TEHRAN, April 02 -US independent Senator and former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has called the recent killings of Palestinians by Israeli forces "tragic."
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC)-US independent Senator and former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has called the recent killings of Palestinians by Israeli forces "tragic."
Vermont Senator Sanders — himself a Jew — said in two Twitter posts on Saturday that Palestinian people had a right to protest without being exposed to violence.
On Friday, March 30, thousands of Palestinians in the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip started a protest action to mark Land Day, the day in 1976 when Israeli troopers killed six Arab "citizens" of Israel who were protesting the confiscation of land by the Tel Aviv regime.
The protest action is planned to continue for six weeks, during which the participants will be staying in tents to also demand the return to their homeland of Palestinians displaced by Israeli aggression and occupation.
Israel has deployed hundreds of forces to the buffer zone with Gaza, including 100 snipers who have been given authorization to use live ammunition.
At least 17 Palestinians were killed and some 700 others were injured by Israeli forces inside Gaza on Friday alone. The Israeli fire was unprovoked, as the regime has militarized Gaza's border, and the Palestinians were protesting peacefully.
"The killing of Palestinian demonstrators by Israeli forces in Gaza is tragic," Senator Sanders wrote on one of his official Twitter accounts. "It is the right of all people to protest for a better future without a violent response."
In a next tweet, he called the situation in the Israeli-blockaded Gaza "a humanitarian disaster."
Source:Press TV
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