'The political game failed'

Mohammed Asad, Middle East Eye's correspondent in the Gaza Strip, interviewed some of the protesters on Friday who demonstrated for the 38th consecutive week as part of the March of Return, and denounced the ongoing Israeli military raids in the West Bank.

Here is what Mohammed al-Bardini, 19, from Gaza City, had to say:

"I carry the picture of Ashraf Naalwa. He is a Palestinian symbol and hero, he shook the occupation and he is an honour for all Palestinians."

Naalwa, a Palestinian who was named by the Israeli army as a suspect in the murder of two Israelis at the recycling centre where he worked in the Barkan industrial zone of the West Bank, was killed after a two-month manhunt early on Thursday. 

"The political game failed and Trump's deal of the century will fail with the March of Return. We will break the [Israeli] siege soon because we have legitimate rights and free people, nations and governments of the world know these rights."

Atta Hadaid, a 28-year-old from Khan Younis, told MEE:

"We are one people and we ask the Palestinians in the West Bank to go out in mass protests like the ones in Gaza at the military checkpoints, and resist the occupation and the settlements that are expanding."