We will do whatever it takes, Netanyahu warned.
Israel was still pounding Hamas positions inside the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Monday morning, just hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that there was no end in sight to the operations.
Thousands of rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel since 10 May, but most of them have been neutralised by the local iron dome defence system. Israel s response has killed at least 197 Palestinians, including at least 58 children and 34 women, according to Gaza s health ministry, while 10 Israelis have been killed in rocket attacks, including one child.
Middle East seeks a mediator as Israel strikes Gaza
The latest round of violence in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is dragging on with no sign of a ceasefire. International leaders have called for peace negotiations, but who would lead them?
On Sunday, Prime Minister Netanyahu said he wouldn t rush to seek a ceasefire
As violence continues into a second week, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an immediate end to the fighting. But any ceasefire would be short-lived unless it were combined with broader negotiations. The question is which international body or government could take the lead role in such talks.
Israel unleashes more airstrikes on Gaza Strip, after deadliest single attack so far
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Israeli warplanes continued to bombard the neighboring Gaza Strip on Monday, a day after carrying out the deadliest single attack there in the latest outbreak of violence between Israel s military and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group ruling the blockaded territory. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said at least 42 people in Gaza City were killed by Israeli airstrikes early Sunday. The attack levelled buildings and targeted roads leading to a hospital, preventing ambulances from reaching the wounded. Medical doctors were among the dead, according to the health ministry, which called on the international community to protect the already fragile health system in the Gaza Strip.
Publishing date: May 17, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 4 minute read •
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GAZA/TEL AVIV Israel pummeled Gaza with air strikes on Monday and Palestinian militants launched rockets at Israeli cities despite a flurry of U.S. and regional diplomacy that has so far failed to halt more than a week of deadly fighting.
Israel’s missile attacks on the densely populated Palestinian enclave killed a top Islamic Jihad commander and left a crater in a seven-story office building that Israel’s military said was used by Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas.
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