Second Palestinian martyred by Israeli fire in Gaza border clashes: ministry

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech at the inauguration ceremony of the US embassy in Jerusalem

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech at the inauguration ceremony of the US embassy in Jerusalem

The health ministry said the baby was asphyxiated by tear gas.

Since the border rallies began on March 30, more than 100 Palestinian demonstrators have been killed by cross-border Israeli gunfire, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was summoned to Cairo on a last-minute trip Sunday night, and senior leaders were noticeably absent from Monday's demonstrations. Since 2007, Israel and Egypt have enforced a sea and air blockade, controlling the flow of commercial goods and people in and out of the strip.

"You must tell Hamas that violence is not the answer", he said.

The IDF said on Tuesday that at least 24 of those killed on Monday were "terrorists with documented terror backgrounds", while Hamas acknowledged the death of 10 of its operatives during the day's events.

"Those who suggest the Gaza violence has anything to do with the location of the American embassy are sorely mistaken", she said. He condemned Monday's "appalling deadly violence".

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on residents across the occupied West Bank to hold a general strike on Tuesday in honour of those killed in the Gaza Strip.

"I welcome the opening of the United States embassy in Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the Jewish people and the State of Israel".

Prime Minister Charles Michel called for an investigation into the violence in which 60 Palestinians were killed on the border with Israel as the U.S. moved its embassy to Jerusalem.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hit back at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Twitter by calling Israel an "apartheid state" as Ankara ordered the Israeli ambassador to leave.

"While we do not question the right of Israel to defend its borders, the use of live fire and the resulting loss of life is deeply troubling".

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"Every country must protect its borders", Netanyahu wrote in a tweet.

"The Hamas terrorist organisation declares its intention to destroy Israel and sends thousands to breach the border fence in order to achieve this goal".

"Hamas is intentionally and cynically provoking this response", Shah said, noting that Israel "has the right to defend itself".

USA ambassador Nikki Haley said no member "would act with more restraint than Israel has" in its confrontation with Palestinians at the Gaza border.

The Israeli claim is also disputed, with most countries agreeing it should have an global status administered by the UN.

The Israeli military said Hamas tried to carry out bombing and shooting attacks under the cover of the protests and released video of protesters ripping away parts of the barbed-wire border fence. It is home to about 1.8 million Palestinians, making it the third most densely populated place in the world. Many came to demonstrate peacefully, but some protesters appeared to be more aggressive than in previous weeks. They want to enter Israeli territory to harm the citizens of Israel, kidnap soldiers or attack residential areas.

Originally from Yafa, he insists that it was his "ethical and national obligation" to protest Israel's occupation and the Palestinian people's forced displacement. In addition to the 73 percent of Israeli Jews who support moving the embassy, including the timing of it, another 20 percent support the move but would have preferred that Trump had waited until he unveiled his plan for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"There was a Nakba". If a deal remains possible at all for an independent Palestinian state, this divide on sovereignty over Arab sections of Jerusalem suggests a possible openness among the Israeli public to sharing sovereignty over the city.

Similarly, 26-year-old Youssef al-Maqal, who suffered head injuries, says nothing could have stopped him from his right to resist the Israeli occupation.

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