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Israel had deployed troop reinforcements along the border, including more than 100 special forces snipers, saying it would prevent attempts to break through the fence.
In Tel Aviv on Sunday, between 200 and 300 leftwing Israeli opposition demonstrators staged a protest outside the offices of Netanyahu’s rightwing Likud party to denounce the government’s role in the killings.
“The government is doing everything it can to present the Palestinians as the only guilty party whereas it played an important part in the responsibility for what happened,” Hagit Ofran of the Peace Now group which opposes Israeli settlement of Palestinian land told AFP.
Peace Now issued a statement condemning what it called the army’s “trigger happy” policies under orders from the government.
– More protests ahead –
The Gaza protests, which include tents erected at various areas, are designed to last six weeks, ending around the time the United States moves its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in mid-May.
The embassy move has deeply angered the Palestinians, who see Jerusalem’s annexed eastern sector as the capital of their future state.
But while tens of thousands attended Friday’s start of the protests, demonstrations have since dwindled.
Several hundred attended on Saturday, while on Sunday dozens were in the area, with low-level clashes occurring.
“I left the hospital today and I came straight back,” Hamada Zaza, 18 and with a bloodied bandage on his hand covering what he said was a bullet wound, told AFP.
The protests may however again see large crowds after this coming Friday’s main Muslim prayers and for other key dates ahead.
May 14 will mark 70 years since the creation of Israel and is when the United States is expected to open its new Jerusalem embassy.
Palestinians will mark what they call the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” the following day.
The Nakba commemorates the more than 700,000 Palestinians who either fled or were expelled from their homes in the war surrounding Israel’s creation in 1948.
Gaza’s protest is in support of refugees, including those in the Palestinian enclave who want to return to their former homes in what is now Israel.
