Israeli soldiers killed at least seven Palestinians and injured 252 more, Palestinian ministry of health spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidra said, in one of the two deadliest Friday protests since the Great March of Return peaked with Israel’s killings of over 60 on May 14.
Two weeks ago, Israeli troops similarly killed gunned down seven Palestinians, while injuring 506, al-Qidra reported at the time, in a noted escalation of the March.
Today’s deaths included Ahmed Ahmed Abullah Abu Na’im, a 17-year-old boy from al-Nuseirat refugee camp, killed with a live bullet to his chest in eastern al-Buraij refugee camp.
Mosheer Amer, an administrator at the Islamic University of Gaza, said that many expected today’s deaths to rise to eleven due to severe injuries sustained by others.
After the demonstration, Israeli mlitary affairs minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered a halt in the deliver of fuel to the Gaza Strip in response to what he called “terror and violence.”
Here are the day’s events as they unfolded on Twitter.
#Palestine 🇵🇸| A few hours later…We are going to protest peacefully in the 29th Friday in a row for the #GreatReturnMarch [stability and steadiness Friday], & We’ll keep protesting until getting our legitimate rights#GreatReturnMarch #StopArmingIsrael #ApartheidIsrael pic.twitter.com/hFTpqqLwOu
— Ahmad Matar 🇵🇸✌ (@AhmadMatar21) October 12, 2018
#Palestinians are going to protest the 29th Friday of #GreatReturnMarch near the separation fence with ‘#Israel‘ and the besiged Gaza Strip.#Gaza is the largest open air prison#FreePalestine pic.twitter.com/AxwuvfFYfR
— Nour Abuelreesh🇵🇸 (@toghtogh1) October 12, 2018
➡️ 90% of Gaza residents have no access to safe sources of drinking water.
➡️ Unemployment doubled in Gaza since start of Israel siege.🔴 Gazans has been suffered the suffocating siege for 12 years.
That’s why the #GreatReturnMarch! pic.twitter.com/8vKSeRGXaj
— Bahaa.Shammala 🇵🇸 Gaza ✌ (@palbahaa) October 12, 2018
Continuing Peaceful demonstration
Palestinians are going to protest the 29th Friday of #GreatReturnMarch near the separation fence between ‘Israel’ and Gaza .
FreePalestine ✌ pic.twitter.com/zyXAaUEdGx— m.z.s (@jeje2018c) October 12, 2018
Thousands of #Palestinians gathering at the separation fence in the east of the #GazaStrip on the 29th Friday of the #GreatReturnMarch calling for their right to live peacefully in their homeland #Palestine 🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/QQaPmuZuDK
— 🇵🇸Mohammed Baroud🇵🇸 (@MohammedBaroud9) October 12, 2018
Now, teens and children injured by Zionist occupation bullets and toxic tear gas, Gaza, occupied Palestine, 12 October 2018.#GreatReturnMarch
— Younes Arar (@ArarYounes) October 12, 2018
Palestinians head to the eastern border of the Gaza Strip to take part in the #GreatReturnMarch protests, today. pic.twitter.com/pbZ25ej25V
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 12, 2018
Hundreds of tires were collected by the #Palestinians to be used in the #GreatReturnMarch which helps prevent the #israeli Occupation forces from seeing the protesters.#StopArmingIsrael #BDS pic.twitter.com/GxGQg4QwX8
— 🇵🇸Mohammed Baroud🇵🇸 (@MohammedBaroud9) October 12, 2018
Palestinians collect damaged tires to burn them during the #GreatReturnMarch protests at Gaza border to impair the vision of IOF soldiers.
12 Oct 2018 pic.twitter.com/GQ7AN6cd7k
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 12, 2018
#PHOTO | youth manage to pull parts of the fence, east of Bureij, incentral #Gaza strip, during the #GreatReturnMarch https://t.co/XUFhBND7rY
— Tali (@TaliShapiro) October 12, 2018
During today’s protests of #GreatReturnMarch.#Gaza #Palestine pic.twitter.com/IXpC9V0lP4
— Ahmed Shameya (@AhmedShameya) October 12, 2018
#Breaking
Israeli regime snipers murder two Palestinians taking part in the nonviolent #GreatMarchOfReturn east of Bureij, central Gaza. #GreatReturnMarch #StopArmingIsrael— AbdelKarim Alkahlout #Gaza (@KareemN96) October 12, 2018
The young man, who was executed in cold blood, was caught in the fence area east of Bureij, was shot by the soldiers with seven rounds to his upper body, from zero range, leaving him on the ground for some time, until protestors broke the wire and recovered him.#GreatReturnMarch https://t.co/Kjfvv7ig01
— Tali (@TaliShapiro) October 12, 2018
Five Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli snipers during today’s protests of #GreatReturnMarch so far!
— Ahmed Shameya (@AhmedShameya) October 12, 2018
Live Now from #Gaza protest camp Al Bureij – https://t.co/CP5S1CqbOz #GreatReturnMarch
— Denny Cormier (@santafeez) October 12, 2018
Watch | Thousands of Palestinians protest at Gaza border as part of the #GreatReturnMarch, today. pic.twitter.com/YPEzGT9xWN
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 12, 2018
#Breaking
Israeli forces go mad.
At least five demonstrators were murdered east of Gaza. #GreatReturnMarch #IsraeliCrimes #ICC4Israel— AbdelKarim Alkahlout #Gaza (@KareemN96) October 12, 2018
The young man executed by the occupying forces, east of Bureij, central #Gaza strip, was told by the sniper to raise his hands, then shot him with more than 30 bullets.#GreatReturnMarch https://t.co/TMXqm9tr9x
— Tali (@TaliShapiro) October 12, 2018
Watch | Palestinian protesters destroy part of the Gaza-Occupied Palestine separation fence during the #GreatReturnMarch protests, today. pic.twitter.com/s3PetR3KxU
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 12, 2018
As the 29th Friday of the #GreatReturnMarch rages, reports of killings jumped from 2, to 3, to 5 in mere minutes. (The names we have so far: Ahmed al-Taweel, 27, and Mohamed Ismail, 29.) The # of injured stands at ~60, 10 children & 3 serious. #WeResist
— We Are Not Numbers #Gaza (@WeAreNotNumbers) October 12, 2018
🚨 Palestinian Ministry of Health – #Gaza#GreatReturnMarch Casualties Update (Date:Fri 12\10\2018 Time: 6pm) Martyr : 5
Injured: 60
Serious: 3
Children: 10 pic.twitter.com/Tr3Czr9s7t— Shehab News (@ShehabAgencyEn) October 12, 2018
Israel army is shedding blood of unarmed protesters on gaza border now
at least 5 Palestinian were killed and more than 60 others were wounded by Israeli snipers
The death toll is expected to rise significantly.#GreatReturnMarch— Mohammed Alhirthany (@Gaza_moh97) October 12, 2018
Photographs from Gaza at the protest camps – courtesy of @wafa_Gaza – October 12, 2018 #Gaza #GreatReturnMarch pic.twitter.com/krZwDxMkrN
— Denny Cormier (@santafeez) October 12, 2018
Breaking- Ministry of Health: Death toll rises to 6 Palestinian protesters and 112 others wounded by Israeli forces during #GreatReturnMarch in Gaza.
— Hasan Farhat (@hasan_farhat1) October 12, 2018
Six Palestinians got shot dead so far by the Israeli Occupation Fire and 60 others got injured, as they are marching on their own land peacefully #GreatReturnMarch.#IsraeliCrimes #ICC4Israel pic.twitter.com/gtLg1ndxDt
— Bahaa.Shammala 🇵🇸 Gaza ✌ (@palbahaa) October 12, 2018
At least 6 Palestinians killed by Israeli sniper fire in #Gaza so far this Friday, more than 100 injured. #GreatReturnMarch
— J. Shawa جاسم الشوا (@shawajason) October 12, 2018
So far, 6 Palestinian nonviolent protesters were killed by Zionist occupation snipers and 60 others were injured, Gaza, occupied Palestine, 12 October 2018.#GreatReturnMarch
— Younes Arar (@ArarYounes) October 12, 2018
So far, 6 Palestinian nonviolent protesters were killed by Zionist occupation snipers and 60 others were injured, Gaza, occupied Palestine, 12 October 2018.#GreatReturnMarch pic.twitter.com/hVjm7Y3CCv
— Ahmed Hijazi #Gaza (@ahmedhijazi96) October 12, 2018
War crimes , crimes against humanity and massacres, it’s been a bloody day in #Gaza.
6 Palestinians were killed one of them was executed from a zero distance by the Israeli snipers.
Too many serious injuries.
Photo by | Walid Mahmoud #Gaza #GreatMarchOfRetrun #GreatReturnMarch pic.twitter.com/OvxgLpZIYX— Walid Mahmoud Rouk (@WalidMahmodRouk) October 12, 2018
Watch: My interview today 12th of Oct, 2018 to the media about the 29th Friday of the #GreatReturnMarch. pic.twitter.com/bYcXqWFxZY
— Dr. Walid Amer (@DrWalidAmer1) October 12, 2018
Israeli occupation executed a Palestinian demonstrator in the east of Al-Buraij Refugee Camp during the 29th Friday of #GreatReturnMarch pic.twitter.com/953LWsoRRs
— Mohammed Kareem (@vic2pal) October 12, 2018
#BREAKING: The death toll reached 6 in the east of the #GazaStrip during the #GreatReturnMarch.
This big number due to the #israeli criminal minds when they opened fire against the #Palestinian peaceful protesters.#StopArmingIsrael pic.twitter.com/Iv4AoMv3uW— 🇵🇸Mohammed Baroud🇵🇸 (@MohammedBaroud9) October 12, 2018
It’s the 29th Friday of the #GreatReturnMarch and 6 #Palestinians got shot dead so far by the #Israeli occupation forces while marching near the eastern borders of #Gaza. pic.twitter.com/EGF59RH71e
— Women For Palestine (@WomenForPal) October 12, 2018
Ashraf al-Qedra, spokesman MOH in Gaza told reporters that 6 Palestinians killed (4 killed east of al-Bureij, 1 killed east of Rafah & 1 killed east of Gaza City) & more than 60 injured, 50 of them shot by live gunshots, including 10 children Friday afternoon. #GreatReturnMarch
— Denny Cormier (@santafeez) October 12, 2018
Photo of the Palestinian martyr Ahmed Abdullah Abu Naim 17 years old, who was shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces east of the Gaza Strip today .#GreatReturnMarch pic.twitter.com/smBzWNFUHO
— Days of Palestine (@DaysofPalestine) October 12, 2018
■UPDATES|| 2 Palestinians got killed by Israeli fire,bringing death toll to 7 in the 29th consecutive Friday of protests #GreatReturnMarch
— Wafa A Al-Udaini (@wafa_Gaza) October 12, 2018
Photos of the #GreatReturnMarch east of #Gaza today. pic.twitter.com/UNWvn6ZtYw
— Days of Palestine (@DaysofPalestine) October 12, 2018
Occupation army murders 6 unarmed protesters, and toll is expected to rise to 11 protesters. Over 150 wounded #GreatReturnMarch. The army's lethal force against unarmed protesters is abhorent and must stop. The Palestinians are determined to break the siege and gain their freedom pic.twitter.com/QKiglazvDp
— Dr. Mosheer Amer (@MosheerAmer) October 12, 2018
Palestinians pull apart parts of the separation fence on Gaza-Occupied Palestine border during today's #GreatReturnMarch protests. pic.twitter.com/uPNDBSYWyW
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 12, 2018
#Breaking: Israel halts fuel supplies to Gaza!#GreatReturnMarch #SaveGaza pic.twitter.com/ACAUxpr2Q7
— Palestine Live En (@pallive_en) October 12, 2018
Palestine: Tens of thousands of Palestinians in besieged Gaza Strip march against Israeli occupation, brutality and siege for the 29th consecutive Friday. #FridayFeeling #GreatReturnMarch pic.twitter.com/Mug5Q77scb
— Palestine Info Center (@palinfoen) October 12, 2018