The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a travel warning for the Russians to stay away from the crowded tourism destinations in Tel Aviv as there are the massive protests by the activists hoping to escalate tensions in the ongoing clashes between Palestinian protesters and the Israeli army on the border with the Gaza Strip.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the Tel Aviv rallies by left- and right-wing activists dedicated to escalation of the conflict on the border of the Gaza Strip. It is recommended to avoid places where there are mass gatherings of people.
There are several hundred left-wing Israeli activists rallied Sunday outside the ruling Likud party’s Tel Aviv headquarters, protesting the military’s response to the border clashes. There have not been any other reported protests in Tel Aviv in response to the border events.
There are more than 30,000 Palestinians who took part in massive demonstrations on Friday along the Gaza border, during which rioters threw rocks and firebombs at Israeli troops on the other side of the fence, burned tires and scrap wood, sought to breach and damage the security fence, and in one case opened fire at Israeli soldiers.
There were discrepancies in Palestinian reports on the death toll from Friday. While Hamas, the terror group that controls Gaza, claimed that 18 had died, the official news agency of the Palestinian Authority had the number at 16.
Israel has no official death toll figures. There were no casualties among Israelis. The Israel Defense Forces said that at least 10 of those killed were members of Palestinian terror groups, including Hamas, and gave details of their roles.
