After at least 17 Palestinians were killed and more than 1,400 injured by Israeli fire at the Gaza border on 30 March, Palestinians were observing a national day of mourning on 31 March.

Thousands of people were attending the funerals of those who were killed during a “Land Day” protest symbolically demanding a right for Palestinians to return to former family homes in what is now Israel. The protest, the largest seen in Gaza in years, coincided with Palestinian Land Day, which remembers the confiscation of Palestinian-owned land in Israel in 1976.

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