ISRAELI SOLDIERS' RAMADAN MESSAGE

This viral clip of Israeli soldiers wishing Muslims a happy Ramadan is sadistic at worst and a failed public-relations stunt at best.

Israel has killed more than 31,000 Palestinians, injured close to 74,000 and restricted food for the Gaza Strip's 2.1 million people.

Israeli police attacked Muslim worshippers at the al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem, Islam's third holiest site, on the first night of Ramadan (10 March). Restrictions for the entry of worshippers continued during the first week of the holy month of Ramadan, with a 20 per cent reduction this year of people who were able to enter the holy site for the first Friday of Ramadan prayers. Men above age 55 and women above 50 only were allowed in with a permit, leaving more than 95 per cent of Palestinians out, according to Mustafa Barghouti, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative. Last year, on the first Friday of Ramadan prayers, about 100,000 people entered the holy site.

Meanwhile, Israel has warned it may attack Rafah, the southernmost point of Gaza, escalating the ongoing humanitarian crisis for the approximately 1.5 million Palestinians taking refuge after being displaced from points north.

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