The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported Monday evening that 26 Palestinians, among them nine children, have been killed in strikes by the Israeli military in Gaza. Two women were killed in Israel and wounding 10 others after Gaza militants fired hundreds of rockets towards Israel. Israel’s military said that it had carried out strikes against armed groups and rocket launchers in Gaza, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a “red line”. Netanyahu added that rockets had been fired towards Jerusalem for the first time since 2014 and that Israel would respond with “great force.” The latest violence follows days of violent confrontations at Al-Aqsa Mosque and in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem, where several Palestinian families faced eviction from homes claimed by colonial settler organizations. Videos of Palestinian citizens, such as the case of Mariam al-Ghawi, being forced to leave their homes spread on social media. Watch | Mariam al-Ghawi, a #Palestinian citizen of Sheikh Jarrah in occupied Jerusalem, tried last night to enter her house, which has been taken over by colonial settler organizations. She engaged in a wrangle with the settler occupiers but to no…
