In Israel and the Occupied Territories, a young Palestinian man was killed in the Gaza Strip Wednesday when Israeli troops opened fire on a nonviolent protest. The victim, Ahmad Salim, was shot as he and other demonstrators planted Palestinian flags near the border wall sealing off Gaza from Israel. They were protesting an Israeli policy barring anyone in Gaza from entering an area within several hundred yards of the wall. Eva Bartlett, an international solidarity activist living in Gaza, took part in the protest.

Eva Bartlett: “These are nonviolent demonstrations against the Israeli imposition of the buffer zone. The buffer zone is a 300-meter no-go zone in which the Israelis say they can shoot anyone in this area. But it annexes Palestinian farmland. It annexes land where Palestinians live and work.”