The spokesperson of Hamas Movement Fawzi Barhoum stated the following:

The Israeli occupation forces’ use of artillery shells and live ammunition to disperse the Palestinian peaceful and popular demonstrations at the Great Return March, which led to killing and wounding Palestinian civilians, reflects the Israeli gross criminal actions against innocent civilians beleaguered in the Gaza Strip. The occupation was encouraged to perpetrate these crimes by the silence of the international community and the negligence of the Palestinian Authority’s President Mahmoud Abbas to the Great Return March and the Israeli violations against Gaza and also by his threats to the Gazans.

All these oppressive and criminal acts will increase the Palestinians’ determination to continue and develop their mass demonstrations until the blockade is removed.