Alwaght- At least 42 Palestinians were killed and over 5,000 others injured by the Israeli occupation forces since the start of the Great March of Return peace protests on March 30 at Gaza Strip border.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, 42 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attack on the Great March of Return peaceful protests staged near Gaza’s border with occupied territories. Two casualties have had their bodies withheld by the Israeli occupation authorities.
Among those injured 3,368 were evacuated to hospitals and 2,143 others received field treatment. 143 cases have been identified as critical and 1,710 others as moderate.
The list of injured Palestinians also included 592 children and 192 women and girls.
According to the ministry’s data, 1,738 protesters were shot with live bullets, 394 with rubber bullets, and 611 others were injured with teargas.
227 protesters were shot in their necks or heads, 440 in their upper body, 115 in their backs and chests, 142 in their abdomens or pelvis, and another 1,704 in their lower limbs.
The Palestinian Great March of Return peaceful protests," will last until May 15, which coincides with the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day (Day of Catastrophe) on which Israel was created.
Every year on May 15, Palestinians all over the world hold demonstrations to commemorate Nakba Day, which marks the anniversary of the forcible eviction of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland by Zionist in 1948.
More than 760,000 Palestinians - now estimated to number nearly five million with their descendants - were driven out of their homes on May 14, 1948.
Since 1948, when the fake Israeli entity was created, it has denied Palestinian refugees the right to return, despite UN resolutions and international law that upholds people’s right to return to their homelands.
These year’s Land Day demonstrations come at a time when Palestinian anger is already high over Trump's decision in December 2017 to recognize al-Quds (Jerusalem) as Israeli regime capital.
