Three Palestinians were injured by Israeli forces during “The Great March of Return” protests along the Israel-Gaza border, on Friday.

According to local sources, hundreds of Gaza residents raced to the return camps along the eastern border of the Gaza Strip to participate in a protest, where they demonstrated against UNWRA’s scheme against the rights of refugees.

Sources added that protesters set car tires on fire, in attempt to blur the vision of Israeli snipers with smoke and flames, while they proceed with the march.

Israeli forces began firing at the protesters near the return camps, located east of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, and injured two Palestinians.

The identities of the two injured remain unknown.

Approximately 750,000 Palestinians were displaced and became refugees as a result of the 1948 war which led to the founding of Israel. None of these displaced persons were ever allowed to return to the homes or communities from which they were displaced and the Palestinian refugee population has continued to grow in the time that has passed since 1948. 

Today there are more than 7 million Palestinian refugees scattered around the world. The reality of Palestinian forced displacement is at the core of the Palestinian experience and the Palestinian refugee issue is at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

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