Israel says Gaza airstrikes have destroyed miles of militant tunnels and homes of 9 Hamas commanders
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Israel says Gaza militant tunnels destroyed in heavy airstrikes
17 May, 2021 10:00 AM
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Moment an Israeli air raid bombed the offices of Al Jazeera and The Associated Press in Gaza City. Video / Al Jazeera
Moment an Israeli air raid bombed the offices of Al Jazeera and The Associated Press in Gaza City. Video / Al Jazeera
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By: Fares Akram and Joseph Krauss, AP
The Israeli military has unleashed a wave of heavy airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, saying it destroyed 15km of militant tunnels and the homes of nine Hamas commanders.
Residents of Gaza awakened by the overnight barrage described it as the heaviest since the war began a week ago, and even more powerful than a wave of airstrikes in Gaza City on Sunday that left 42 dead and flattened three buildings. That earlier attack was the deadliest in the current round of hostilities between Israel and Gaza s Hamas rulers.
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Israel says Gaza tunnels destroyed in heavy airstrikes
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) The Israeli military unleashed a wave of heavy airstrikes on the Gaza Strip early Monday, saying it destroyed 15 kilometers (nine miles) of militant tunnels and the homes of nine Hamas commanders.
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Israel intensified its attacks on high-ranking militant commanders in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, as well as the group’s network of underground tunnels, rebuffing international pleas to halt its onslaught.
The Israeli military reported that a top commander in Islamic Jihad, Gaza’s second-largest militant group, had been killed in the heavy aerial and artillery attacks on Monday, which Israel characterized as strikes on terrorist infrastructure and weapons storage locations. Hamas continued to rain rocket fire on civilian targets in Israel as the fighting entered its second week.
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