Iran Press/Middle East: At least five Palestinians were injured on Friday in clashes that were part of the weekly anti-Israel rallies, better known as the 'Great March of Return'.
Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesman of the Health Ministry in Gaza, told reporters that the five injured demonstrators were sent to the hospital after they were wounded by Israeli soldiers' gunfire, Xinhua news agency reported.
He added that dozens of others suffered suffocation after inhaling tear gas fired by the Israeli soldiers, and they were treated by field paramedics.
The Highest Commission of the Great March of Return had earlier called on people in Gaza to join the protest, which urged putting an end to the internal Palestinian division and called for unity.
"Achieving Palestinian unity is the best option for the Palestinians to face the current critical political situation and protect the Palestinian cause from the U.S. plan Deal of the Century," said the commission.
'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.
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