Why Hamas wants thousands of Palestinians to die next week

Published May 10, 2018 7:07pm ET



Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is arranging for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to march on the Israeli-Palestinian border next Monday and Tuesday. Addressing Palestinians in Gaza, Hamas’ leader there portrayed the protests as a peaceful effort to mourn historic wrongs.

In reality, this is a Hamas effort to weaponize what the Palestinians refer to as “Nabka” or the “Catastrophe,” when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians abandoned their homes during the 1948 war with Israel. But Hamas isn’t really interested in remembering history, it simply wants to force a confrontation between Palestinian civilians and Israeli soldiers guarding the border with Gaza.

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