Tel Aviv: A mass protest of thousands of Palestinians along Gaza’s border with Israel, billed as peaceful by its Hamas organisers, erupted in violence overnight, with at least 15 Palestinians killed and several hundred wounded in clashes with Israeli soldiers.
Friday marked the beginning of six weeks of protests Hamas had planned against Israel and the Palestinian displacement surrounding its 1948 creation. The demonstrations began with tent camps set up 800 metres from Gaza’s 40-kilometre frontier with Israel; the climax is to come in mid-May with a mass march to the border that Israel fears will become an attempt to breach its territory.
Read the report by Jonathan Ferziger in the Sydney Morning Herald.