A Palestinian man was martyred by the Israeli forces near the Gaza fence on Friday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
ONE CIVILIAN KILLED
In a statement, the ministry said Abdullah Abdul Aal, 24, was martyred near the blockaded Gaza’s eastern fence. “Thirty more Palestinians were injured during the Gaza return marches, including four children and one medic,” the ministry said. According to the ministry, the Israeli army used live ammunition and rubber bullets to disperse the demonstrations.
Friday’s rally comes in the run-up to the 71st anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (“The Catastrophe”).
Marked on May 15 of each year, Nakba Day commemorates the expulsion in 1948 of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes in historical Palestine to make way for the new state of Israel.
Protesters also demand an end to Israel’s 12-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gutted the coastal enclave’s economy and deprived its roughly two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.