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At least 42 people die in Gaza after Israel's deadliest attack in the last week

2021-05-17T21:56:46.173Z


Among the victims are 12 women and 10 children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, raising the death toll since the start of the escalation to at least 188. The attack occurs within hours of a Council meeting. of Security of the UN.


At least 42 people died in Gaza on Sunday after the deadliest attack by the Israeli army, which devastated three buildings and injured another 50, according to the Health Ministry.

The aggression occurs within hours of a meeting of the UN Security Council.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted that the fourth war between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza would continue despite international efforts to negotiate a ceasefire.

Among the victims are

12 women, eight children and two doctors.

It is the

deadliest attack

since heavy fighting broke out between Israel and Hamas leaders in Gaza in nearly a week.

Rescue teams continue to try to remove survivors and bodies from the rubble.

Israel bombed the home of the top Hamas leader in Gaza early Sunday in another attack, according to the army.

It was the third such attack targeting the homes of Hamas leaders in the past two days.

A man carries the body of a Palestinian child from the Al-Hadidi family, who died after an attack by the Israeli Army, during his funeral in a cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip on May 15, 2021.REUTERS / Suhaib Salem

The army said it attacked the homes of Yehiyeh Sinwar, the top Hamas leader within the territory, and his brother Muhammad, another senior member of the terrorist organization.

On Saturday he destroyed the home of Khalil al-Hayeh, another senior official.

Brigadier General Hidai Zilberman confirmed on Army radio the attack on Sinwar's home in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.

The army spokesman said that the house of Sinwar's brother, who is in charge of Hamas "logistics and personnel," was also destroyed.

[As Hamas and Israel exchange rockets and bombardments, the UN warns of "a full-scale war"]

The Hamas leadership has gone into hiding in Gaza and it is unlikely that anyone was at home at the time of the attacks.

Hamas's top leader, Ismail Haniyeh, splits his time between Turkey and Qatar, countries that lend political support to the group.

Hamas and the Islamic Jihad militant group have acknowledged the deaths of 20 fighters since fighting broke out on Monday, while Israel claims the actual number is much higher.

The attack occurred about an hour after the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of the office and apartment tower.

There was no immediate explanation as to why they decided to attack the building.

Hatem Moussa / AP

In the latest attacks - the worst since the 2014 Gaza war -

more than 180 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza,

including

more than 50

, according to data from the Health Ministry.

Nine Israelis have died

, including a 5-year-old boy and a soldier.

Hamas and other militant groups have fired some

2,900 rockets at Israel

since Monday, when tensions flared.

While Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes across the impoverished and blockaded territory, which is home to more than 2 million Palestinians.

Early on Sunday, Israeli warplanes attacked several buildings and roads in the center of Gaza City.

Photos released by residents and journalists showed that the airstrikes had caused a crater blocking one of the main access roads to the Shifa hospital, the strip's largest medical center.

They ask for a ceasefire

As Israel stepped up attacks in recent days, efforts to negotiate a ceasefire are accelerating.

A US diplomat is in the region to try

to defuse tensions

 and the

UN Security Council will meet on Sunday

 to discuss the worst outbreak of violence between Israelis and Palestinians in years. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres reminded all parties "that

any indiscriminate attack against civilian structures and the media violates international law

and must be avoided at all costs," his spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said in a statement on Saturday.

Since the conflict began, Israel has razed several of the tallest residential and office buildings in Gaza City, claiming they house Hamas military infrastructure.

On Saturday it attacked a 12-story building, which houses the offices of The Associated Press news agency, the Al Jazeera television network and other media outlets, as well as several apartment floors.

Palestinians watch the destruction caused by Israeli airstrikes that killed 10 members of the Abu Hatab Hadidi family in Gaza City, Saturday, May 15, 2021.AP / Khalil Hamra

"The campaign will continue as long as necessary," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised speech on Saturday, claiming that Hamas military intelligence was operating inside the building.

Following the attack on the building that housed the offices of several international media outlets, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke by phone with AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt and offered his support to independent journalists and organizations. of media.

With information from AP and NBC News.

Source: telemundo

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