Shops in Nablus, in the north of the West Bank, kept their doors shut on Saturday observing a general strike in protest against the Israeli army killing of 15 Palestinians in Gaza the day before and injuring hundreds others. (WAFA Images / Ayman Noubani) 

RAMALLAH, March 31, 2018 (WAFA) – Palestinians observed a general strike in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem on Saturday heeding a call for the strike by the nationalist and Islamic forces as they also observe a day of mourning for the 15 Palestinians killed and over 1400 wounded in the massacre the Israeli army had committed on Friday on the Gaza borders.

Shops shuttered their doors, universities and schools suspended their classes and most businesses observed the general strike in protest against the Land Day massacre.

Israeli snippers stationed on the Gaza borders killed 15 Palestinians participating in the peaceful march of return activity called for in Gaza to observer Land Day, which coincides on March 30 of every year in commemoration of the 1976 Palestinian uprising against Israeli seizure of land inside Israel that left six Palestinian Israelis dead in the police crackdown.

In addition to the 15 dead, around 800 people were shot and wounded by live bullets and another 600 suffered from tear gas inhalation, which was dropped on the almost 50,000 participants in the activity, many of them children, by planes.

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