Protesters Gather at Gaza Border for 7th Consecutive Friday

Rasa - Hundreds of Palestinian protesters gathered on Friday at the encampments along the eastern border of the besieged Gaza Strip for the seventh consecutive Friday to partake in the Great March of Return protests.

News ID: 437629

Date: 11 May 2018 - 22:47

RNA - More Palestinians are also expected to arrive to encampments set up in five locations along Gaza border, including Khan Younis, Rafah and al-Bureij refugee camp, to demand their right of return to their villages and towns they were forcibly displaced from in 1948, WAFA reported.

The 46-day Great March of Return protests started on March 30 and are set to reach their crescendo on May 15, which marks the 70th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), in which over 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes to make way for the creation of Israel in 1948.

Since the outbreak of the protests, 47 protestors, including two journalists Yasser Murtaja and Ahmed Abu Hussein, were shot dead by the Israeli forces, while more than 8500 others were either injured or suffered suffocation from Israeli teargas.

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