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Rockets and artillery fires continued to take lives and pound the Gaza strip yesterday, defying all ceasefire efforts and leaving no sign of an end to the worst escalation since 2014.
Missiles also brought down a 12-storey Gaza tower block that housed news media organisations. US and Arab diplomats are seeking to halt almost a week of conflict but efforts have yet to gain traction.
Palestinian medics said the Israeli bombardment killed more than 15 Palestinians in Gaza overnight and yesterday. Casualties also include a woman and four of her children who died when rockets hit their house in a refugee camp.
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An Israeli airstrike killed at least 33 people in Gaza early Sunday, local health officials said, marking the deadliest individual attack since the current hostilities between Israel and Hamas began last week. Since the onset of the fighting, at least 181 people have reportedly been killed in Gaza, including 52 children, while more than 1,200 people have been injured. In Israel, 10 people, including two children, have reportedly been killed by Hamas rocket attacks, which continued Sunday. The Israeli military on Sunday also said it bombed the home of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas political leader, but did not say whether he was killed in the strike.
US President Joe Biden spoke with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the White House said on Saturday, as the Israel-Hamas conflict continued to rage and destroyed a tower block that housed news media organisations.
The Latest: China calls for UN council action, slams US
By The Associated Press Associated Press May 15, 2021 10:45pm Text size Copy shortlink:
BEIJING Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has called on the U.N. Security Council to seek an early de-escalation of violence between Israel and Gaza s Hamas rulers. He also blamed the U.S. for the council s lack of action so far. Regrettably, the council has so far failed to reach an agreement, with the United States standing on the opposite side of international justice, the state-run Xinhua News Agency quoted Wang as saying in a phone conversation Saturday with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.