Thousands of Palestinians have set up camps next to the Gaza Border and started the 'Great March of Return' protests, demanding that refugees be allowed to return to their ancestral land, which is now part of Israel. The Israeli Defense Forces have informed that 17,000 Palestinians were "rioting" in six areas in the Gaza strip, rolling burning tires at the security fence and its troops. According to the military, such actions were being responded to "with riot dispersal means and firing towards main instigators."