Iran Press/Middle East: The Gazan protesters gathered in large numbers for the 44th consecutive week, calling for the restoration of the long-denied rights of Palestinian refugees who want to return to their ancestral homeland in occupied Palestine.
At least 14 Palestinians were shot and injured and 1 Palestinian was killed by the Israeli forces at the eastern borders of the besieged Gaza Strip, on Friday, including a paramedic and a journalist, reported Iran Press.
Palestinian crowds gathered alongside the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip to take part in the weekly march to break the ongoing Israeli siege.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that a Palestinian teenage girl was shot and injured in the leg by Israeli forces alongside the eastern borders of Gaza City.
Israeli forces were deployed across the borders of the Gaza Strip to suppress the weekly 'Great March of Return' protests.
The ministry confirmed that one paramedic was injured in eastern Gaza City, and one journalist was injured in eastern al-Breij in the central Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces fired tear-gas bombs at a medical station in eastern Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
'The Great March of Return' protests were launched on March 30th by thousands of Palestinian civilians in Gaza--which has suffered from a decade-long Israeli siege--who took to the borders to demand their right of return as refugees to their original homelands, now in present-day Israel. 203/103
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