The Israeli military claims to have once again attacked the Islamist Hamas tunnel system in the Gaza Strip.
54 fighter planes shot at around 35 targets during the night, the army announced on Monday morning.
About 15 kilometers of the so-called metro system were attacked.
It was therefore the third wave of attacks directed against the tunnel network.
According to the army, Hamas had built the system over the years.
Among other things, it serves to protect fighters and to move them quickly.
The "Metro" is largely located under the city of Gaza in the north of the Gaza Strip.
A spokesman referred to it as the "city under the city".
No joint UN declaration
Last night, the homes of important Hamas officials were again shot at. For its part, Hamas continued to fire rockets at Israel. Ten Israelis have been killed since May 10; at least 197 people died on the Palestinian side. Before that, the UN Security Council had once again failed to agree on a joint declaration on the escalating Middle East conflict. According to diplomats, the US is blocking a joint statement, as it did in the two previous closed meetings.
According to President Joe Biden, the United States is working with Palestinians and Israelis to achieve "permanent calm." "We also believe that Palestinians and Israelis alike deserve a life of safety and security," he said in a video message broadcast on Sunday at the end of Islamic Lent. In addition, they should "enjoy an equal measure of freedom, prosperity and democracy".
The organization Reporters Without Borders, meanwhile, condemned the Israeli rocket attack on a building in the Gaza Strip with media offices. She therefore appealed to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The deliberate attack on media offices constitutes a "war crime," said the organization's secretary general, Christophe Deloire. This not only causes “unacceptable material damage”. These attacks also make it more difficult for the media to report a conflict "which directly affects the civilian population".
The building in the Gaza Strip, in which the American news agency Associated Press (AP) and the Qatari television broadcaster Al-Jazeera had their offices, had been shattered by the Israeli rockets.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the building as a "perfectly legitimate target" in an interview with CBS News.
The Israeli army justified the attack on the building with the fact that there were also military installations of the secret service of the radical Islamic Hamas.
The owner of the house claims to have been warned by the Israeli secret service an hour before the attack and asked to evacuate the building.