Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada
Palestinians are calling for escalating global campaigns to isolate Israel after its army killed 16 people in the Gaza Strip and wounded almost 1,500 others.
Meanwhile, Israel has rejected calls for an international investigation and its defense minister has commended soldiers on Friday's slaughter.
"Evoking memories of the South African apartheid regime's massacre of peaceful protesters in Sharpeville in 1960, Israel's military committed a new massacre against Palestinian civilians as they were peacefully commemorating Palestinian Land Day," the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) said Monday.
The BNC, the steering group for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, urged people around the world to "mainstream the demand for all private and public entities in your country to end all cooperation and/or trade with the Israeli military and 'security sector.'"
It also calls for heightened campaigns targeting companies and financial institutions complicit in Israel's crimes.
Devastating injuries
On Monday, the health ministry in Gaza announced that 29-year-old Fares al-Ruqab had succumbed to wounds he suffered after Israeli snipers opened fire into the territory Friday.
Tens of thousands took part in Great March of Return rallies to demand their right of return to lands from which Palestinians were ethnically cleansed, and to protest Israel's decade-long blockade of Gaza.
That brought to 16 the number of Palestinians killed. The Israeli army injured almost 1,500 people, more than 800 of them with live ammunition, according to the health ministry.
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The Electronic Intifada
Palestinians are calling for escalating global campaigns to isolate Israel after its army killed 16 people in the Gaza Strip and wounded almost 1,500 others.
Meanwhile, Israel has rejected calls for an international investigation and its defense minister has commended soldiers on Friday's slaughter.
"Evoking memories of the South African apartheid regime's massacre of peaceful protesters in Sharpeville in 1960, Israel's military committed a new massacre against Palestinian civilians as they were peacefully commemorating Palestinian Land Day," the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) said Monday.
The BNC, the steering group for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, urged people around the world to "mainstream the demand for all private and public entities in your country to end all cooperation and/or trade with the Israeli military and 'security sector.'"
It also calls for heightened campaigns targeting companies and financial institutions complicit in Israel's crimes.
Devastating injuries
On Monday, the health ministry in Gaza announced that 29-year-old Fares al-Ruqab had succumbed to wounds he suffered after Israeli snipers opened fire into the territory Friday.
Tens of thousands took part in Great March of Return rallies to demand their right of return to lands from which Palestinians were ethnically cleansed, and to protest Israel's decade-long blockade of Gaza.
That brought to 16 the number of Palestinians killed. The Israeli army injured almost 1,500 people, more than 800 of them with live ammunition, according to the health ministry.
Read more
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