One of the longest periods of conflicts of all, the fight for Jerusalem has been going on even before the birth of Jesus Christ. With a long history of conflicts in this hotly contested sight, the holy land of Jerusalem has been a territory of battle. Now, majority Jewish country of Israel is at a conflict with majority Muslim country of Palestine. This Israel-Palestine conflict in 2021 began with the Israeli government barricading the Damascus Gate Plaza in East Jerusalem on April 12. This restriction caused the Palestinians to protest, resulting in a violent clash between the Israel police and the Palestinians. Soon enough, on April 16, the Israeli government imposed a restriction on the number of people who can enter and give prayer at Al-Asa, a mosque in East Jerusalem. This also resulted in a clash between the Israel police and the Palestinian protestors. With tensions high, social media aided in fueling the flames of Israeli anger as video of Palestinian man slapping an Orthodox Jewish man spread across the internet. With growing tensions bursting with attacks between Arabs and Jews on one another, the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu made a statement to cool things off, “Nothing can justify an Arab mob assaulting Jews, and nothing can justify a Jewish mob assaulting Arabs.” While the Arabs and Jews fought one another on the street, a militant group Hamas located in Gaza Strip fired 1,500 rockets into the cities of Israel on May 10th, prompting Israeli anti-missile system to react. In retaliation, the Israel Defense Force targeted more than 100 sights with members of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. While the IDF claims that they have warned the strikes before they were launched to allow for civilian evacuations, the missile strikes resulted in a catastrophic destruction of buildings in Gaza. As the whole world closely watches on the missile strikes between Hamas and IDF, President Biden made a remark on Wednesday, “My expectation and hope is that this will be closing down sooner than later, but Israel has a right to defend itself when you have thousands of rockets flying into your territory.” As the Biden administration continues their foreign policy in supporting Israel and their legitimacy, continuing on the efforts of the previous Trump administration, there has been a wide range of backlashes by pro-Palestine members of Congress in his own party. With both Palestine and Israel fighting for control, the conflict has caused hundreds of casualties on both sides.
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