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Great Return Protests: ‘Israeli’ Forces Injure 83 Gazans, at Least 1 in Critical Condition

Great Return Protests: ‘Israeli’ Forces Injure 83 Gazans, at Least 1 in Critical Condition
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By Staff, Agencies

‘Israeli’ occupation forces attacked Palestinians taking part in the weekly anti-occupation protest along the edge of the besieged Gaza Strip, leaving scores of people injured.

Ashraf al-Qedra, a spokesman for Gaza’s Health Ministry, said that at least 83 Palestinians had sustained various injuries during the rallies east of Gaza and along a fence separating the enclave from occupied lands on Friday.

Meanwhile, one Palestinian was fighting for his life on Friday, Gaza's ministry of health reported, after he was critically wounded by ‘Israeli’ occupation forces during confrontations along the Gaza border.

The rallies have been held every week since March 30 last year. The Palestinians demand the right to return for those driven out of their homeland by ‘Israeli’ aggression. More than 260 Palestinians have been martyred by the enemy’s forces since the beginning of the rallies — called the “Great March of Return” — and 26,000 others have been wounded, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

A United Nations [UN] fact-finding mission found earlier that ‘Israeli’ forces committed rights violations during their crackdown against the Palestinian protesters in Gaza that may amount to war crimes.

On the eve of the first anniversary of the “Great March of Return” protests last Friday, the Zionist regime deployed tanks near the fence separating the occupied territories from Gaza.

Gaza has been under an ‘Israeli’ occupation siege since June 2007, which has caused a decline in living standards.

The Zionist entity has launched three major wars against the enclave since 2008, killing thousands of Gazans each time and shattering the impoverished territory’s already poor infrastructure.

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