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Media signature Israeli air strikes hit Gaza after rocket fire More casualties have occurred in Gaza and Israel as an intense exchange of fire between Palestinian militants and the Israeli army continues.
Militants have fired more than 300 rockets into Israel Since Monday evening they have killed two Israelis. Israel says it achieved 150 targets in Gaza in response.
According to health authorities, 28 Palestinians have died. The international community has called on both sides to end the escalation that followed days of unrest in Jerusalem. Hamas militant group, which controls Gaza, said it acted to defend the Jerusalem al-Aqsa mosque from Israeli "aggression and terrorism" after the place sacred to Muslims and Jews on Monday clashes between the Israeli ones Police and Palestinians had seen the hundreds of people left. Jeremy Bowen: Old grievances fuel new struggles.
What Makes Jerusalem So Holy?Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas "crossed a red line" by firing rockets at Jerusalem for the first time in years.
After a meeting of military chiefs on Tuesday afternoon, Netanyahu warned that they had agreed to increase both the strength and frequency of attacks in Gaza, adding that Hamas "will be hit in ways that it does not expect" .
The past few days saw the worst violence in Jerusalem since 2017. After increasing Palestinian anger over the risk of families being evicted from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers, fueled by a month of clashes between protesters and police in predominantly Arab countries Countries part of the city.
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The violence did not ease overnight, and the sounds of Palestinian rockets and Israeli air strikes continued to resonate across the region on Tuesday.
At dawn, the rockets hit two houses in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. A 40-year-old man was seriously injured, and his wife and two children were also injured. A man observes the damage caused by a Palestinian missile that struck a block in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon (May 11, 2021).
On Tuesday morning, doctors said two women were killed in another rocket attack on Ashkelon, one other person was seriously injured and five others were minor injuries, they added. the total number of patients treated in the hospital to 84.Hamas said it fired 137 rockets attack into the city and near Ashdod in just five minutes, warning that "many surprises" would be in store if fighting continued. Prior to this last bombardment, the Israeli military announced that more than 300 rockets had been fired by militants since 6:00 p.m. (3:00 p.m. GMT) Monday and that 90% of them had been intercepted by its missile defense system.
Iron Dome. Flames and smoke rise from the Gaza Strip on May 11, 2021. The Israeli military said it hit 130 "terrorist targets" in Gaza overnight in response, including two attack tunnels dug under the border with Israel, a Hamas intelligence facility, and weapons manufacturing and storage facilities.
The Bet Security Agency announced that the head of the Islamic Jihad group's special missile unit, Samah Abed al-Mamlouk, had also been killed. Islamic Jihad confirmed the deaths of Mamlouk and two other important figures. continue to attack Hamas and all of its military components for their apparent aggression against Israel, "Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus told the BBC. Map with Israel and the Gaza StripThe Hamas-led Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that at least 28 Palestinians, including 10 children, were killed and more than 150 injured in the Israeli attacks. He said a 59-year-old woman and her disabled son were killed Monday evening, and seven family members, including three children, were killed in an explosion in Beit Hanoun.
The cause of the explosion was unclear. The military said that at least 16 of those killed were members of militant groups and that precautions had been taken to minimize possible harm to civilians. "We are doing everything we can to use the most accurate ammunition only against militants and militants. But the situation on the ground is almost impossible.
Hamas and other terrorist organizations are getting involved in the civilian population," said Lieutenant Colonel Conricus. He also said that roughly every third Rocket per thousand rocket landed in the Gaza Strip, which could cause civilian damage and casualties within the territory.
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