“In a deeper and more significant way, we are witnessing a revival of the core principles that always animated the Palestinian cause but that were displaced in the tangled maze of political negotiations,” writes Tareq Baconi.

“The truth is that the only remaining option is to silently be imprisoned, controlled, dispossessed, and attacked for being Palestinian,” writes Mariam Barghouti. “There is no choice but to seek life, and that is all that we are doing. This is our crime.”

“While much of the media coverage has been casting the [Gaza] protests as a response to the Trump administration’s move of the U.S. Embassy to Israel to Jerusalem, they are in fact part of a century-long legacy of Palestinians protesting for their rights and freedom,” writes Noura Erekat.

The Israeli military has said it has carried out airstrikes on what it described as militant sites in Gaza in response to machine gun fire that hit a building in the Israeli city of Sderot.

“Monday’s events aren’t a ‘tragedy’. They are the result of our leaders choosing not to listen. Suggesting otherwise paves the way for more bloodshed,” writes Maya Ilany.

Shakir disputes that he has supported the BDS movement and says that Israel is attempting to silence HRW’s work against human rights violations inside Israel and the Occupied Palestinian territories.

“If the law is passed,” writes Yossi Beilin, “the Knesset would have the right to legislate injurious laws with the knowledge that the High Court does not have the power to annul them.”

Israel and the US must immediately withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council to protest its decision to hold an emergency session Friday against Israeli actions on the Gaza border,  Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman wrote on Twitter Thursday morning.

Money that the Palestinian Authority (PA) currently uses to compensate families of those captured, injured or killed in confrontations with Israel would go to Israelis instead under a bill the Israeli parliament is considering.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday the move of the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem will cause “some instability” in the region, in his first public comments on the issue.

“Indeed, the act of throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers has become a symbolic act of defiance and resistance for the Palestinians,” writes Julia McFarlane, “a symbol of brazen defiance in the face of hopeless and inevitable defeat that epitomized how many Palestinians feel about their conflict with Israel.”

The West Bank-based Palestinian leadership has decided to file a war crimes complaint against Israel with the International Criminal Court over its settlement construction on land claimed by the Palestinians for their future state, a senior official said Monday.