Scores of Palestinians killed at Gaza border as US Embassy moves to Jerusalem
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Vivid split-screen realities played out Monday in Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip as the Trump administration brought to symbolic fruition its controversial decision to move the U.S. Embassy to the holy city, while dozens died in a chaotic confrontation between Israeli troops and Palestinians seeking to breach the squalid enclave's frontier.
The embassy inauguration, presided over by dignitaries including President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law and Mideast adviser Jared Kushner, drew wide condemnation from across the Arab world, and was shunned by U.S. allies in western Europe. The festivities posed an arresting contrast to the bloodshed only 50 miles to the south, where at least 52 Palestinians died on the
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