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Palestinians carry a wounded man, during clashes with Israeli soldiers on the Israeli border Eastern Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. AP

Israeli forces clash with Palestinians [demonstrators] near Beit El, West Bank, October 9, 2015.AFP

Palestinians during clashes with Israeli forces near the Gaza border, October 9, 2015.Reuters

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A Palestinian protester hurls stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes on the Israel-Gaza border, October 9, 2015.AP
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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Six Palestinians were killed and 60 others injured as Israeli military forces opened fire at a demonstration by the border fence east of Gaza City and near Khan Younis on Friday, medics said.

The Gaza Ministry of Health said Shadi Hussam Dawla, 20, Ahmad al-Harbawi, 20, and Abed al-Wahidi, 20, were shot and killed east of the al-Shujaiyeh neighborhood.

Muhammad al-Raqeb, 15, and Ziad Nabil Sharaf, 20, were killed after being shot by Israeli forces near Khan Younis while Adnan Moussa Abu Elayyan, 22, was shot in the head and killed in the same area.

At least 60 other Palestinians were injured, 10 of whom are currently in in serious condition, spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza Ashraf al-Qidra said.

An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma'an that 200 Palestinians approached the security fence and hurled rocks and rolled burning tires at Israeli forces.

Israeli forces responded with live fire towards the "main instigators," she said, confirming five direct hits.

The deaths in Gaza come amid renewed violence in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem on Friday.

In the Israeli city of Dimona, an Israeli teenager stabbed four Palestinian Bedouins who worked for the local municipality, seriously injuring two.

A Palestinian was shot and killed in the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba after attempting to stab an Israeli border officer, police said, while a Palestinian woman was also shot in Afula See Video after allegedly attempting to stab an Israeli security guard.

Video footage of the incident shows heavily armed Israeli forces open fire multiple times at her, despite her posing no threat to them.

Tensions had been mounting steadily for weeks across the occupied Palestinian territory due to Israeli restrictions on Palestinians seeking to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem.
At least 900 Palestinians have been injured in seven consecutive days of demonstrations and clashes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, at least 60 with live fire, medics say.
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Hundreds of Palestinians marched toward the security fence around Kibbutz Nahal Oz in solidarity with West Bank residents; Palestinian man killed in Hebron clashes.

Jack Khoury and Amos Harel for Haaretz

At least six Gaza residents were killed and 60 others were wounded on Friday by Israeli soldiers positioned at the security fence next to Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the border with the Strip.

A Palestinian man was also said to be killed in clashes with Israeli forces in Hebron. Confrontations in the West Bank, which also broke out in Bethlehem and near Beit El, were reportedly "the most severe clashes since latest round of violence began."

Hundreds of Palestinians marched toward the security fence in solidarity with West Bank residents. The Israel Defense Forces used riot-controlling means to try to disperse them. The Gaza border has been quiet in recent days, but the IDF has prepared for developments in the wake of clashes in East Jerusalem and the wave of terror attacks across Israel this week.

A Palestinian health ministry spokesman said that most of the wounds were serious, as a result of gunfire to the upper body. “The Israeli army uses snipers, and most of the wounds are in the head and throat,” Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra said.

Palestinians report that one of the demonstrators shot to death was a 20-year-old resident of the Nusirat refugee camp, and another was a 15-year-old from Gaza City.

Two processions set out from Gaza after Friday prayers, one in the direction of Nahal Oz and the other in the direction of the Erez Crossing, to protest Israeli policy on Temple Mount and to show solidarity with West Bank Palestinians. The media in Gaza reported the incidents under the headline “Palestine waged an intifada.”

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said in a homily he gave in Gaza Friday afternoon that Gaza is ready for confrontation in the battle, which he called “The Battle of Al-Quds,” referring to Jerusalem’s Arabic name. Haniyeh said in the Palestine Mosque in central Gaza that the third intifada had begun, and that it had opened in the cities of the West Bank.

“We tried 20 years of negotiations and attempts at a deal, and the result was losing the way and internal fights,” said Haniyeh. “Therefore, there is a need to deepen the intifada, strengthening it and keeping it burning among our sons and daughters until liberation.”

Palestinians also reported clashes all across the West Bank, including Hebron, Bethlehem and Beit El, describing them as “the harshest clashes since the outbreak of riots.”

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