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* Israel says pressing on with Gaza offensive (Adds Netanyahu comments) By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller GAZA/JERUSALEM, May 19 (Reuters) - Israel said on Wednesday it was not setting a timeframe for an end to hostilities with Gaza as its military pounded the Palestinian enclave with air strikes and Hamas militants unleashed new cross-border rocket attacks. Palestinian medical officials said 219 people had now been killed in 10 days of aerial bombardments which have destroyed roads, buildings and other infrastructure, and worsened the already dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. Israel...

* 2,800 rockets fired from Gaza in past week, most intensive ever * U.N. Security Council meets to discuss conflict * Rocket salvoes from Gaza strike Tel Aviv suburb (Adds Netanyahu, U.N. secretary general, updates casualties) By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller GAZA/JERUSALEM, May 16 (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike in Gaza destroyed several homes on Sunday, killing 42 Palestinians, including 10 children, health officials said, as militants fired rockets at Israel with no end in sight to seven days of fighting. The Israeli military said the civilian casualties had been unintentional and...

1 minute read (Update 4: Adds Netanyahu’s remarks, info on Hamas deaths) Jerusalem, May 12 (EFE).- Israel is intensifying its airstrikes on Gaza in retaliation against rocket fire from the enclave, prime minister Benjamín Netanyahu said on Wednesday. His comments came after an operation by Israeli security and intelligence forces killed several top leaders of militias affiliated to Hamas, the Islamist movement that governs the Gaza Strip. “We eliminated senior Hamas commanders and this is just the beginning,” Netanyahu said. Israel “will respond, and we are responding, with increas...

* Iran says there were no injuries or contamination * Tehran calls on U.N. nuclear watchdog to deal with 'nuclear terrorism' * Iran and world powers t...