23 October 2018•Update: 23 October 2018
By Mohamed Majed
GAZA, Palestine
At least one Palestinian seriously injured in the head on Tuesday by Israeli army gunfire near the buffer zone between Gaza and Israel, according to the Gaza-based Palestinian health ministry.
“A [Palestinian] citizen has been seriously injured in the head by occupation gunfire on the eastern border of the Bureij camp central the [Gaza] strip,” said Ashraf al-Qidra, a spokesman for the Gaza-based Palestinian ministry of health said Tuesday.
Medical teams are currently taking care of the Palestinian wounded, al-Qidra added.
Since the Palestinian rallies known as the Marches of Return -- which have continued on an almost-daily basis -- began on March 30, more than 200 Palestinians have been martyred by Israeli troops deployed along the other side of the buffer zone.
Protesters demand the right to return to their homes and villages in historical Palestine, from which they were driven in 1948 to make way for the new state of Israel.
They also demand an end to Israel’s 12-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gutted the coastal enclave’s economy and deprived its more than two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.
