Rescue workers found the remains alive under the rubble on Sunday, when the bombing of the besieged Gaza Strip by Israel entered its seventh consecutive day.
A 150-hour-long rainstorm swept across the territory on Sunday night, a Palestinian security source said it was the “most intense” blast since the second intifada or uprising began in 2000.
Emergency crews rushed from the vast piles of burning rubbish and dumped the bodies that had been dumped in the buildings, crying in fear and grief.
Nearly half of the rockets were aimed at the al-Wehda Gaza City district, where homes, infrastructure and roads were destroyed or partially damaged.
IDF spokesperson says fighting far from over despite international pressure
Yoav Zitun, Attila Somfalvi |
Published: 05.15.21 , 21:25
IDF Spokesperson Brigadier General Hidai Zilberman said on Saturday that the Israeli attack on Gaza will continue despite international pressure to stop Israeli strikes. This will be an intense night, Zilberman said in an interview to Ynet.
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Israeli air and ground troops launched a blistering assault on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, sweeping aside international appeals for de-escalation after four days of aerial bombardments failed to quell the heaviest militant rocket fire yet on Israel from the Palestinian enclave.
(Bloomberg) Israeli warplanes and Gaza Strip rocket squads kept up an unremitting exchange of airstrikes and barrages Thursday in a conflict that’s touched off mob violence between Israeli Arabs and Jews, and sent neighboring Egypt scrambling in search of a cease-fire.