GAZA, Friday, July 12, 2019 (WAFA) – At least 100 Palestinians were 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.

Israeli soldiers manning the separation fence fired live bullets and rubber-coated steel rounds at the protesters who gathered at many encampments along the border, injuring 50 protesters by live bullets and 52 others by rubber-coated rounds.

Dozens of protesters also sustained inhalation from teargas fired by the Israeli forces.

Some of the wounded were moved to hospital and many others were treated in the field hospitals.

A journalist, identified as Sami Musran, was hit and injured by a gas canister in his face, and was moved to Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah town for medical treatment.

Over 300 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.

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