More than 100 wounded in Gaza and reinforced security in the West Bank

More than 100 Palestinians, including three paramedics, were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation forces' repression of the marches of return and breaking the siege along the eastern border of the Gaza Strip.

The ministry said in a statement that the medical staff dealt with 122 injuries, including 50 live bullets by the Israeli occupation, did not explain the nature of the rest of the injuries.

The seventy-first Friday marches were launched today at the invitation of the Supreme National Authority for the marches of return and break the siege under the slogan "Friday to pick you up," in conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of the burning of the Aqsa Mosque.

Thousands of Palestinians marched and gathered at five sites near the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

The Israeli occupation forces fired live ammunition, metal bullets and tear gas canisters at the demonstrators.

Struggle tool
For its part, the Marches of Return stressed in its weekly statement, "the continuation of marches and march forward as a mass struggle tool to confront the occupation and projects to liquidate the Palestinian cause, and protect our right to return to Palestine and to form a stumbling block in the way of printers and brokers and dealers of countries."

The Authority called for "popular participation in the activities of the coming Friday (Friday Loyalty to the Martyrs) to coincide with the anniversary of the end of the recent Israeli war on the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2014, which left more than two thousand Palestinian martyrs.

According to Palestinian human rights centers, including the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, the number of victims of Israeli violations in the Gaza Strip against participants in the marches of return since its inception on March 30 last year, 208 martyrs, including 44 children and two women and nine people with disabilities and four paramedics and two journalists.

Bank .. More reinforcements
On the other hand, the Israeli army paid more reinforcements in the West Bank following the killing of an Israeli soldier and wounding two settlers, when an explosive device exploded near the settlement of Dolev northwest of the West Bank city of Ramallah.

The army conducted a sweep to reach the perpetrators and instructed the residents of the settlement to remain in their homes.

Israeli security forces are investigating whether the device was planted and detonated remotely, or may have been thrown from a passing vehicle.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for an emergency meeting of his security chiefs to assess the security situation, pledging to promote settlement in the West Bank and hold those responsible to account.

In its first comment on the operation, Hamas said the operation showed that the Palestinian people would not execute means of resistance until their full rights were taken away.

The head of the political bureau of the movement Ismail Haniyeh in Friday sermon that the crimes of the occupation against the Palestinian people and their land and holy places will not pass without account.