Five Palestinians were injured by Zionist gunfire near the border between the Gaza Strip and Occupied Territories on Friday.

Five Palestinians were injured by Zionist gunfire near the border between the Gaza Strip and Occupied Territories on Friday, the Gaza Health Ministry has said.

Hundreds of Palestinian activists staged a Friday demonstration east of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip to demand the lifting of a 300-meter-deep Zionist entity-imposed buffer zone along the border, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qadra told Anadolu Turkish news agency.

Zionist troops fired live ammunition and teargas at protesters, leaving five suffering moderate to critical gunshot injuries, he added.

In late 2012, an Egypt-brokered ceasefire between the occupation authorities and Palestinian resistance faction Hamas, the latter of which governs the strip, ended eight days of cross-border fighting.

Although the ceasefire deal calls for Zionist forces to withdraw from the buffer zone to allow Palestinian farmers to cultivate their land, shootings in the area by enemy troops have continued.

Palestinian agricultural workers in the north and east of the coastal enclave, meanwhile, face frequent attacks and land incursions by Zionist forces.