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Bande de Gaza,  Grande  marche de retour le 11 mai 2018. Il y a de forte tensions le long de la frontière de Gaza-Israël après plus d'un mois de protestations massives hebdomadaires près de la clôture qui a laissé 50 manifestants palestiniens tués et plus de 1,700 et blessés par l’armée israélienne. Les dirigeants du Hamas à Gaza l'ont juré, les marches continueront tant que le blocus israélien du territoire ne sera pas levé. On s'attend aux aussi à des manifestations le 14 et 15 mai, les Palestiniens appellent ce jour 'Yawm Nakba ou "le Jour de la Catastrophe", il commémore l'anniversaire de leur déracinement de masse pendant la guerre de 1948 et la création d'Israël. Le 11 mai 2018. Malaka. Gaza. La Palestine.

Gaza 'strip, Great march of return on the 11th of may 2018. A woman with a palestinian flag, is standing up in front of the fence between Gaza'strip and Israel.Tensions are high along the Gaza-Israel border following more than a month of weekly mass protests near the fence that has left 50 Palestinian protesters killed and over 1,700 wounded by Israeli army fire. Gaza's Hamas rulers have vowed that the marches will continue until the decade-old Israeli blockade of the territory is lifted. Protests are expected on May 14 and 15 also, the day Palestinians mark the Yawm an-Nakba or "Day of Catastrophe", to commemorate the anniversary of their mass uprooting during the 1948 war over Israel's creation. May,11th 2018. Malaka. Gaza. Palestine.

Great March of Return

A woman with a Palestinian flag is standing up in front of the fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel, part of the Great March of Return protests. Gaza, Palestine, May 2018.
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Nearly every Friday between 30 March 2018 and December 2019, protestors in the ‘Great March of Return’ demonstrations in Gaza, Palestine were met with hails of bullets from the Israeli army.

In December 2019, our teams in Gaza were treating more than 900 patients with gunshot wounds. Between the first protest in March 2018 and 30 November 2019, we admitted more than 4,830 people to our trauma clinics. More than 7,900 people were shot with live ammunition over this period, according to the Ministry of Health.

The need for specialised treatment due to the severity and complexity of the protestors’ injuries vastly exceeds the capacity of local authorities and the few organisations working in Gaza, including MSF.

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Gaza: What now?

MSF response to the Great March of Return protests

What type of care can those injured in the Great March of Return protests expect in hospitals that have been under a blockade for a decade?

Great March of Return

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