A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to hurl stones at Israeli troops near the border with Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Oct. 1, 2018. Dozens of Palestinians were injured on Monday during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and the northern Gaza Strip, close to the border with Israel, medics said. (Xinhua/Stringer)
GAZA, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- Dozens of Palestinians were injured on Monday during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and the northern Gaza Strip, close to the border with Israel, medics said.
The clashes coincided with the Israeli-Arab community's protest against the Israeli nation-state law, which was approved by the Israeli parliament on July 19.
Ashraf al-Qedra, spokesman of the Health Ministry in Gaza, told reporters that 51 Palestinian protesters were injured, including 10 shot by Israeli gunfire in northern Gaza.
Dozens of Palestinians headed to the beach of the northern Gaza Strip close to the border with Israel to join the weekly rally on Monday in which a flotilla of 20 fishing boats sail off the northern coast of the coastal enclave.
The commission of the Great March of Return, which was founded on March 30 and organized these activities every Monday, said in a press statement that it is the 10th consecutive Monday protest.
According to Al-Qedra, the Israeli army has shot dead 193 Palestinians and wounded more than 21,000 others since the beginning of the March of Return rally in the Gaza Strip on March 30.
Also on Monday, clashes broke out in several West Bank towns in protest of the Israeli Jewish-only law and in solidarity with the Bedouin village of Al-Khan Al-Ahmar east of Jerusalem, which Israel is intending to demolish.
Meanwhile, a general strike for the same purpose dominated all the Palestinian territories and in East Jerusalem, where schools, universities, banks and markets close down for one day.
