Death Toll 58 in Israeli Military Assault on Gaza Protests

Among the slain Palestinians are six children, including an infant, only eight months of age, identified as Laila al-Ghandour, who died from teargas inhalation due to the army’s use of high-velocity teargas bombs.

Among the wounded are 122 children, and 44 women, the Health Ministry added.
The Palestinian Health Ministry reports that 1,204 Palestinians were injured with live ammunition. 79 were shot in their necks, 161 in their arms, 62 in the back and chests, 52 in their stomachs, and 1055 in their lower limbs.
At least 203 of the injured were reported to be children, and 78 women.

27 of the wounded Palestinians suffered very serious wounds, 59 serious injuries, 735 moderate wounds, and 882 suffered light wounds.

Other injuries were as follows: three with rubber-coated steel bullets, 91 with shrapnel, 100 cuts and bruises and 737 suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.

The Ministry of Interior and National Security said the four slain officers were performing their duties and national services when the soldiers shot them dead.

The soldiers also caused damage to at least one ambulance and injured one medic and eleven journalists.

Protest east of Gaza City (PCHR image)

In addition, the Health Ministry called on Egypt to urgently send emergency medical supplies and specialists, mainly surgeons, intensive care physicians, anesthesia specialists, and to allow the transfer of a large number of the wounded to Egyptian hospitals, especially those indeed of urgent surgeries, since Gaza hospitals lack the needed supplies due to the siege on the coastal region.

The casualties that have been identified so far are:

• Laila al-Ghandour, 8 months.
• Mousa Jaber Abu Hassanein, 35 – medic, Civil Defense Department.
• Mo’taz Bassam an-Nuno, 31 – Internal Security Department.
• Mos’ab Yousef Abu Laileya, 28 – Military Intelligence Department. (East of Jabalia)
• Jihad Mohammad Mousa, 31 – Internal Security Department.
• Mo’tasem Fawzi Abu Louli (20), from Rafah, was hit with a live bullet to the chest;
• Mohamed Mahmoud ‘Abdul’al (39), from Rafah, was hit with a live bullet to the chest;
• Ahmad Fawzi Kamel al-Tatar (28), from Rafah, was hit with a live bullet to the back;
• Anas Hamdan Qudaieh (21), from Khan Yunis, was hit with a live bullet to the head
• Ezzedeen Mousa al-Samak (14), from al-Bureij, was hit with a live bullet to the upper limbs
• ‘Obaidah Salem Farhan (30), from Khan Yunis, was hit with a live bullet to the head
• Ezzedeen Nahed al-‘Owaiti (23), from Khan Yunis, was hit with a live bullet to the head
• Bilal Ahmed Abu Daqqah (26), from Khan Yunis, was hit with a live bullet to the head
• Jihad Mofeed al-Farra (30), from Khan Yunis, was hit with a live bullet to the chest
• Fadi Hassan Abu Salah (30), from Khan Yunis, who in 2008 lost both of his legs by an Israeli missile, was hit with a live bullet to the chest
• ‘Ali Mohamed Khafajah (21), from Rafah, was hit with a live bullet to the head
• Mohamed Riyad al-‘Amoudi (31), from Gaza City, was hit with a live bullet to the head
• Wesal Fadel Sheikh Khalil (24), from al-Bureij.
• Mohammad Ashraf Abu Sitta, 26.
• Ahmad Awadallah, 24.
• Ahmad Adel Mousa Sha’er, 16.
• Mohammad Abdul-Rahman Miqdad, 28. (live round in the back)
• Said Mohammad Abu al-Kheir, 16.
• Ibrahim Ahmad az-Zarka, 18.
• Emad Ali Sadiq Sheikh, 19.
• Zayed Mohammad Hassan Omar, 19.
• Mohammad Abdul-Salaam Harraz, 21.
• Yahya Ismail Rajab Daqour, 22.
• Mustafa Mohammad Samir al-Masri, 22.
• Mahmoud Mustafa as-Saf, 23.
• Ahmad Fares Haarb Shehada, 23.
• Khalil Ismail Mansour, 25.
• Ahmad Majed Atallah, 27.
• Mahmoud Rabah Abu Moammar, 28.
• Shaher Mahmoud al-Madhoun, 32.
• Ahmad Mohammad Hamdan, 27.
• Ismail Khalil ad-Dehouk, 30.
• Ahmad Mahmoud Rantisi, 27.
• Ala’ Anwar al-Khatib, 28.
• Mahmoud Yahya Hussein, 24.
• Ahmad Abdullah al-Odeini, 30.
• Sa’adi Said Abu Salah, 16.
• Ahmad Zoheir as-Shawa, 24.
• Mohammad Hani Najjar, 33.
• Fadel Mohammad Habashi, 34.

Updated from: May 14, 2018 @ 15:50