A 40-year-old Palestinian hit by Israeli fire during protests on the Gaza border died of his wounds on Saturday, taking the previous day’s death toll to three, the territory’s Health Ministry said.
He was among at least 131 Palestinians wounded by Israeli bullets during Friday’s protests, even as an informal truce agreed after a deadly flare-up between Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas and the Israeli Army largely held.
The Ministry identified the dead man as Ahmed Abu Lulu, and said he was shot in a section of the border east of the southern city of Rafah, where two other Palestinians were also killed.
The Ministry identified them as Ali al-Alul, 55, and twenty one-year-old volunteer medic Abdullah al-Qatati. A few thousand protesters had gathered in different locations along the border, setting tyres ablaze and throwing stones, but there were fewer people demonstrating than in previous weeks, AFP correspondents said. At least 168 Palestinians have been killed since the border protests began on March 30.