The Israeli army is claiming that at least 25 of the 60 Palestinians it killed in Gaza on Monday were affiliated with terrorist organizations, but it refuses to say why it killed the other 35.

Groups such as IfNotNow, Jewish Voice for Peace, J Street, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and others began to step up protest activity – marches, vigils and community meet-ups – in late March, when Israeli forces killed 17 Palestinians and wounded at least 1,400 in Gaza.

Today, a coalition of Palestinian and U.S.-based human rights groups submitted a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo demanding that the State Department investigate Israel’s use of lethal force against Palestinians in Gaza, and halt any further assistance to Israeli military units involved in the shootings.

Nakba Day and Jerusalem Day represent different stages in the same process: both mark events that led to mass expulsions of Palestinians, and whose legacies have allowed for their continued displacement, dispossession, jailing and killing at the hands of the state.

Scenes from the overcrowded Israeli Interior Ministry office in East Jerusalem, where Palestinian residents of the city must regularly ‘prove’ they still live there or face displacement and exile.

The Human Rights Watch group on Wednesday filed a lawsuit asking an Israeli court to block the planned deportation of its local director.

Police were investigating an apparent hate crime by right-wing Jewish extremists after 400 olive trees were found chopped down Wednesday in a Palestinian grove near the West Bank city of Hebron alongside threatening graffiti in Hebrew.

If passed in plenum, the proposed law – part of right-wing efforts to implement Israeli law in the West Bank – would take effect before upcoming municipal election campaigns.

Riyadh had remained mum on the issue Monday — the day of the move — but chose to break its silence in a departure from a foreign policy typically in line with that of Washington’s.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas asked Husam Zomlot to return to Ramallah, Foreign Minister Riad Malki told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

“The Palestinian leadership has no plan of action, no vision to respond to the Israeli political onslaught,” writes Jalal Abukhater.

The re-evaluation of the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians may face major obstacles, especially for the Palestinian side, whose economy is totally reliant on the Israeli economy.

Palestinian American human-rights attorney Noura Erakat says protesters in Gaza aren’t pawns of Hamas; they are struggling for the freedom all humans want.