A Palestinian video journalist was among the nine people killed during the ‘remarkable March of Return’Hashem Zakout should have been at his local hospital yesterday doing the voluntary work as a receptionist that he hopes will lead to a paid full-time job. Instead the 24-year-veteran was a patient in the emergency room at another northern Gaza hospital,shot in the left knee after throwing “little stones at Israeli troops across the border, east of the Jabaliya refugee camp where he lives.
Zakout was wounded on Friday when he was 10 metres from the border fence, and hit by a sniper during the latest mass protests at the divide between Israel and Gaza. The remarkable March of Return”,a series of protests intended to continue until 15 May, the 70th annual commemoration of “the Nakba” or catastrophe, and when 700000 Palestinian refugees were forced from their homes in the 1948 war,has captured his imagination.
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Source: guardian.co.uk