A Palestinian hunger striker dies in an Israeli prison, fighting in Sudan continues, and looking back at George W. Bush’s “mission accomplished” moment in Iraq. Here’s your round up of our coverage, written by Abubakr Al-Shamahi, Al Jazeera Digital’s Middle East and North Africa editor.
Over the past few months, I’ve had this feeling that Israel and the Palestinians are on the verge of a major incident, or even a widespread Palestinian uprising—an intifada. So many things could spark it. It could be the ongoing Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank that have already killed more than 100 Palestinians this year, or maybe the attacks on Israelis by individual Palestinians. Then again, it could be the rockets fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, or the violent confrontations at Al-Aqsa Mosque. But so far, despite limited exchanges of Israeli air attacks and Palestinian rockets, it hasn’t happened.
