Palestinians flash V-signs as they pose with Molotov cocktails during clashes with Israeli troops at Erez crossing on October 13. (Photo by Mohammed Saber/EPA)
In total eight Palestinians, including Ahmed, were shot dead by Israeli security forces and near 100 more were injured in clashes. Later that evening militants fired two rockets over the border. The Israeli response, a late-night airstrike, killed a pregnant woman and her two-year-old daughter.'The intifada, yes, we are for the intifada, but keep it in the West Bank not here in Gaza'
Palestinians take cover from Israeli tear gas during clashes at the Erez crossing on October 13. (Photo by Mohammed Saber/EPA)
That position were also echoed by Nafez Azzam, a senior figure in the political bureau of Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant organization that has recently worked with Hamas to govern the strip. "We [Islamic Jihad] are against these demonstrations at the border, if we hold a demonstration we make it in the downtown, not close to the border," he told VICE News in a simple apartment in Rafah.'Hamas is not willing to make a new war with Israel, but I will keep coming here every day until Palestine is free or I die'
Palestinians throw stones at Israeli troops across the fence during clashes at Nahel Oz border in the eastern Gaza Strip on October 9 2015. (Photo by Mohammed Saber/EPA)
"What can they do to stop the people's will in such a situation?" asked 21-year-old Hassan who splits the cost of a 10 shekel taxi ride to the border every day, sometimes fitting five passengers plus the driver into the car.'Hamas is not willing to make a new war with Israel, but I will keep coming here every day until Palestine is free or I die'