UPDATES WITH NUMBER OF INJURED PERSONS
By Hedaya al-Saedi
<p>GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 33 Palestinian protesters were injured on Friday by Israeli army gunfire near the Gaza-Israel buffer zone, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.</p> <p>In a statement, the ministry said that the 33 Palestinians had been wounded by live ammunition.</p> <p>Since Palestinians began holding regular rallies along the buffer zone on March 30, more than 200 protesters have been martyred and thousands more injured.</p> <p>Demonstrators 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. </p> <p>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 roughly two million inhabitants of many basic commodities. </p>
