Israel Violence Opens Painful Rupture Between Joe Biden, Pro-Palestine Progressives
On 5/12/21 at 11:04 AM EDT
President Joe Biden has so far been quiet on the spiraling violence between Israel and Palestinian factions, sparked by a land ownership dispute in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem that has since escalated into the worst exchanges of fire since 2014.
The president is under pressure to act to stop the familiar escalation of violence. At least 48 people—including 14 children—have been killed in the Palestinian Gaza Strip by Israel Defense Forces airstrikes, with six people killed in Israel by rocket barrages and an anti-tank missile fired by Palestinian militant forces inside the blockaded coastal enclave.