Gaza mourns 4 Palestinians martyred by Israeli forces

Four Palestinians were killed Friday by Israeli forces in two separate incidents near the Gaza-Israel buffer zone. The Israeli army announced that one of its soldiers died as a result of the attack.
The first incident took place in the Khan Younis and Rafah areas in the southern Gaza Strip, where Israeli tanks and aircraft targeted sites belonging to Ezzedine al-Qassam, the armed wing of Hamas movement, killing three of its members.
The second incident took place at the return marches, where a young man was killed and 120 others were wounded by Israeli army gunfire and tear gas.
Turkish flag draped over martyr's body
Twenty-seven-year-old Palestinian martyr Muhammed Şerif Bedvan was brought to the Hazreti Ömer Mosque in the central part of Gaza. Bedvan was shrouded in the Turkish flag.
After the funeral prayer, Bedvan's body was buried in the city’s cemetery.
Thirty-one-year-old Muhammed Ebu Ferhane was buried after a prayer ceremony was held in Ömer bin Abdulaziz Mosque in the south of Gaza.
Twenty-six-year-old Şaban Ebu Hatır was buried in the cemetery following a prayer at the Hamza bin Abdulmuttalib Mosque.
The funeral prayer for 23-year-old Mahmud Kışta was held at the Badr Mosque before he was taken to the cemetery.
For almost four months, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been holding almost daily demonstrations near the Gaza-Israel buffer zone.
Since the demonstrations began on March 30, more than 140 Palestinian protesters have been martyred -- and thousands more injured -- by Israeli army gunfire.

Protesters demand the “right of return” to their homes and villages 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 11-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gutted the coastal enclave’s economy and deprived its roughly 2 million inhabitants of many basic commodities.