GAZA, Feb 16 (NNN-WAFA) – At least 20 Palestinians, including a child, were injured by live bullets on Friday as Israeli forces attacked hundreds of protesters at Gaza-Israel border, according to the Ministry of Health.
The forces fired live bullets and rubber-coated steel rounds at the protesters who gathered at many encampments along the border, injuring 20 protesters by live bullets, three of them critically, including a child.
Some of the wounded were moved to hospital and others were treated in the field hospitals.
More than 220 Palestinians have been killed and over 23,000 others injured by Israeli forces since the outbreak of the Great March of Return protests at Gaza border on March 30, 2018.
Meanwhile, at least two Palestinians were injured on Friday by Israeli forces as they attacked a nonviolent protest in the village of Urif, south of NABLUS in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.
Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activities in the area, told WAFA that Israeli soldiers fired live bullets at local Palestinian protesters who took part in a nonviolent march following Friday prayer in protest of the razing by Israeli forces of a land in the village earlier on the day.
He said two protesters were injured by live bullets in the foot and back respectively. — NNN-WAFA
