Dozens injured in IOF quelling of Gaza protests

Dozens of Palestinians were injured on Friday by live ammunition and teargas canisters fired by the Israeli occupation forces who attacked the peaceful protesters taking part in the Great March of Return near Gaza border.

Gaza Ministry of Health said that about 219 Palestinians suffered different injuries, including children, medics, and journalists.

The PIC reporter in Khan Younis, in the southern area of the Gaza Strip, said that an Israeli drone attacked a group of Palestinian youths near the border fence injuring some of them.

A spokesman for the Israeli army claimed that the targeted youths were flying fire balloons toward Israeli settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip.

The PIC reporter said that the protests of the 30th Friday of the Great March of Return witnessed unprecedented participation by the Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip which came in defiance of recent Israeli threats to launch a new military operation on the enclave.

Coordinator of the Higher National Committee for the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege Khaled al-Batsh affirmed in a press statement that the protests will continue until they achieve their goals.

The Great March of Return was launched on 30 March in five camps along the border between the Gaza Strip and the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories.

The border protests are mainly aimed at drawing the world's attention to the Palestinian refugees' right of return and pressuring Israel to lift the decade-long blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip.

So far 215 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army and over 22,000 injured.

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