HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

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So far at least 170 Palestinians have been murdered by Israeli forces since the weekly protests began on March 30. The campaign is pressing for rights to land that Palestinians lost to Israel in the 1948 war of its foundation, and for an end to the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza.

Palestine’s Hamas spokesman Abd al-Latif al-Qanuaa said, “The Great March of Return has confounded the calculations of the occupation and forced it to take its [the march’s] demands into consideration.

“[The protests] will continue until we achieve all of our goals. Our people’s sacrifices will not be in vain, and will translate into national achievements,”  Abd al-Latif al-Qanuaa.

Anger in Gaza has also been stoked by funding cuts by the Western-backed administration of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, which dominates the West Bank and is the rival of Hamas, which runs Gaza.

Their efforts at agreeing on a power-sharing unity deal with Egyptian mediation have not borne fruit.

During skirmishes earlier this week between the Gaza Strip and the Israeli border, a Palestinian sniper gunned down an enemy soldier. The Israeli army returned the single attack by sending a troop of 180 rockets and mortars in varied airstrikes.