15 dead over a thousand injured after Palestinians clash with IDF on Gaza border
As thousands of Palestinians demonstrated in "The Great March of Return" on the 42nd anniversary of Land Day, Israeli soldiers used live ammunition and tear gas to prevent them from getting near the border fence.
The 1.3 million refugees, known as Muhajereen in Palestine, comprise a large portion of Gaza's overall 1.9 million population.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has showered praises on the Israeli troops, a day after they were accused of killing at least 16 Palestinian protesters at the border with Gaza.
Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital received 284 injured people last Friday, the majority with bullet injuries, said a spokesman.
The United States blocked a Kuwait-drafted U.N. Security Council statement on Saturday, diplomats said, that would have called for an independent investigation and urged restraint by all sides.
Israel says thousands of Palestinians approached the border, with hundreds engaged in acts of violence ranging from rock-throwing to hurling firebombs to opening fire at Israeli troops guarding the border.
Among those recovering from surgery was 16-year-old Marwan Yassin who had thrown stones with a slingshot at the fence Friday and was shot in both legs.
Friday's demonstrations commemorated Land Day, which took place on March 30, 1976, when six unarmed Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed by Israeli forces during protests against the Israeli government's decision to expropriate massive tracts of Palestinian-owned land.
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Carl Skau, Swedish Alternate Representative to the Security Council, said Friday that the use of force must be proportionate. They all expressed alarm at the flare-up of conflict in a volatile region.
The armed wing of Hamas, the Islamist movement that runs the Gaza Strip, said that five of those killed were members who were participating "in popular events side-by-side with their people". No casualties were reported among Israelis.
To translate, Hamas was reiterating that it does not see a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza as the conclusion to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Israeli army said in a statement that some videos "depict parts of incidents while others are edited or completely fabricated" and that the army fired "only when necessary and avoiding civilians".
Rights groups including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have criticised Israel's use of live fire.
Israel's envoy to the United Nations told the UNSC in an official complaint that the emergency meeting concerning the Gaza border clashes was "a direct affront to the fundamental principles of honest deliberation" because it was held on the first night of Passover.
"The Friday protests kicked off an expected six weeks of demonstrations, set to climax on May 15, when Israel will mark 70 years of independence - a day Palestinians mark as the "nakba" ("catastrophe" in Arabic") - and the United States will cut the ribbon on its controversial new embassy in Jerusalem.
More than 700,000 Palestinians either fled their homes or were expelled during the 1948 war, with most Gaza residents being descendants of the refugees.
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