By Mustafa Habbush

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA): A Palestinian youth breathed his last on Saturday from wounds he sustained from Israeli army fire in the Gaza Strip, according to the Health Ministry.

Mohamed Jihad Gawdat, 20, was injured during anti-occupation protests east of Gaza City on Friday.

“He died of his wounds on Saturday,” the ministry said in a statement.

At least 11 Palestinians were injured alongside the eastern border fence of the Gaza Strip during “Night Confusion” protests

Nearly 270 Palestinian demonstrators have been killed by Israeli army gunfire since Palestinians began holding regular demonstrations along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone in March of last year.

Demonstrators demand the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in historical Palestine from which they were driven in 1948 to make way for the new state of Israel.

They also demand an end to Israel’s 12-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gutted the coastal enclave’s economy and deprived its roughly two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.

[Photo: Israeli forces attack Palestinians with tear gas during the “Great March of Return” peaceful demonstration on the Israel-Gaza border near Malka in Gaza City, Gaza on March 29, 2019. Photographer: Ashraf Amra/AA]