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Israeli fire wounds six at Gaza border protest
0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008
SUFA, Gaza Strip (AFP) — Six Palestinians were wounded on Friday when Israeli troops opened fire on demonstrators in the Gaza Strip as they neared the border fence, medics in the besieged territory said.
Thousands of people joined the demonstration called by Hamas to demand that Israel lift its crippling blockade of the impoverished enclave.
The protesters marched from the cities of Rafah and Khan Yunes in southern Gaza towards the Sufa border crossing, waving banners calling for the end of the "Holocaust" they say Israel is committing in Gaza.
They also chanted praise for Hamas, the Islamist movement that seized control of the densely populated sliver of land last June.
Gaza emergency services said six people were wounded when Israeli forces fired...
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