Casualties rising in Gaza's "buffer zone"

"It is an explosion, perhaps 20 feet away. Then, right after another. I feel I have suffered," said Ahmad Saleh Al-Medani, pull a shirt collar to show one of the three where it can metal darts called "flechettes. for razor-like flechettes arrow shape with thousands of pieces of metal wrapped in shell, which is about two inches long.

At just after midnight on June 3 aged 17 friend house in Umm Al-Nassir, a collection of tents and ramshackle house in the northeastern Gaza Strip, more than 1 km from the northern border with Israel.

Days after pierced with flechettes, Al-Medani not attached by welding injuries, but also presents the darts in the neck, shoulders and legs. "The doctor told me that if I do not feel much pain, I will work to remove the arrows," said the youth. "I still feel slight pain, but what can I do?"

This is not an unusual situation in the Gaza Strip, Israel, where he continues to use flee bombs. Design goals flechettes operation - meat, cement and metal, so - with the "tails" are often damaged and the damage better and make them little can be drawn without causing more damage to the search operation. In most cases, doctors selected for the operation, leaving the needle inside the body of the victim.

At the time of al-Medani "nothing happens," he said. "I was with my friend, Ahmad, and it was quiet in this area. Until we hit." Seventeen-year-old Ahmad Abu hasheesh suffered little damage, with an arrow in the leg. Both youth immediately brought to hospitals in Kamal Mahratwan nearby Beit Lahiya, but Al Medani to serious injuries, including hazardous dart in his neck near the spine required for the game of Gaza City Al-Shifa hospital.

Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) has confirmed reports weekly al-Medani, and that he was hit by an arrow bombs. According to PCHR, approximately 00:00, IOF [Israeli forces occupying a] military position on the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired shells in four hours flechette Bedouin village in the northern Gaza Strip. Shells landed in the vicinity of many Palestinian civilians have been to his house, about 1000 meters from the border. "

Although June 3 in Beit Hanoun by Israeli troops fired on Palestinian farmers, two people were injured in a report by PCHR km border working in this field. Two farmers injury, as in the 60's is one of the latest victims of Israeli shelling and ended three days of attacks on Israel from Gaza in January.

For nearly a decade, Israel has unilaterally introduced a new outside areas of the Palestinian reaction to the border between Israel and Gaza. This "buffer zones" are more than 50 meters to two kilometers in some areas of the north. On May 25 Israeli government officially announced today, the boundaries of a buffer of 300 meters where everyone lands, which may be subject to Israeli fire.

Before and after the declaration, Israel continues military shells and shooting more than 300 meters, with a focus on unarmed Palestinian civilians and farmers in the region.

18, the first day of the truce, Israeli soldiers shot 23 years old Abu Maher from Rjaila Khozaa village in south-eastern Gaza Strip, in the chest with live ammunition and killed people. Since then, two more were killed, including a child and 18 wounded, all in or near a "buffer area" zone, all Israeli soldiers on lyushtilen and shooting.

One of the victims, and months later, on February 24 to 17 years old Wafa al-Najjar, from the same area, was shot in the knee with the Israeli soldier about 800 meters from the border with Israel. Al-Najjar lost all her kneecap and months of rehabilitation before she tried to go again.

On June 5 Khaled Jahjuh seven years with his son in Shoka area east of Rafah in southern Gaza Strip when he was hurt. Two out of the ground and 1.5 kilometers from the border of Israel, when Israeli soldiers started shooting. An Israeli soldier shot passes through the steel in the car again, and Khaled his, leaving him unable to move and have dim spirit.

Since many of them damaged by Israeli attacks in person for the recovery and future uncertain, do not forget to extend the "buffer region" area, the number of deaths will continue to grow.