in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, medics said.
The clash took place aftetr Hamas chief in Ghaza called started resistance against Israeli forces near the occupied and called West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem an intifada, or uprising, and urged further unrest.
The deceased youth are identified as Ahmed al-Hirbawi, Shadi Dawla and Abed al-Wahidi, all aged 20, two other are still unknown.
Israeli official said soldiers responded after youths threw stones at them on the Israel side of their common border.
An army spokesperson said the incident was continuing, adding that about 200 Palestinians had approached the fence while hurling rocks and rolling burning tyres toward security forces.
“Forces on the site responded with fire toward the main instigators to prevent their progress and disperse the riot,” she said.
The spokesperson confirmed “five hits” without elaborating.
In a sermon for weekly Muslim prayers at a mosque in Gaza City, Hamas’s Gaza chief Ismail Haniyeh said “we are calling for the strengthening and increasing of the intifada.”
“It is the only path that will lead to liberation,” he said. “Gaza will fulfil its role in the Jerusalem intifada and it is more than ready for confrontation.”
Gaza has been the site of three wars with Israel since 2008, but had remained mainly calm amid the recent unrest in the West Bank and east Jerusalem until Friday.
Last summer’s 50-day war between Palestinian militants in Gaza and Israel left more than 2,200 people dead and 100,000 homeless.
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