GAZA - Two Palestinian boys were killed on Friday, while 76 people were injured, including 46 by live ammunition fired by the Israeli army at participants in the March rallies, the Gaza Strip's health ministry said.
"Two Palestinians were killed, one of them was Ali Sami Ali al-Ashqar, 17, who was shot in the neck by Israeli soldiers east of Jabalya, and the other, Mohammed al-Rubai, 14, was killed by a bullet in the abdomen in the Queen camp in eastern Gaza City," said Ashraf al-Qidra, a spokesman for the Gaza Strip. ".
According to Al-Ashqar and Al-Quarti, the number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army during the March 30 return marches since its inception on March 30, 2018, increases to 210 martyrs, in addition to about 18 thousand wounded, according to Palestinian human rights centers.
Al-Jazeera correspondent said that Israeli artillery shelled an observatory of the Palestinian resistance in the northern Gaza Strip.
For his part, Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adrai said in a press statement that about 6,000 Palestinians participated in the marches, claiming that they carried out "violent riots at the border and tried to prejudice the security fence and infiltrate through it."
On the other hand, Khalil al-Hayya, a member of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said that "the Supreme National Committee for the Marches of Return and Breaking the Siege called today's rallies the protection of the home front, to convey a message that the Palestinian people stand today united in the face of all conspiracies aimed at harming its unity. National and community. "
"Our people have proved that they are insurmountable to refraction and conspiracies and makes every challenge an opportunity. Today's marches are a response to all attempts to tamper with the security of the Palestinian people in Gaza and elsewhere."
Since March 2018, Palestinians have been participating in return marches near the fence separating East Gaza from Israel to demand the return of refugees to their towns and villages, and lifting the siege on the Strip.