One strike on a building in the Shati refugee camp killed 10 members of an extended family - two mothers and their four children each. Israel's army said the building was used by senior Hamas officials.
(Clockwise): A Palestinian firefighter shouts for help following an Israeli strike on Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday. Israeli forces try to detain a Palestinian woman in the east Jerusalem area of Sheikh Jarrah, where looming evictions of Palestinian families have fuelled anger, on May 15, the day on which Palestinians mark the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, the ‘catastrophe’ of Israel’s creation in 1948. A ball of fire erupts from the Jala Tower as it is destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza city. People hold a demonstration in London in support of the Palestinian caus
News 16th May 2021 5:36 AM | Updated: 10:16 AM A shocking video has showed the owner of a building housing media outlets and private homes begging with an Israeli officer on live TV to let journalists collect their gear before it is bombed. Jawad Mehdi, the owner of the Jala Tower, pleads for whoever s in charge to give four people, who would we wearing press vests, 10 minutes to go inside and collect gear for Qatar-based Al Jazeera television and American news agency The Associated Press. They re not going to get weapons. They re going to get their cameras and their work gear, he said.
Gaza: Israel bombed the home of Yehia Sinwar, Hamas’s chief in Gaza early on Sunday and sirens warning of rocket attacks sounded in Israeli border towns shortly after dawn as hostilities stretched into a seventh day with no sign of abating.
At least 153 people have been killed in Gaza since Monday, including 42 children, health officials said. Israel has reported 10 dead, including two children.
The United Nations Security Council was due to meet later on Sunday to discuss the worst outbreak of Israeli-Palestinian violence in years.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reminded all sides “that any indiscriminate targeting of civilian and media structures violates international law and must be avoided at all costs, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement on Saturday.
Israeli air strikes killed 33 Palestinians, including 13 children, in Gaza early on Sunday, Gaza health officials said, and militants fired rockets into Israel as hostilities stretched into a seventh day.