RAMALLAH/GAZA, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Clashes between angry Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli soldiers broke out on Friday afternoon across the West Bank and in the eastern Gaza Strip close to the border with Israel, medics said.

Israeli soldiers fired rubber bullets and tear gas at the demonstrators who threw stones at the soldiers, burned tires and chanted anti-Israel slogans, they said.

The Gaza health ministry said in a press statement that at least 15 demonstrators were shot by Israeli gunfire in clashes in eastern Gaza.

A paramedic and a photographer were also injured in the clashes, the ministry added.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in the West Bank said in a press statement that at least 12 demonstrators were injured by Israeli gunfire in Nablus, Ramallah and Hebron.

The Islamic Hamas movement and other Palestinian factions in Gaza called on the Palestinians to demonstrate against the Israeli army every Friday.

According to the Gaza health ministry, the Israeli army have killed 240 Palestinians and wounded 25,000 others since March 30, the first of day of the ongoing Palestinian March of Return rally.

Khalil Al-Haya, a senior Hamas official, told demonstrators in eastern Gaza that the Palestinians reject all American and Israeli plans against the Palestinian people.

"We praise and back the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank and operations against the occupation," he said. Enditem

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