hamas bars gaza war orphans from israel trip
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Hamas bars Gaza war orphans from Israel trip

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Palestinian children play on the rubble of destroyed buildings
Gaza City - AFP

Hamas on Sunday prevented dozens of children orphaned during its 50-day war with Israel from entering Israeli territory in a pre-arranged trip, organisers and officials said.
The week-long visit was planned for 37 children whose parents were killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip in July and August this year. It was organised by an Israeli kibbutz group and local Arab-Israeli officials.
Kibbutz Movement spokesman Yoel Marshak told AFP that the trip was supposed to allow the Palestinian children, aged between 12 and 15, "to circulate and learn about Israeli children their age".
The group had been due to visit several Israeli kibbutzim close to the Gaza Strip and travel to Ramallah in the occupied West Bank to meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Marshak said.
"The Shin Bet (security service) had given the green light for the children and their five minders to enter Israel," he added.
But Hamas, which has controlled Gaza since 2007, said the trip was cancelled as the children would have "had to visit settlements and occupied towns".
The Islamist movement's interior ministry said the visit was forbidden in order to protect the children from "the politics of normalisation" with Israel
An AFP photographer saw Hamas security officers turn the 37 orphans away from the Erez border crossing with Israel on Sunday.
Nearly 2,200 Palestinians were killed during the July-August war, mostly civilians, and 73 on the Israeli side, most of them soldiers.
In a separate incident at the Erez crossing, three Palestinians were slightly wounded by Israeli fire during clashes, the Gaza health ministry said.
Some 300 demonstrators had gathered near the crossing at the behest of political movements demanding to lift the blockade imposed by Israel on the coastal Palestinian enclave.
Some of the protesters began throwing stones at Israeli forces beyond the border, who eventually responded with live rounds, a military spokeswoman told AFP.
The Erez crossing was later closed from Gaza into Israel, but remained partially opened in the other direction, the Israeli and Palestinian sources said.

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