APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza City – 21 June 2019. Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli troops following the tents protest where Palestinians demand the right to return to their homeland at the Israel-Gaza border, in the east of Gaza city
STORYLINE - The "march of return" demonstrations have been held at least weekly since March 2018, with the backing of Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas.
Protesters have been demanding an end to Israel's more than decade-old blockade of Gaza and the right for Palestinian refugees to return to ancestral lands now inside Israel.
Israel says any such return would spell its demise as a Jewish state and accuses Hamas of orchestrating the protests as an excuse for violence.
At least 293 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the protests began, the majority during the protests.
Six Israelis have been killed in Gaza-related violenc.
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