Qatar expressed its strong condemnation of the brutal repression and the use of live bullets by the Israeli occupying forces against the ongoing Great March of Return protests on the eastern border of the Gaza Strip, which led to the martyrdom of six Palestinians and injuries to dozens more.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that the Israeli escalation was a violation of international laws and conventions, calling on the international community and the UN Security Council to assume their responsibility in containing the Israeli war machine and its collective punishment policy directed against the Palestinian people.The statement also called on the international community to provide protection for the innocent civilians.
It highlighted Qatar's firm support to the Palestinian cause and the struggle of the Palestinian people in order to guarantee the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with the 1967 borders and Jerusalem as its capital.
It also stressed the right of refugees to return to their lands.
At least six Palestinians were martyred and dozens others injured by live bullets or sustained suffocation from teargas inhalation Friday as Israeli occupation forces continued to attack the ongoing protests at Gaza border.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the occupation forces fired live bullets and rubber-coated steel rounds at the protesters who gathered at many encampments along the border, killing six protesters and injuring 252 others, 154 of them by live gunshots.
Some of the wounded were moved to hospital and others were treated in the field hospitals, said Palestinian WAFA news agency.
