Thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are preparing for their weekly demonstration held on Friday.
For the 73rd week in a row the Palestinians flock every Friday to vicinity of the fence separating the strip of the other occupied territories.
The first demonstration was launched on March 30, 2018.
The Higher National Organization of Return March and Breaking the Blockade has call the Gazzans to take part in today’s protest under the theme of protecting the internal front in camps of return.
The organization assured that the return marches will continue until achieving all targets such as removing blockade of the Gaza Strip and defeating the US plan to terminate the Palestinian issue according to the Israeli interests only.
It is worth to mention that Israel has imposed harsh blockade on the strip since 13 years.
The weekly marches aim at terminating the blockade.
Today’s demonstration is launched afternoon and runs until evening.
Every Friday for the past year, Palestinians in Gaza have protested along the fence separating the besieged strip from Israel.
They are demanding the right to return to their ancestors' homes, which they were expelled from in 1948 when Zionist militias forcefully removed 750,000 Palestinians from their villages to clear the way for Israel's creation.
The protesters are also demanding an end to the 12-year-long Israeli blockade, which the United Nations says amounts to collective punishment.
The demonstrations started on March 30, 2018, and have continued since, despite the Israeli army's deadly response.
Israeli snipers opened fire at protesters during the demonstrations, killing 266 people and injuring almost 30,000 others in one year, according to Gaza's health ministry.
The Gaza Strip is a small Palestinian territory with a total area of 365 sq kilometres.
It shares its northern and eastern borders with Israel, its southern border with Egypt, and to the west lies the Mediterranean Sea.
It is home to almost two million people, making it one of the most densely populated areas in the world.
About 70 percent of its population are registered refugees.
Israel, which occupied Gaza in 1967, retains control of coastal enclave's airspace, seafront, vehicle and pedestrian access despite ending its military presence and removing illegal settlements in 2005.
In 2007, Hamas, a self-described "Islamic national liberation and resistance movement" took control of Gaza, prompting Israel to impose an air, land and sea blockade on the Gaza Strip, isolating the enclave from the rest of the world.
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