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In the aftermath of Israel’s ten-day siege on Jericho, the people of Aqbat Jabr refugee camp rally around the martyrs of a nascent armed resistance group that has emerged in their midst. ....
Jerusalem, Jun 18 (EFE).- Israel said Saturday it bombed targets of the militant Islamist group Hamas in Gaza in response to a rocket fired by the group a day ago. “In response to the rocket fired by Hamas toward Israeli civilians overnight, (Israel’s defense forces) IDF aircraft struck a weapons manufacturing site & 3 other … ....
20 killed in Gaza amid escalating violence with Israel 2 minutes read (Update 5: Adds info, updates casualty toll in Gaza) Gaza/Jerusalem, May 10 (EFE).- At least 20 Palestinians, including nine children, were killed in Gaza on Monday in a wave of Israeli airstrikes against Palestinian militia targets, the Health Ministry in the enclave said amid spiraling tensions in the region. Israel said it mounted the airstrikes in retaliation for dozens of rockets fired from Gaza towards Jerusalem starting on Monday afternoon as Israeli nationalists marked the country’s national day. Palestinian witnesses said that nine of the dead had been killed in “an internal explosion.” ....
UN denounces Israel’s use of force as 5,000 reserve soldiers called up 1 minute read (Update 1: Adds the UN statement and info, details, alters headline, lead) Geneva/Brussels/Jerusalem, May 11 (EFE).- Israel has unnecessarily and disproportionately used force against Palestinians protesting the possible eviction of Palestinian families from an East Jerusalem neighborhood, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Tuesday amid an uptick of deadly violence in the region. “Israeli Security Forces must allow and ensure the exercise of the right to freedoms of expression, association and assembly,” the spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, said in a statement. ....
Israeli strikes kill 22 in Gaza after rockets fired from Palestinian enclave 2 minutes read Jerusalem, May 11 (EFE).- At least 22 Palestinians, including nine children, have been killed in a wave of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip that came in relation to rocket fire from Palestinian militants. The health ministry in the enclave said hundreds of others had been injured in the strikes, which coincided with some of the worst violence between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in Jerusalem for years. The Islamist Hamas group’s armed wing, the Qasam Brigades, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired over 200 rockets into Israel. The Israeli Defense Forces said they struck 130 “terror targets” in the Gaza Strip, including two attack tunnels and a weapons storage and manufacturing site, adding that they had killed 15 Hamas militants. ....