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Israeli troops enter Gaza strip as conflict in region escalates
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Israel Defense Forces strike Gaza targets as over 200 rockets fired at Israel
The Israel Defense Forces said on May 11 that more than 200 rockets had been fired toward Israel from Gaza. In response, they said 140 Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets had been hit overnight. Credit - Israel Defense Forces via Storyful
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - The Israeli military said Thursday that it had deployed air and ground troops within the Gaza Strip to battle the Hamas militant group, which has been launching rocket barrages since Monday.
Israel had been retaliating with air strikes, but the ground attack marks another major escalation in what authorities were already describing as the largest clash between Israelis and Palestinian militants since 2014.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) Screams and flying debris enveloped Umm Majed al-Rayyes as explosions hurled her from her bed in Gaza City. Groping in the dark, the 50-year-old grabbed her four children and ran as Israeli bombs struck their apartment building Wednesday, shattering windows, ripping doors to splinters and blasting away concrete.
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A man pulls his luggage while passing the rubble of a destroyed building which was hit by Israeli airstrikes, in Gaza City, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
“There is nowhere to run, there is nowhere to hide,” said Zeyad Khattab, a 44-year-old pharmacist in Gaza City, who fled to the family home where he grew up in the central Gaza district of Deir al-Balah with a dozen relatives when bombs pounded his residential high-rise. “That terror is impossible to describe.”
As Hamas and other militant groups fired hundreds of rockets into Israeli cities, including Tel Aviv, killing at least seven Israelis, worries grew that the latest violence could spiral into a protracted conflict. The Hamas barrages sent hundreds of thousands of Israelis running to bomb shelters across the country and hit numerous civilian targets, including a bus and a school in the city of Askhelon that was empty because authorities had ordered all schools closed.
Fear in Gaza grows amid fighting with Israel: ‘That terror is impossible to describe’
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People inspect the rubble of a destroyed residential building which was hit by Israeli airstrikes, in Gaza City, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)AP
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BY ISABEL DEBRE and FARES AKRAM, The Associated Press
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) Screams and flying debris enveloped Umm Majed al-Rayyes as explosions hurled her from her bed in Gaza City. Groping in the dark, the 50-year-old grabbed her four children and ran as Israeli bombs struck their apartment building Wednesday, shattering windows, ripping doors to splinters and blasting away concrete.