Israeli forces have shot dead seven Palestinians and injured more than 1,000 as tens of thousands participated in a mass demonstration demanding the right of return for Palestinian refugees.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported on Friday that 293 people were injured by live ammunition after Israeli forces fired on protesters who had gathered near the Israeli border in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Hundreds of protesters suffered other injuries, including tear gas inhalation.
Friday’s demonstration was the second in as many weeks of a planned, weeks-long sit-in dubbed the Great March of Return.
According to Al Jazeera, around 70 percent of Gaza’s two million population were forced from their homes and now live in a territory the size of the US city of Detroit – about 360sq km – which has been described as “the world’s largest open-air prison”.
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