A Palestinian teenager was proclaimed dead on Saturday afternoon after he succumbed to a bullet injury he sustained the day before in a protest rally staged on the eastern border of the Gaza Strip.

According to a local medical source 18-year-old Munir Shubair from Deir al-Balah suffered a serious bullet injury in his abdomen after an Israeli sniper shot him during his participation in a March of Return protest held on Friday east of al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

Three Palestinians were also killed yesterday by sniper fire and 40 others including four paramedics and two journalists suffered different injuries when the IOF violently attacked the March of Return rallies that were organized in the eastern border areas of Gaza.

A Palestinian teenager was proclaimed dead on Saturday morning after he succumbed to a bullet injury he sustained the day before in a protest rally organized southeast of the besieged Gaza Strip.

A spokesman for the health ministry said that 18-year-old Mohamed Sharab had suffered a serious bullet injury in the chest after an Israeli sniper shot him during his participation in a March of Return protest held on Friday east of Khan Younis.

A 15-year-old child identified as Othman Halas was killed yesterday by sniper fire and 220 other citizens suffered different injuries when Israeli soldiers attacked their protest rallies east of Gaza.