32 Palestinians, Seven of Them Children, Injured in Israeli Shooting at Demonstrators in North Gaza

At 4pm on Friday, 10 August 2018, Israeli forces based in monitoring sites to the east of Abu Safia area in east Jabalia refugee camp opened fire and launched tear-gas canisters against hundreds of Palestinians who joined the Great Return March demonstration in the area. 32 demonstrators, including seven children, were injured, one of them Khaled Ayoub, a 56-year old paramedic who was hit in the back with a tear-gas canister. Casualties ranged in severity from moderate to serious, according to medical sources at the Indonesia and Al-Awda hospitals. 28 of the injured were hit by live fire in different parts of their bodies, and four were hit by tear-gas canisters. Field-based medical teams provided treatment to a number of demonstrators who suffered from breathing difficulties amid Israeli forces’ heavy use of tear gas. The Israeli shooting continued until the evening of the same day.