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Gaza City: Samah Haboub, a mother of four in Gaza, said she was thrown across her bedroom in a “moment of horror” by an air strike on an apartment tower next door.
She and her children, aged three to 14, ran down the stairs of their apartment block along with other residents, many of them screaming and crying.
“There is almost no safe place in Gaza,” she said.
Rockets streamed out of Gaza and Israel pounded the territory with air strikes again on 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.
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Jerusalem: A day of upheaval at the holy sites of this contested city quickly widened into a night of warlike violence on Tuesday as hundreds of rockets from the Gaza Strip resulted in the deaths of at least two Israelis and retaliatory air strikes killed at least 22 Gazans.
Clashes also broke out in the West Bank between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers, as well as between Jewish residents, Israeli police and Arab citizens in Arab-Israeli towns and mixed Jewish-Arab towns, leading to hundreds of arrests and at least one Palestinian fatality.
Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike in Gaza on Tuesday.
by Blair Stenvick • May 11, 2021 at 8:25 am
Relatives of Palestinian Ahmed Al-Shenbari, who was killed during an Israeli raid in Beit Hanoun city on the northern Gaza Strip, mourn during his funeral on May 11, 2021 in Gaza City, Gaza. Fatima Shbair /getty images
Good morning, Portland! Head s up: You have one week left to vote in the May 18 election.
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• Last year, voters in the Portland Metro region voted to fund a new homeless services measure, and now it s time for local elected officials to decide how to spend the millions of dollars it s generated so far. But not everyone in Multnomah County is in agreement on how it ought to be spent: While some want to fund as many alternative shelter beds as possible, others argue that the funds should be focused on sustainable long-term housing solutions.