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Scenes at Al-Shifa’ Hospital (Photo: Mohammed Zaanoun / Activestills.org)

Palestinian militants fired two rockets deep into southern Israel from Gaza on Saturday, and the Israeli military responded with a number of air strikes on militant targets, shaking an already tenuous truce, Reuters reports. Sirens sounded in the middle of the night in Beersheba, the largest city in southern Israel, some 35 km (18 miles) from the Gaza border, warning of incoming fire.

Israeli army and border police declare a closed military zone in Palestinian village of Burin, to prevent activists from protecting olive tree harvest. Photo from Standing Together, published in Jerusalem Post.

“We won’t surrender to settler violence, and will stand with Palestinian farmers.” About 100 activists from Rabbis for Human Rights and an Israeli grassroots movement Standing Together sought to protect Palestinian farrmers harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank, but were driven out by the Israeli army and Border Police forces, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Seventy-one Palestinian civilians, including 28 children, were injured due to Israeli soldiers’ excessive use of force against peaceful protesters at the 78th Great March of Return, yesterday, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported. Hundreds of civilians protested near the fence across the Gaza Strip. Some protesters attempted to throw stones, Molotov Cocktails and firecrackers at the Israeli forces.

Israeli forces attacked non-violent protesters in Gaza Friday, killing one Palestinian and wounding 57. The Palestinian protest organizers called this Friday’s protest the “Friday of 78 Children”, in honor of the 78 children killed by Israeli forces since the weekly marches began in March 2018.