2 killed, dozens wounded in Gaza weekly marches

GAZA

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza announced that the young man Hamza Muhammed Rushdi Ashtiwa (18 years old), and the child Hassen Iyyad Shebli (14 years old) lost their lives in the result of being shot by the Israeli army's bullets during their participation in the Return marches.

The Health said in a statement obtained by Hawar news agency that the outcome of Friday's wounds is high, and that it recorded the wounding of dozens of the Palestinian citizens with live bullet, the status of some of them is critical and serious in the result of suppressing the participants violently by the Israeli army.

Our reporter said that the borders witnessed on Friday a great tension between the Palestinians and the Israeli army. The number of critical wounds is increasing and the number of the victims is expected to increase due to the critical wounds.

Since March 30, the Palestinians have been participating in peaceful marches at the eastern borders of Gaza Strip to demand the returning of the refugees to their cities and villages who displaced them in 1948 and to break the siege on Gaza.

Since that time, the Israeli repression resulted in losing 263 citizens of Gaza to their lives in addition to wounding 27,000 others, the status of 500 of them is severely serious.

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ANHA