Gaza _ Palestine News Network
The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Nikolai Miladinov, will deny Monday that the Israeli army killed two children in the Gaza Strip last Friday.
"I was appalled by the killing of two Palestinian children by Israeli gunfire on Friday in Gaza," Miladinov said in a tweet posted on his page via Twitter.
He called for "stopping those incidents and not using children as targets but protecting them."
The UN official said the lethal force should be used as a last resort, expressing his "condolences to the family of the children."
Last Friday, the two children, Hassan al-Shalabi, 14, and Hamza Ashtioui, 18, were martyred by Israeli occupying forces near the eastern border of the Gaza Strip, while participating in the march of return and breaking the siege.
The Palestinians have been participating in peaceful marches in the Gaza Strip and the occupied Palestinian territories in 1948 since March March, demanding the return of the refugees to their towns and villages in 1948 and breaking the siege of Gaza.
These peaceful marches are violently repressed by the occupying army, where heavy fire and poisonous gas bombs are fired at the demonstrators. This resulted in the martyrdom of 264 citizens, including 11 martyrs whose bodies were detained and not registered in the statements of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, while another 27,000 were injured, including 500 in high-risk situations.
