"Najar was shot in the neck while wearing a medical staff unifrom and this is a war crime," said the Palestinian Health Minister Dr. Jawad Awaad. "Najar voluteered to help the medical teams back when the marches started and was hurt from gas inhalation several times." He added Najar gave an interview this afternoon, in which she said she was proud to help the wounded.
Israeli firefighters, meanwhile, took control of brush fires in communities near the border. The Israeli military reported thousands of demonstrations in five locations along the border, where protesters burned tires and attempted to damage security infrastructure. The military also reported that an armed Gazan opened fire at IDF vehicles and another Palestinian manage to cross the border in northern Gaza, detonate a grenade and return to the Strip.
Razan Najar, the 21-year-old volunteer medic killed during protests on the Israel-Gaza border on June 1, 2018.
Meanwhile, about 300 people participated in Gaza solidarity protests in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Israeli lawmakers Ayman Odeh and Yusef Jabareen, as well as Higher Arab Monitoring Committee leader Mohammad Barakeh, attended the protests. Police separated the protesters and right-wing counter-demonstrators.
Since the confrontations along the border of May 14, the number of participants has fallen dramatically, and Hamas and other Palestinian factions have set June 5 as the date for a march by tens of thousands to mark 51 years since the Six-Day War, known as Naksa Day by the Palestinians.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has updated its figures and says 118 people have died in the marches, after a 23-year-old Gaza resident succumbed Thursday to the gunshot wounds he suffered on May 14.
On Thursday, Physicians for Human Rights sent a shipment of medicines and medical equipment worth 400,000 shekels ($112,000) to Gaza. The shipment included 10 hospital beds for the intensive care wards in Gaza’s public hospitals, and dozens of types of equipment and drugs whose supplies have run out in the Gazan Health Ministry’s warehouses.
The equipment was bought with money from donations collected by the group in recent weeks from Israelis. Next week a PHR delegation of 14 doctors is expected to enter Gaza over the weekend to provide medical aid to the Palestinian health system. The delegation includes general and pulmonary surgeons, orthopedists, pediatricians, internal medicine specialists, neurologists, gastroenterologists and mental health experts. The physicians will conduct surgery, examine patients and help train the Palestinian medical staff.
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