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Gazans suffer life-shattering injuries when border protests turn violent | PBS NewsHour
Gazans suffer life-shattering injuries when border protests turn violent
For months, Palestinians in Gaza have protested their conditions along the border fence with Israel. The demonstrations have often turned violent -- even deadly. Doctors and international observers say they're disturbed by the devastating sniper injuries that further limit the young protesters’ prospects.
The Gaza Strip has been under blockade by Israel since June 2007, when Hamas took control of the territory, violently evicting the Palestinian Authority. It is one of the most densely populated places in the world, nearly two million people packed into a sliver of land 25 miles long and five miles wide.
Unemployment is at a staggering 52 percent, leaving young men like this feeling they have nothing to lose. The day Ahmed was shot, the Trump administration formally moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Palestinians have long declared that Jerusalem would one day be the capital of their future state.
Until that point, official U.S. policy on claims to the city had always been neutral and a subject for final negotiations.
We were there on that day as tens of thousands marched towards the border fence; 73 Palestinians were killed and over 2,500 injured. In the makeshift field hospitals, the wounded arrived at an alarming rate, almost all shot in the leg by snipers. Israeli sharpshooters hit so many, the hospitals couldn't cope.
Gazans suffer life-shattering injuries when border protests turn violent | PBS NewsHour