Posted on 03/30/2018 6:33:06 AM PDT by Simon Green
JERUSALEM — What was billed as a six-week campaign of peaceful protests in Gaza, culminating in a mass march toward Israel, descended almost immediately into chaos and bloodshed on Friday, with at least five Palestinians reported killed in confrontations with Israeli soldiers along the border fence.
Soon after the campaign began Friday morning, the Israeli military reported that Palestinian protesters were rioting in six locations along the border, rolling burning tires and hurling stones at the fence and at Israelis soldiers beyond it.
By early afternoon, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said that five Palestinians had been killed by Israeli fire, and 170 injured.
Declaring the area surrounding the Gaza Strip a closed military zone, the Israeli military said it was “responding with riot dispersal means and firing towards main instigators.” Israeli forces fired live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas.
The Palestinian organizers had called for peaceful protests, with men, women and children bused to tent encampments that popped up in recent days about 700 yards from the border with Israel.
About 20,000 demonstrators came to the tent encampments. Most appeared to have stayed well away from the border fence and did not engage in violence. Continue reading the main story
Hamas, the Islamic militant group that dominates Gaza and is known for its armed resistance, has joined the call for a different form of popular struggle, referred to as the Great March of Return, or the March of the Million.
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Play stupid “Palestinian” games, win stupid Israeli prizes...
...except in certain leftist-run schools in the United States, right?
;-)
Well, it’s a start.
You mess with the bull, you get the horn.
...descended almost immediately into chaos and bloodshed....
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Gee, I know I am shocked.
Prayers for Israel.
Only 5 ? If there’s a human wave assault on the border, Ma-deuces backed by artillery barrages with TOT are the optimum choices.
Send David Hogg!!! Let him ask them to disarm like that crazy chick Corey
Nothing like to see a bunch of school drop outs joining rape forces together for failing to attract the gods of civilization
Hogg should be at that level of peacemaking acumen by now.
Only 5?
The Israelis are gonna have to do a LOT better than that.
Don’t let your enemies use their own women and children as human shields.
Not one word on media this AM.
Peaceful, if you call masses of enraged youths storming of the border peaceful while concealing hardened terrorists in their midst and breaking the Israeli closure.
It’s a good start!
FAKE NYTimes HEADLINE
Truth:
5 violent Islamics were killed trying to attack Israel at the border.
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