GAZA, Tuesday, June 25, 2019 (WAFA) – At least three Palestinians were shot and injured by live ammunition fired by Israeli forces for allegedly coming too close to the border fence between Gaza and Israel to the east of the town of Beit Hanoun, northeast of the Gaza Strip, said sources.

Israeli forces stationed along Gaza borders reportedly opened live fire on a group of Palestinians after they allegedly approached the Israeli-installed barbed-wire fence along Gaza borders with Israel, shooting and injuring three people.

Israel has imposed a buffer zone inside the Gaza Strip along their common borders preventing Palestinians from reaching their lands near the border fence. It regularly opens fire at anyone who enters that buffer zone.

In a fact sheet about Israeli attacks on border areas and their consequences, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) said, “preventing Palestinians from accessing their lands and fishing areas violates numerous provisions of international human rights law, including the right to work, the right to an adequate standard of living, and the right to the highest attainable standard of health.’

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