The Latest: Israeli airstrikes hit buildings, roads in Gaza
The Associated PressMay 16, 2021 GMT
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israeli warplanes have struck several buildings and roads in a vital part of Gaza City early Sunday.
According to photos circulated by residents and journalists. the airstrikes created a crater that blocked one of the main roads leading to Shifa, the largest hospital in the strip.
The Health Ministry said the latest airstrikes left at least two dead and 25 wounded, including children and women. It said rescuers are still digging through the rubble and had so far pulled up five wounded.
Two hours into the heavy bombardment, there has been no comment from the Israeli military.
Biden discusses the current state of the Israel-Palestine u
ANI
16 May 2021, 09:18 GMT+10
Washington [US] May 16 (ANI): President Joe Biden on Saturday (local time) held telephonic conversation with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and discussed the violence in Gaza, in which he called for Hamas, the authority s rival, to stop firing rockets into Israel.
It was the first phone call between the two leaders since Biden assumed office.
President Biden stressed the need for Hamas to cease firing rockets into Israel , and the two men expressed their shared concern that innocent civilians, including children, have tragically lost their lives amidst the ongoing violence, the White House said.
2,800 rockets from Gaza, most intensive ever U.N. Security Council to meet on Sunday Rocket salvoes from Gaza strike Tel Aviv suburb (Adds numbers of rockets)
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Stephen Farrell
GAZA/JERUSALEM, May 16 (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed 33 Palestinians, including eight children, Gaza health officials said, as militants fired an early morning barrage of rockets into Israel.
With no sign of an end to the worst outbreak of Israeli-Palestinian violence in years the United Nations Security Council was due to meet later on Sunday to discuss the hostilities.
The death toll in Gaza overnight jumped to 181, including 47 children, amid an intensive Israeli air and artillery barrage since the fighting erupted last Monday. Ten people have been killed in Israel, including two children.
Israel bombs Hamas Gaza chief s home as fighting enters seventh day
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Stephen Farrell
Reuters
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - 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.
At least three 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.
Israelis dashed for bomb shelters as sirens warning of incoming rocket fire blared in Tel Aviv and its suburbs. Around 10 people were injured while running for shelters, medics said.
Ulema urge OIC, UN practical steps to prevent atrocities in Palestine
National
May 16, 2021
LAHORE: On the call of Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC), Youm-e-Palestine was observed all over the country on Friday.
Clerics and religious scholars of different schools of thought urged the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the United Nations Organisation (UNO) in their Friday sermons to take practical measures to prevent atrocities on the oppressed people of Palestine.
At the religious congregations, resolutions were also adopted by clerics and religious scholars, who said that on the request of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the OIC ministerial level meeting should be called to take practical steps on the situation in Palestine.