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According to the Gaza Health Ministry, Israeli forces shot dead three Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy, as thousands of people demonstrated along the fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel.
The ministry stated that the boy had been struck in the chest, that a 24-year-old man had been shot in the back and that another 28-year-old man had succumbed to his injuries in the hospital, Friday.
He added that 126 protesters had been wounded by live fire.
Responding to calls from Hamas, the Islamic militant group ruling Gaza, thousands of Palestinians have surrounded five areas along the fence, burning tires, throwing stones and chanting slogans against the stifling Israeli-Egyptian blockade on the territory. .
The Israeli army said that about 20,000 protesters participated. They threw explosive devices and grenades at the troops who used tear gas and live fire, he added.
