From inspiration to despair: A year of Gaza’s Great March of Return
NOVANEWS
Yara Hawari
30 March 2019 22:53 UTC | Last update: 18 hours 45 min ago
As Palestinians dream of returning home, Gaza has become synonymous with war, death and suffering.
Demonstrators tear barbed wire along the Gaza fence (M Hajjar/MEE)
Last month, a 14-year-old Palestinian from Gaza, Hasan Shalabi, was fatally shot in the chest by an Israeli sniper. He had been looking for work and food for his family when he became one of dozens of children killed by the Israeli army during the Great March of Return protests.
Protests at the Israeli fence enclosing the territory began on 30 March 2018 to commemorate Land Day, which marks an incident in 1976 when Israeli police shot and killed six Palestinian citizens of Israel who were protesting the expropriation of thousands of dun...