Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Shashak Joshi, filling in for Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Last week, one of America's largest fuel pipelines was shut down after a cyber attack in which the company's data was held hostage for money.

We look at the growing scourge of ransomware attacks and why they're so hard to stop.

And in China, the dead are struggling to rest in peace.

As old taboos fade, grave robbing has been on the rise.

For thousands of enterprising Tomb Raiders, it's become big business. But first...

Yesterday, in the worst

in the worst outbreak of violence in years, the Palestinian militant group Hamas

fired more than 200 rockets towards Jerusalem,

before Israel responded with airstrikes on Gaza.

24 people, including nine children, were killed.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel does not seek escalation,

but whoever chooses to escalate will feel the weight of our arm.

The conflict followed the annual Jerusalem Day March by Jewish Nationalists, which commemorates

Israel's capture of East Jerusalem in 1967.

Palestinians see it as a provocation, but the atmosphere this year was worse than normal,

after a weekend of protests in which nearly 300 Palestinians and more than a dozen Israeli police officers were injured.

Tens of thousands of worshippers gathered at Al-Aksa Mosque on Saturday, the holiest night

of Ramadan. But police blocked busloads of Muslims on their way to the mosque, citing unrest

in the neighbouring Sheikh Jara district over a court ruling on the possible eviction of Palestinian families

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