From the beginning of the Great March of Return protests on Land Day,
30 March 2018 until the end of June 2019, Israeli security forces
killed 216 Palestinians, 43 of them minors, and wounded thousands, the
vast majority with live ammunition. However, security forces also make
deadly use of crowd control weapons, including tear gas canisters which
are not designed to hit people directly.
At least seven of the Palestinians killed
died as a result of a teargas canister hitting their head or face
directly. Four of them were minors. According to the OCHA Protection of
Civilians Database, as of 28 June 2019, more than 1,600 Gaza protestors
arrived in hospital with injuries resulting from direct teargas canister
hits, more than a third of them in the first three months of 2019.
Teargas canisters are a crowd control weapon with a firing range
spanning 100 meters to several hundred meters, in the case of extended
range canisters. They are designed to be non-lethal and the open-fire
regulations, at least officially, as well as use instructions, forbid
firing them directly at people due to the grave danger involved.
In the past few months, B’Tselem’s field researchers in the Gaza
Strip collected testimonies from protestors who were injured by teargas
canisters and eyewitnesses. These testimonies indicate that security
forces routinely fire teargas canisters directly at protestors, in
contravention of the regulations.
Full report
https://www.btselem.org/gaza_strip/20190806_security_forces_make_deadly_use_of_crowd_control_weapons
Al Haq: Israeli Occupying Forces Kill Palestinian University Student Posing No Threat During Great Return March Protests
http://alhaq.org/documentation/weekly-focuses/1446--qq-
B'Tselem: After the Supreme Court Praised the Open-Fire Policy, the Military Admits: We killed Protestors for No Reason
https://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20190724_military_admits_to_killing_protestors_for_no_reason
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