47th Friday of the Great March of Return in Gaza

Palestinian women use slingshot to throw stones to Israeli forces during clashes with Israeli forces’ at a “Great March of Return” demonstration near Al Bureij Refugee Camp in Gaza on February 15, 2019. ( Hassan Jedi – Anadolu Agency )

Palestinians gather behind a barricade during clashes with Israeli forces’ at a “Great March of Return” demonstration near Al Bureij Refugee Camp in Gaza on February 15, 2019. ( Hassan Jedi – Anadolu Agency )

Palestinian who was injured after Israeli forces fired on him, is being evacuated by health crews during “Great March of Return” demonstration near Al Bureij Refugee Camp in Gaza on February 15, 2019. ( Hassan Jedi – Anadolu Agency )

Palestinians are seen as Israeli forces intervene them with tear gas during a “Great March of Return” demonstration at Huzaa district of Khan Yunis, Gaza on February 15, 2019. ( Mustafa Hassona – Anadolu Agency )

A Palestinian man stands with a Palestinian flag as Israeli forces clash with demonstrators during a “Great March of Return” demonstration at Huzaa district of Khan Yunis, Gaza on February 15, 2019. ( Mustafa Hassona – Anadolu Agency )

Palestinians use sling shot to throw rocks as Israeli forces clash with them during a “Great March of Return” demonstration at Huzaa district of Khan Yunis, Gaza on February 15, 2019. ( Mustafa Hassona – Anadolu Agency )

Palestinians shout slogans as Israeli forces intervene protestors during a “Great March of Return” demonstration at Huzaa district of Khan Yunis, Gaza on 15 February 2019. [Mustafa Hassona – Anadolu Agency]

For the 47th week in a row, Palestinians on Friday converged along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone to take part in ongoing rallies against Israel’s decades-long occupation, Anadolu Agency reports.

In a statement, Gaza’s National Authority for Breaking the Siege (NABS) urged the people of Gaza to take part in Friday’s demonstration, which was held under the slogan, “Gaza cannot be broken”.

“The Israeli occupation continues to provoke us by deploying snipers and troops armed with lethal weapons along the buffer zone,” NABS declared in a Friday statement.

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Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraee, for his part, warned Palestinian protesters from approaching the buffer zone.

“For your own safety,” he tweeted, “stay away from the special security zone.”

Since Palestinians in Gaza began holding the rallies in March of last year, more than 250 protesters have been killed — and thousands more injured — by Israeli army gunfire.

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