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Thousands attend the funerals for seven Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers

SEVEN Palestinians, including two children, shot dead by Israeli soldiers on Friday during Gaza border protests were laid to rest at the weekend in their home towns across the besieged coastal strip.

Thousands of people attended the funerals of Mohammad Nayef al-Houm, 14, Iyad Khalil Shaer, 20, Mohammad Walid Haniya, 24, Mohammad Bassam Shakhsa, 24, Nasser Musabbeh, 12, Mohammad Ali Inshasi, 18, and Mohammad Ashraf Awawdeh, 26.

Four were buried in Gaza City, two in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza and one, the 12-year-old boy, in Khan Younis in the south.

Over 508 participants in Friday’s protests suffered some form of injury, 90 of them from live bullets. One was reportedly in a very critical condition and three more were said to be in a critical condition.

Among the injured, 35 were children, four women, four paramedics – one of them hit by a live round – and two journalists.

In a separate development, the Palestinian Authority filed a complaint against the United States with the top United Nations court at the weekend over Washington’s decision to relocate the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Palestine contends that the embassy's relocation breaches the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, said the International Court of Justice.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki described the complaint as “in line with the policy of the state of Palestine, which aims to preserve the character of the holy city of Jerusalem with its unique spiritual, religious and cultural dimensions.

“We defend our rights and our people without hesitation and reject all forms of political and financial extortion.”

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