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Gaza pummelled by fresh Israeli strikes, more than 200 dead in a week Overnight Sunday to Monday, Israel launched dozens of strikes in the space of a few minutes across the crowded coastal Palestinian enclave controlled by Islamist group Hamas, according to AFP journalists at the scene. A streak of light appears as Israel s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, early on May 17, 2021, Israeli warplanes bombarded the Gaza Strip overnight, said witnesses in the Palestinian enclave, from where armed groups have launched rockets into the Jewish state. Picture: Mahmud Hams / AFP
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GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories - Israeli air strikes hammered the Gaza Strip pre-dawn on Monday, after a week of violence between the Jewish state and Islamist militants left more than 200 people dead as international calls for de-escalation went unheeded.
Israeli air strikes hammered the Gaza Strip Monday after a week of violence that has killed more than 200 people, the large majority Palestinian, despite international calls for de-escalation.
Before dawn, in the space of just a few minutes, dozens of Israeli strikes bombarded the crowded coastal Palestinian enclave controlled by Islamist group Hamas, according to AFP journalists and the army.
Flames lit up the sky as intense explosions shook Gaza city, sparking widespread power cuts and damaging hundreds of buildings, local authorities said. No casualties were immediately reported.
Some 3,100 rockets have also been fired by Palestinian militants toward Israel since conflict escalated on May 10 in the heaviest exchange of fire between the rivals in years, sparked by unrest in Jerusalem.
Israeli air strikes have hammered the Gaza Strip, after a week of violence between the Jewish state and Palestinian militants left more than 200 people dead as international calls for de-escalation went unheeded.
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A group of men who shouted anti-Semitic abuse while driving through a Jewish community in North London were part of a convoy that travelled 200 miles from Bradford, it was reported today, as police stepped up patrols at synagogues and Sadiq Khan said there was no excuse for racism.
Onlookers were left horrified after the passengers yelled: F the Jews. F all of them. F their mothers, f their daughters and show your support for Palestine. Rape their daughters and we have to send a message like that. Please do it for the poor children in Gaza.
Mr Khan, who was recently re-elected as Mayor of London, told BBC Radio 4 s Today programme this morning: Many of us feel quite strongly about what s happened in Israel and Gaza, what we can t do is use that as an excuse for any kind of anti-Semitism or hate crime.