https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/may/14/israeli-troops-kill-palestinians-protesting-against-us-embassy-move-to-jerusalem-live-updates
The Israel Defense Forces are pointing to incidents they say show how the protests are being used as a cover for “terrorism”.
The military said it “thwarted a terror attack” when three people attempted to place an explosive device adjacent to the security fence in the south of Gaza. All three were killed. It also said Israeli aircraft struck Hamas military posts in Gaza after its troops were fired on from the northern Gaza Strip. It did not provide further details.
More than 35,000 Palestinians were estimated to be taking part at 12 locations across the strip, the IDF said. It added its soldiers were responding with “riot dispersal means and fire, and are operating according to standard operating procedures.”
The number of people killed in the protest is rising ominously fast and now stands at 28, according to Reuters citing health officials.
It was the highest Palestinian single-day death toll since a series of protests dubbed the “Great March of Return” began at the border with Israel on 30 March and since a 2014 Gaza war.
The health officials said 900 Palestinians were wounded, about 450 of them by live bullets.
Tens of thousands gathered at the frontier on Monday, some of them approaching Israel’s border fence - a line Israeli leaders vowed Palestinians would not be allowed to breach. Black smoke from tyres set alight by demonstrators rose in the air.
“Today is the big day when we will cross the fence and tell Israel and the world we will not accept being occupied forever,” said Gaza science teacher Ali, who declined to give his last name.
“Many may get martyred today, so many, but the world will hear our message. Occupation must end,” he said.
The 28 Palestinian dead on Monday included a 14-year-old boy, a medic and a man in a wheelchair who had been pictured on social media using a slingshot.
The Israeli military identified three of those killed as armed militants whom it said tried to place explosives near the fence in the southern Gaza Strip.
The latest casualties raised the Palestinian death toll to 73 since the protests started six weeks ago. No Israeli casualties have been reported.
It seems as though protesters were gathering on mass to protest the US embassy move. Three of them apparently set an ied but most of them seemed to have just lit tires and possibly threw things. And Israeli forces started shooting
I’m not sure I need to give my opinion. A lot of people died, and even the Israeli government only justified three of them. This looks like a massacre of protesters plain and simple