Palestinian medics evacuating wounded protester near the border between Gaza and the occupied territories (Wednesday, October 3, 2018).
The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for the protection of Palestinian paramedics and medical facilities in the Gaza Strip during mass protests along the fence separating the besieged coastal enclave and the Israeli-occupied territories.
WHO said on Saturday that it had recorded an unprecedented 446 attacks on health workers in the Gaza Strip ever since the Great March of Return protests started in last year, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.
Palestinians have held weekly rallies along the Gaza border to protest the siege on the enclave and demand the right for refugees to return to their homes they fled during the 1948 creation of the occupation entity.
More than 270 Palestinians have been martyred by occupation forces ever since the rallies began in the Gaza Strip on March 30, 2018. Over 16,000 Palestinians have also sustained injuries.