GAZA (Dispatches) – Palestinians resumed on Friday their weekly anti-Zionist protests known as the Great March of Return which had stopped for three weeks, according to the commission in charge of the protests.
In the eastern Gaza Strip, hundreds of protesters gathered in the afternoon in five different spots along the Gaza fence, waving Palestinian flags and chanting anti-Zionist slogans.
Eyewitnesses said several demonstrators cut the barbed wire of the fence, while dozens threw stones at the Zionist troops stationed there.
The Zionist troops fired tear gas canisters and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds and prevent them from reaching the fence, injuring dozens, they added.
The health ministry in Gaza said at least 313 Palestinians have been shot dead and more than 19,000 others injured by Zionist troops’ live ammunition since the weekly protests started in late March last year.
In another development, Zionist police on Friday detained four journalists from the Palestinian Authority’s official television station in al-Quds, drawing protest from Palestinians who say their activities in the holy city are increasingly restricted.
The Palestine TV crew was filming a talk show outside of al-Quds’ walled Old City when Zionist officers detained them and took their equipment, the Authority’s Wafa news service said.
The journalists with the daily "Good Morning Jerusalem (al-Quds)” program were held for four hours at a police station in al-Quds and later released, said Mohammad Barghouti, Palestine TV’s general manager for news.
Zionist regime police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said: "The journalists were detained in connection with illegal activity by (the) Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem.”
The Zionist regime forbids any official activity in al-Quds by the PA.