Israel said Sunday morning its "continuing wave of strikes" had in the past 24 hours struck over 90 targets across Gaza, where the destruction of a building housing news media organisations.
(Last Updated On: May 16, 2021)
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, Reuters reported.
At least four Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes across the coastal enclave, health officials said, and many were injured as the sounds of heavy bombardment roared through the night.
Reuters reported that Israelis dashed for bomb shelters as sirens warning of incoming rocket fire blared in Tel Aviv and the southern city of Beersheba. Around 10 people were injured while running for shelters, medics said.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is deeply disturbed by the Israeli airstrike Saturday that destroyed a 12-storey Gaza City building, his spokesman has said. Spokesman Stephane Dujarrics comments came in response to reporters questions as Israel unleashed airstrikes on the Gaza ..
UN chief ‘dismayed’, ‘disturbed’ by Israel strikes on Gaza
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UNITED NATIONS, United States, May 16, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – 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.
“The Secretary-General is dismayed by the increasing number of civilian casualties, including the death of ten members of the same family, including children, as a result of an Israeli airstrike last night in the al-Shati camp in Gaza, purportedly aimed at a Hamas leader,” his spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said in the wri
Israel air strikes kill 33 Palestinians; death toll in Gaza rises to 181
16 May 2021 - 13:54
Rescue workers search for victims amid rubble at the site of Israeli air strikes, in Gaza City May 16, 2021. (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)
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Israeli air strikes killed 33 Palestinians, including 13 children, in Gaza early on Sunday, Gaza health officials said as hostilities stretched into a seventh day.
The pre-dawn attacks were on houses in the centre of Gaza City, health officials said.
The death toll in Gaza jumped to 181, including 52 children, since the fighting erupted last Monday.
With no sign of an end to the worst outbreak of violence in years, the United Nations Security Council was due to meet later on Sunday to discuss the situation.