Gaza 'forbidden zone' expands

The Coordinator of Government
Activities in the "Territories" has clarified that the 'forbidden39; buffer
zone in Gaza strip stretches 300 metres from the 'fence' (the Israeli
border), and not 100 metres as it previously announced. Civilians who enter
the area risk being shot by the army. In the past, the killing of
Palestinians who wandered into the forbidden zone has led to retaliatory
rocket launching from the Strip into Israeli territory. The clarification
was made following a request by the human rights organization
Gisha<http://www.gisha.org/>.
Gisha had noticed that the IDF Spokesperson’s messages stated a different
distance than did the Coordinator of Government Activities in the
Territories, which claimed that Gazans are not allowed into an area
stretching only 100 metres from the barrier. Recently, the army notified
Gisha that the forbidden zone is indeed three times larger than previously
reported. The army has refused to fully detail the methods it uses to warn
farmers and other civilians from wandering into the forbidden zone it
declared. A spokesman for the army has told Gisha that such methods are
part of "the opening fire procedures, and cannot be disclosed."
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