Updated: 12 May 2021, 10:33
MINISTER for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has called for a ceasefire now between Israel and Hamas as violence escalates towards a full-scale war .
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Smoke billows from an Israeli air strike on the Hanadi compound in Gaza CityCredit: AFP or licensors
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Damaged vehicles after a rockets attack, at the city of Holon near Tel Aviv yesterdayCredit: EPA
At least 35 people have died in Gaza and five in Israel after the horror airstrikes - including 10 civilians.
Coveney wrote on Twitter: Ireland worked with other like minded countries last night to insist on an emergency UN Security Council session today (2pm Irish time) as Israel-Hamas violence escalates.
International News
May 12, 2021
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) Rockets streamed out of Gaza and Israel pounded the territory with airstrikes Wednesday as the most severe outbreak of violence since a 2014 war took on many hallmarks of that devastating 50-day conflict, with dozens killed and no resolution in sight.
Palls of gray smoke rose in Gaza, as Israeli airstrikes levelled two apartment towers and hammered the militant group’s multiple security installations, destroying the central police compound.
In Israel, barrages of hundreds of rockets fired by Gaza’s Hamas rulers and other militants at times overwhelmed missile defenses and brought air raid sirens and explosions echoing across Tel Aviv, Israel’s biggest metropolitan area, and other cities.
The death toll in Gaza has soared in the worst escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in years after Israel killed a string of senior Hamas military figures and destroyed three multistorey towers as it hammered the Gaza Strip with air raids.
Palls of grey smoke rose in Gaza on Wednesday, as Israeli air attacks struck apartment towers and blasted multiple Hamas security installations. In Israel, hundreds of rockets fired by Gaza’s Hamas rulers and other groups at times overwhelmed missile defences and sent air raid sirens and explosions echoing across Tel Aviv, Israel’s biggest metropolitan area, and other cities.