The Great March of Return protests acted as a laboratory for Israel to trial its latest technologies in a real-life situation. This provides concrete evidence of the technologies’ efficacy, which can then be used as fuel for international arms trade deals.

Gaza Strip—Thousands of Palestinians protested along Gaza’s sealed border with Israel [occupied Palestine]  , engulfing the volatile area in black smoke from burning tires to try to block the view of Israeli snipers. Palestinian resistance is covered by international law, even armed struggle, while the Zionist occupation is illegal and barring the Palestinians from returning to their homes since 1948.]

Israeli occupation forces used “strange” and “unknown” gases against unarmed, peaceful protesters in Gaza, Quds Press reported the central commission for documentation and pursuit of Israeli war criminals –Tawtheeq saying.

Head of the commission Imad Al-Baz told Quds Press that Israel used strange gases against the protesters for the first time last Friday as Palestinians continued their peaceful activities as part of the Great March of Return.

The gases caused protesters’ bodies to convulse and tremble, he explained. Many lost consciousness as a result for several hours, he added.

“We do not know the kind of gases which were used for the first time,” he said, “but we took cultures from the blood and urine of those affected and we expect the results will be shocking.”

Israeli occupation forces used unmanned drones to drop the gas on the demonstrators, Al-Baz said.

Protesters were being targeted in their lower body, Al-Baz said, with many  shot with live ammunition in their genitals..

The following lists the consecutive attacks on the Gaza strip: “There is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years”. G. Orwell

• 2000: Muhammad al-Durrah incident

  

  Father and son shot by Zionist Occupation forces.

• 2004 May: Operation Rainbow (2004)

  

• 2004: Operation Forward Shield

  

• 2004 September: Operation Days of Penitence

  

• 2005: (Israeli disengagement from Gaza)

• 2006: Operation Summer Rains

  

  Gazans examine a bridge destroyed by Israeli F-16 warplanes as part of Operation Summer Rain

• 2006: Gaza beach explosion (2006)

  

  7-year-old girl who lost her parents and five of her brothers in Friday’s Gaza beach by Occupation militant shelling

• 2006: 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict

  

• 2006: 2006 shelling of Beit Hanoun

  

• 2006 November: Operation Autumn Clouds

  

• 2008: Beit Hanoun April 2008 incident

  

• 2008 February: Operation Hot Winter

  

   2010 May: Gaza flotilla raid (in international waters)

  

  IDF personnel began firing on the Mavi Marmara from both the speedboats and helicopters before boarding had commenced, 9 activists executed, another activist died later.

• 2011: August 2011 Gaza Strip air raids

  

• 2012 March: March 2012 Gaza–Operation Returning Echo

  

• 2012: Operation Pillar of Defense

  

• 2014: 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict

  

2018: The Great march of Return

• 25 May 2018: Israeli forces have injured 109 demonstrators

• 15 May 2018: two Palestinians were reported killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, and 417 injured

• 14 May 2018: 55 Palestinians were reported killed by Israeli forces, including six children, 2,771 injured.