Tensions continue to rise in the Middle East as 27Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, including nine children, leading the United Nations to hold an urgent security council meeting on the matter. Monday saw weeks of tensions over the planned eviction of Palestinians from their homes near East Jerusalem boil over, with hundreds wounded after Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Hamas responded by firing over 200 rockets at Jerusalem, though there were no reported casualties, which prompted the Israeli airstrikes. U.S. President Joe Biden is now under pressure from left-leaning members of his party and activists to offer harsher condemnation of Israel.    

Sources: Haaretz, Al Jazeera