U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., posted this on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on April 15: “I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs blocking traffic:
Hollywood celebrities are paying the price for taking sides in the Gaza war plastering their social media accounts with slogans such as "Free Palestine" or "I stand with Israel".
Last year, Yahya Sinwar told a rally in Gaza that Hamas would deploy fighters and rockets in a fierce strike on Israel, the nation that imprisoned him for 23 years before he was freed and rose to a leadership role in the group.
Israeli settlers attacked two Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank late on Saturday, killing one man and torching a car, Palestinian authorities said.
Fighting resumed in Gaza on Friday immediately after the expiry of a week-long truce between Israel and Hamas, with the first fatalities reported minutes later, according to health officials in the Palestinian territory.