The Press-Enterprise · 14 September 2023
CP-2023-060
Explosion kills four in Gaza
Associated Press, Gaza City
Transcribed from the clipping
“GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A powerful explosion killed at least four Palestinians and wounded several others during a protest along the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel on Wednesday, Palestinian health officials said. The cause of the blast was not immediately known.
The Israeli military said demonstrators had tried to hurl an explosive device across the border fence and that it detonated prematurely.”
Context added by this archive
Two paragraphs for the start of the last fence protests before October. The cause is not known, and the only account of it in the clipping is the Israeli military’s.
Cite this clipping
"Explosion kills four in Gaza," The Press-Enterprise, 14 September 2023, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-060. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-060
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