Sources confirmed to The Wire that the US had been the only country to object to issuing a press statement, as the Chinese foreign ministry had claimed last week.
An Israeli strike early Saturday killed at least 10 people in Gaza, most of whom were children, as violence also spread to the West Bank, where nearly a dozen people were killed in clashes.
Earlier in the night, the IDF announced that it was conducting an air and ground operation against the Gaza Strip. Several media outlets reported that troops had.
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May 14, 2021 14:51 IST
It is an all-weather system and can engage multiple targets simultaneously and can be deployed over land and sea
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Streaks of light are seen as Israel s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon on May 12, 2021.
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It is an all-weather system and can engage multiple targets simultaneously and can be deployed over land and sea
The Iron Dome aerial defence system just intercepted a Hamas Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that crossed from Gaza into Israel, Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said around 1 p.m. IST on Friday morning on social media. IDF said on Thursday that in the last three days, Hamas has fired more than 1,500 rockets from Gaza all the way into Israel. The night sky over Israel has been ablaze with interceptor missiles from Iron Dome shooting down the incoming rockets in the sky.