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At least three Palestinians were killed and dozens injured Tuesday during a general strike in the West Bank. The protests have spread to East Jerusalem in rejection of the Israeli offensive in Gaza. In the Jewish settlement of Beit El, two Israeli soldiers sent to quell protests shot dead. The strike was called by the Palestinian community in Israel and supported by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) to West Bank, or schools and all public offices have been closed. During the day Two Thai workers killed when rockets fired from Gaza hit packing plant in southern Israel, while the Israeli air force continued its bombardments in Gaza against Hamas and other Palestinian groups. In the midst of the escalation that has shaken the region for weeks, US demands ceasefire despite continuing to block UN Security Council statements.

Three Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli soldiers near the Beit El settlement, the West Bank-based ANP health ministry reported. At least 46 other Palestinian protesters were injured14 of them were shot dead with live ammunition by Israeli soldiers during protests in at least 25 locations in the West Bank. The strike seeks to repudiate the offensive in Gaza and Israeli policies which many activists and human rights groups say constitute an apartheid system that denies Palestinians the rights Jewish Israelis have.

Hamas and the secular Fatah party, which controls the ANP, called on the Palestinians who are citizens of Israel and those living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank to a “day of anger” and protests. Israeli army calls protests “violent riots” and specified that “several rioters fired widely at the troops who were in the vicinity of the place”, wounding two of the troops in the legs.

In Jerusalem, dozens of Palestinians burned tires and reduced traffic outside one of the gates to the Old City, the fortified citadel which houses the holy places of Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Outside the Damascus Gate, police cracked down with gas and gunfire in the air and arrested eight people, including one who allegedly attacked an officer.

Palestinians expelled from the Damascus Gate moved to the Sheik Jarrah neighborhood, where they joined hundreds of other protesters who threw firebombs.Israel police said, adding that mounted policemen and fire cars tasked the protesters to try to control them.

The Israeli offensive in Gaza began on May 10 after Hamas fired rockets at Jerusalem in support of Palestinian protests against the restrictions adopted by Israel on access to Islamic holy sites in the Old City and the threat of eviction of dozens of Palestinian families of Sheikh Jarrah. in favor of the Jewish settlers.

Last week, coinciding with the Gaza offensive, fleeing Palestinian Israelis and Jewish Israelis took to the streets of so-called “mixed” Israeli towns, attacking each other and torching shops and cars in the city. worst wave of gender violence in more than two. decades. Some of the worst riots have taken place in the central city of Lod, or an Israeli Palestinian was killed by Jewish extremists on May 10 and a Jewish Israeli died on Monday of his wounds. that day when it was attacked by Palestinians.

Palestinian Israelis are those who stayed at home in what is now Israel and did not go into exile when the Jewish state was founded in 1948, and they represent 20% of the Israeli population.. Israel seized the West Bank and East Jerusalem in a war in 1967, and the Palestinians want to establish an independent state there, as well as Gaza.

In Israel on Tuesday, two Thai citizens were killed by rockets fired from Gaza. In addition, several people were injured in a missile attack on the Israeli region of Eshkol. Previously, Israeli planes re-bombed the Gaza Strip and Palestinian militants fired more rockets in hostilities which were entering their second week and are the worst of its kind since 2014.

In another of the Israeli attacks of the day, planes destroyed a six-story building housing libraries and educational centers at the Palestinian Islamic University in Gaza. Israel warned the occupants of the building before launching the attack, so there were no casualties.

Until at least 213 Palestinians were killed in the attacks, including 61 children and 36 women, and more than 1,440 were injured according to Gaza’s health ministry, which does not specify which victims are civilians and which combatants. As 12 people killed in Israel by thousands of rockets fired from Gaza. As the fighting escalates, Medical supplies, fuel and water run out in Gaza.

Egyptian mediators are trying to negotiate a ceasefire, but the United States is for now refraining from moving towards a real truce and Israel promises to move forward. The White House insisted on Tuesday on the need to let diplomacy work “silently” and “intensely” to achieve “an end to violence”.

This Monday was the first time that President Joe Biden has taken a public stand in favor of a ceasefire. after coming under pressure from his co-religionists in the Democratic Party and elsewhere to play a more active role in the crisis in the Middle East. Even like that, United States blocked proposed UN Security Council statement for third time to demand an end to the violence.