In a statement, the ministry said the at least 30 protesters — whose names were not given — had been injured by live ammunition, Anadolu Agency reports.
Israeli occupation forces target a Palestinian ambulance, near the fence. 43hrd Friday in a row of #GreatReturnMarch #GazaReturnMarch #RightOfReturn RT! pic.twitter.com/8Nx7ae5xmG
— @IAmTheAntidote (@IPNOTGlobal) January 19, 2019
According to the ministry, two journalists and three paramedics were also injured when they were struck by teargas shells.
Since Palestinians began holding almost-daily rallies along the buffer zone in March of last year, more than 250 have been killed — and thousands more injured — by Israeli army gunfire.
Watch??: #Israeli occupation Forces targeting a #Palestinian ambulance, near the fence eastern of #Gaza City, during the 43rd Friday of #GreatReturnMarch. #SaveGaza #GazaToUN #GazaSiegeCrime pic.twitter.com/uyCZVAeUWW
— Dr. Basem Naim (@basemn63) January 18, 2019
Demonstrators demand the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in historical Palestine from which they were driven in 1948 to make way for the new state of Israel.
They 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.
(MEMO, PC, Social Media)
