Thousands of Palestinians have protested along Gaza’s sealed border with Israel, engulfing the volatile area in black smoke from burning tyres.
The protest is known as the Great March of Return and aims to draw attention to the forced expulsion and fleeing of Palestinians from their land when the state of Israel was created in 1948.
Israeli troops opened fire from across the border, killing at least nine Palestinians and wounding 491 others – 33 of them seriously – in the second mass border protest in a week, Gaza health officials said.
A well-known Palestinian journalist was among the dead, and hundreds of others suffered other injuries, including tear gas inhalation, the officials said.
The Israeli military has said it fired only at “instigators” involved in attacks on soldiers or the border fence. It had no immediate comment.
Quakers in Britain said in a statement: “We wish to stand with all nonviolent protesters seeking a peaceful and just end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. As we are not able to be with them there, our presence has to be one of speaking out here.
“We call on the Israeli military to end their violent use of live gunfire on unarmed protesters, in clear violation of international law. We mourn the ongoing 50-year military occupation of Palestinian land by the Israeli…
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