GAZA Israeli troops fired warning shots toward Palestinian youths gatheredat the Gaza-Israel border on Saturday, wounding 13 people, health officialssaid.
Tension remained high in the area a day after deadly violence broke out inone of the biggest Palestinian demonstrations there in years.
An Israeli military spokesman said he was checking the details ofSaturday’s unrest.
On Friday at least 15 Palestinians were martyred by Israeli security forcesconfronting protesters, some of whom the military said had opened fire,rolled burning tires and hurled rocks and fire bombs toward troops acrossthe border.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared Saturday a national day ofmourning and a general strike was called across the occupied West Bank.Thousands in Gaza marched through the streets at funerals for thosemartyred.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians had gathered on Friday along the fenced65-km (40-mile) frontier, where tents were erected for a planned six-weekprotest pressing for a right of return for refugees and their descendentsto what is now Israel. The Israeli military estimate was 30,000.
Families brought their children to the encampments just a few hundredmeters (yards) from the Israeli security barrier with the Hamas-runenclave. But hundreds of Palestinian youths ignored calls from theorganisers and the Israeli military to stay away from the frontier andviolence broke out.