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 11

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