UPDATE: Three Palestinians Killed in Israeli Bombing Raid on Gaza

20 Jul

7:25 PM

Three Palestinians were killed and several injured, by Israeli forces, during the “Great March of Return” protests along the Israel-Gaza border, on Friday.

Two were killed after Israeli artillery shelling targeted a “monitoring point” in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza Strip, on Friday afternoon.

A third was killed in in eastern Rafah city during the protest, according to Ma’an News Agency.

According to local sources, hundreds of Gaza residents raced to the return camps along the eastern border of the Gaza Strip, to participate in a protest, where they demonstrated against UNWRA’s lack of assistance for refugees.

Sources added that protesters set car tires on fire, in attempt to blur the vision of Israeli snipers with smoke and flames, while they proceed with the march.

Israeli forces began firing at the protesters near the return camps located east of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, and injured two Palestinians.

The identities of the two injured remain unknown.

(Al Ray archive image)