A year of fighting between Israel and the Palestinians just escalated. Is this an uprising?
July 5, 2023
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Airstrikes targeting Palestinian militants in a crowded residential area. Armored bulldozers plowing through narrow streets, crushing cars and piling up debris. Protesters burning tires. A mounting death toll.
Israel's large-scale military raid into the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank this week had undeniable similarities with the second Palestinian uprising of the early 2000s — a period that claimed thousands of lives.
But the current fighting — including the Jenin raid, which ended after two days on Wednesday — is also different from those intense years o...
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