Hamas Vows to Keep Targeting Fence After Gaza Bloodshed
- Palestinians to converge again on border with Israel
- Monday’s confrontations were bloodiest in Gaza since 2014 war
(Source: Bloomberg)
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Hamas vowed to keep protesters storming the Gaza border on Tuesday, a day after 59 Palestinians were killed in confrontations with Israeli troops, the bloodiest toll in the seaside territory since a 2014 war.
Monday’s casualties, which included more than 1,200 people wounded by live fire, were a stark contrast to the festivity of President Donald Trump’s inauguration of a U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. More than 100 Palestinians have been killed since Gazans began a campaign of weekly protests March 30 to draw attention to conditions in the enclave. Gaza has been under Israeli and Egyptian blockade since Hamas, considered a terrorist group by much of the West, took power in 2007.