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> Conclusions: At the time of writing, there were 52 people killed and 2410 wounded during today’s peaceful Palestinian protests.

You can see some videos here [1] of the "peaceful" protesters throwing explosives, firebombs and rocks. You can see them trying to pull the boarder fence down and them rolling burning tires towards the boarder. If those people are peaceful I wounder what the author would consider violent.

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-army-releases-footage-...

Wow. I am very out of the loop. What the hell is happening?

> exploding bullets that are causing severe injuries reported today and on other days

How is this okay?!

It’s not - Israel’s army is among the small set of armies that continues to use illegal munitions (I recall they were using cluster bombs a few years ago).

I am unclear why they feel it necessary, but that’s how their army operates (not helped by their current nationalist PM) :-/

Aren't frangible and hollow-point bullets banned by international treaties, but legal for American police forces to use?
The geneva convention only covers militaries not police forces. Regardless "international law" is a bit of a misnomer. It exists only at the tolerance of sovereigns who can and do ignore it whenever it suits them.