3 Palestinians Injured by Israeli Fire near Gaza Border
Hundreds of Palestinians gathered near a security fence in eastern Gaza to mark Israel’s pullout from the seaside territory in 2005.
Israeli forces fired bullets and tear gas canisters to disperse the crowd, eyewitnesses said.
Israel occupied Gaza and the nearby Palestinian territory of the West Bank during a heavily-Western-backed war in 1967.
The regime withdrew its forces from Gaza in 2005 but has been keeping the territory under an all-out land, aerial, and naval siege that has turned it into the world's largest open-air prison.
According to the United Nations, as a result of the siege, about 2.1 million Palestinians in the besieged sliver are locked in, with the vast majority of them unable to access the remainder of the occupied Palestinian territories and the outside world.
Source: Middle East Monitor
