The Gaza march is a wake-up call to the world
NOVANEWS
Tareq Baconi
A planned peaceful protest ended in the deaths of 16 Palestinians. The international community can no longer ignore Israel’s intransigence
Palestinian paramedics carry a protester injured during clashes with Israeli forces at the Israel-Gaza border, 2 April 2018. Photograph: Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images
On Friday, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip embarked on what they called the “Great March of Return”. In their thousands they walked and chanted metres away from the electric fence that has kept 2 million Gaza residents penned in for more than a decade. They planned to sit there, in a flimsily built tent-city, until Nakba day, on 15 May. That day marks the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, or “catastrophe” – when the marchers, their parents or their grandpare...