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Israeli jets pound Gaza as rocket fire resumes and Palestinians hit streets to protest
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Israeli warplanes continued to pound Gaza on Tuesday and rocket fire into Israel resumed after a brief lull, as Palestinian protesters hit the streets in cities across the West Bank and elsewhere.
Thousands gathered in various towns in the West Bank, including Ramallah and Hebron, on Tuesday after a number of Palestinian groups, including Hamas militants in Gaza and Fatah in the West Bank, called for mass strikes.
“The first priority for the Palestinian political leadership now is to have Israel stop its crimes and massacres against our people in Gaza,” Wasel Abu Yousef, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Executive Committee in Ramallah, told CNN on Tuesday.
George Zeidan, founder of Right To Movement Palestine, holds up a sign saying “We are not rioters or terrorists, we are demanding our freedom”, during a protest on Tuesday May 18th, for the general strike in Palestine. Bethlehem, West Bank (Photo: Akram al-Waara)
When Humam Abu Srour, 46, a furniture store owner in the city of Bethlehem, looked around at the massive crowds of people surrounding him on Tuesday, he was in awe.
“I saw my neighbors, friends, family, other business owners and shop keepers, and people of all different class backgrounds people who you don’t typically see at these kinds of protests,” Abu Srour said. “It was an amazing sight.”