Preparations have been finalized for renewed protests near the Gaza Strip border fence, protest organizers said in a statement on Friday morning.

In a press statement issued Friday morning, the Higher National Commission of the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege called on Palestinians to “widely participate in the protest” and call for their right of return.

 

This week’s protest came under the slogan “United to Foil Deal, Break Siege,” the statement reads.

 

The committee also stressed that “the demonstrations would be non-violent, aiming to break Israel’s unjust siege and cancel the US President Donald Trump’s deal of the century.”

 

The Great March of Return protests kicked off on 30 March, and have continued for the fourth month in a row, to demand Palestinians’ right of return and and end to the Israeli blockade on Gaza.

 

According to Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, 144 Palestinians, including 17 children and one woman, have been killed, and 15,500 others have been injured since the protests began, hundreds of them are in critical condition.

 

 

 

Source: The Palestinian Information Center