Eli Lake, Columnist

Palestinian Casualties Are No Accident for Hamas

The organizers of a march on Israel's border are spoiling for a fight.

April 3, 2018 at 6:15 PM UTC

Corrected

April 3, 2018 at 7:36 PM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

A Palestinian protester flings a rock toward Israeli defense forces on April 2.
Photographer: Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

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Leave it to Hamas to make nonviolence violent.

This is what happened over the weekend as thousands of Gazans swarmed the Israeli border crossing on what they called a "march of return." It's not just that the Israeli Defense Force claims to have video showing peaceful marchers interspersed with militants wielding Molotov cocktails and burning tires. The organizers of this civil disobedience, Hamas, are themselves devoted to bloodshed.