Escalation in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and Israel - Situation Report No. 1: 13 April - 20 May, 2021
Format MAY, a Palestinian woman from Gaza
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The situation in Gaza and the West Bank remains dire. As hostilities continue, civilian casualties continue to mount, particularly as air strikes target more densely populated communities. Given the already compromised protection and healthcare infrastructures in Gaza, health systems are on the verge of collapse a reality further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
As in other humanitarian crises, women and girls continue to bear the brunt of these hostilities, placing their lives, dignity, and well-being at risk. There are currently around 87,000 pregnant women in Gaza and vulnerable areas of the West Bank. An estimated 29,000 women will give birth over the next 3 months in these areas. For both pregnant and lactating women, lack of access to quality healthcare services will further jeopar
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Fifteen Palestinian nuclear and extended families lost at least three, and in general more, of their members, in the Israeli shelling of the Gaza Strip during the week from May 10 through to Monday afternoon. Parents and children, babies, grandparents, siblings and nephews and nieces died together when Israel bombed their homes, which collapsed over them. Insofar as is known, no advance warning was given so that they could evacuate the targeted houses.
On Saturday, a representative of the Palestinian Health Ministry brought listed the names of 12 families who were killed, each one at its home, each one in a single bombing. Since then, in one air raid before dawn on Sunday, which lasted 70 minutes and was directed at three houses on Al Wehda Street in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza, three families numbering 38 people in total were killed. Some of the bodies were found on Sunday morning. Palestinian
(LONDON and CAIRO) — Israeli air and ground troops have carried out strikes into the Gaza Strip, authorities said, as the latest round of fighting between Israel’s military and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group ruling the Gaza Strip, continued. Israel Defense Forces tanks and artillery operating at the border fired into Gaza, Lt. Col. Jonathan [.]
Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel s military correspondent.
Some 160 aircraft flying simultaneously conducted a massive attack on a network of tunnels dug by the Hamas terror group under the northern Gaza Strip around midnight Thursday in the largest Israeli strike since the outbreak of fighting earlier this week, the military said Friday.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, in this air campaign, which lasted nearly 40 minutes, some 450 missiles were dropped on 150 targets in northern Gaza, particularly around the city of Beit Lahiya.
The military said it was still working to determine the extent of the damage caused to the underground infrastructure, which IDF Spokesperson Hidai Zilberman told reporters was a “strategic asset” to Hamas, and the number of terrorist operatives killed in the strikes.
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Attacks continue between Israel and militant group Hamas. Palestinian officials say 56 people have been killed, including children. The Israeli military reported 1,200 rockets launched toward Israel.Hatem Moussa/AP
LONDON and CAIRO Dozens of civilians have been killed while hundreds more have been wounded as the latest round of fighting between Israel s military and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group ruling the Gaza Strip, entered its fourth straight day.