APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza – 06 September 2019. Relatives of Khaled al-Rabie, 14, who was killed by Israeli troops, mourn at a hospital morgue in Gaza city.
STORYLINE - At least two Palestinians were killed and over 37 others injured today by live bullets or rubber-coated rounds as Israeli forces attacked thousands of protesters taking part in the weekly Great March of Return at Gaza-Israel border, according to medical sources.
Soldiers manning the separation fence fired live bullets and rubber-coated steel rounds at the protesters who gathered at many encampments along the border, killing Ali Sami Ashqar, 17, and Khaled al-Rabie, 14, At least 37 protesters were also injured by live bullets, including two medics and a photojournalist.
Some of the wounded were moved to hospital and many others were treated in the field hospitals.
Over 310 Palestinians have been killed and about 18,000 others injured by Israeli forces since the outbreak of the Great March of Return protests at Gaza border on March 30, 2018.
The weekly protests call for lifting the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip and for the return of the Palestinian refugees to their ancestral homes in pre-1948 Palestine.
Footage by Watania Media Agency /APAwire