Middle East: new Israeli shelling of Gaza, more than 200 dead in one week
Fire and smoke rise above buildings in Gaza City as Israeli warplanes target the Palestinian enclave in early May 17, 2021. AFP - ANAS BABA
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Despite calls for de-escalation, clashes continue into the seventh day since tensions between Israel and Hamas resurfaced.
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During the night from Sunday to Monday, as for a week, intensive Israeli bombing shook
the Gaza Strip.
Israeli
airplanes shelled the Gaza Strip
dozens of times within minutes, causing blackouts. Hundreds of buildings were damaged, according to local authorities, who did not immediately report any casualties. Tsahal justifies these strikes by explaining that they are targeting "
terrorist targets
" without giving further details.
But in the Palestinian Territories, it is astonishment.
"
There has never been a strike of this magnitude,
" said Mad Abed Rabbo, 39, who lives in western Gaza City.
“
I felt like I was dying,
” said another resident before adding, “
Netanyahu must realize that we are civilians, not soldiers.
"
Since Monday, more than 3,000 rockets have been fired by Hamas at
Israel
, the highest rate of projectiles ever launched on Israeli soil, the IDF said on Sunday.
In total, since May 10,
197 Palestinians have been killed
, including at least 58 children, and more than 1,200 injured.
On the Israeli side, 10 people were killed, including a child, and 282 injured after shooting by Palestinian armed groups from Gaza.
Clashes between pro-Israelis and pro-Palestinians in Canada
On its territory, Israel is also confronted with unprecedented violence and threats of lynchings in its “mixed” towns, where Israeli Jews and Arabs live, a term contested by Palestinians who prefer “
Palestinian citizen of Israel
”.
And these clashes between pro-Palestinians and pro-Israelis spread to other countries.
In Canada, clashes erupted between the two camps during rallies in Montreal.
The police had to use tear gas to put an end to the clashes.
Violence that the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned this Sunday by insisting on "
the right to assemble peacefully and to express oneself freely in Canada
".
And to insist on the fact that there was no question of tolerating "
anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and hatred
".
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