Gaza City, Oct 10: Israeli fire killed five Palestinians and wounded 21 during clashes Friday near Gaza’s border, the first unrest-related deaths there after days of violence in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, medics said.
The clashes came as Hamas chief in Gaza called violence that has hit the occupied West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem an intifada, or uprising, and urged further unrest.
Ahmed Al-Hirbawi, Shadi Dawla and Abed Al-Wahidi, all aged 20, were killed when soldiers opened fire at youths on the occupied side of their common border, Gaza medics said.
The fourth victim was Mohammed Al-Raqqab, 15. The fifth was identified as a 19-year-old from Khan Yunis whose name was not immediately given.
The clashes erupted east of Gaza City and east of the southern city of Khan Yunis.
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 fulfill its role in the Jerusalem intifada and it is more than ready for confrontation.”
A fresh wave of stabbings hit Israel and the West Bank, including a revenge attack by a Jewish suspect that wounded two Palestinians and two Arab Israelis.
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