Will popular pressure in Gaza lead to new clashes with Israel?
Palestinian youth are carrying out non-military activities, backed by military factions in Gaza, to pressure Israel to lift the siege, among other demands.
On Aug. 31, hundreds of Palestinians gathered east of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip near the Israeli border for the fourth night in a row, as part of the night confusion protests.
At 8 p.m., a few meters from the surrounding residential houses and agricultural land, the border area turned into a battlefield. Groups of young men and women who had gathered in different places across Gaza reached the border in tuk-tuks and buses.
As they started moving tires to Jakar Street 300 meters from the border fence, 42-year-old Rami Abdel Karim wore his protective mask — not for protection from Covid-19, but from tear gas fired by Israeli forces stationed at the border.
As tires were set on fire and homemade sound bombs were thrown from the Palestinian side toward Israel, the Israelis launched flares into the sky to light the way for the snipers. Identifying targets among protesters, the snipers opened fire with tear gas and live ammunition.
