Israeli air strikes kill 42 more Palestinians, taking the toll to 188
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GAZA: One-hundred and eighty-eight Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed after Israel intensified its attack on Gaza as the UN Security Council prepared to meet amid global alarm at the escalating attacks.
According to Gaza health officials, 16 women and 10 children were killed in the air strikes which also targeted the home of a Hamas leader.
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 sparked an international outcry.
Israel strikes kill 42 in Gaza ahead of UNSC meet; toll mounts to 188 including 55 kids, 33 women
Israel strikes kill 42 in Gaza ahead of UNSC meet; toll mounts to 188 including 55 kids, 33 women
Agencies
May 16, 2021
Gaza City, May 16: Israeli strikes killed at least 42 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip Sunday (May 16), the worst reported daily death toll yet in the almost week-long clashes, as the UN Security Council prepared to meet amid global alarm at the escalating conflict.
The heaviest fighting since 2014, sparked by unrest in Jerusalem, saw the rivals again trade heavy fire, with the death toll rising to 188 in the crowded coastal enclave of Gaza since Monday and at 10 in Israel, according to authorities on either side.
Israel air strikes kill 26 Palestinians, rockets fired from Gaza
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UN Security Council was due to meet on Sunday to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian violence.
Israeli air strikes killed 26 Palestinians, including eight children, in Gaza early on Sunday, Gaza health officials said, and rockets were fired into Israel as hostilities stretched into a seventh day.
The pre-dawn attacks in the centre of Gaza City brought the death toll in Gaza to 174, including 47 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.