A/HRC/40/74
• Schoolboy (16)
Israeli forces shot a schoolboy from Shuja’iya, Gaza City in the leg with live
ammunition when he was approximately 80 m from the separation fence. He
underwent three amputation operations on one leg.
• Carpenter (58)
Israeli forces shot a carpenter in the leg as he stood 300 m from the separation fence.
His leg was severed.
• Graphic designer (26)
Israeli forces shot a graphic designer from Gaza City in the abdomen when he was
approximately 150 m from the separation fence. His injuries are such that he will
never be able to father children.
(b)
At the demonstration sites in North Gaza:
• Accountancy student (23)
Israeli forces shot the student in the leg as he stood at least 200 m from the
separation fence holding a Palestinian flag. His leg had to be amputated.
• Mohammad Najar (33)
Israeli forces shot Mohammad, a naval police officer, in the chest, killing him, as he
sat on a hill with a friend, around 500 m from the separation fence.
• University student (22)
Israeli forces shot the student in the right hip as he stood alone about 100 m from the
separation fence, wearing a Palestinian flag around his neck and holding another.
His leg had to be amputated just below the hip.
• Mahmoud Jundya (20)
Israeli forces shot Mahmoud, a journalism student from Gaza City, in the leg as he
filmed the demonstrations on his mobile phone, 50 m from the separation fence.
Israeli forces then killed him with a shot to the back as he lay on the ground.
(c)
At the demonstration site in Rafah:
• Ali Khafajah (21)
Israeli forces killed Ali, a university student from Rafah, with a shot to the head as
he spoke on the phone about 150 m from the separation fence.
(d)
At the demonstration site in Khan Younis:
• Mahmoud Abu Taima (23)
Israeli forces killed Mahmoud, a resident of Khan Younis, with a shot to the head
while he was approximately 150 m from the separation fence.
56.
The commission interviewed an international journalist covering the demonstrations
at the Malaka site, who described the scene that day:
What was notable was the amount of injured people. And the slow, methodical
shooting. Every few minutes … you would hear a shot ring out and you would see
someone fall. And then another shot and another person fell. It went on for hours…
I saw a man who had been shot in the throat, I didn’t see it happen but I saw the
immediate aftermath. He was covered in blood. I saw a man who had been shot in
the head…
There was a constant stream of bloody bodies being carried back towards the
ambulances. It was surreal and endless. It became almost normal, it was happening
so often. A shot, a person falling, people carrying the body away.
The number of wounded was astonishing. I couldn’t say how many people I saw
who were shot because it was so high. I have covered wars in Syria, Yemen, Libya. I
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