Aircraft and artillery of the Israeli occupation continue their violent bombardment and aggression on the Gaza Strip.

On the other hand, the Palestinian resistance factions respond by firing dozens of rockets at Israeli cities and military sites.

The conflict is not limited to what is happening in the Gaza Strip, as the confrontation between Palestinian demonstrators and the occupation army extends in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and even in Arab towns within the Green Line.

The last and violent round of conflict between the two sides began in recent years since the beginning of May, due to Israeli violations against the residents of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan.

The following is the sequence of facts of this escalation:

May 3

Clashes broke out in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, on the sidelines of a demonstration in support of Palestinian families threatened with eviction from their homes that Jewish settlers are trying to seize.

May 6

Paris, Berlin, London, Rome and Madrid demanded that Israel end its policy of expanding settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, which it described as "illegal", and stop the evictions in East Jerusalem, which Israel occupied in 1967 and annexed without the international community recognizing that.

May 7

The United Nations urged Israel to end all forced evictions against Palestinians in East Jerusalem, warning that its actions may constitute "war crimes."

Tens of thousands of worshipers gathered on the campus of Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform the last Friday prayers of the month of Ramadan, and during the prayers violent confrontations broke out between the worshipers and the Israeli police, who fired stun grenades and rubber bullets at them, forcing the Palestinians to respond with stones and fireworks.

May 8

New clashes broke out in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and other neighborhoods in East Jerusalem.

May 9

An important session for the Israeli judiciary has been postponed to hear the appeal of Palestinian families threatening to evacuate their homes in Sheikh Jarrah.

May 10

  • The death toll rose to more than 500 Palestinians, while dozens of Israeli police were injured during clashes in the Temple Mount Square and various neighborhoods of occupied Jerusalem. In total, more than 700 Palestinians were injured in the confrontations in Jerusalem.

  • Hamas fired rockets at sites of the occupation in Jerusalem, in response to its crimes against the people of the city, and in response, Israeli fighters launched violent strikes on the Gaza Strip.

May 11

  • The various Palestinian factions - led by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas - launched a barrage of rockets at Tel Aviv, after the destruction of a 12-storey apartment building in central Gaza that housed offices for media institutions and residential apartments.

  • The United Nations envoy to the Middle East, Tor Winsland, has warned that the escalating violence between Israel and Hamas will lead to "all-out war."

  • The confrontations expanded to other mixed cities that include Jews and Arabs inside the Green Line, after an Israeli extremist fired on Arab demonstrators in solidarity with Gaza and Jerusalem, and killed one of them in the city of Lod.

  • Flights were temporarily suspended in Lod, the city adjacent to Ben Gurion International Airport, and a state of emergency was declared, and the Israeli police accused the Arab minority of "rioting" there.

  • Other Arab Israeli towns witnessed acts of violence as well, after the arrival of Israeli extremists from settlements in the West Bank, and their assault on Arab neighborhoods and towns under the protection of the Israeli police.

  • About a thousand police officers were sent in reinforcements to the border, and more than 500 Arabs were arrested.

May 12

  • Washington announced the dispatch of an envoy to Israel and the Palestinian territories, and Russia called an emergency meeting of the International Quartet on the Middle East (the European Union, Russia, the United States, and the United Nations).

  • The next day, Israel massed tanks and armored vehicles along the border with the Gaza Strip, which has been under Israeli siege for nearly 15 years, and the Israeli Ministry of Defense gave the green light for the army to mobilize thousands of reserve soldiers.

May 14

  • Israel continued its air, land and sea bombardment of the Palestinian sector.

    The bombing hit homes, residential towers, schools, mosques, water and electricity networks, and main roads, in addition to government headquarters and Palestinian resistance sites.

  • The Israeli occupation army used live and rubber bullets and tear gas canisters to quell demonstrations of anger in the occupied West Bank, which led to the killing and wounding of dozens of Palestinian demonstrators, according to the Ministry of Health and the Palestinian Red Crescent.

May 15

  • 10 members of one Palestinian family, including two women and their 8 children, were killed by an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in Al-Shati refugee camp, west of the Strip.

  • The Israeli Air Force launched an air strike on a building in Gaza City that houses the offices of media outlets, including the Qatari Al-Jazeera channel and the American Associated Press, after informing its occupants that it must be evacuated immediately, in a raid, leveling the 13-storey building to the ground.

  • On the other hand, the Palestinian factions resumed shelling Tel Aviv and its environs with rockets, in a bombing that killed one Israeli and wounded dozens.