Four Palestinians have been reportedly killed, and more than 100 injured, according to health officials in Gaza. This happend as thousands of Palestinians gathered for a fourth border protest on the Gaza-Israel border. Officials say at least 35 Palestinians have been killed since the border rallies began. Despite Israel's use of force, Gaza residents flocked toward the Israeli border on Friday, demanding right of return to their ancestral homes. Noor Harazeen reports from Gaza. 

For the fourth consecutive week, Palestinians gathered on Friday for March of Return on the Gaza-Israel border. Palestinians are demanding the right to return to their ancestors' villages and towns in what is now Israel.

Ahead of the weekly protests, the Waed association for prisoners and ex-prisoners organized a sit-in protest near the Israeli border in eastern Gaza city in commemoration of the Palestinian Prisoner's day which is celebrated annually on April 17th.

ABDULLAH QANDEEL, DIRECTOR WAED'S PRISONERS AND EX-PRISONERS ASSOCIATION "We are close to freedom now. Israel's trickery will not last because the cards of power are in the hands of the Palestinian resistance. Friday's massive gathering is a message to the whole world that there are about 7,000 Palestinian prisoners suffering injustice and oppression in Israeli jails, and that the Palestinian resistance has the right to ensure their release in the way it sees as appropriate."

Officials say at least 35 Palestinians have been killed since the six -week planned protests began on March 30th. Their aim was to show themselves as ordinary human beings who deserve to live, and who will not give up on their legal rights, regardless of the ongoing Palestinian division between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas.

SHIREEN ABU AKLA PROTESTER "I will come here every Friday. The Israelis are scared of us but we are not scary. We only have stones. They open fire on us, while we are protesting here peacefully. We came today for the sake of our prisoners and martyrs."

Wednesday, organizers announced that they have advanced the tents that had been erected in five protest locations across the Gaza Strip 100 meters from the Israeli border.

Despite Israel's use of excessive force, Gaza residents are determined to continue border demonstrations which they regard as a leading form of popular resistance to end the Israeli occupation until May 15th. The date marks Nakba (Catastrophe) day, when dozens of thousands of Palestinians forcibly left their homes before the creation of the Israeli state in 1948. Noor Harazeen CGTN Gaza.