Almost 100 Palestinians were injured in a number of serious injuries during the suppression of the Israeli occupation forces participating in the activities of Friday 81 of the marches of return and breaking the siege east of the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that its crews dealt with 96 injuries, including 57 by live bullets fired by the Israeli occupation forces to disperse the demonstrators near the iron fence at the eastern border of the Strip.
The ministry added that one of the wounded was seriously wounded by a bullet in the abdomen east of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Thousands of Palestinians flocked to return camps to take part in Friday's events called "The Fall of the Balfour Declaration."
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In a statement, the Higher National Authority stressed the necessity to consider this Friday as a day of rallies and sit-ins to confirm the Palestinian people's adherence to their right to return to their land, and to nullify this promise that caused the plight of the people and their dispersal.
Return marches have continued since late March 2018, and the occupation forces' repression of these protests killed 311 Palestinians and injured thousands more.
Balfour, which was the name of today's demonstrations, is the common name given to a letter sent by former British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour on November 2, 1917, to the Jewish Lord Lionel Walter de Rothschild, indicating that his government would do its utmost to create a national homeland. For Jews in Palestine.