(LONDON and CAIRO) — Israeli air and ground troops have carried out strikes into the Gaza Strip, authorities said, as the latest round of fighting between Israel’s military and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group ruling the Gaza Strip, continued. Israel Defense Forces tanks and artillery operating at the border fired into Gaza, Lt. Col. Jonathan [.]
2021-05-14 13:36:12 GMT2021-05-14 21:36:12(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) China on Friday slammed the United States for compelling the UN Security Council to postpone a meeting on the Palestine-Israel issue that was originally scheduled to open Friday.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told a daily news briefing that on Monday, the United States expressed opposition to the adoption of a Security Council presidential statement on the Palestine-Israel issue, and it also blocked the issuance of a statement from UN Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday expressing concern about the situation in Palestine. Like the international community, China is also gravely concerned about the current escalating situation between Israel and Palestine, said Hua.
Tsahal bombed Hamas targets the entire night. The movement fired hundreds of rockets in response.
The conflict is coupled with an escalation between Arabs and Jews in several mixed cities in Israel.
The opposition has criticised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, proclaiming that he is letting the situation get out of hand.
The actual victims of the violence are Palestinian civilians who suffer the most from these strikes.
At least 103 Palestinians were killed and 621 wounded. Hundreds more fled their homes yesterday evening according to witnesses on the ground.
In contrast, Gaza authorities report only seven deaths on Israeli territory.
Several African nations including Sudan, Egypt, Morocco and Algeria have already condemned the disproportionately murderous response by the Israeli forces to Gaza s initial attack triggered by unrest at Jerusalem s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
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Violence has again erupted in the Middle East between the Israeli army and Hamas, the death toll in the disputed territory of Gaza rising in the early hours of Friday morning after a fresh assault from the Israeli army saw ground troops join the operation.
A total of 55 rockets were fired on Thursday in a coordinated effort that saw 160 planes from 12 different squadrons, as well as three brigade forces of infantry soldiers, operate together, Israeli army spokesperson Lt Col Jonathan Conricus said.
He said the assault was aimed at destroying an “underground tunnel system” known as the “metro” in Gaza and that Hamas’s rocket production capacity has been “significantly downgraded” as a result of the action.