Protest outside US embassy in Manila against Gaza clashes, US role

Описание: (17 May 2018) Dozens of Filipino demonstrators marched to the US embassy in Manila on Thursday to protest against the killing of 59 Palestinian protesters in Gaza on Monday.
Chanting "US imperialist number one terrorist" and holding placards, the group were blocked by riot police near Manila's US Embassy where they burned mock US and Israeli flags.
Fifty-nine people were killed on Monday, and more than 2,700 were injured, during mass protests along the Gaza border, while just a few miles away Israel and the US held a festive inauguration ceremony for the new American Embassy in contested Jerusalem.
It was by far the deadliest day of cross-border violence since a devastating 2014 war between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers, and further dimmed the already bleak prospects for President Donald Trump's hoped-for peace plan.
Israeli gunfire has killed more than 110 Palestinians and wounded hundreds more since the protests began on March 30.
The Hamas-led organisers of what they called the Great March of Return initially billed the six-week protests as a call to break through the border fence and return to homes that were lost 70 years ago during the war surrounding Israel's creation.
Two-thirds of Gaza's 2-million people are descendants of refugees who either fled or were forced from their homes.

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