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This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the rubble of a security compound after an Israeli strike targeted it in Gaza City in the Gaza Strip.
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A man is seen trough a hole in a wall of a residential building after it was struck by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, Israel, on Friday.
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Turmoil from the battle between Israel and Hamas spilled over into the West Bank on Friday, sparking the most widespread Palestinian protests in years as hundreds of young demonstrators in multiple towns clashed with Israeli troops, who shot and killed at least 11 people.
On Friday, due to a large number of artillery and air strikes launched by Israel, the Palestinians hijacked their children and property, fled the residential
Palestinians flee and deaths increase as Israel unleashes a barrage of artillery fire on northern Gaza Author: Fares Akram, Joseph Krauss, Associated Press Updated: May 14 Published May 14
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Print article GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Thousands of Palestinians grabbed children and belongings and fled their homes Friday as Israel barraged the northern Gaza Strip with tank fire and airstrikes, killing a family of six in their house and heavily damaging other neighborhoods in what it said was an operation to clear militant tunnels. As international efforts at a cease-fire stepped up, Israel appeared to be looking to inflict intensified damage on the Islamic militant group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip and has fired hundreds of rockets into Israel.
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Egyptian mediators met with both warring parties, but made no headway
Israel on Thursday said it was massing troops along the Gaza frontier and calling up 9,000 reservists ahead of a possible ground invasion of the Hamas-ruled territory, as the two bitter enemies plunged closer to all-out war.
Egyptian mediators rushed to Israel for cease-fire efforts but showed no signs of progress.
The stepped-up fighting came as communal violence in Israel erupted for a fourth night, with Jewish and Arab mobs clashing in the flashpoint town of Lod. The fighting took place despite a bolstered police presence ordered by the nation’s leaders.
Israel s relentless campaign was clouded with confusion after a military spokesperson told the international media on Thursday that its soldiers were on the ground in Gaza then later saying they weren t, CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab reports. The Israeli media says the apparent miscommunication could have been part of a deliberate ploy to confuse Hamas.
But it didn t slow Hamas campaign of rocket fire; at least 1,800 have been fired at Israel since the conflict began, Tyab reports.
Israel called up 9,000 reservists Thursday to join its troops massed at the Gaza border. Before dawn Friday, Israeli tanks deployed on the border and warplanes carried out an intense barrage on the northern end of the Gaza Strip.