9 Palestinians injured in clashes with Israeli forces near Gaza fence
At least nine Palestinians have been injured in clashes with Israeli forces along the fence that separates the besieged Gaza Strip from the occupied territories.
The violence broke out in the area of Malka, east of Gaza City, on Friday afternoon after the Israeli forces opened fire at dozens of Palestinian youth who staged a peaceful rally in protest at the regime’s continued crimes against Palestinians and their holy sites.
Palestine's Safa News Agency cited the Health Ministry in Gaza as saying that nine people sustained injuries “of various kinds,” and were transported to Shifa Hospital.
The agency added that some of the Palestinians suffered from suffocation due to inhaling tear gas fired by the regime forces near the separating fence.
#عاجل وزارة الصحة بغزة: 9 إصابات بجراح مختلفة وصلت مجمع الشفاء الطبي من قبل قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي شرق غزة
— وكالة صفا (@SafaPs) September 1, 2023
Palestinian Shehab news agency confirmed the confrontation between the Israeli forces and the Palestinians along the Gaza border, stressing that the troops “fired massively” at demonstrators using bullets and gas canisters.
Shehab also said a number of young Palestinians managed to cross the fence.
إصابات جراء قمع قوات الاحتلال للمتظاهرين شرق مدينة غزة
— وكالة شهاب للأنباء (@ShehabAgency) September 1, 2023
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Palestinians usually stage demonstrations in the Gaza Strip after Friday prayers to protest against provocative incursions by Israeli groups into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied al-Quds.
The regime brought the entire enclave under land, aerial, and naval blockade in June 2007.
Israel’s crippling siege of Gaza has turned the enclave into the world's largest open-air prison and left many of its people destitute.
As a result of the siege, unemployment levels in Gaza are among the highest in the world, and as many as 1.3 million out of the 2.1 million Palestinians in Gaza (62 percent) require food assistance as well, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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