A Palestinian official says at least 77 Palestinian demonstrators were injured on Friday in clashes with Israeli soldiers at the border between eastern Gaza Strip and Israel.

Ashraf al-Qedra, a spokesperson of the health ministry in Gaza, told reporters that the injured included 31 demonstrators who were shot by Israeli soldiers' live ammunition.

One of the injured was a field paramedic, he added.

Footage showed some of those injured were children.

The clashes erupted on Friday afternoon between hundreds of Palestinian demonstrators and the Israeli soldiers during the weekly anti-Israel protests, known as the "Great March of Return."

At least 77 Palestinians were injured, by live bullets or rubber-coated rounds on Friday as Israeli forces attacked the weekly Great March of Return protests at Gaza-Israel border, according to the Ministry of Health, Some of the wounded were moved to hospital and others were treated in the field hospitals. The forces fired live bullets and rubber-coated steel rounds at the protesters who gathered for the weekly Friday protests at many encampments along the border.