{"id":126586,"date":"2019-01-28T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=126586"},"modified":"2019-01-24T11:34:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T11:34:35","slug":"un-254-palestinians-killed-23000-injured-in-gaza-peaceful-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/01\/un-254-palestinians-killed-23000-injured-in-gaza-peaceful-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"UN: 254 Palestinians Killed, 23,000 Injured in Gaza Peaceful Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_126587\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/palestine-day-of-rage-IMG_8669-gaza-israel.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126587\" class=\"wp-image-126587\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/palestine-day-of-rage-IMG_8669-gaza-israel-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/palestine-day-of-rage-IMG_8669-gaza-israel-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/palestine-day-of-rage-IMG_8669-gaza-israel-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/palestine-day-of-rage-IMG_8669-gaza-israel-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/palestine-day-of-rage-IMG_8669-gaza-israel.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-126587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palestinian take cover as Israeli forces fire at protesters at the Gaza border on 14 December 2018. [Mohammed Asad\/Middle East Monitor]<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>22 Jan 2019 &#8211; <\/em>More than 250 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli army fire and over 23,000 injured since the start of\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maannews.com\/Content.aspx?id=779985\" >the \u201cGreat March of Return\u201d<\/a>\u00a0protests in the besieged Gaza Strip on 30 March until the end of last year, UN OCHA revealed in a report yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince 30 March 2018, the Gaza Strip has witnessed a significant increase in Palestinian casualties in the context of mass demonstrations and other activities along Israel\u2019s perimeter fence with Gaza, taking place as part of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20180330-gazans-converge-on-israel-border-for-return-marches\/\" >Great March of Return<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_126588\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gaza-palestine-israel.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126588\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126588\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gaza-palestine-israel.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gaza-palestine-israel.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gaza-palestine-israel-300x186.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-126588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Israeli constant attack on Gaza. Cartoon [Sabaaneh\/MiddleEastMonitor]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>OCHA confirmed that \u201c254 Palestinians were killed in Gaza between 30 March and 31 December, among them 180 killed during the March of Return protests at the Gaza border with Israel and the rest in other circumstances but also by Israeli gunfire. Among those killed 44 were children and four were women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report pointed out that \u201c23,603 Palestinians were injured during the same period, almost all of them during the March of Return protests and included 5,183 boys, 464 girls, and 1,437 women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe largest number of fatalities and injuries occurred <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20180515-gazan-death-toll-rises-to-61\/\" >in May<\/a> (80 deaths and 5,981 injuries) during mass protests against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20180514-palestinian-outrage-as-us-embassy-opens-in-jerusalem-70-years-since-nakba-day\/\" >relocation<\/a> of the United States embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OCHA stressed: \u201cThe large number of casualties among unarmed Palestinian demonstrators, including a high percentage of demonstrators hit by live ammunition, has raised concerns about excessive use of force by Israeli troops. Exposure of children to violence and lack of protection for medical teams are also of concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If the image(s) bear our credit, this license also applies to them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20190122-un-254-palestinians-killed-23000-injured-in-gaza-protests\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 middleeastmonitor.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 Jan 2019 &#8211; More than 250 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli army fire and over 23,000 injured since the start of the \u201cGreat March of Return\u201d protests in the besieged Gaza Strip on 30 March until the end of last year, UN OCHA revealed in a report yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":126587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}