Gazans bury protester martyred by Israeli fire

By Nour Abu Aisha

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Scores of Palestinians paid farewell on Wednesday to a protester martyred by Israeli army fire in anti-occupation protests in the Gaza Strip last week.

Ghazi al-Nabahin, 47, was injured by an Israeli teargas canister in the eastern Al-Burej camp on Friday. He succumbed to his wounds four days later.

More than 250 Palestinians have been martyred by Israeli army gunfire -- and thousands more injured -- since Palestinians in the Gaza Strip began staging weekly protests along the buffer zone in March of last year.

Demonstrators demand the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and villages in historical Palestine from which they were driven in 1948 to make way for the new state of Israel.

They also demand an end to Israel’s 12-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gutted the coastal enclave’s economy and deprived its roughly two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.