Israeli Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit lodged by six rights groups against the Israeli occupation military’s use of lethal force against Palestinians on the Gaza border during weeks-long protests in the area.
Responding to the groups’ call to declare regulations allowing occupation forces to fire at civilians as unlawful, the court said that the protests come amid Israel’s protracted “armed conflict” with the Palestinian resistance group Hamas and that it had authorized the occupation authorities to use lethal force against the protesters.
At the same time, the court urged the occupation military to go ahead with their own internal review of the steps taken during the Gaza protests.
The groups’ activists, for their part, have criticized the court’s decision saying that it “missed an opportunity to prevent the continuation of the killing and injuries.”
The situation along the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip has substantially worsened over the past several months following the provocative move by Washington to recognize Al-Quds (Jerusalem) as the capital of the Zionist entity, and then relocating the US embassy to the holy city on May 14.
More than 60 Palestinians were martyred and hundreds others injured in violent clashes with Israeli occupation forces on May 14, when they protested the official opening of a new US Embassy in Al-Quds.
Source: Sputnik
