{"id":8295,"date":"2018-06-03T13:59:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T12:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=8295"},"modified":"2018-06-03T13:59:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T12:59:43","slug":"thousands-attend-funeral-for-palestinian-medic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/thousands-attend-funeral-for-palestinian-medic\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands attend funeral for Palestinian medic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ThousandsThousands of Palestinians have attended the funeral in Gaza of a volunteer medic who was killed by Israeli fire during protests on the border.
\nRazan al-Najar, 21, was shot dead as she ran towards the border fence on Friday to help a casualty, Palestinian health officials said.
\nIn a statement the Israeli military said it would investigate her death.
\nLater on Saturday rockets were fired from Gaza and Israel reportedly responded with air strikes.
\nThe death of Razan al-Najar followed weeks of deadly violence on the Gaza-Israel border.
\nMore than 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces amid protests in support of the declared right of Palestinian refugees to return to their ancestral homes in what is now Israel.
\nIsrael says its soldiers have only opened fire on people trying to break through the border under cover of protests, and has blamed the group Hamas for orchestrating the violence.
\nUN and human rights officials, however, have accused Israel of using disproportionate force.
\nAt Saturday\u2019s funeral procession, Razan al-Najar\u2019s body was carried through the streets of Gaza wrapped in a Palestinian flag.
\nHer father carried her blood-stained medical jacket, while other mourners demanded revenge.
\nThe Palestinian Medical Relief Society said Ms Najar had been trying to reach an injured protester when she was shot near the city of Khan Younis.
\n\u201cShooting at medical personnel is a war crime under the Geneva conventions,\u201d it said in a statement.
\nUN envoy for the Middle East Nickolay Mladenov tweeted that Israel needed to calibrate its use of force and Hamas needed to prevent incidents at the border.
\nThe UN\u2019s Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also said it was \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d and called for the protection of medical workers.
\nIsrael\u2019s military said its troops along the border had been attacked by militants with gunfire and a grenade on Friday.
\nIt said in a written statement that it would investigate the death of Ms Najar.
\n\u201cThe IDF (Israel Defence Forces) constantly works to draw operational lessons and reduce the number of casualties in the area of the Gaza Strip security fence. Unfortunately, the Hamas terror organisation deliberately and methodically places civilians in danger,\u201d it said.
\nHours after the funeral two rockets were fired from Gaza towards Israel, the IDF said, triggering air raid sirens in Israeli villages near the border.
\nOne rocket was intercepted by Israel\u2019s Iron Dome missile defence system and the other apparently landed inside Gaza, a statement said.
\nIsraeli warplanes later attacked at least two suspected militant sites in the southern Gaza Strip, reports based on witness accounts said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
\nAt the UN on Friday, Israel\u2019s close ally, the US, vetoed a Kuwaiti-drafted Security Council resolution condemning Israel\u2019s use of force against Palestinians.
\nIt drafted its own resolution that blamed Hamas for the violence and upheld Israel\u2019s right to self defence, but the draft failed to win any support in the 15-member council.
\nEarlier this week, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it was sending two surgical teams to Gaza to help with an \u201cunprecedented\u201d health crisis.
\nA spokesman said hundreds of people required treatment for live ammunition wounds and that the local healthcare system was \u201cstressed and overburdened\u201d. -BBC<\/em><\/p>\n

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