<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div>Live fire by IDF is to be aimed at the legs of protesters...5500 injured, 45 deaths</div><div><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2018/04/27/tensions-flare-israel-gaza-border/34312913/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="enhancr_card_6256003934">Tensions flare at Israel-Gaza border</a><br></div><div><br></div><div id="ydpdacf2b98enhancr_card_6256003934" class="ydpdacf2b98yahoo-link-enhancr-card ydpdacf2b98ymail-preserve-class ydpdacf2b98ymail-preserve-style" style="max-width:400px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-url="https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2018/04/27/tensions-flare-israel-gaza-border/34312913/" data-type="YENHANCER" data-size="MEDIUM" contenteditable="false"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2018/04/27/tensions-flare-israel-gaza-border/34312913/" style="text-decoration:none !important;color:#000 !important;" class="ydpdacf2b98yahoo-enhancr-cardlink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><table border="0" class="ydpdacf2b98card-wrapper ydpdacf2b98yahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width:400px;"><tbody><tr><td width="400"><table border="0" class="ydpdacf2b98card ydpdacf2b98yahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="max-width:400px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(224, 228, 233);border-radius:2px;"><tbody><tr><td class="ydpdacf2b98card-primary-image-cell" background="https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/SU7URum7wwmNn5nZ14Ri_A--~A/Zmk9ZmlsbDt3PTQwMDtoPTIwMDthcHBpZD1pZXh0cmFjdA--/https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/e179e1544725a2596421b5bd55bc4ce28568de24/c=82-0-5611-3124&r=1280x720&r=x1803&c=3200x1800/local/-/media/2018/04/27/USATODAY/USATODAY/636604238221814980-AFP-AFP-14D8ER.jpg.cf.jpg" bgcolor="#000000" valign="top" height="175" style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">Tensions flare at Israel-Gaza border</h2><p class="ydpdacf2b98card-description" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(151, 155, 167);">Hundreds of Palestinian protesters have gathered next to the fence along the Israeli border east of Gaza City. 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line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">40 hurt as Israel warns against burning kites at Palestinian demonstrati...</h2><p class="ydp2531a7d7card-description" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(151, 155, 167);">Forty Palestinians, including three journalists, were injured in protests near Israel’s barrier with the Gaza St...</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div><div><br></div><div><span><div id="ydp8f385275module-position-Q1-0HGIOW-k" class="ydp8f385275story-asset ydp8f385275video-asset" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><div class="ydp8f385275ui-video-wrapper"><div class="ydp8f385275ui-video-controls ydp8f385275story-video ydp8f385275inline-story-video ydp8f385275priority" style="display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px 10px 60px; 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font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Israel’s military <a href="https://twitter.com/IDFSpokesperson/status/992413478194425856" style="color: rgb(25, 144, 229);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">warned against flying kites</a> after wildfires were set Thursday by burning kites flown from Gaza into Israeli territory.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">"Rioters are flying kites with burning items, intending to ignite fires in Israel," the Israel Defense Forces announced on Twitter. "Also, rioters hurled an explosive device at IDF troops who are responding with riot dispersal means & fire in accordance with the rules of engagement."</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Ten firefighting teams spent hours Thursday putting out a forest fire set by a burning kite, and a wheat field was burned earlier in the week, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/245443" style="color: rgb(25, 144, 229);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">according to Israeli TV station Arutz Sheva</a>.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Palestinians each Friday for the past month and a half have threatened to rush the border fence between Gaza and Israel in protest. In response, the Israeli military has ordered soldiers to fire at people's legs if they pose a threat. </p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">So far, at least 45 people have been killed, including four children and two journalists. The number of wounded has reached 5,500, according to the United Nations.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">The demonstrations, which began March 30, reflect a long-simmering demand by Palestinians for the right of return to Israel while Israel says Palestinians should settle in a future Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">The deadly confrontations, known as the Great March of Return, are set to reach a climax on May 15. Organizers and leaders from the terrorist group Hamas, which controls Gaza, will urge masses of Palestinians to walk through the fence into Israel to reclaim homes left by their parents and grandparents in 1948 — the year Israel was formed. </p><div id="ydp8f385275module-position-Q1-0HGLiQ8s" class="ydp8f385275story-asset ydp8f385275image-asset" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><img itemprop="url" src="https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/4b4285c1d64d50de5d52d9f73b4d2a8eb66f33a6/c=326-0-5433-3840&r=x408&c=540x405/local/-/media/2018/05/04/USATODAY/USATODAY/636610297593877415-AFP-AFP-14J7NM.jpg" alt="A Palestinian carries a kite before flying it over" data-mycapture-src="" data-mycapture-sm-src="" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"><p style="margin: 6px 0px 0px; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(100, 100, 100); padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">A Palestinian carries a kite before flying it over the border fence with Israel during clashes on the eastern outskirts of Jabalia in the northern Gaza strip on May 4, 2018. <span class="ydp8f385275credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Mohammed Abed, AFP/Getty Images)</span></p><div class="ydp8f385275clearfix"></div></div><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">The demonstrations have attracted as many as 30,000 participants, according to media reports. Danny Yatom, who led Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency from 1996 to 1998, worries that Hamas will mobilize three times that many people by mid-May.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">“If they bring a hundred thousand demonstrators there will be a lot casualties,” Yatom said during a visit to Washington this week for the Israel Policy Forum, which supports a two-state peace between Israel and Palestinians. “Their aim is to continue and march to one of our villages, hundreds of meters from the border,” he said. </p><h3 class="ydp8f385275presto-h3" style="font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 24px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Futura Today Demibold", arial, sans-serif; margin: 20px 0px 20px 60px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><span style="font-weight: 700;">What do the demonstrators want? </span></h3><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">The march was sparked by a Facebook post months ago by Gazan political activist Ahmed Abu Artima, who suggested thousands of unarmed Palestinians walk toward the border fence.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Artima rejects Hamas’ notion of defeating Israel, but wants to end the separation between Palestinians and Israelis. “I don't believe in liberation," <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5221944,00.html" style="color: rgb(25, 144, 229);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Artima told Israel’s Ynet News</a>, an online newspaper. "I want to live alongside Israelis."</p><div id="ydp8f385275module-position-Q1-0HGKCPhU" class="ydp8f385275story-asset ydp8f385275image-asset" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><img itemprop="url" src="https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/2bc30a0e74cb3f7dcc30eed8d2030e6ecf462429/c=751-0-6692-4467&r=x408&c=540x405/local/-/media/2018/05/02/USATODAY/USATODAY/636608774647563918-EPA-MIDEAST-PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL-GAZA-CONFLICT-CLASHES.jpg" alt="Palestinians protesters pull a barbed wire fence, installed" data-mycapture-src="" data-mycapture-sm-src="" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"><p style="margin: 6px 0px 0px; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(100, 100, 100); padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">Palestinians protesters pull a barbed wire fence, installed by Israeli army along the border, during clashes with Israeli troops near the border with Israel in the east of Gaza City on April 13, 2018. According to local sources, more than 700 Palestinians were injured during fresh clashes in the east Gaza Strip near the border with Israel. Thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza strip protested on April 13 as part of the so-called Great March of Return demonstration for the third consecutive week along Gaza's border with Israel, calling for the right of Palestinian refugees and their descendants to return to their homelands. <span class="ydp8f385275credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: MOHAMMED SABER, EPA-EFE)</span></p><div class="ydp8f385275clearfix"></div></div><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Palestinian leaders also demand the "right of return" for Palestinian refugees who fled or were driven from their homes in what is now Israel. Some 750,000 Palestinians were displaced in 1948.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">"If Palestinian refugees decide one day to break through the fence and enter Israel en-masse, that is their legal and principled right, but we have no intention of doing that in the campaign's first phase," Artima told Ynet in the beginning of April</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Around 70% of Gaza's 2 million population are descendants of those refugees, and now live in an area about the size of Philadelphia, according to the International Committee for Breaking the Siege of Gaza (ICBSG), an association of groups that oppose the control of goods entering Gaza by Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">For Israel, the influx of even a portion of the 3.5 million Palestinian refugees around the world would overwhelm the majority Jewish democracy of <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israels-population-multiplied-by-10-since-founding-of-the-state-CBS-reports-453518" style="color: rgb(25, 144, 229);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">8.5 million people</a>, of whom <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/is.html" style="color: rgb(25, 144, 229);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">25% are not Jewish</a>.</p><div id="ydp8f385275module-position-Q1-0HGLoBuA" class="ydp8f385275story-asset ydp8f385275image-asset" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><img itemprop="url" src="https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/33266deddc392927462ea932685d72325f2e764d/c=645-0-5752-3840&r=x408&c=540x405/local/-/media/2018/05/02/USATODAY/USATODAY/636608768307764558-AFP-AFP-13G0ZB.jpg" alt="Palestinians protesters make traditional coffee as" data-mycapture-src="" data-mycapture-sm-src="" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"><p style="margin: 6px 0px 0px; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(100, 100, 100); padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">Palestinians protesters make traditional coffee as they hold a demonstration commemorating Land Day, near the border with Israel, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on March 30, 2018. Clashes erupted as thousands of Gazans marched near the Israeli border in a major protest dubbed "The Great March of Return." <span class="ydp8f385275credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: SAID KHATIB, AFP/Getty Images)</span></p><div class="ydp8f385275clearfix"></div></div><h3 class="ydp8f385275presto-h3" style="font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 24px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Futura Today Demibold", arial, sans-serif; margin: 20px 0px 20px 60px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Are the protests non-violent?</span></h3><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">The protests were conceived as non-violent civil disobedience. Organizers have quoted peaceful protest icons such as Mahatma Gandi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., according to ICBSG.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Thousands of men, women and children have gathered in tent encampments at a safe distance from the border fence. But militants have joined the protest movement and urged other participants to burn tires close to the fence, and to hurl stones and gasoline bombs toward Israeli soldiers on the other side.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">According to Israeli authorities, Hamas also detonated two bombs near a border patrol passing along the fence, while others were shot trying to cut the fence and enter Israel. There have been no Israeli injuries associated with the protests.</p><div id="ydp8f385275module-position-Q1-0HGNHqm0" class="ydp8f385275story-asset ydp8f385275image-asset" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><img itemprop="url" src="https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/594358a744d2ab058cc30d293002abbd484bdd2f/c=0-0-6912-5197&r=x408&c=540x405/local/-/media/2018/05/02/USATODAY/USATODAY/636608769314270106-EPA-MIDEAST-ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-BORDER-CLASHES.jpg" alt="Palestinians protesters throw stones during clashes" data-mycapture-src="" data-mycapture-sm-src="" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"><p style="margin: 6px 0px 0px; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(100, 100, 100); padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">Palestinians protesters throw stones during clashes after Friday protests near the border with Israel, in eastern Gaza City, 27 April 2018. At least three demonstrators died and over 950 were injured, according to reports quoting Palestinian authorities, during the protests that were held for the fifth Friday in a row. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein condemned Israel's use of 'excessive force' against Palestinian protesters. The protests are held as part of the Great March of Return movement since March 30 to call for the right of Palestinians across the Middle East to return to homes they fled in the war surrounding the 1948 creation of Israel, also called 'Nakba.' <span class="ydp8f385275credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: MOHAMMED SABER, EPA-EFE)</span></p><div class="ydp8f385275clearfix"></div></div><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">While rock throwers and burning tires marked the front edge of the demonstration, the majority of participants have engaged in non-violent activities, the result of an important lesson learned by Palestinians, says Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the Washington-based U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Non-violent protest "reveals a very significant weakness for the Israelis because they don’t know how to handle it," Munayyer said. "These people are not coming at them with weapons, machine guns or rockets or anything like that. The only way (the Israelis) know how to deal with it is how they deal with everything they view as a threat, which is to use force."</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> </p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><span style="font-weight: 700; color: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">What do human rights groups say?</span></p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Human rights groups have condemned Israel for disproportionate use of deadly force. </p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">“The Israeli government presented no evidence that rock-throwing and other violence by some demonstrators seriously threatened Israeli soldiers across the border fence,” <a href="http://https//www.hrw.org/news/2018/04/03/israel-gaza-killings-unlawful-calculated" style="color: rgb(25, 144, 229);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Human Rights Watch said</a> after the first protests of March 30 resulted in 14 Palestinian deaths and hundreds of injuries. “Footage of demonstrators provided by the army includes no evidence of firearms.”</p><div class="ydp8f385275partner-outstream" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"></div><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Eric Goldstein, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said Israel’s military should be investigated by the International Criminal Court.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Israeli soldiers "were apparently acting on orders that all but ensured a bloody military response to the Palestinian demonstrations,” Goldstein said. “The result was foreseeable deaths and injuries of demonstrators.”</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Amnesty International called on Israel to respect the rights of Palestinians to peacefully protest and to use lethal force only “when unavoidable.”</p><h3 class="ydp8f385275presto-h3" style="font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 24px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Futura Today Demibold", arial, sans-serif; margin: 20px 0px 20px 60px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><span style="font-weight: 700;">What does Israel say?</span></h3><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Israel says it has the right to defend its borders, protect its citizens and prevent illegal infiltration.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">“Responsibility for any clashes that may arise will thus lie solely with Hamas and the other Palestinian organizations who have manufactured this entire campaign,” <a href="http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/Issues/Pages/Hamas-launches-confrontation-campaign-on-Israels-border.aspx" style="color: rgb(25, 144, 229);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">according to a statement by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs</a>.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Yatom, a retired major general in the Israel Defense Forces, called the protests a smoke screen for launching attacks at Israel. For Hamas, the demonstrations show the Palestinian Authority, Israel and the world, that Hamas remains a force to be reckoned with, he said.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">The group has failed to effectively govern the Gaza Strip, which it violently took over from the Palestinian Authority in June 2007. In recent negotiations with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas refused to transfer command of its military wing to the Palestinian Authority.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">“To the rest of the world, (it shows) that Israel kills innocent people,” he said. “For them, as many casualties as possible is good.”</p><h3 class="ydp8f385275presto-h3" style="font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 24px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Futura Today Demibold", arial, sans-serif; margin: 20px 0px 20px 60px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><span style="font-weight: 700;">How does Israel explain its use of force?</span></h3><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Yatom, who commanded Israeli military’s central command from 1991 to 1993 during the first Palestinian uprising, said Israeli soldiers are following a use of force policy developed over the years.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">“We do not open fire immediately or automatically,” he said.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Soldiers are supposed to seek authorization from top commanders. They’re required to shout “stop or you will be shot” before firing, “and then to aim at the legs,” he said. “Unfortunately, sometimes soldiers miss.”</p><div id="ydp8f385275module-position-Q1-0HGMZBwE" class="ydp8f385275story-asset ydp8f385275image-asset" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><img itemprop="url" src="https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/5b9e5997203b473166bbe9940d32f2691b5821b6/c=368-0-6128-4331&r=x408&c=540x405/local/-/media/2018/05/02/USATODAY/USATODAY/636608770653677520-EPA-MIDEAST-PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL-GAZA-CONFLICT-INJURIES.jpg" alt="Palestinian cyclist Alaa Al-Dally, who lost his leg" data-mycapture-src="" data-mycapture-sm-src="" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"><p style="margin: 6px 0px 0px; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(100, 100, 100); padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">Palestinian cyclist Alaa Al-Dally, who lost his leg after a Gaza border protest, rests at family house in Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 19, 2018. Al-Dally, 20, was injured in his leg by Israeli gunfire during protests near the Gaza border with Israel on March 30, 2018. He was not allowed to leave Gaza for treatment and had his right leg amputated. Alaa was practicing to participate in the upcoming Asian Game with Palestinian athletes. According to Gaza health ministry, 17 Palestinians had limbs amputated after they failed to have access to sufficient medical care outside Gaza Strip. <span class="ydp8f385275credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: MOHAMMED SABER, EPA-EFE)</span></p><div class="ydp8f385275clearfix"></div></div><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> </p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Deadly force is only supposed to be used when a soldier or comrade's life is at risk, Yatom said.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Palestinian photojournalist Yaser Murtaja died April 7. He was shot in the abdomen while covering protests in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. He was wearing a vest marked “PRESS,” <a href="https://cpj.org/2018/04/cpj-calls-on-israel-to-hold-killers-of-yaser-murta.php" style="color: rgb(25, 144, 229);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">according to the Committee to Protect Journalists</a>. Israel’s Defense Forces said it is investigating Murtaja’s death.</p><h3 class="ydp8f385275presto-h3" style="font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 24px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Futura Today Demibold", arial, sans-serif; margin: 20px 0px 20px 60px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><span style="font-weight: 700;">What do world leaders say?</span></h3><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, President Trump’s new top diplomat, this week supported Israel’s handling of the protests.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">“We do believe that Israelis have the right to defend themselves, and we’re fully supportive of that,” Pompeo said Monday in Jordan.</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">The European Parliament condemned Hamas “for instigating violence and for its terrorist activities on the Israel-Gaza border.” Parliament members also urged Israel and Palestinians “to use non-violent means and respect human rights.”</p><p class="ydp8f385275p-text ydp8f385275p-text-last" id="ydp8f385275article-body-p-last" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Arab leaders reacted in a more muted fashion. The Arab League, representing all the Arab nations, issued a statement holding Israel responsible for any deaths. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was quoted in early April saying Jews have a right to a homeland.</p></span><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>