Israel continued its air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday night.

Dozens of bombs had been dropped over the densely populated coastal strip, reporters reported.

The Israeli army said fighter jets were targeting “terrorist targets” in the Gaza Strip.

For its part, the radical Islamic Palestinian organization 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.

Joe Biden calls for "life in security" for Israelis and Palestinians

According to President Joe Biden, the US is working with Palestinians and Israelis to achieve "lasting peace."

"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 13-story building in the Gaza Strip, in which the US news agency Associated Press (AP) and the Qatari television broadcaster Al-Jazeera had their offices, had been destroyed by the Israeli rockets.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the building as a "perfectly legitimate target" in an interview with US broadcaster 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.