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GAZA, May 3-- Four Palestinians were killed and 51 injured during clashes on Friday with the Israeli army forces in eastern Gaza Strip close to the border with Israel, medics and security sources said. Ashraf al-Qedra, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman, told reporters that two demonstrators were shot dead and 51 injured by Israeli soldiers' gunfire during the weekly anti-Israel protests in eastern Gaza Strip, close to the border with Israel. Al-Qedra added that another two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli warplanes airstrike on central Gaza Strip, east of al-Mughazi refugee camp, close to the border with Israel. Friday's clashes broke out in the afternoon as part of the weekly rallies and protests, better known as the Great March of Return and Breaking the Israeli Siege, that have been going on since it broke out on March 30 last year. The Highest Commission of the Great March of Return and Breaking the Israeli Siege had called on the populations to join the weekly protests against the U.S. decision of giving Israel sovereignty on the Syrian Golan Heights. Gaza Health Ministry said that since the outbreak of the weekly protests last year, the Israeli army killed 275 demonstrators and wounded 17,000 others, who were officially referred to the hospitals in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli Radio reported that thousands of Palestinians gathered close to the fence of the border between eastern Gaza Strip and Israel, waved Palestinian flags, released arson balloons, climbed on the fence of the border and threw stones and homemade grenades on the soldiers. | 
