Israeli forces shoot Palestinian dead in Gaza

‘Israeli forces have opened fire at Palestinians protesting in the northern part of the besieged Gaza Strip, killing a young man.
“Aeid Jumaa, 35, was killed and six other Palestinians were wounded during clashes along the Gaza border (with Israel) north of Jabalia,” Gaza’s Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said on Friday.
The Palestinian resistance movement Islamic Jihad issued a statement, saying Jumaa was one of its members and was in fact aged 22.
People in the Gaza Strip have been staging protests to denounce the Israeli blockade.
Gaza has been under an Israeli siege since June 2007. The blockade has caused a decline in the standards of living as well as unprecedented unemployment and poverty.’

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