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<h1 class="title">22-year-old Palestinian 8th to be killed by
Israeli forces in massive Gaza protests</h1>
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<div class="stamp">March 30, 2018 - <font size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=779988">http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=779988</a></font><br>
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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces shot and killed a 22-year-old
Palestinian from Gaza on Friday afternoon, bringing the<a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=779984"
target="_blank"> death toll </a>to eight, as thousands of
Palestinians took to the border with Israel in what is being called
<a href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=779985"
target="_blank">"The Great March of Return," </a>as Palestinian
refugees demand their right to return to their homelands inside
historic Palestine, now present-day Israel. <br>
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Ashraf al-Qidra, the spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health
released a statement identifying the eight slain Palestinian as Abd
al-Fattah abd al-Nabi. <br>
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Meanwhile, al-Qidra reported that over 500 Palestinians had been
injured. Leading up to the march, the Israeli army released a
statement saying it had declared the border area along Gaza a
“closed military zone,” meaning that any Palestinian who got close
to the border fence could risk getting shot.<br>
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<div>The Israeli army released statements on Twitter describing the
protests as “violent riots.”<br>
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<div>“17,000 Palestinians are rioting in 5 locations along the Gaza
Strip security fence. The rioters are rolling burning tires and
hurling firebombs & rocks at the security fence & IDF
troops, who are responding w riot dispersal means and firing
towards main instigators,” the statement said.<br>
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<div>Despite the Israeli army’s claims, Palestinian activists and
leaders in the Gaza Strip have maintained that the “March of
Return” was organized as a massive non-violent, weeks-long protest
advocating for the return of Palestinian refugees to their
original homelands in historic Palestine, now present day Israel.<br>
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Leading up to Friday, the first official day of the march -- which
will continue until the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, or
catastrophe, in May -- Palestinians set up tents along the border
with Gaza, where protesters plan to stay until the Nakba
anniversary.
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