Vox Sentences - Gaetz-gate

• Tensions in the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem turned lethal on Monday night. Hundreds of rockets fired by Hamas resulted in the deaths of 2 women in Southern Israel. IDF authorities responded with airstrikes that killed 28 people in Gaza, including 10 children. [Associated Press / Fares Akram and Josef Federman]
• The rockets followed days of escalating anger and protest among Palestinians regarding Israeli control of the Al Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem; both Jews and Palestinians consider it a holy site. On Monday morning, police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at Muslim worshippers and protesters, who threw stones and chairs. [CBS News / Tucker Reals]
• But unrest has been brewing for much longer. For weeks, Palestinians had been protesting government plans to remove them from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem. [New York Times / Patrick Kingsley and Isabel Kershner]
• Clashes also broke out in the West Bank. Schools in some parts of Israel shut down Tuesday as armed conflict extended into its second day. 5,000 IDF reserve troops have been mobilized by Defense Minister Benny Gantz. [Washington Post / Steve Hendrix and Shira Rubin] 
• Since Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007, Israel and the militant group have fought three wars. Hamas said its use of rockets will continue unabated “unless the occupation stops all manifestations of aggression and terror in Jerusalem and the blessed Al Aqsa Mosque.” [Wall Street Journal / Felicia Schwartz]

[Axios / Marisa Fernandez]

• Over half of surveyed Americans have gone out to eat in the last week, a figure that hasn’t been this high in a year.  [Axios / Margaret Talev]
• The AFL-CIO is sending a complaint against a Mexican auto parts manufacturer to the White House, accusing the company of abusing and harassing members looking to unionize. It’s a test of the enforcement mechanisms in the new US-Mexico trade agreement. [New York Times / Thomas Kaplan]
• UN investigators say they have clear evidence that ISIS participated in a genocidal campaign against the Yazidi minority group in Iraq in 2014, and in the process developed mustard gas and other chemical weapons. [Associated Press / Edith M. Lederer]