Hundreds have been injured on each side.
Now, Israel s military is preparing for ground operations, international news outlet Reuters has said.
A military spokesman said the Israeli forces were preparing for various contingencies .
Israel deployed ground troops into the Gaza Strip in the 2014 war, which this conflict is already threatening to eclipse.
Civic unrest has also erupted in a number of Israeli cities between Arab and Jewish citizens.
In Acre, a lynching attempt by an Arab mob left a Jewish man critically wounded, according to Israeli media reports.
In Bat Yam, graphic video showed a Jewish right-wing mob trying to lynch an Arab driver. He was wounded and taken to hospital, according to Israeli media reports.
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VOV.VN - Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, permanent representative of Vietnam to the UN, has expressed serious concerns from the nation over the recent tensions occurring in East Jerusalem and has called on all relevant parties to show restraint.
Upon addressing an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council which took place on May 10 in New York, the Vietnamese diplomat stated that without taking specific steps now tensions are likely to continue escalating, with the violent cycle previously seen in the area potentially coming back at any moment.
The Vietnamese diplomat stated that the country condemns all acts of violence carried out against civilians and the unnecessary use of lethal weapons, calling on all parties to exercise maximum restraint and avoid any actions and statements that may serve to further complicate the situation.
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Jerusalem, May 11 (EFE).- The exchange of airstrikes and rocket fire between Palestinian militants in Gaza and the Israeli Army intensified Tuesday in the worst escalation in recent years, and as the United Nation’’ Middle East envoy warned of “full-scale war.”
At least 30 Palestinians were killed Tuesday, including minors, and three fatalities were recorded in Israel.
Hamas said it fired 130 rockets towards Tel Aviv, which forced the suspension of flights to and from Ben Gurion International Airport.
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamist Hamas movement, had anticipated that they would fire at Tel Aviv if Israel attacked the well-known 14-story Hanadi building in the heart of Gaza City, which houses the offices of spokesmen and members of the Hamas political ranks. That was bombed Tuesday afternoon.
Israel, Palestine heading towards full-scale war: UN
“Stop the fire immediately. We’re escalating towards a full scale war,” Tor Wennesland, United Nations’ Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process said in a tweet late W.