29-1-2013
At
approximately 11:10 am on Tuesday 29 January 2013, Israeli Occupation
Forces (IOF) opened heavy and sporadic fire at a number of Palestinian
farmers, activists from Local Initiative Committee,
and international solidarity activists who were in Ash-Sha’fa area near
the separation fence between Gaza Strip and Israel northeast of Beit
Hanoun. No casualties or injuries were reported.
In
his affidavit to Al Mezan, Saber Az-Za'aneen, Coordinator of the Local
Initiative Committee,stated that he went as usual to that area to
express his solidarity with Palestinian farmers. Eight international
activists, including four women, wearing special clothes with reflectors
accompanied him to that area. At approximately 10:15 am on the same
day, they started to help a farmer to collect his harvest. They were
about 400 meters away from the eastern separation fence when he saw two
Israeli military jeeps stopped opposite them inside the Israeli border.
They then heard shooting. They were terrified and left the area
immediately.”
