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Israel bombs key Hamas targets as UN Security Council to meet

Israeli aircraft also hit the residences of the head of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, and of his brother, Muhammad Sinwar.

Israel's army said Sunday it had bombed the home of the political leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, as the UN Security Council was to meet amid global alarm about the escalating conflict. The heaviest fighting since 2014, sparked by unrest in Jerusalem, saw both sides again trade heavy fire and has now claimed 174 lives in the crowded coastal enclave of Gaza and killed 10 people in Israel since Monday. Israel said Sunday morning its

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the UN Security Council on Sunday that hostilities in Israel and Gaza were "utterly appalling" and called for an immediate end to fighting. Palestinians inspect their house, after it was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on 16 May. Photo: AFP Opening the 15-member council's first public meeting on the conflict, Guterres said the United Nations is "actively engaging all sides toward an immediate ceasefire" and called on them "to allow mediation efforts to intensify and succeed." The overall death toll...