Israel continues bombing Gaza, more than 100 dead so far – VIDEO

Defence Redefined

Published on 14/05/2021 at 15:00

Israel today continued to bombard the Gaza Strip with air raids and artillery fire, as the military confrontation with the Palestinians escalates, with more than 100 having so far lost their lives in the Palestinian enclave.

During the night, the Israeli army intensified its bombardment “to cause significant damage to the tunnels” allowing Hamas fighters and officials, who have fired hundreds of rockets against Israel, to move into the Gaza Strip without Jewish state cameras or go to Israel to take hostages, it said.

Hundreds of Gaza residents have fled their homes due to tank bombings across the Israeli-occupied Palestinian enclave, surrounded by a high-security fence, according to eyewitnesses.

The Israeli army struck a total of 150 targets overnight, while Hamas fired rockets against southern Israeli cities such as Sderot, Ashkelon and Beersheva. Tanks and armored vehicles.

Since the start of the new round of violence on Monday, 119 Palestinians have been killed, including 31 children, in the Gaza Strip and 830 people have been injured, according to the latest report from the local Ministry of Health.

In Israel, the “Iron Dome” air defence system has intercepted about 90% of the 1,800 rockets fired from Gaza this week and the death toll has risen to eight after the death of an elderly woman who got injured while trying to reach a shelter. Hundreds of other Israelis have been injured.

On Thursday, the Israeli army assembled tanks and armored vehicles across the Gaza Strip. The Ministry of Defence allowed the army to mobilize thousands of reservists. Shortly after midnight, an army spokesman announced that Israeli troops had entered Gaza, before withdrawing and referring to “a problem in internal communication”. Three rockets were also fired last night from Lebanon to Israel among this chaos and landed in the Mediterranean, according to the Israeli army. According to a Lebanese army source, the rockets were fired from an area near a Palestinian refugee camp.

The ongoing clashes broke out after Hamas fired rockets at Israel as an act of “solidarity” to more than 700 Palestinians who were injured in last week’s incidents and those on Monday with the Israeli police in the Temen square in East Jerusalem, an area illegally occupied in 1967, according to the UN.

The clashes in the square, the third holiest site of Islam, followed days of tension and incidents in East Jerusalem, mainly due to the threat of expulsion of Palestinian families by Jewish settlers.

Second front

The conflict has also strained relations between Arabs and Jews living in several Israeli cities, with violence between the two communities reaching an unprecedented extent, according to the Israeli police. Nearly 1,000 members of the border police have been called in to help in the cities of Israel, where both Arabs and Jews live, and where riots and shootings have been taking place since Tuesday. More than 400 people from both communities have been arrested in the last three days.

A man opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon against a group of Jews in Lod, near Tel Aviv, on Thursday night, injuring one person, according to an eyewitness. The Police announced last night that a synagogue had been set on fire and 43 arrests had been made. Groups of far-right Israelis clashed with security forces and Arab Israelis, descendants of Palestinians who remained in their land after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

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