Tension is still high in Gaza, where, following the Israeli army's turnaround following the announcement of a ground operation, air strikes and rocket launches continued tonight. Since the start of the conflict,
around 2,300 rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza
. Of these - the army said - 1,000 were intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system. According to the same source, about 380 have fallen back into the territory of Gaza.
At least 10 people, including 2 women and 8 children,
all members of the same Abu Hatab family, were killed last night in an Israeli attack in the Al-Shati refugee camp in the north of the Strip.
The Maan agency reports that it was a three-story house that was hit.
The number of people killed by Israeli raids in Gaza has risen to 126
, including 31 children and 20 women, according to the health authorities of the Strip, quoted by the Haaretz newspaper.
According to the same source, 950 people were injured in the attack, which continued in the evening, albeit with less intensity.
The rocket launches from Gaza also did not stop: the anti-missile sirens sounded tonight in Be'er Sheva, in southern Israel.
Israeli fighters struck targets in central Gaza overnight
, the Israeli army said. Israeli air forces hit several sites in the Strip overnight, while rockets hit the Jewish state again. The Israeli military said it hit a Hamas "operational office" near central Gaza City, with further night attacks on what the military called "underground launch sites". Missile warning sirens sounded early in the day in various locations in southern Israel.
Yesterday rain of fire on Hamas tunnels
. On the fifth day of the war with Gaza, Israel - in the most intense bombings conducted so far - aimed at the underground militia network built after the 2014 clash.
On the eve of May 15, the date of the 'Nakba' with which the Palestinians commemorate the birth of the State of Israel in 1948 and their exodus, the West Bank was the scene of new clashes with the Israeli army. According to sources in Ramallah, the deaths in accidents in various locations are at least ten. To the north, Lebanese demonstrators crowded along the Israeli border crossing over and then re-entering - pursued by the warning fire of the Israeli tanks - into their territory. And also in Jordan a crowd of protesters gathered on the border with the Territories to show solidarity with "the Palestinian brothers" shouting 'With the spirit and the blood, we will redeem you, or Aqsa', in reference to the Mosque on the Esplanade in Jerusalem .
The aviation (over 160 fighters), tanks and ground forces deployed along the border have moved against the tunnels of Gaza - a privileged place for Hamas commands and transmissions. Together, in 40 minutes, with about 450 shots they hit over 150 "underground targets" in the northern Strip, particularly in Beit Lahiya. It is not known at the moment how many militiamen were killed in the attack, which at first was erroneously announced by the army to foreign media as the entry of troops by land into Gaza. "I said - Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu recalled - that we would hit Hamas and other terrorist groups with significant blows and that's what we are doing. But it's not over yet". "Hamas leaders - he continued - think they can escape from our grasp. They cannot escape. We will reach them everywhere. They attacked us on our celebration (Jerusalem Day), they attacked our capital, they launched missiles on our cities and they will continue to pay a heavy price for it ".
From Ramallah,
Abu Mazen's
presidency
appealed to Joe Biden's US administration
to intervene "immediately and quickly to stop Israeli aggression before things get out of control". The rais said he held "the Israeli government fully responsible for this dangerous escalation, this tension and the blood shed by the Palestinian people". The presidency then denounced "the brutal and planned killings of the Israeli occupation forces against our people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Jerusalem". On the cities of Israel, especially in the south, even today there was a continuous sound of alarm sirens - which forced the population constantly into shelters - followed by a massive barrage of missiles and the arrival of drones: the victims remain today 6. Thethe army said that more than 200 rockets were launched during the night alone. Of these, at least 30 fell back into the Palestinian enclave. French President Macron reiterated in an interview with Netanyahu his "irreducible attachment to Israel's security and its right to defend itself". And he expressed "concern for the civilian populations in Gaza".
Three rockets were launched tonight from Syrian territory towards the Golan Heights
. One, defective, fell in Syrian territory, and the other two in the southern Golan, near the Israeli agricultural village of Ramat Magshimim. They exploded in open areas and caused no damage. This was reported by Israeli public television Kan.
