Star Tribune · Minneapolis, MN · 16 June 2021

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Israel renews airstrikes on Gaza Strip

Ultranationalist parade in Jerusalem provokes fresh round of violence.

By ILAN BEN ZION / Associated Press

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JERUSALEM – Israeli aircraft carried out a series of airstrikes at militant sites in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, the first such raids since a shaky cease-fire ended the war with Hamas last month. The airstrikes targeted facilities used by Hamas militants for meetings to plan attacks, the Israeli military said, blaming the group for any act of violence emanating from Gaza.

There were no immediate reports of casualties. On Tuesday, hundreds of Israeli ultranationalists, some chanting “Death to Arabs,” paraded in east Jerusalem in a show of force that threatened to spark renewed violence. Palestinians in Gaza responded by launching incendiary balloons that caused at least 10 fires in southern Israel.

The march posed a test for Israel’s fragile new government as well as the tenuous truce that ended last month’s 11-day war between Israel and Hamas. Palestinians consider the march, meant to celebrate Israel’s capture of east Jerusalem in 1967, to be a provocation.

Hamas called on Palestinians to “resist” the parade, a version of which helped ignite last month’s 11-day Gaza war. With music blaring, hundreds of Jewish nationalists gathered and moved in front of Damascus Gate. Most appeared to be young men, and many held blue-and-white Israeli flags as they danced and sang religious songs.

At one point, several dozen youths, jumping and waving their hands in their air, chanted: “Death to Arabs!” In another anti-Arab chant, they yelled: “May your village burn.”

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Date and publication rest on the collector's slide label; no masthead, folio or printed dateline appears on this clipping.

Context added by this archive

The last Bennett record in the batch and the one that shows how the description settled once he was prime minister: 'Israel's new prime minister, Naftali Bennett, a hardline Israeli nationalist who has promised a pragmatic approach as he presides over a delicate, diverse coalition government.' The hardline label survives; the content behind it - Yesha Council, annexation, 'national suicide' - does not.

The AP also uses 'the occupied West Bank' in its own voice in column 3, one of only three such uses in batch B, and reports 'Death to Arabs' and 'May your village burn' as direct quotation rather than as 'anti-Arab slogans'.

Worth noting what the page does to proportion: the Palestinian prime minister gets three words, the Israeli foreign minister gets two sentences, and the chanting crowd gets two full paragraphs.

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