Palestinians carry a demonstrator wounded by Israeli occupation forces during a protest on the Gaza-Israel border, east of the Jabalia refugee camps, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Friday (AFP photo)

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — The Gaza Strip, run by Islamist resistance movement Hamas, is a poverty-stricken and overcrowded Palestinian coastal enclave. Hundreds of Palestinians were gathering at different places along the Gaza border as part of six weeks of protests calling for Palestinian refugees to be allowed to return to the lands they fled or were expelled from that are now inside Israeli occupation.
Israeli troops shoot dead ten Palestinians near the Israel–Gaza barrier, including a Palestinian journalist, as protests continue.