Marches, Injuries Take Over 'Palestinian Day of Rage'

Palestinian women shout slogans during a protest against the US intention to move its embassy to Jerusalem and recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Gaza City. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Palestinian women shout slogans during a protest against the US intention to move its embassy to Jerusalem and recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Gaza City. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
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Marches, Injuries Take Over 'Palestinian Day of Rage'

Palestinian women shout slogans during a protest against the US intention to move its embassy to Jerusalem and recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Gaza City. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Palestinian women shout slogans during a protest against the US intention to move its embassy to Jerusalem and recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Gaza City. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Palestinian protesters clashed with the Israeli army on Wednesday in West Bank and Gaza Strip, in response to factions’ calls for transforming Wednesday into a day of rage against the US administration. They went down to streets in marches supported and facilitated by the Palestinian authority that has granted employees permission to leave early and participate in the marches, as a denouncement of the US President Donald Trump decision on occupied Jerusalem.

Remarkably, officials in Fatah and Palestine Liberation Organization participated in these marches with their families. Fatah and Islamic and national forces called for rage marches against Vice President Mike Pence who was supposed to visit Israel on Wednesday before he delays his visit to avoid more tension.

Palestinians raised flags of their country and posters saying that Jerusalem is an Arab city.

Azzam al-Ahmad, head of Fatah's Central Committee, said that what is happening is a “battle that should continue” in a way that reinforces the Palestinian authority will to spur confrontations as one of the available options against Trump decision to recognize Jerusalem the capital of Israel.

Munir al-Jaghoub, head of Fatah's Information Department, stated that the marches in West Bank and Gaza Strip were against the US hostile approach towards the Palestinian cause, especially against Vice President Mike Pence who played a key role in Trump's announcement. Jaghoub told Asharq Al-Awsat that “Pence represents hatred against Arabs and Muslims, and he has a big plan to Judaize Jerusalem. This rage was directed against him and his administration.”

He affirmed that the Palestinian rage against the US administration won't stop.

Since the beginning of clashes on Dec. 7, Israel killed nine Palestinians, wounded around 4,000 and arrested hundreds. In this context, the Palestinian National Accord government warned from the danger of the Israeli occupation escalation.



Gaza Civil Defense Says Israeli Strikes Kill at Least 29

A Palestinian girl, wounded in an Israeli strike that killed people, who gathered to collect water from a distribution point, according to medics, receives treatment at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip July 13, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
A Palestinian girl, wounded in an Israeli strike that killed people, who gathered to collect water from a distribution point, according to medics, receives treatment at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip July 13, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
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Gaza Civil Defense Says Israeli Strikes Kill at Least 29

A Palestinian girl, wounded in an Israeli strike that killed people, who gathered to collect water from a distribution point, according to medics, receives treatment at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip July 13, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
A Palestinian girl, wounded in an Israeli strike that killed people, who gathered to collect water from a distribution point, according to medics, receives treatment at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip July 13, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer

Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli airstrikes on Sunday killed at least 29 Palestinians, including six children near a water distribution point.

The attacks came with apparent deadlock in a week of indirect talks in Qatar between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas for a ceasefire in the territory.

Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that Gaza City was hit by several strikes overnight and in the early morning, killing eight, "including women and children" and wounding others.

An Israeli airstrike hit a family home near the Nuseirat refugee camp, south of Gaza City, resulting in "10 martyrs and several injured", Bassal said.

In central Gaza, six children were among eight people killed when a drone "hit a potable water distribution point in an area for displaced people" in the Nuseirat camp, he added.

Several other people were wounded, he said.

In the territory's south, three people were killed when Israeli jets hit a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in the coastal Al-Mawasi area, according to the civil defense spokesman.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which has recently intensified its operations across Gaza, more than 21 months into the war triggered by Hamas's October 2023 attack.

On Saturday, the military said fighter jets had hit more than 35 "Hamas terror targets" around Beit Hanun in northern Gaza.

The vast majority of Gaza's population of more than two million people have been displaced at least once during the war, which has created dire humanitarian conditions in the territory.

Media restrictions in Gaza and difficulties accessing many areas mean AFP is unable to independently verify tolls and details provided by the civil defense agency and other parties.