South Africa: 40,000 march against Gaza assault
Some 40,000 marched through central Cape Town to protest the Gaza "massacre" at South Africa's parliament, with banners reading "Israel is a racist apartheid regime."
Some 40,000 marched through central Cape Town to protest the Gaza "massacre" at South Africa's parliament, with banners reading "Israel is a racist apartheid regime."
Fierce clashes broke out across the West Bank between Israeli troops and young Palestinian men protesting the ongoing military offensive against the Gaza Strip.
Mounting reprisal attacks between Israelis and Palestinians follow Netanyahu's pronouncement upon the death of the three Israeli youths: "May God avenge their blood."
As Palestinian prisoners announced an end to their two-month hunger strike, some 1,000 African migrants at an Israeli detention center in the Negev desert started one.
Five Palestinians have been killed and hundreds detained in "Operation Brother's Keeper," Israel's biggest West Bank deployment in a decade.
Hebron and the West Bank are heavily militarized as Israeli troops hunt for three youths whose abductions have now been claimed (somewhat dubiously) in the name of ISIS.
Reporters Without Borders said it was "outraged" by an Israeli police raid on the East Jerusalem studio of Palestine TV, in which a producer and cameraman were detained.
The Israel Medical Association opposes proposed legislation that would allow Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike to be force-fed, calling the practice "torture."
Sixty hunger-striking Palestinians in Israel's Eshel prison are being held in solitary confinement, out of over 100 now striking in protest of "administrative detention."
Jailed Palestinian leaders Marwan Barghouthi and Ahmad Saadat announced that they will go on hunger strike in solidarity with "administrative detainees" who are refusing food.
Over 100 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails began their tenth day of hunger strike on May 3, and three have been taken to a medical center for treatment.
Dozens of Christian pilgrims suffered from tear-gas inhalation on Good Friday after Israeli troops fired gas canisters as they performed religious rites at the Tomb of Lazarus.