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At least 62 Palestinians were killed Monday and 2,200 were injured by gunfire or tear gas.
A large number of Palestinians in Gaza participated on Monday in a major protest in the border region.
Since March 30, many Palestinians in Gaza have participated in protests in the border region, especially on Fridays, to support the return of Palestinian refugees to their former and ancestral homes in Israel and pressure the Jewish state to lift its restrictions on the movement of people and goods into and out of the coastal enclave.
The IDF described the protests on Monday as “a violent riot,” asserting that participants tried to enter Israel, threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at security personnel and placed a bomb near the border fence.
However, international and local rights groups accused Israel of using “excessive force” against “unarmed protesters.”
At least 62 Palestinians were killed on Monday, according to Ashraf al-Qidra, a spokesman for the Hamas-run Health Ministry.
“The number I am telling you is official. Fifty martyrs from Hamas were martyred in this most recent battle,” he told Baladna, a Gaza-based TV station.
Bardaweil did not specify what role the people who he said were Hamas members had in the organization or whether any of them belonged to its armed wing, the Izzadin Kassam Brigades.
On Tuesday, the IDF said it and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) had identified 24 of the Palestinians killed on Monday as terrorists, mostly belonging to Hamas but also some who were members of Islamic Jihad