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Gaza: Man Shot By "Dum Dum" Bullet Injured

Man Shot By "Dum Dum" Bullet Seriously Injured In Gaza

Nahal Oz, Gaza, Occupied Palestian Territories, 28th April 2010 12PM - Ahmad Salem Deeb, age 21 received a serious gunshot wound at a demonstration, with more than 200 participants, against the buffer zone near Nahal Oz crossing with Israel east of Gaza City. The demonstrators started marching around 12 o'clock and a group of over 50 people advanced to about 20 or 30 metres to the border. Demonstrators including some of the organizers climbed on the block of concrete about 20 metres from the border wire with flags chanting slogans. About 20 minutes into the demonstration a several shots were fired one wounding Ahmed in the leg.

Deeb was urgently transferred by an ambulance to Shifa Hospital in the Gaza City, bleeding heavily from his leg.

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