GAZA, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of angry mourners buried on Saturday seven Palestinians who were shot dead during clashes with Israeli soldiers stationed on the border between Israel and eastern Gaza Strip.
Each of the killed had a separate funeral. Mourners took the bodies from three major hospitals.
Two of the killed were from Nuseirat refugee camp and one from al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip. The three bodies were taken by mourners from al-Aqsa Hospital in the town of Deir el-Ballah in southern Gaza Strip.
Two of the killed were from Gaza city and their bodies were taken from Shiffa Hospital.
Another killed was from Khan Younis and the last was from Rafah. They were taken from Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis.
The largest funeral was of the three men from Nuseirat and Al-Bureij refugee camps.
Thousands of angry mourners gathered together with masked gunmen.
They took the bodies of the three from al-Aqsa Hospital and carried them to their homes in the two refugee camps for a last family farewell.
Wrapped with the Islamic Hamas movement green flags, the coffins of the three men were carried on the mourners' shoulders from their homes to a main mosque while chanting anti-Israel slogans.
Abu Mohamed, neighbor and friend of 27-year-old Mohamed Ismail who was killed in the clashes, told Xinhua with anger that "yesterday he (Mohamed) was the only one who managed to reach the Israeli military post on the border and had a fight face-to-face with the Israeli soldiers."
"The soldiers shot him with 30 bullets," he added.
In Gaza city, during the funeral of Afifi Afifi, an 18-year-old young man who was shot dead in his head in the clashes, was covered with the yellow flag of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party.
46-year-old Mohamed Afifi, uncle of the boy said that "Afifi was killed in a cold blood. He was joining peaceful marches and didn't carry any gun in his hand."
"The Palestinian leaders, the Arab and Islamic states and the whole free world must move immediately to put an end to the crimes of Israel and sue their leaders in the international courts for its crimes against armless children," he added.
The clashes broke out on Friday when thousands of Palestinian protesters demonstrated close to the Israel-Gaza borders.
Ashraf al-Qedra, the health ministry spokesman in Gaza, said in an emailed press statement that "it is clear and significant that the kind of gunshots and bullets the Israeli occupation was using Friday was very dangerous and deadly."
"All the cases we dealt with yesterday, mainly those who were shot by live ammunition, were hard cases for the doctors because the Israeli occupation snipers were using this kind of bullets and targeting sensitive parts of the bodies," he added.
He also said that since the Palestinians staged the Great March of Return demonstration on March 30, a total of 205 Palestinians have been killed and about 22,000 others wounded, at least half of whom were shot by live gunshots.
Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas movement politburo chief, said as he joined one of the funerals in Gaza that "the determination and spirit of our people to carry on with the marches of return have defeated the crimes of the Israeli occupation."
"It is the right of our people to resist the occupiers and lift the unfair siege to live in dignity," Haniyeh said in front of reporters, adding that "we are exerting every possible effort in order to break this siege that is imposed on Gaza for 12 years."
