Although the common belief is that this round began after Israel tried to evict 12 Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, which was indeed an important factor in raising the tension between the two people, the root cause of the problem is the apartheid-like system that Israel has set up in East Jerusalem and the West Bank for the Palestinian people, whereby they are mistreated and discriminated by Israel and its security forces, evicted from their homes, farms, and orchards, and their drinking water resources are used for consumption within Israel.

Indeed, the first spark for current war had its root in the same. In the evening of April 13, the first night in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Israel's president Reuven Rivlin was delivering a speech at the "Western Wall" below the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest place, in honor of Israel's "Memorial Day," the day people of Israel pay their respect to those who lost their lives for their country's independence. As he was speaking, Muslim were also saying their evening prayers in the Mosque. Fearing that Rivlin's speech would be drown out by the Palestinians' prayers, "a squad of Israeli police officers entered the [Al]-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, brushed the Palestinian attendants aside and strode across its vast limestone courtyard. Then they cut the cables to the loudspeakers that broadcast prayers to the faithful from four medieval minarets," as the New York Times reported, That angered the Palestinians and provided the first impetus for the Palestinians' protests and the present cycle of violence.

As of the time of writing this article, at least 200 Palestinians, including 59 children and 35 women, most if not all of them mothers of the same children, have been killed and more than 1300 injured in the Gaza strip by Israel bombings, in retaliation for rocket attacks by Hamas, the Palestinian group that runs Gaza. Another 13 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied territories in the West Bank. Ten Israeli, including two children, have also lost their lives. Bombing by Israel is destroying Gaza, which was already suffering from a grave state of economy, and the surge Corona Virus. The fear is that Israel's bombing will make the already very difficult task of caring for the Covid-19 patients in Gaza practically impossible, when everyone is running for their lives, trying to escape Israel's bombing.