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<h1 class="reader-title">Israeli Airstrikes Damage 500
Palestinian Homes in Gaza<br>
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<p>A total of 500 houses in the Gaza Strip were
damaged by the latest Israeli airstrikes,
Palestine’s public works minister said late
Tuesday.</p>
<p>Mufeed al-Hasayneh said in a statement:</p>
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<p>“In Israeli airstrikes against Gaza, 30 houses
were completely destroyed and 500 houses were
damaged.”</p>
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<p>Live from #GazaFrom the destruction of a
residential building.</p>
<p>Posted by <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/wafa.aludaini.7">Wafa
Aludaini</a> on Wednesday, March 27, 2019</p>
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<p>He added that they are working to remove the
traces of the airstrikes and alleviate the pain of
their people.</p>
<p>Israel launched a wave of airstrikes Monday
across the Gaza Strip following rocket fire from
the enclave which injured seven Israelis north of
Tel Aviv.</p>
<p>The army reportedly deployed missile-defense
batteries in several locations across the country
while sending two additional infantry brigades to
the Gaza-Israel buffer zone.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">A Palestinian girl cleans
the face of her brother outside their destroyed
house after an Israeli missile hit the area, in
Gaza City March 26.<a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a>
<a href="https://t.co/2Sj2saetbd">pic.twitter.com/2Sj2saetbd</a></p>
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<p>Hamas announced late Monday that Egypt had
managed to secure a cease-fire between Israel and
Gaza-based resistance factions.</p>
<p>While there was no comment from Egypt, several
Israeli officials denied that a cease-fire deal
had been reached.</p>
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<h1 class="reader-title">Gaza teeters on the brink</h1>
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<span class="field field-author"><a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/people/maureen-clare-murphy">Maureen
Clare Murphy</a></span> <span class="field field-blog">-</span>
<span class="field field-publication-date"><span
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content="2019-03-26T22:54:39+00:00">26 March 2019</span></span>
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<p>A tentative calm prevailed in Gaza most of Tuesday
after a <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-pounds-gaza-after-rocket-strikes-house">violent
flare-up the previous day</a>, when a rocket fired
from Gaza hit a home in central Israel and
precipitated airstrikes on the territory.</p>
<p>The break in violence was short-lived, however, as
Israel resumed its bombardment after rockets were
fired from Gaza late Tuesday.</p>
<p>An Israel official <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/military-prepares-for-gaza-offensive-after-rocket-strikes-central-israel-1.7059002">said</a>
earlier in the day there was no official ceasefire
with armed groups in Gaza, “and the fighting can be
renewed at any minute.”</p>
<p>Reports suggested that Israel had demanded the
cancelation of a mass protest marking the one-year
anniversary of the <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/great-march-return">Great
March of Return</a> demonstrations along Gaza’s
eastern boundary, during which Israeli snipers have
killed nearly 200 Palestinians.</p>
<p>Nickolay Mladenov, the United Nations’ Middle East
peace envoy, <a
href="https://unsco.unmissions.org/security-council-briefing-situation-middle-east-reporting-unscr-2334-delivered-un-special-1">told
the Security Council on Tuesday</a> that the two
instances of projectiles fired from Gaza towards Tel
Aviv this month “represent a very serious escalation.”</p>
<h2>“New conflict will be devastating”</h2>
<p>He said his office was “working intensely with Egypt”
to prevent the situation from spiraling further out of
control.</p>
<p>“A new conflict will be devastating for the
Palestinian people, it will have consequences for
Israelis, who live in the vicinity of the Gaza
perimeter, and it is likely to have regional
repercussions,” he added.</p>
<p>Israel fired 72 missiles in 23 attacks on Gaza on
Monday and into Tuesday morning, <a
href="http://mezan.org/post/28427">according to</a>
Al Mezan, a human rights group in the territory. Three
residential buildings were hit, as well as 13 security
sites, public and private property, and open land.</p>
<p>Al Mezan said that two people were injured during the
bombing, though Gaza’s health ministry said on Monday
that seven were injured.</p>
<p>Video shows Palestinians recovering materials from
Omar Bin Abd al-Aziz mosque in northern Gaza after it
was badly damaged in an Israeli strike:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">دمار في مسجد عمر بن
عبدالعزيز جراء قصف الاحتلال على شمال قطاع <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#غزة</a>.<a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9_%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%81?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#غزة_تحت_القصف</a>
<a href="https://t.co/EmRxL77A1Y">pic.twitter.com/EmRxL77A1Y</a></p>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1110542606881169409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March
26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p>Another video compiles footage of various sites in
Gaza destroyed in Monday’s attacks:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">جانب من آثار الدمار الذي
خلّفه قصف الاحتلال على قطاع <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#غزة</a>،
الليلة الماضية.<a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9_%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%81?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#غزة_تحت_القصف</a>
<a href="https://t.co/aBE43xVijB">pic.twitter.com/aBE43xVijB</a></p>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1110533851594608640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March
26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p>Meanwhile a senior Israeli official stated that US
recognition of Israel’s claims to the Golan Heights
opens the door to the annexation of other occupied
territory.</p>
<p>An unnamed “senior Israeli diplomatic source” who was
on the plane during Benjamin Netanyahu’s return from
Washington on Monday <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-official-golan-recognition-proves-israel-can-retain-occupied-territories-1.7060288">told</a>
<em>Haaretz</em> newspaper that “Everyone says you
can’t hold an occupied territory, but this proves you
can. If occupied in a defensive war, then it’s ours.”</p>
<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the
executive order signed by Donald Trump on Monday
recognizing Israel’s claims to the Golan does not
change its status as occupied territory under
international law.</p>
<p>The Golan Heights is Syrian territory captured by
Israel during the 1967 war along with the Palestinian
West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula,
from which Israel eventually withdrew.</p>
<p>After Israel claimed to annex the Golan Heights in
1981, the UN Security Council <a
href="https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0/73D6B4C70D1A92B7852560DF0064F101">declared</a>
the move “null and void and without international
legal effect.”</p>
<p>Guterres, in his <a
href="https://undocs.org/pdf?symbol=en/S/2019/251">quarterly
report</a> on the implementation of <a
href="https://undocs.org/en/S/RES/2334%20(2016)">Security
Council resolution 2334</a>, which condemns Israeli
settlement-building in occupied territory, states that
“expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the
occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem,
continues unabated.”</p>
<p>In addition to the approval or tender of more than
3,000 housing units in West Bank settlements, Israel
has fast-tracked the legalization of settlement
outposts built without government sanction.</p>
<p>All Israeli settlements in the West Bank – and the
Golan Heights – are illegal under international law.</p>
<p>“I am concerned by reports of increased number of
settler attacks and incidents of harassment,” the
secretary-general adds in his report.</p>
<p>Israeli settlers under army escort <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=782995">attempted
to raid</a> two Palestinian elementary schools in
Tuqu village near Bethlehem in the southern West Bank
on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Teachers and school staff prevented the settlers from
breaking in, but classes were dismissed early due to
the threat of settler violence, Palestinian media
reported.</p>
<p>Video shows Israeli soldiers firing crowd-control
weaponry in front of one of the schools:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">الجنود أطلقوا النار..<a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%AF?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#شاهد</a>
عشرات المستوطنين يقتحمون محيط مدرستي الخنساء
والجرم في بلدة تقوع ببيت لحم <a
href="https://t.co/f297gPijts">pic.twitter.com/f297gPijts</a></p>
— وكالة شهاب (@ShehabAgency) <a
href="https://twitter.com/ShehabAgency/status/1110514506222968832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March
26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p>The frequency of occupation-related violence in or
near Palestinian schools in the West Bank has <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-steps-attacks-palestinian-schools">increased</a>
during the current academic year.</p>
<h2>9-year-old boy arrested at school</h2>
<p>This video shows Israeli soldiers seizing a
9-year-old Palestinian child at his school in the
southern West Bank city of Hebron last week:</p>
<p>The heavily armed soldiers accuse the small child of
throwing stones. One of the soldiers threatens to
arrest a teacher who tries to prevent the detention of
the boy.</p>
<p>The child was detained at a checkpoint for an hour, <a
href="https://www.btselem.org/video/20190321_soldiers_forcibly_seize_9_year_old_at_school_in_hebron#full">according
to</a> the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem.</p>
<p>There are two checkpoints in close proximity to the
school, leading to “frequent altercations” between
soldiers and students after class lets out, B’Tselem
states.</p>
<p>“Throughout 2018, B’Tselem documented several
instances in which soldiers burst into the school
compound, fired tear gas canisters into the yard, or
arrested students and teachers after school hours.”</p>
<p>The infrastructure of Israel’s military occupation,
imposed to protect the state’s settlement colony
enterprise, is the site of routine and often deadly
violence.</p>
<p>“Military fixtures like checkpoints and watchtowers
in the West Bank and the heavily surveilled ‘buffer
zone’ along the border of Gaza are sites of frequent
clashes, representing significant risks of death,
injury and arrest to children who live or pass near
them frequently,” <a
href="https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_killed_two_palestinian_teens_in_last_week">according
to</a> Defense for Children International Palestine.</p>
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