How Israel and Hamas returned to armed conflict
Events in Jerusalem were the spark, but the recrudescence was all but inevitable
JERUSALEM DAY, an Israeli national holiday, fell on May 10th this year. The annual commemoration of Israel’s victory in 1967 was marked not just by a provocative nationalist march through the Old City, as it usually is, but also by a salvo of rockets fired towards the city by Hamas, the Islamist organisation that rules the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.
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