Israel strikes Gaza home of Hamas leader, building housing media outlets
Israel strikes Gaza home of Hamas leader, building housing media outlets
Israel slammed the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, in a dramatic escalation that included bombing the home of a senior Hamas leader, killing a family of 10 in a refugee camp.
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UPDATED: May 16, 2021 08:44 IST
The week of deadly violence, set off by a Hamas rocket Monday, came after weeks of mounting tensions and heavy-handed Israeli measures in contested Jerusalem. (AP)
Israel slammed the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, in a dramatic escalation that included bombing the home of a senior Hamas leader, killing a family of 10 in a refugee camp most of them children and pulverizing a high-rise that housed The Associated Press and other media.
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Gaza City | Israel slammed the Gaza Strip with airstrikes on Saturday (Sunday AEST), in a dramatic escalation that included bombing the home of a senior Hamas leader, killing a family of 10 in a refugee camp â most of them children â and pulverising a high-rise that housed media outlets.
The Hamas militant group continued a stream of rocket volleys into Israel, including a late-night barrage on Tel Aviv. One man was killed when a rocket hit his home in a suburb of the seaside metropolis.
With a US envoy on the ground, calls increased for a ceasefire after five days of mayhem that have left at least 145 Palestinians dead in Gaza â including 41 children and 23 women â and eight dead on the Israeli side, all but one of them civilians, including a 5-year-old child.
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Rocket fire from Gaza and Israel’s bombardment of the blockaded Palestinian territory continued into early Saturday, when an airstrike on a three-story house in a refugee camp in Gaza City killed eight children and two women from an extended family.