Events in the year 2018 in Palestine.
Incumbents State of Palestine (UN observer non-member State) President: Mahmoud Abbas (PLO) Prime Minister: Rami Hamdallah Government of Palestine – 17th Government of Palestine Gaza Strip (Hamas administration unrecognized by the United Nations) Prime Minister: Yahya Sinwar (Hamas)
Events 30 March - A series of weekly mass demonstrations in the Gaza Strip near the border with Israel are held, demanding that Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to lands that are now part of Israel. They also protested against Israel's crippling blockade of the Gaza Strip, as well as the United States recognizing Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. The New York Times, 13 April 2018."They are objecting to Israel's 11-year-old blockade of Gaza and seeking to revive international interest in Palestinian claims of a right of return to the lands they were displaced from in 1948." These protests, first organized by independent activists but later endorsed by Hamas, often devolved into clashes with Israeli security forces, in which 223 palestinians were killed and thousands more injured,'And now for the whitewashing,' B'tselem 24 May 2021 whereas one Israeli soldier was killed and around 4 or 11 Israelis wounded. These demonstrations would continue until 27 December 2019. 30 May – United Nations warns that escalation in the Gaza Strip puts it on the "brink of war". 15 November – Palestine celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence.
Deaths
25 January – Ghassan Shakaa, politician, former mayor of Nablus (b. 1943). 24 March – Rim Banna, singer, composer and activist (b. 1966) 21 April – Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh, engineer and academic (b. 1983)
See also Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2018
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