GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – Two young Palestinians have succumbed to injuries they sustained during the Zionist regime’s crackdown against anti-occupation mass protests in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks.
Mahmoud Wahba, 17, who had been wounded by Zionist snipers in Gaza on April 1, died on Monday morning, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
According to his brother, medics informed them of Mahmoud's death just hours after they got permission to take him abroad for treatment.
The other victim, Abdullah Shamali, 20, died overnight of "bullet wounds to his belly” sustained on Friday in Rafah, near the fence separating Gaza from the Israeli-occupied lands, according to the ministry.
He was one of five Palestinian protesters, including a 15-year-old, identified as Mohammed Ibrahim Ayyoub, killed or fatally wounded in Gaza on Friday.
The recent fatalities bring to 40 the death toll from the regime’s use of lethal force since the start of protests along the Gaza border on March 30.
More than 4,000 have so far been wounded, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Over 700 alone sustained injuries near the border fence on Friday, it added.

‘Unprecedented Wounds Since 2014 War’

Palestinian and foreign doctors say the live fire used by Zionist troops has caused unusually severe injuries among protesters in the besieged Gaza Strip over the past month.
Anti-occupation protests along the fence separating Gaza from the rest of the occupied territories have led to clashes with Zionist troops in which at least 37 Palestinians have lost their lives and thousands of others sustained injuries since March 30.
Doctors at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital said they have not seen such severe injuries since the regime's latest war on Gaza in 2014.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) also said its medical teams have given postoperative care to people "with devastating injuries of an unusual severity, which are extremely complex to treat."
"The injuries sustained by patients will leave most with serious, long-term physical disabilities,” the aid group said.
MSF has given postoperative care to 500 people, including women and children, with bullet wounds since April 1.
"MSF medical teams note the injuries include an extreme level of destruction to bones and soft tissue, and large exit wounds that can be the size of a fist,” it said in a report on April 19.
Marie-Elisabeth Ingres, MSF’s head of mission in Palestine, said half of the more than 500 patients the group has admitted in its clinics have injuries where the bullet has literally destroyed tissue after having pulverized the bone.