JERUSALEM *– Spokesperson for Palestinian Authority Health Ministry Ashrafal-Qodrat said on Friday that the number of Palestinians wounded in thethird Friday of Great March of Return rose to 701.*
Palestinian news agency Wafa quoted the spokeswoman as saying that some 17medical personnel and several journalists were also injured during Israelishooting at Palestinian protestors.
On the third day of rallies dubbed ‘Setting fire to flag of occupyingregime’, a large Israeli flag was placed on the ground for demonstrators towalk on it.
On March 30, Gazans staged a demonstration called ‘Great March of Return’to mark the “Day of Palestine Land’, but Israeli forces fired at them,killing 17 and injuring over 1,800 Palestinians.
Day of Palestine Land’ has turned into a symbol of Palestinians’ resistanceagainst the occupying Zionists.
The protests, planned to last six weeks, call for return of Palestinianrefugees to their homes that are now inside Israel.