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'Not surprising Israeli troops opened fire'

The symbolic move of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was followed by violence on the border with the Palestinian territories, with dozens of deaths and thousands of injuries.

In a personal film for This Week, Dan Hodges looks at claims the hard-line Hamas group was attempting an invasion of armed protestors and Israel's right to self-defence, but why its forces could not deal with hostile crowds and serious unrest without resorting to mass casualties.

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