(CNS) Linda Sarsour, the Palestinian American activist and Women’s March leader facing accusations of anti-Semitism, suggested on Tuesday that the firing of hundreds of rockets from Gaza into Israel was a legitimate response to an earlier firefight between Hamas gunmen and undercover Israeli troops.
The firefight in the southern Gaza Strip cost the lives of a senior Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) officer and seven of the Palestinians, including a terrorist commander.
Terrorists in Gaza then fired more than 450 rockets into Israel, killing an Israeli and injuring dozens more, prompting retaliatory airstrikes against Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets.
In a comment posted on social media, Sarsour implied that the “people of Gaza” had little choice but to hit back with rockets after the seven gunmen were killed.
