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\nMonday, May 17, 2021
\nIsrael conducted dozens of air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Monday, after Palestinian militants fired barrages of rockets at southern Israeli cities.<\/p>\n
\nMonday, May 17, 2021
\nIsrael conducted dozens of air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Monday, after Palestinian militants fired barrages of rockets at southern Israeli cities.<\/p>\n
The pre-dawn raids on Gaza were some of the heaviest seen since the fighting began a week ago.<\/p>\n
Israel said it hit facilities belonging to the militant group Hamas and several commanders’ homes, but main roads and power lines were also damaged.<\/p>\n
There were no immediate reports of casualties following the strike.<\/p>\n
People in Ga<\/p>\n
Describing previous air strikes over the weekend, she said: “People we know [were killed], people we work with… ordinary people, professional people, young and old.”<\/p>\n
They struck 35 “terror targets” and destroyed more than 15km (9.3 miles) of an underground tunnel network belonging to Hamas, it added.<\/p>\n
The military also said it had hit the homes of nine “high-ranking” Hamas commanders. <\/p>\n
Israeli soldiers also fired artillery from positions near the Gaza border.<\/p>\n
Israel said the air strikes hit Hamas targets, but homes and other buildings were also damaged.<\/p>\n
The fighting began after weeks of rising Israeli-Palestinian tension in occupied East Jerusalem that culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by both Muslims and Jews.<\/p>\n
Hamas, which controls Gaza, began firing rockets after warning Israel to withdraw from the site, triggering retaliatory air strikes.<\/p>\n
Israel says more than 3,000 rockets have been fired into the country over the past week.<\/p>\n
On Monday, rocket warning sirens sounded again, in several areas around southern Israel. <\/p>\n
One rocket hit an apartment building in the city of Ashdod and several people were reportedly hurt.<\/p>\n
Palestinian officials in Gaza, meanwhile, said the overnight strikes had caused widespread power cuts and damaged hundreds of homes and other buildings.<\/p>\n
“Slept for 3 hours – we are physically safe but had one of the [most] difficult nights,” one resident wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n
The overall death toll in the territory now stands at 198, including 58 children and 34 women, with 1,230 injured, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. <\/p>\n
Israel says more than 130 militants are among the dead – but Hamas has not recognised this.<\/p>\n
International calls for a ceasefire have continued to mount.<\/p>\n
Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday that his country was “going to great lengths to reach a ceasefire… and hope still exists”.<\/p>\n
The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on Sunday, and Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres warned that further fighting had “the potential to unleash an uncontainable security and humanitarian crisis”.<\/p>\n
He pleaded for an immediate end to the “utterly appalling” violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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