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Will popular pressure in Gaza lead to new clashes with Israel?

Palestinian youth are carrying out non-military activities, backed by military factions in Gaza, to pressure Israel to lift the siege, among other demands.
Palestinians gather on Aug. 30, 2021 during a protest along the border fence with Israel, east of Gaza City in the central Gaza Strip, demanding an end to Israel's blockade and the right of Palestinians to return to lands they fled or were expelled from when the Jewish state was founded.

On Aug. 31, hundreds of Palestinians gathered east of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip near the Israeli border for the fourth night in a row, as part of the night confusion protests.

At 8 p.m., a few meters from the surrounding residential houses and agricultural land, the border area turned into a battlefield. Groups of young men and women who had gathered in different places across Gaza reached the border in tuk-tuks and buses.

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