Tag: Gaza Protests
Israelis near Gaza border block goods in protest of weekly riots, greenhouse fire
Israelis from the Gaza border region blocked trucks laden with goods and fuel for Gaza with their bodies on Sunday morning in protest of the government’s decision to allow the products into the region,...
On Facebook: Gazan protestors ‘bring a knife, dagger, handgun,’ kidnap Israelis, murder soldiers
Two Palestinian Facebook pages and a forum directing rioters in Gaza gave explicit instructions to murder and kidnap Israelis on May 14, the day the U.S. embassy opened in Jerusalem, as well as suggestions...
Bernie Sanders condemns IDF reaction to Gaza riots
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Israel should be “condemned” for its response to the rioting along the Israeli-Gaza border on Monday, which resulted in some 60 Palestinian deaths.
In an interview with Al Jazeera reporter Mehdi Hasan...
Analysis: Trapped in its own paradox, Hamas is buying time with Gaza protests
Four years after the end of its last armed conflict with Israel, Hamas once again finds itself in the corner, strategically isolated from the region, ruling over a sinking ship.
Hamas’s efforts to find a...
Gazans protest transfer of U.S. embassy to Jerusalem; chants of ‘death to America’
On May 13, Palestinians protested in Gaza against the transfer of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, chanting “Death to America” and “Martyrs in the millions march to Jerusalem!”
Jibril Abu Kmeil, reporting for the Iraqi...