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Israeli strikes on Gaza City flattened three buildings and killed 42 more people on Sunday alone, marking one of the deadliest days so far in the week-long conflict.
Citing Palestinian officials, Reuters reports at least 190 people have been killed over the past week in Gaza, with another 11-hundred wounded.
It added Israel reports ten Israelis have been killed and at least 560 have been injured.
On Sunday, Israeli air strikes hit the HQ of Hamas political wing in a densely populated residential area.
Israel has been targeting a number of tall offices and residential buildings in Gaza, saying they contain Hamas military infrastructure.
The violence in Israel and Gaza is showing no signs of abating.
Rocket fire and air strikes have continued for days and Israel s Prime Minister insists the country needs to resort to force. I cannot tell you that we are not facing escalation. The intelligence we have says that it is very possible that there will be an increase in violence here in the coming days. There may be an exchange of blows here. And in cases like these, in order to suppress a riot, we need to use force, a lot of force, we will use it while giving full support to the Israeli police.
As violence escalates between Israel and Palestine, Israeli forces on Tuesday night demolished a 13-story residential building in Gaza in an airstrike.
Late into the night, Gazans reported their homes shaking and the sky lighting up with near-constant Israeli strikes.
They also explained there was warning an hour before the strike, it s not clear whether it was enough time for people to evacuate.
While it s not clear why the Israeli military targeted that specific building, they said it housed the offices of top Hamas officials.
It s also unclear whether the airstrike led to any casualties, but electricity in the surrounding area went out following the collapse.
The ongoing clashes between Israel and Palestine are spiraling into a border conflict, with Palestinian militants along the Gaza Strip on Monday firing rockets toward Jerusalem as well as southern Israel.
The rockets were fired shortly after a deadline issued by Gaza s Islamist rulers Hamas for Israel to withdraw its forces following continued clashes. Israel responded to the rockets with air strikes.
Gaza s health ministry says nine Palestinians, including three children, were killed in northern Gaza.
Israel s Prime Minister warned that such attacks will never be tolerated. This evening, on Jerusalem Day, the terrorist organisations in Gaza have crossed a red line and attacked us with missiles in the outskirts of Jerusalem. Israel will respond with great force. We will not tolerate attacks on our territory, on our capital, on our citizens and on our soldiers. Whoever attacks us will pay a heavy price.