World Hundreds of Palestinians protest amid heightened tensions over embassy opening

© FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images A demonstrator holds a Palestinian flag during a protest in support of the Palestinian cause, on May 12, 2018 in Rome to mark the 70 years since the Palestinian 'Nakba' of 1948. - The demonstration is also in solidarity with the 'Great Return March' protests in Gaza and to protest against the impending move of the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. (Photo by FILIPPO MONTEFORTE / AFP) (Photo credit should read FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)

There are heightened tensions in Israel this weekend, just days before the opening of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. Israeli forces on Saturday blew up what they said was a Hamas terror tunnel at the Gaza border. Palestinian protesters have been fighting with Israeli troops at the border since March.

Israel prepares for opening of US Embassy in Jerusalem

Israel is preparing a series of festivities to celebrate the opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, a move that has ignited Palestinian protests.A reception on Sunday will include members of a delegation led by President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka, his senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner and Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin.Dozens of foreign diplomats are expected, though many ambassadors of European nations who oppose the move will skip it.Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war and annexed it in a move not recognized internationally.

Palestinian protesters throw eggs at US delegation : Hundreds of Palestinians protest amid heightened tensions Israel prepares for opening of US Embassy in Jerusalem. The Palestinian leadership has frozen ties with the White House over its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

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The site of the new U.S. embassy is being readied, and signs are up across Jerusalem thanking President Trump for moving the embassy, thus recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. On Saturday, hundreds of Palestinians, who have been protesting the embassy move, marched through the streets of Gaza, carrying the body of a protester shot by Israeli troops Friday.

He was among an estimated 15,000 demonstrators, some burning tires and hurling rocks at Israeli forces. Palestinians have also started attaching fire-bombs to kites and flying them into Israel.

Along the Gaza border on Friday, CBS News found Israelis flying kites in a counter-demonstration.

"They kill their own. I mean – they kill their own," said Leah Goldin, whose son Hadar was killed four years in a war with Hamas. His body was never returned. She's angry and thinks Hamas is using Palestinians' suffering for publicity. "This is awful – to use children's games – kites – and to turn them into bombs," Goldin said. "To burn what? The fields?"As a result of one of those fire-kites, a crop that has been destroyed, which was a field of wheat and while the damage is relatively limited, ultimately it is symbolic. After all, this is a fight over land – and who it belongs to.

Israel braces for protests ahead of U.S. Embassy move

Racing across the fields, we found firefighters on specially-fitted motorcycles. Captain Liron Soll explained they go where fire engines cannot.

"All big fires start from small one – if you are in the right place in the right time – you can close it with a glass of water. So, we are the glass of water," Soll said. Israelis told CBS News the burned fields on this side of the conflict cannot compare with the level of suffering or images coming from Gaza. Anger is boiling, Hamas is calling on its supporters to storm the security fence -- and Israel's military is strengthening its defenses.