© Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / ReutersMourners carry the body of a Palestinian killed during a protest at the Israel-Gaza border, May 14, 2018.
This is a "gruesome and unfortunate propaganda attempt" on part of Hamas, deputy White House press secretary Raj Shah told reporters on Monday, adding that Israel has the "right to defend itself."
"We believe that Hamas as an organization is engaged in cynical action leading to these deaths," Shah added.
Hamas, or the Islamic Resistance Movement, is the democratically elected government of the Gaza strip. Israel considers it a terrorist organization.
Palestinians have gathered along the fence separating Gaza from Israel for the past six weeks, as part of the Great March of Return protests. Monday was the deadliest day yet, with 52 people killed and more than 2,700 injured, according to the latest figures from the Palestinian Health Ministry. Among the wounded are 78 women and 203 children, the ministry said.
The Palestinian authority denounced the deaths as a "terrible massacre" perpetrated "by the forces of the Israeli occupation," and called for an immediate international intervention to prevent further deaths.
Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, a US delegation led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin officially opened the new US embassy. President Donald Trump had ordered the move in December, citing the 1995 law passed by the US Congress but suspended by every president since. Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner were also part of the US delegation, and the president addressed the gathering in a video message.
"The actions today, both the opening of the embassy in Jerusalem and these tragedies in southern Israel, I don't think they will impact the peace plan," Shah told reporters.
Palestinians were outraged by Trump's decision to move the embassy and his statement that this takes Jerusalem "off the table" in any peace talks with Israel. Palestinians have claimed East Jerusalem as their capital. Israel has annexed the entire city as its own capital, but the UN has refused to recognize that action as legitimate.
Tuesday is the 70th anniversary of Israel's declaration of independence. Palestinians call the day Nakba, or "catastrophe."The 1949 armistice left Israel in control of most of the former Palestine Mandate, carved out of the Ottoman Empire by Britain at the end of First World War. Palestinians were left with nothing, as Gaza had been annexed by Egypt and the West Bank territories by Jordan.
Israel had declared West Jerusalem as its capital, and Jordan had annexed the eastern parts, including the Old City and the sacred sites of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Israel took over Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem in June 1967, after a six-day campaign against Egypt, Jordan and Syria. The Sinai peninsula, also occupied during the war, was ceded back to Egypt in 1982 in exchange for a peace treaty.
Who is Isaac referring to in the Jubilee ?
Book Of JubileeChapter 14
28. And Isaac on that day cursed the Philistines and said: "Cursed be the Philistines unto the day of wrath and indignation from the midst of all nations;may God make them a derision and a curse and an object of wrath and indignation in the hands of the sinners the Gentiles and in the hands of the Kittim.
29. And whoever escapeth the sword of the enemy and the Kittim, may the righteous nation root out in judgment from under heaven; for they will be the enemies and foes of my children throughout their generations upon the earth.
NOTE THE WORDS "they will be the enemies and foes of my children throughout their generations upon the earth."
THEREFORE WHO ARE THESE "PHILISTINES" ?
They are NOT the Palestinians or Persians - as there were no Persian wars with Abraham - at that point of time.
They are the Southern Europeansw,ho spread all over the EU,UK,Russia and probably the USA.
Could it be that the followers of Jesus and the Church of Paul - which was the anti-thesis,of the maxim,of the "Oral law for the Chosen people", coalesced into the Church of Paul - which makes them,the "Christians".dindooohindoo
The history of persecution of the Jews in the EU,bears testimony to the DNA of these "Christians" - which is also buttressed,by the blatant abuse and blasphemy of Jesus,by the Jews,at that point of time. This was also supported by the quotes of Jesus in Mathew, calling Jews - vipers,and the assumed gloating of Jews, on the Killing of Jesus (in the Bible)
Could the Catholics be the silent assassins (Philistines) acting AGAIINST and FOR the Israelis - playing both sides, and slowly but surely, weakening the Islamic nations AND ISRAEL !