Dozens of Palestinians hurt in anti-Israel protests in Gaza, West Bank
RAS KARKAR, SEPT 01 (DNA) – Israeli security forces wounded dozens of Palestinians taking part in protests in the occupied West Bank and along the Gaza Strip border on Friday, witnesses and medical officials said.
At the West Bank village of Ras Karkar, hundreds of Palestinians demonstrating against Israeli land seizures for Jewish settlements threw stones at troops, who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, injuring at least a dozen people.
Israeli authorities had no immediate comment.
In Islamist Hamas-controlled Gaza, thousands of Palestinian massed near the border fence as part of weekly protests launched on March 30 to demand rights to lands lost in the 1948 war of Israel’s foundation.
Gaza medics said 180 Palestinians were wounded, a third of them from live fire, including a female nurse and a boy.
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