183 Gaza Protesters Martyred Since March 30

Rasa - Gaza’s Health Ministry announced on Friday that the Israeli army has martyred at least 183 Palestinian demonstrators since the “Great Return March” began along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone on March 30.

News ID: 440660

Date: 23 September 2018 - 11:38

RNA - In a statement, the health ministry said that 32 children, along with two women, had been among the victims, Anadolu Agency reported.

According to the health ministry, roughly 20,160 Palestinians were injured over the same period: 540 by rubber bullets; 5,039 by heavy ammunition; 6,100 by bullet and artillery shrapnel; and the rest by teargas.

Among those wounded, 443 sustained serious injuries, according to the health ministry.

Demonstrators, who continue to converge on the buffer zone on an almost daily basis, demand the “right of return” to their homes in historical Palestine from which they were driven in 1948 to make way for the new state of Israel.

They also demand an end to Israel’s 11-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gutted the coastal enclave’s economy and deprived its more than two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.

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