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A ball of fire erupts from the Jala Tower as it is destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip, on Saturday. The 13-floor tower had housed Qatar-based Al Jazeera television and the Associated Press news agency. | AFP-JIJI
AFP-JIJI, REUTERS May 16, 2021
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israel pummeled the Gaza Strip with airstrikes on Saturday, killing 10 members of an extended family and demolishing a building housing international media outlets, as Palestinian militants fired back barrages of rockets.
UN Chief Deeply Disturbed By Israel Strike On Gaza Media Building UN Chief Deeply Disturbed By Israel Strike On Gaza Media Building Israeli air and artillery strikes on Gaza since Monday have killed 145 people including 41 children, and wounded another 1,100, health officials say, the worst violence in the region since 2014.
Antonio Guterres spoke as Israel pummeled the Gaza Strip with air strikes (File)
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was dismayed by civilian casualties in Gaza and deeply disturbed by Israel s strike on a building containing international media outlets, a spokesman said Saturday in response to reporters questions.
The comments came as Israel pummeled the Gaza Strip with air strikes, killing 10 members of an extended family and demolishing the 13-floor Gaza building housing Qatar-based Al Jazeera and The Associated Press news agency, with Palestinian militants firing back barrages of rockets.
Israel destroys building housing media
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GAZA CITY: An Israeli air strike Saturday demolished the 13-floor building, housing Qatar-based Al Jazeera television and American news agency The Associated Press (AP) in the Gaza Strip, journalists said.
Israel destroyed Jala Tower in the Gaza Strip, which contains the Al Jazeera and other international press offices, Al Jazeera said in a tweet, with an AP journalist saying the army had warned the tower´s owner ahead of the strike.
Al Jazeera broadcast footage showing the building collapsing to the ground after the Israeli air strike, sending up a huge mushroom cloud of dust and debris. Jawad Mehdi, the owner of the Jala Tower, said an Israeli intelligence officer warned him he had just one hour to ensure the evacuation of the building.
Israel bombed the home of Hamas's chief in Gaza early on Sunday and the Islamist group fired rocket barrages at Tel Aviv as hostilities stretched into a seventh day with no sign of abating.