Gaza _ Palestine News Network
A woman was martyred, and scores of citizens were wounded Friday evening by Israeli occupation during violent confrontations in the eastern border of the Gaza Strip, in the course of the return marches and the siege.
"Amal Mustafa Abu Sultan, 43, a resident of the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza City, was martyred in the east of Gaza City during her 42nd Friday of return marches and breaking the siege," said Ashraf al-Akraf, spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The capacity indicated that at least 35 citizens were hit by live bullets, along the border of the strip. Among them, two journalists were injured east of Bureij and Gaza, two paramedics were injured east of Khan Yunis and Gaza, while an ambulance was hit by a gas bomb directly.
According to medical sources, a child was shot in the head east of Jabalia and his condition was serious.
Scores of citizens were also suffocated by the occupation forces throwing dozens of gas canisters at demonstrators along the border.
Israeli reconnaissance planes and tanks fired rockets and artillery shells at three resistance observatories east of Gaza and Khanyounis without causing casualties. A spokesman for the army said raids were carried out in response to the violent incidents in the border.
He said a soldier was slightly injured by stones thrown through a slingshot and taken to the Berzilai hospital in Ashkelon for treatment.
According to the 10th Hebrew channel, some 12,000 Palestinians demonstrated at the border, military sources said. He pointed out that the Israeli forces were stoned and the rubber tyres were lit, and explosive materials were thrown.
The sources claimed that an infiltration attempt at the fence in eastern Gaza had been foiled and fired at them and returned immediately to Gaza.
The border is witnessing violent confrontations just 100 meters away from the fence, a reporter for the Hebrew website said.
For its part, the National High Commission for return marches called for a break by pressuring the occupation and bringing its leaders to international courts, calling for continued efforts to end the division and overcome differences. Appraisers Egypt´s efforts in encircling the recent crisis.
She stressed that the battle against normalization was continuing to crystallize a front that would stifle occupation. He called on the Palestinians to participate in the next Friday under the slogan of unity and defeat the plots.
