What's happening on Gaza-Israeli border?
Tensions have escalated along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, as Gazans head there daily to throw stones at Israeli soldiers, in parallel with the uprising in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip — Clashes have suddenly erupted along the southern, eastern and northern borders of the Gaza Strip. This has raised concerns that Gaza will never experience stability.
Palestinian youths have insisted on reaching the iron fence separating the Gaza Strip from the Green Line from the eastern Bureij refugee camp. On Oct. 10, and the days that followed, they managed to cross the fence and hang the Palestinian flag.
For the first time in years, demonstrators managed to cross the border; after Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, it imposed a buffer zone of between 600 and 1,000 meters (1,968 to 3,280 feet) at the border. Although the political truce between Israel and Hamas after the 2012 war stipulated that this zone be reduced, Israel did not commit to it.
While preparing a Molotov cocktail, Ali, 27, told Al-Monitor, “We raised the flag, but they [Israeli soldiers] removed it. We raised it again, and they unleashed the dogs on us; we threw big stones at them.”
