May 13, 2021
The rockets came in response to the Israeli police raiding Al-Aqsa Mosque and efforts to evict the inhabitants of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem and give their houses to Israeli settlers.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, the Israeli military operation has so far killed 83 Palestinians including 17 children, seven women and an elderly person and wounded 388 others, including 115 children and 50 women.
On May 13, the Israeli army announced that it had struck 600 Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets in the Gaza Strip since the onset of the military operation up to that morning.
Israeli airstrikes destroyed three residential and office towers and dozens of houses and security and police offices in the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, Palestinian factions continued to launch hundreds of rockets toward Israel.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) Rockets streamed out of Gaza and Israel pounded the territory with airstrikes early Wednesday as the most severe outbreak of violence since the 2014 war took on many hallmarks of that devastating 50-day conflict, with no endgame in sight.
Rockets gushing from Gaza, and Israel hit the territory with air strikes early Wednesday. This is the worst outbreak of violence since the 2014 war, marking
Gaza officials: Death toll from Israeli strikes rises to 43
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – The Gaza Health Ministry says the death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Gaza has climbed to 43, including 13 children and three woman.
It says nearly 300 Palestinians in the territory have been wounded in the strikes, which began Monday as Palestinians launched a barrage of rockets into Israel.
The worst fighting since the 2014 Gaza war was ignited by clashes in Jerusalem in recent weeks between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police focused on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, a site sacred to Jews and Muslims.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.