A Palestinian youth was killed yesterday by Israeli gunfire while he was participating in a march to the east of al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Friday, bringing the total number of martyrs since the beginning of the marches to 255.
In a press release, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qadra, said in a press release that "Ayman Munir Mohammed Shabir, 18 years old, died of his wounds sustained by the Israeli occupation forces east of al-Bureij during the clashes."
On Friday, three Palestinians were killed and 73 wounded, including a journalist and a medic, as the Israeli occupation forces opened fire and tear gas to suppress thousands of participants on the 39th anniversary of the return march and break the siege in the eastern Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, the revolutionary youth threatened to re-escalate the "march of the return" movement. "After the martyrdom of four martyrs, the meager agreements and the deceitful calm go to hell. The martyrs' blood is neither sold nor bought," they said in a statement.
The statement added: «Let the Kutchuk and cut the fence and the storm and storming our occupied territories, and we have to face the occupier day and night and with all force».
The head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, participated yesterday in the funeral of the young Mohammed al-Hajjouh in al-Shati camp west of Gaza City, in the presence of hundreds of mourners, where he confirmed the continuation of marches and attempts to break the siege.
"The enemy has exhausted all its methods in this process, but it continues and continues," Haniyeh said in a brief speech during the funeral.
Haniyeh added: "The occupation drained all means of killing and repression in order to stop the march of return and obliterate the Palestinian cause, but every Friday our people are growing stronger than their crimes."
Haniyeh said that talks had been held with the mediators over the Israeli "escalation" against demonstrators in the return marches. "We talked to the mediators about the brutality of the occupation to deal with the issue," he said, referring to Egypt and the United Nations special envoy. "We are continuing the march until we achieve its full objectives." "We will continue beating on the wall of the blockade until it breaks it," Haniyeh said.
He added: "The march of return says that the siege must end and forever, and the blood of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank says that we are in front of a new stage will end with the end of occupation, and the occupation projects failed and fell from the table.
In a related context, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said: "The resistance can not stand idly by in front of the dangerous Israeli escalation" against the participants in the protests of the return marches.
The Front considered in a statement «What happened Friday east of the Gaza Strip is a new Israeli crime, the killing of Palestinians in cold blood while participating in peaceful demonstrations».
She said: «We will not allow the occupation attempt to impose a new equation fuel and the shedding of Palestinian blood, do not neglect the blood of the martyrs that will remain faithful in our necks in the forces of resistance».
The Jihad also condemned "Israel's continued terrorism and aggression against peaceful demonstrators in the march of return in a barbaric and brutal manner."
The movement considered in a statement that this «represents a dangerous escalation, especially as most of the injuries occurred a long distance from the wire flowing, which demonstrates the aggressive intentions of the occupation».
Jihad said: "Israeli terrorism will not push the Palestinian people and resistance only to more steadfastness and steadfastness and the continuation of the resistance, and hold the occupation full responsibility for this aggression."
Protests have been going on since March 30, demanding the lifting of the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip since mid-2007.