Iran Press/Middle East: 11,000 Palestinians protested at the Gaza border on Friday in the 45th week of great 'March of Return' protest held in Gaza.
Gaza health ministry said 32 protesters were injured by live fire in clashes with Israeli security forces along the border and a female paramedic was hit in the face with a tear gas canister, Iran Press reported.
In a statement, Gaza’s National Authority for Breaking the Siege urged the people of Gaza to take part in Friday’s demonstration, which was held under the banner, 'Our prisoners [in Israeli jails] are not alone'.
Palestinian crowds gathered alongside the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip to take part in the weekly march to break the ongoing Israeli siege.
Israeli forces were deployed across the borders of the Gaza Strip to suppress the protests.
According to estimates, some 6,000 Palestinians -- including numerous women and children -- are currently languishing in Israeli detention facilities.
Since Palestinians began holding rallies along the buffer zone in March of last year, more than 250 protesters have been killed -- and thousands more injured -- by Israeli army gunfire.
Meanwhile in West Bank, at least 19 Palestinians were injured with Israeli live bullets, while four others were injured with rubber-coated steel bullets, as Israeli forces suppressed protesters in the al-Mughayyir village northeast of the central occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, on Friday.
'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. 105/205
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