1 Palestinian killed in 44th Friday of Great March of Return

Israeli forces fire at Palestinians as they protest during the Great March of Return along the Gaza-Israel border on 25 January 2019 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]

Israeli forces fire at Palestinians as they protest during the Great March of Return along the Gaza-Israel border on 25 January 2019 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]

Medics carry injured Palestinians after Israeli forces fired at protesters during the Great March of Return on 25 January 2019 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]

Israeli forces fire at Palestinians as they protest during the Great March of Return along the Gaza-Israel border on 25 January 2019 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]

Israeli forces fire at Palestinians as they protest during the Great March of Return along the Gaza-Israel border on 25 January 2019 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]

A Palestinian was killed by Israeli occupation forces today as they tried to disperse unarmed protesters taking part in the “Great March of Return” along the Gaza-Israel fence.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza named the Palestinian as Ihab Abed, adding that he was hit in the chest by a sniper. Twenty-two people were also injured during the 44th Friday protests.

Demonstrators demand the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in historical Palestine from which they were driven out in 1948 to make way for the creation of the state of Israel.

They also demand an end to Israel’s 12-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gutted the coastal enclave’s economy and deprived its roughly two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.

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