- Title: Gaza: Funeral held for man killed by Israeli troops during protest
- Date: 28th September 2019
- Summary: RAFAH, GAZA (SEPTEMBER 28, 2019) (REUTERS) PEOPLE SURROUNDING BODY OF KILLED PALESTINIAN MAN, SAHER OTHMAN, WRAPPED IN CLOTH AHEAD OF FUNERAL PROCESSION MAN KISSING BODY, WOMEN INCLUDING MOTHER OF DECEASED KNEELING BESIDE BODY MOTHER OF DECEASED CRYING PEOPLE STANDING NEAR BODY VARIOUS OF BROTHER OF DECEASED CRYING VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS CARRYING BODY DURING FUNERAL PROCESSION VARIOUS OF FUNERAL PROCESSION
- Embargoed: 12th October 2019 12:25
- Keywords: Gaza Palestine Israel funeral
- Location: RAFAH, GAZA
- City: RAFAH, GAZA
- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVA001AYKM0JR
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: QUALITY AS INCOMING
A funeral was held on Saturday (September 28) for a Palestinian man killed by Israeli forces during protests along the fortified Gaza-Israel border.
The Palestinian health ministry named the dead as Saher Othman, 20, and said 52 others were wounded during the often violent demonstrations, 27 of them by live fire, on Friday (September 27).
Protesters have staged 18 months of weekly demonstrations dubbed the "Great March of Return", calling for an end to a security blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt, and for Palestinians to have the right to return to land from which their families fled or were forced to flee during Israel's 1948 founding.
Israel rejects any such return, saying that would eliminate its Jewish majority.
Egypt, Qatar and United Nations officials have been working to keep the border calm in recent months.
Around 210 Palestinians have been killed since the protests began in March 2018, Gaza medical officials say.
In that period, an Israeli soldier was shot dead by a Palestinian sniper along the frontier, and another was killed during an Israeli undercover raid into Gaza.
Israel seized Gaza in a 1967 war and pulled out its settlers and troops in 2005. It says the security blockade is necessary to stop weapons reaching Hamas, the Islamist group that has fought three wars with Israel and fired thousands of rockets at it in the past decade.
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