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Over 50 people were killed – several of them children – and many hundreds injured, as Palestinian protesters were met with live rounds fired by Israeli troops.

Nadia Hijab is co-founder and president the Palestinian think-tank Al-Shabaka.

Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Danny Danon, discusses the Gaza protests.

The anger and consequent bloodshed in Gaza was in response to events in Jerusalem.

It’s likely to be an incendiary week in Gaza. Hamas has been organising demonstrations on its border with Israel for nearly two months. More protests are likely tomorrow and on Tuesday to mark what the Palestinians call Nakba, or the Day of Catastrophe, when they fled or were forced from their homes as the state…

Donald Trump sent his daughter and son-in-law today, while he appeared on video, to celebrate the move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. No other countries have their embassies in Jerusalem with diplomats kept an hour away in Tel Aviv – so as not to show support for rival claims to the Holy City. And…

Tensions on the Gaza-Israel border are high ahead of a planned major demonstration next week to mark what Palestinians refer to as “the Nakba” or “catastrophe” – a reference to Israel’s establishment in 1948 and what happened to the Palestinians who lived on that land. Today, Gaza health officials said one Palestinian has been killed…

Ian Bremmer is the founder of Eurasia Group, a global political risk research firm.

Israel has launched its biggest assault inside Syria since the start of the civil war – targeting much of Iran’s military infrastructure there. Syria’s military said three people were killed in the attacks. Israeli military positions in the occupied Golan Heights were also shelled overnight.

Hamed Mousavi is Professor of Political Science at the University of Tehran.

David Keyes is the official spokesperson for Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

In the US, President Trump is predicting a “big success” for the forthcoming summit with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un. He was speaking as he capitalised on the return of three American detainees released by North Korea. He added that he hoped he could travel to North Korea one day and that he believed Mr…

In Gaza, over 40 Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured by Israeli gunfire in the last few weeks as protesters demanded the right to return to the lands many were forced to leave 70 years ago. The UN says Gaza will be “unliveable” by 2020, or sooner. And such are the declining levels of…

Michael McFaul served as the US Ambassador to Russia under President Obama and is the author of From Cold War to Hot Peace.