SHAFAQNA- Clashes on Gaza border have been continued weekly since anti-occupation protest rallies began in the Gaza Strip on March 30 following the US announced Jerusalem as the capital of Israeli regime. Israeli forces killed hundreds and injured thousands of Palestinians since then.
On Friday evening, three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire and hundreds more have sustained injuries at anti-occupation rallies along the border between the besieged Gaza Strip and Israeli-occupied territories.
the Palestinian protesters threw rocks from behind clouds of black smoke of burning tires at Israeli troops, who responded with tear gas and live fire.
The spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health, Ashraf al-Qidra, said in a statement that 12-year-old Faris Hafez al-Sarasawi and Mahmoud Akram Abu Sama’an, 24, were fatally shot during “The Great March of Return” protests east of Gaza City, Press TV reported.
The statement added that another 376 protesters were also injured. A total of 192 demonstrators were admitted to hospitals and medical centers across Gaza Strip to receive medical treatment.
One week ago, on Friday Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians, two of them children, and wounded hundreds more in the deadliest day in recent weeks.
Nearly 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces ever since anti-occupation protest rallies began in the Gaza Strip on March 30. Over 21,600 Palestinians have also sustained injuries.
The Gaza Strip is only 25 miles long but it became the center of decades of conflict.