70th anniversary of the Nakba, or Catastrophe, as they Bury 55 victims of “a terrible massacre”

the first funerals are expected to be held for 55 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces on Monday, the deadliest day since the end of the 2014 Gaza conflict.
Tuesday is the 70th anniversary of what Palestinians call the Nakba, or Catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands were expelled or fled amid the creation of Israel in 1948.


Weeks of angry protests were further enflamed on Monday by the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem. While Ivanka Trump and other American dignitaries gathered in the afternoon sun to celebrate the embassy opening, the Gaza border was transformed into a scene of fire and chaos as tens of thousands of protesters faced Israeli snipers. 


Full Story at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/14/palestinians-killed-israeli-troops-gaza-protests-ahead-us-embassy/


In a speech in London the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan also criticised the embassy opening. "The United States has chosen to be a part of the problem rather than the solution with its latest step and has lost its mediating role in the peace process” 


The UK’s Minister for the Middle East, Alistair Burt, said: “The violence today in Gaza and the West Bank has been shocking. The loss of life and the large number of injured Palestinians is tragic, and it is extremely worrying that the number of those killed continues to rise.
“Such violence is destructive to peace efforts. We have been clear that the UK supports the Palestinians’ right to protest, but these protests must be peaceful.

Angry Andy wrote:And 2400+ injured by gunfire.
If only half the bullets  fired hit a person that is over 5000 rounds indiscriminately fired into a crowd.
That is an attempted massacre, not crowd control.
It begs the question, what sort of human chooses to fire randomly into a huge crowd , probably using an inaccurate  machine gun or automatic firearm, with no specific target in their sights?
Following orders? Nah.
Out of control bloodlust? More likely.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu called the killings a “massacre” after saying in December that “God was weeping” over Mr Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
“I am deeply distressed and broken hearted by the massacre perpetrated by the State of Israel in Gaza yesterday,” he said in a statement. “People who recognise the humanity in others do not author or perpetrate massacres.”
South Africa and Turkey recalled their ambassadors to Israel in protest, and Turkey also withdrew its ambassador to the US with its president Recep Erdogan saying Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu “has the blood of Palestinians on his hands.”
Turkey’s deputy PM said the massacre would be remembered as “bloody Monday.”
But Mr Netanyahu hailed it as “a glorious day” as Ms Trump unveiled a stone plaque to the strains of “Hallelujah” in front of a crowd of 800 religious and political figures.
“Those provoking violence are part of the problem and not part of the solution,” Mr Kushner.
Sheldon Adelson, a Jewish Republican donor, sat in the front row as Mr Netanyahu praised the President for accepting that Israel’s capital was an “eternal, undivided” Jerusalem.
“A peace that is built on lies will crash on the rocks of Middle Eastern reality,” said the Israeli leader.


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Why do the Arab Mothers bring their children and BABIES to a place where there is every
chance they will be killed or injured by Bullets and Tear Gas?   Answer, they are so indocterated by Hammas to hate Jews they just don't care !

nicko wrote:Why do the Arab Mothers bring their children and BABIES to a place where there is every
chance they will be killed or injured by Bullets and Tear Gas?   Answer, they are so indocterated by Hammas to hate Jews they just don't care !

Hamas hides behind Palestinian children

That  Palestinian children were killed and injured in yesterday’s violence is both shocking and tragic. (AP quoted Hamas-affiliated Gaza health officials that six of the Palestinians killed by gunshots were minors.) That a baby is also among the dead, as a result of tear gas inhalation, is profoundly upsetting.

(UPDATE: A Gazan doctor told the Associated Press that the baby had a preexisting medical condition and that he did not believe her death was caused by tear gas.)

The media, however, failed to ask why Palestinian children were encouraged to attend an event that was inevitably going to end in violence and a risk to life.

For Hamas, the sacrifice of children is a bonus.

http://honestreporting.com/does-the-media-really-understand-the-gaza-violence/

They published an enormous quantity of propaganda that blamed the Jews Palestinians  for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults that plagued “civilization;” and declared Jews Palestinians  and others untermenschen, or sub-human. Terrorists
These Nazi Zionist scapegoating tactics carried prejudice to the next step—from bigotry and bias to blaming. The Baha’i teachings warn us against blaming, faultfinding and backbiting:

But this was not the way of the Third Reich Zionist . Posters plastered in public juxtaposed handsome Aryans Jews next to portrayals of Jews Palestinians with sneering, seemingly evil countenances. One showed a Jew Palestinians as a horned-devil about to devour an innocent man.

“Non-violent” protests?

But the protests appeared to have a more violent edge than in previous weeks. Some young men brought knives and fence cutters. At a gathering point east of Gaza City, organizers urged protesters over loudspeakers to burst through the fence, telling them Israeli soldiers were fleeing their positions, even as they were reinforcing them.
. . .
While some said they would abide by official calls to keep the demonstrations peaceful, others talked about their enthusiasm to break into Israel and wreak havoc.

“We are excited to storm and get inside,” said 23-year-old Mohammed Mansoura. When asked what he would do inside Israel, he said, “Whatever is possible, to kill, throw stones.”

Two other young men carried large knives and said they wanted to kill Jews on the other side of the fence.
. . .
The vast majority of demonstrators were unarmed, but near a parking area, a man pulled out an AK-47 and took aim at an Israeli drone dropping leaflets. He let off a stream of bullets into the air and brought it down. Later, more gunfire was heard as Palestinian factions argued over who would keep the downed drown [sic], onlookers said.

The loss of life is appalling, but Israeli soldiers found themselves trying to prevent thousands of demonstrators from breaking through the border, egged on by Hamas. Had they got through, there could have been even greater carnage.

But there are two crucial considerations to bear in mind about the Israeli response. First of all, one of the central themes of the radical Palestinian movement is to reclaim former homelands that are now Israeli territory. It is a drive called ‘The Great March of Return.’

But, by its very nature, this would threaten the very existence of the state of Israel.Therefore the security forces feel that, however savage the consequences, they cannot allow thousands of protesters in a human wave to cross the border and squat in Israel.

Second, although most of the demonstrators are unarmed, some definitely were. Hamas’s cynical eagerness to exploit the discontent means that there are bound to be hardened terrorists in the crowd, carrying knives, guns, petrol bombs or even rocket launchers.

Hamas accepted four trucks of aid supplied by the Palestinian Authority and two trucks supplied by UNICEF, but two further truckloads of medical aid provided by the IDF were turned away when the origin of the equipment became apparent.

In addition to 53 tons of medical equipment set to be transported into Gaza this week via the crossing, the increased Israeli aid included more than 14,000 units of intravenous infusions, 40 medical basins, 20 medical examination couches, 25 infusion stands, 85,000 disinfectant pads and 12,500 bandages . . .
The director of Gaza’s Shifa hospital’s emergency department, Ayman Al-Sahabani, told Reuters that medical supplies were running out.