An injured Palestinian receives medical treatment at a hospital in the Gaza Strip town of Khan-Yunis on March 30, 2010. At least six Palestinians have been injured Tuesday when Israeli forces fired at three demonstrations along security fence between Gaza and Israel, witnesses said. [Xinhua]

At least six Palestinians have been injured on Tuesday when Israeli forces fired at three demonstrations along the security fence between Gaza and Israel, witnesses said.

Hundreds of demonstrators headed to eastern Gaza city, east of Khan Younis city in the south and the eastern part of central Gaza Strip respectively, to approach the fence in unprecedented rallies that imitate peaceful demonstrations in the West Bank.

The witnesses said that Israeli soldiers stationed in observation towers and in vehicles behind the electric fence fired intensively at the protestors to prevent them from approaching.

The six Palestinians were shot and injured in central Gaza and in Khuza'a area in Khan Younis respectively, including one in serious injury, the witnesses added.

Up to now, there is no official statement from the Israeli military.

A new Gaza committee made up of leftist factions has recently initiated weekly demonstrations near the border to protest Israel' s allocation of a 300-meter-wide no-go zone along Gaza's northern and eastern fence with Israel.

But Tuesday more people are joining the demonstrations since the Palestinians are marking the Land Day to commemorate the deaths of six Palestinians in 1976 when Israeli forces dispersed a peaceful rally to protest the annexation of land to the Jewish state.

The protestors waved Palestinian flags and carried banners against the buffer zone which restricts farmers' access to their land.

Mahmoud Al-Zaeq of the Popular Campaign Against Israeli Security Stripe said that this kind of resistance against Israel " should be developed and more Gaza sectors should join it."

The Gaza Strip is run by Islamic Hamas movement which upholds armed struggle after Israel, though it has been maintaining a shaky ceasefire with Israel since the end of the three-week Gaza war in January 2009.

On Friday, two Israeli soldiers and two Palestinian militants were killed in clashes in the buffer zone to the east of Khan Younis.

(Xinhua News Agency March 31, 2010)