Police report no unusual incidents at the al-Aqsa mosque compound
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May 23, 2021
A Palestinian girl carries a boy amid the rubble of their houses which were destroyed by Israeli air strikes during the Israel-Hamas fighting in Gaza May 23, 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS
The Israel-Hamas ceasefire held into a third day on Sunday as Israeli police admitted Jewish visitors to a contested Jerusalem holy site where earlier confrontations with Palestinian protesters helped to ignite the cross-border Gaza fighting.
Police reported no unusual incidents at the al-Aqsa mosque compound - one of Islam s holiest sites - as Israeli social media accounts showed a few dozen Jews in religious garb strolling around the site under guard.
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At least 42 Palestinians, including 10 children and 12 women, were killed in an Israeli airstrike that leveled three residential buildings in central Gaza City.
Pope appeals for peace in Holy Land, says death of children ‘unacceptable’
Palestinian Suzy Eshkuntana, 6, is treated by a medic at a hospital after being pulled from the rubble of a building during Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City May 16, 2021. (CNS photo/Mohammed Salem, Reuters)
By Carol Glatz • Catholic News Service • Posted May 19, 2021
VATICAN CITY (CNS) The injury and death of so many innocent people, especially children, caused by escalating violence between Israel and the Gaza Strip is “terrible and unacceptable,” putting the area at risk of sinking into “a spiral of death and destruction,” Pope Francis said.
The pope launched an appeal for calm and asked leaders of both sides “to put a stop to the roar of weapons and to follow the paths of peace, even with the help of the international community,” he said May 16 after reciting the “Regina Coeli” prayer with hundreds of people in St. Peter’s Square.
FIRE STORM
Israel shells Lebanon after jihadi rocket attack in escalation of Gaza bloodshed as Boris & Biden call to protect kids
Updated: May 17 2021, 21:09 ET
ISRAEL has shelled Lebanon after coming under rocket attack, in an escalation of the Gaza bloodshed.
The attack is believed to have been launched by terror group Hezbollah and came as the US and UK called for more to be done to protect civilians caught up in the fighting in the Palestinian enclave.
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Israeli artillery firing back to where the rockets were firedCredit: Twitter
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack from Lebanon though Israel fought a 2006 war against Hezbollah guerrillas, who hold sway in the south of the country.