#greatreturnmarch : 14 Protesters Killed and Over a Thousand Injured by IDF… on the FIRST DAY of the Protest

by Scott Creighton

a photo from when Pope Francis visited Palestine

The Great Return March was planned as a peaceful demonstration by the people trapped in Gaza. It was to kick off a 45-day long demonstration, a sit-in or a camp-in like the Water Protectors staged in North Dakota not that long ago. It is slated to go on till May 15th… Nakba Day.

Today was the first day of the event and thousands of families from “the largest open air prison in the world” gathered at the fences that separate them from their ancestor’s homes in what is now called Israel. All across Gaza they pitched tents, set up camps and made ready for a week of civil disobedience directed toward their Israeli captors. These camps are a hundred or so yards from the border fences erected by Israel. At one point they decided to march through the “no-man’s land” enforced by the IDF. It’s essentially a “no-walk zone” maintained by the Israeli military via threat of instant, merciless death.

On the top of the dirt hill, this side of the fence, you can see the Israeli snipers laying on the ground.

Today marks what the Palestinians call Land Day on which they try to remind the rest of the world they have no right of return to the homes their families occupied for hundreds of years prior to 1948.

At this point today, the first day of this demonstration, 14 Palestinians have been murdered and about 1,100 wounded for daring to walk too close to what Israel declares to be their territory. The IMEU reported on the first 12 victims of Israeli aggression. I have yet to find the names of the other two. When I do, I will amend this list.

1. Hamdan Abu Amsha
2. Sari Walid Abu Odeh
3. Abd al-Qader al-Hawajri
4. Ibrahim Salah Abushaar
5. Abd al-Fattah al-Nabi
6. Omar Wahid Samur
7. Jihad Farina
8. Ahmed Odeh
9. Muhammed Kamal al-Najjar
10. Amin Mahmoud Muamar
11. Mohammed Abu Omar
12. Mahmoud Rahmi

The complicit press is doing everything they can to mitigate damage to Israel’s tarnished image (Operation Cast Lead, Protective Edge and Pillar of Defense ring any bells?) like reporting on “deaths” of Palestinians and “clashes” that never happened resulting in those nondescript “deaths”

They are also parroting the IDF claims that various Palestinians, all the ones shot of course, were “terrorists” and the “terrorist organization Hamas” is using this demonstration as cover for planned acts of terrorism against Israel. All of that is completely bogus and was ginned up by the Israelis as they anticipated a bloodbath today to send a message to both Palestinian and Israeli citizens. We all know Bibi is in trouble these days and it seems they always think a good way to boost support for a government in Tel Aviv is to kill a few Palestinians.

Here is an exchange that happened yesterday in Washington. Apparently when Israel prepares 100 snipers to deal with peaceful protesters and FAMILIES, the current administration in office in D.C. has to scold grown men in the press corp if they dare worry about things like “blood baths” that might logically ensue.

I will be adding images and other updates to this article as more news becomes available.