15 May 2018

Deaths rise in protests after US embassy opens in Jerusalem

From Morning Report, 8:10 am on 15 May 2018

Fifty-five Palestinians have been killed and more than two-thousand wounded during clashes between protestors and Israeli military on the Gaza border. Gaza's health ministry, run by Hamas, says children were among those killed. The clashes came at the same time as  the opening of a new US embassy in Jerusalem. Akram Al Sattari is an activist and political commentator and was in Gaza among the protestors and said the response by the Israeli military was disproportionately violent.