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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MAY 14, 2018
Dozens killed in Gaza as US Embassy opens in Jerusalem
By FARES AKRAM AND
ILAN BEN ZION
Associated Press
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip
— Israeli soldiers shot and
killed at least 43 Palestinians
during mass protests along the
Gaza border today. It was the
deadliest day there since a dev-
astating 2014 cross-border war
and cast a shadow over Isra-
el’s festive inauguration of the
new U.S. Embassy in contested
Jerusalem.
In a show of anger fueled
by the embassy move, pro-
testers set tires on fire, sending
plumes of black smoke into the
air, and hurled firebombs and
stones toward Israeli troops
across the border. Later today,
Israeli forces fired from tanks,
sending protesters fleeing to
take cover.
The military said its troops
came under fire in some areas,
and said protesters tried to
break through the border fence.
It said troops shot and killed
three Palestinians trying to
plant a bomb.
President Donald Trump
said in a video message played
at the embassy inauguration —
which took place just 45 miles
from the bloodshed on the Gaza
border — that he remains com-
mitted to “facilitating a last-
ing peace agreement” between
Israelis and Palestinians.
“A great day for Israel!”
Trump tweeted earlier today.
However, today’s steadily
climbing death toll and wall-
to-wall condemnation of the
embassy move by the Arab
world raised new doubts about
Trump’s ambitions to broker
what he once said would be the
Mideast “deal of the century.”
By late afternoon, at least
43 Palestinians, including five
minors, were killed, the Gaza
Health Ministry said. One of
the minors was identified as a
girl.
At least 772 protesters were
wounded, including 86 in seri-
ous or critical condition.
At the embassy ceremony
in Jerusalem, Trump son-in-
law and chief Mideast adviser
Jared Kushner placed the
blame on the Gaza protesters.
“As we have seen from the
protests of the last month and
even today those provoking
violence are part of the prob-
lem and not part of the solu-
tion,” he said.
Kushner and Trump daugh-
ter Ivanka led a high-powered
American delegation that also
included the treasury secretary
and four Republican senators.
The new embassy will tem-
porarily operate from an exist-
ing U.S. consulate, until a
decision has been made on a
permanent location.
In Gaza, the Hamas-led pro-
test was meant to be the biggest
yet in a weeks-long campaign
against a decade-old block-
ade of the territory. The Israeli
military estimated a turnout of
about 40,000, saying this fell
short of what Hamas had hoped
for.
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The march was also
directed at the inauguration of
the embassy.
Moving the embassy from
Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — a
key Trump campaign promise
— infuriated the Palestinians,
who seek east Jerusalem as a
future capital.
Today marked the biggest
showdown in years between
Israel’s military and Gaza’s
Hamas rulers along the vol-
atile border. The sides have
largely observed a cease-fire
since the 2014 war — their
third in a decade.
The protest was the culmi-
nation of a campaign, led by
Hamas and fueled by despair
among Gaza’s 2 million peo-
ple, to break the blockade of
the territory imposed by Israel
and Egypt after Hamas seized
control of Gaza in 2007. Since
weekly border marches began
in late March, 85 Palestinian
protesters have been killed
and more than 2,500 wounded
by Israeli army fire. Hamas
said four members, includ-
ing three security men, were
among the dead today.
Ismail Radwan, a senior
Hamas figure, said the mass
border protests against Israel
will continue “until the rights
of the Palestinian people are
achieved.”
“Moving the U.S. Embassy
to Jerusalem will be a disas-
ter for the American adminis-
tration and a black day in the
history of the American peo-
ple because they are partners
with the occupation and its
aggression against the Pales-
tinian people,” he added.
Throughout the day, sirens
wailed as the wounded were
carried to nearby ambulances.
Groups of young activists
repeatedly approached the
fence, but were quickly scat-
tered by gunfire and tear gas.
Lt. Col. Jonathan Conri-
cus, an Israeli military spokes-
man, said the army had set up
additional “layers” of secu-
rity in and around communi-
ties near the border to defend
Israeli civilians. He said there
already had been several “sig-
nificant attempts” to break
through the fence. The army
said aircraft targeted a Hamas
post in northern Gaza after
Israeli troops came under fire.
The timing of today’s
events was deeply symbolic
to Israel and the Palestinians.
The U.S. said it chose
the date to coincide with the
70th anniversary of Israel’s
establishment.
But it also marks the anni-
versary of what Palestinians
call their “nakba,” or catastro-
phe, a reference to the uproot-
ing of hundreds of thousands
who fled or were expelled
during the 1948 war sur-
rounding Israel’s creation.
A majority of Gaza’s 2 mil-
lion people are descendants
of refugees, and the protests
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have been billed as the “Great
March of Return” to long-lost
homes in what is now Israel.
Protester
Mohammed
Hamami, a 40-year-old civil
servant, attended the march
with his mother and five chil-
dren. “Today we are here to
send a message to Israel and
its allies that we will never
give up on our land,” he said.
Clouds of black smoke
from burning tires rose into
the air. Protesters have used
the thick smoke as cover
against Israeli snipers perched
on high sand berms on the
other side of the border. The
army accuses Hamas of using
the protests as cover to plan or
carry out attacks.
AP Photo/Khalil Hamra
Palestinian medics evacuate a wounded youth.
Israel captured east Jerusa-
lem in the 1967 Mideast war
and annexed it in a move not
recognized by the interna-
tional community. The Pales-
tinians seek the city’s eastern
half as the capital of a future
state.
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