42 Palestinians, including 8 children, were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip
Israel bombs 90 new targets in Gaza ... and "Hamas" launches dozens of rockets
The search for survivors in the rubble of homes destroyed by Israel in Gaza.
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A Palestinian sits in front of the rubble of his destroyed home in southern Gaza.
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Health officials in the Gaza Strip said that Israeli air strikes resulted in the death of 42 Palestinians, including eight children, yesterday, while rockets were fired at Israel as the escalation entered its seventh day, and the Israeli army announced that it had targeted 90 targets belonging to the Hamas and Jihad movements “In the Gaza Strip, within 24 hours, while Hamas announced that it had fired 120 new rockets at Israel.
In detail, the health authorities in the Gaza Strip announced the martyrdom of 42 Palestinians in the Israeli strikes on the Strip, yesterday, including eight children and 12 women. Medical sources said that “the death toll of the martyrs of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank rose to 209 martyrs, and more than 5,600 wounded.” She pointed out that «the number of injured due to the military and artillery bombardment violent about a week ago on the Gaza Strip has reached 1238, while the number of injured from the attacks of the occupation and settlers in the governorates of the West Bank, including Jerusalem, to 4,363 wounded, including the injuries that were dealt with in the field, Which was transferred to various treatment centers ». On the other hand, Israel announced the killing of 10 people, including two children, in the rocket attacks launched by Hamas and other factions on various Israeli cities.
In a series of air strikes in the early hours of yesterday morning, the Israeli army said that it bombed the house of the head of the political bureau of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, located in Khan Yunis.
The Israeli army spokesman, Avichai Adrai, stated that "aircraft launched raids on weapons production and storage sites."
He added that "during the last 24 hours, the planes attacked more than 90 targets belonging to the (Hamas) and (Jihad) movements in the Gaza Strip, especially the house of Sinwar and his brother Muhammad al-Sinwar.” Later, the Israeli army said that civilians were killed in air strikes on Gaza yesterday. It was not intended, and he explained that he "targeted armed tunnels, and they collapsed, which led to the collapse of houses as well."
Both Israel and Hamas insisted on continuing the cross-border shelling, after Israel destroyed a 12-storey building in Gaza that housed the offices of the Associated Press and Al-Jazeera.
The Israeli army said that the evacuation tower was "a legitimate military target, because it houses Hamas military offices, and that it issued warnings to civilians to leave the building before the attack."
The Associated Press condemned the attack and said that its office has been in this building for 15 years.
She has no indication that (Hamas) was in the building or that it is active in it.
"The targeting of the building raises extremely worrying questions about Israel's willingness to interfere with freedom of the press," the Association of Foreign Journalists said in a statement, adding that "Israel has not provided any evidence to support its allegations that the building was being used by (Hamas)."
In what it described as a response to Israel's destruction of the evacuation building, Hamas fired 120 rockets during the night.
The Israeli military said that a large number of them were intercepted.
Yesterday, the Israeli police confirmed that four of its members were injured in a car attack in occupied East Jerusalem, and indicated that the attacker was shot, and the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood was closed.
For its part, the International Committee of the Red Cross yesterday stressed the need for a cessation of hostilities between Gaza and Israel, and stressed the need for the immediate start of humanitarian activities in the Gaza Strip.
The committee said, in a statement, that the residents of Gaza and Israel were witnessing "the most intense round of hostilities in years."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the end of the hostilities in Gaza is not imminent. He added in a televised speech: "Our campaign is continuing with full force," indicating that Israel provided evidence to US intelligence about the existence of what he described as "terrorist activity" in the building that was It houses the Associated Press and Al Jazeera offices.
In addition, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, urged an immediate cessation of violence between the Israelis and the Palestinians, warning the Security Council that the fighting could develop into a regional crisis in the Middle East that cannot be contained.
"The fighting must stop immediately," he said at the start of a council meeting yesterday, describing the violence that killed about 200 people during the week as "extremely horrific."
He added that the escalation "could lead to a security and humanitarian crisis that cannot be contained, and to the promotion of extremism, not only in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel, but in the entire region."
In the Security Council meeting, the Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad al-Maliki, strongly condemned “Israel's aggression against the Palestinian people and their sanctities,” adding: “Some people do not want to use these words, war crimes and crimes against humanity, but they know it is the truth.”
On the other hand, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Ardan, held the "Hamas" movement responsible for igniting the conflict, and said that "the escalation was entirely deliberate by (Hamas)."
China expressed its regret that the United States obstructed the issuance of a UN Security Council statement on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, calling for more international efforts to stop the cycle of violence. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council, said during the meeting via video: Unfortunately, only because of the obstruction of one country, the Security Council was not able to speak with one voice. ”
The United Nations envoy to the Middle East, Tor Wainesland, called on the international community to "take a step now to enable the parties (of the conflict) to retreat from the brink of precipice," while the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, told the Security Council that "there is no escape from making concessions as a price for peace. And in order to spare the peoples the high prices imposed by the wars.
• Palestine condemns the Israeli aggression in the Security Council, and Guterres warns of a regional crisis that cannot be contained.
* Netanyahu announces that the end of hostilities in Gaza is not imminent.
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