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Israel’s ‘shooting routine’ on Gaza border

Israel must re-examine the army’s open-fire orders that result in Palestinians shot to death during Friday protests near the Gaza border; one such gunshot killed Gaza volunteer paramedic Rouzan al-Najjar in 2018.
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The extremely detailed investigation by David Halbfinger in The New York Times on the killing of Rouzan al-Najjar on June 1, 2018, at the Gaza border, requires Israel to reconsider our conduct toward the Palestinian protesters on the other side of the fence. This is the most important newspaper in the world, a reporter sent to Israel who could not be characterized as hostile to us, and an investigation that is dispassionate and careful in its conclusions.

Some 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli snipers; these included 60 to 70 who were not the targets of fire as of August, a senior official of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told the newspaper. 

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