Time.news – New night of fire on Israel: after a respite lasting a couple of hours Hamas has started firing rockets again directed towards central and southern Israel, and in particular towards Tel Aviv. Throughout the area the red alarm sirens sounded again, and the Israelis returned to take refuge in the bunkers.
During the Israeli bombing raids against three buildings in Gaza City on Al-Wehda Street, 26 people were killed, including 8 minors, in what is the heaviest raid since the military escalation against the Palestinian enclave, which is governed from Hamas. 15 members of the al-Kulk family and two doctors were killed in the raid. The injured are 50. Rescuers work to extract the injured from the rubble: five children have so far been extracted alive.
A barrage of rockets flew from Gaza to Ashkelon, Ashdod, Kiryat Malakhi and neighboring towns in southern Israel, setting off alarm sirens. Two rockets fell in Netivot, one exploded near a supermarket.
According to the Ministry of Health of the Strip, lhe victims of the Israeli attacks on Gaza are 181 dead, including 47 children and 29 women. The injured are 1,200. The Israeli dead are 10.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had said that Israeli army operations will continue as long as necessary. Israel’s security cabinet, the small committee of ministers that has the power to make war decisions, has begun the meeting dedicated to the next steps to be taken in the operation against Gaza. According to Israeli media, some of the ministers plan to call for a swift end to the fighting.
The Israeli army meanwhile he defended himself against accusations of hitting civilians in Gaza, reiterating that Hamas “deliberately and systematically places military targets within the civilian population, exposing its citizens to danger”. To support his position, the IDF and the Israeli Air Force presented “very important evidence of accuracy in reducing civilian casualties”,
Meanwhile, the scuffles between Palestinians, Orthodox Jews and the Israeli police continue: from the beginning of the protests, mainly triggered by the issue of evictions in East Jerusalem but not only that, 890 people were arrested, there were numerous injuries and even two deaths.
Jewish faithful continue to be denied access to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Foreign airlines continue to cancel volsto and from Israel: only Israeli companies continue to offer air connections abroad. On Saturday, Fly Dubai and Etihad Air, two carriers operating flights to the United Arab Emirates, both stopped operations.
The three Israeli airlines will carry out special rescue flights for Israelis stranded abroad
But on the sixth day of this new chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, two incidents, both of which occurred in the Gaza Strip, caused a particular impression on the international community: the collapse of a building which caused the death of 10 people, of which 8 children, belonging to the same family, and the bombing of the 15-storey building that housed the offices of various international editorial offices, in particular those of AP and Al Jazeera. Before striking it, Israel warned the occupiers allowing them to evacuate, but the destruction of the building has aroused international fears for the right of the press and the safety of the journalists sent to follow the events of these days.
The same UN secretary general Antonio Guterres said he was “deeply disturbed” by what happened.
“What we want to see is a strong and united voice calling for an end to hostilities and putting the parties at a table to find a solution to this conflict that has been going on for too long” is the message from Guterres, through spokesman Stephane Dujarric .
Regarding the US decision to postpone the Security Council, scheduled for last Friday, Guterres called on member states to “find solutions that are within the powers of the United Nations”.
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden spoke both with Prime Minister Netanyahu, expressing his “grave concern” but also his support for Israel’s right to defend itself from attacks, and with the head of the Palestinian Authority Abu Mazen to whom he called for a stop to rockets on Israel. A new meeting of the United Nations Security Council is scheduled for today.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with US President Biden’s envoy, Hady Amr, Deputy Assistant for Palestinian and Israeli Affairs
The EU High Representative, Josep Borrell, announced that he will convene an extraordinary council of EU foreign ministers by videoconference on Tuesday; “We will coordinate and discuss how the EU can best contribute to ending the current violence,” added Borrell.
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