Iran Press/ Middle East: The Israeli forces fired live bullets and rubber-coated steel rounds at the protesters who gathered at many encampments along the border, martyring Mohammad Nayef al-Houm, 14, Iyad Khalil Shaer, 18, Ahmed al-Shaer and Mohammed Bassam Shakhsed and another martyr is still unidentified. Another 290 protesters were also injured.
According to Palestinian's Health Ministry's statement, More than 188 Palestinians have been martyred and over 20,000 others injured by Israeli forces since the outbreak of the Great March of Return protests at Gaza border on March 30.
Most of the casualties occurred on May 14 when Palestinians marked the 70th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of historical Palestine and the ensuing ethnic cleansing of half a million Palestinian refugees.
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that some 1,400 Palestinians shot by Israeli forces during “Great March of Return” protests in the occupied Gaza Strip face the possibility of “long-term disability.
The UN OCHA report, contributed by the World Health Organisation and the Disability Working Group, describes how Gaza’s “health sector has continued to struggle with the cumulative caseload of serious injuries, particularly those requiring long-term rehabilitation.
In Jul. 13, Israeli forces shot and martyred a 15-year-old Palestinian protester during a demonstration in Gaza strip.
Thousands of Palestinians have been staging demonstrations on Gaza Strip’s Eastern border with Israel against the decades-long Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands recently.
The peaceful marches and demonstrations are in support of the long-ignored right of Palestinian refugees who want to return to their ancestral homeland.
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