In a
graphic demonstration of disregard for the lives and rights of
Palestinians, a smiling Ivanka Trump welcomed Israeli dignitaries to
the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, while, just 60 miles
away in Gaza, Israel’s armed forces shot hundreds of Palestinian
protesters, killing at least 52.
As
American officials, including President Donald Trump’s former
bankruptcy lawyer, Ambassador David Friedman, offered the new embassy
to Israel as a sort of gift to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the
founding of the Jewish state, thousands of Palestinians came under
fire from Israeli snipers for demanding the right to return to homes
that their families were forced to abandon in 1948.
More
than two-thirds of the Palestinians confined to Gaza are refugees
from towns and cities in what is now Israel. The protests along
Israel’s perimeter fence that began on March 30 — and were
immediately met with lethal force — are intended to draw attention
to what Palestinians refer to as the “nakba,” or catastrophe, of
Israel’s founding, which led to the forcible displacement of some
750,000 Palestinians.
“Choosing
a tragic day in Palestinian history shows great insensibility and
disrespect for the core principles of the peace process,” said
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in a statement.
The
death toll on Monday means that Israel has now killed more than 90
Palestinians in the past six weeks for approaching the fence it
placed around Gaza, surpassing the total number of East Germans shot
and killed for trying to scale the Berlin Wall from 1961 to 1989.
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