Palestinian protesters run after burning tires and rolling them toward Israeli soldiers (Photo by AP)
Palestinians were streaming to tent camps along Gaza’s border with Israel for the third of what are planned to be weekly mass protests until mid-May.
The marches are organised by Gaza’s Islamic militant group Hamas, but turnout is also being driven by desperation among the territory’s two million residents.
Marchers protest against a decade-old blockade and assert what they say is a “right of return” of Palestinian refugees to what is now Israel.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh this week renewed a pledge that the marches would pave the way for a return of Palestinian refugees and their descendants to what is now Israel.
