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<h1 class="title">Second Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in
Gaza protests on 'Friday of Tires'</h1>
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<div class="stamp">April 6, 2018 - <font size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=780012">http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=780012</a></font><br>
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GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- <br>
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A second Palestinian protester was shot and killed by Israeli forces
along the Gaza border, the Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed
around 4:30 p.m.The slain Palestinian was identified as Majdi
Ramadan Shabat. He was killed in demonstrations taking place east of
Gaza City, in the northern coastal enclave.<br>
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Meanwhile, the ministry reported that over 250 protesters had been
injured from across the Gaza Strip, as Israeli planes dropped tear
gas on protesters. Shabat’s death brought the death toll in Gaza to
23 since massive demonstrations began on Friday March 30. <br>
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<a href="http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=780011" target="_blank">Earlier
on Friday</a> a Palestinian identified as Thaer Rabia from the
northern Gaza Strip town of Jabaliya, succumbed to wounds sustained
during Friday protests one week ago. <br>
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Around 3:30 p.m., the ministry reported that Usama Khamis Qudeih,
39, was killed in protests east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza
Strip. Friday’s protests marked one week since the beginning of the
<a href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=779985"
target="_blank">"Great March of Return,</a>" a weeks-long protests
in which almost 1.3 million of Gaza’s 2 million inhabitants who are
refugees are demanding their right to return to their original
homelands.<br>
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The six-week protest is set to end on May 15th, the 70th anniversary
of the Palestinian Nakba, or “catastrophe,” when the state of Israel
was created, leaving some 750,000 Palestinians and millions of their
descendants as refugees.<br>
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Palestinians have nicknamed this Friday's demonstration "Jum'at
al-Kawshook", which translates to "Friday of Tires", as protesters
set fire to thousands of tires along the border, creating huge
clouds of black smoke in order to confuse Israeli snipers and
prevent them from targeting protesters with live ammunition. <br>
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Some have also called Friday’s protest “Black Friday.”On the first
day of protests last week, Israeli forces killed 16 Palestinians and
injured over 1,000 more with live fire, rubber-coated steel bullets,
and tear gas.<br>
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Despite widespread outcry from international rights groups who have
<a href="https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=780006">condemned</a>
Israel’s excessive use of forces against the civilian protesters,
Israeli has maintained its open-fire rules for the Gaza border.
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