PA Fires Live Ammunition at Economic Demonstrators

The Independent Workers Committees in Gaza have added another demand to the PA: the indictment of whoever ordered that live ammunition be fired over the heads of workers and their children who demonstrated in Khan Yunis last Monday. The Palestinian police - who vanish whenever a foreign citizen is kidnapped in broad daylight in the streets of Gaza and disappear whenever a gang of armed and masked members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade take over a Palestinian Authority building - were out in full (and aggressive) force against several hundred workers and unemployed who staged the protest. Abd-as-Samih an-Najjar, the elected head of the group, said, "We shouted at them [the police], 'In Neve Dekalim, the Israeli army stood in front of the settlers for days on end and did not harm them, while you, our national police force, throws tear gas at us within five minutes.'"