APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza - 16 May 2021. Palestinians search for victims under the rubble of a destroyed building in Gaza City's Rimal residential district following massive Israeli bombardment on the Hamas-controlled enclave.
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Palestinian Health ministry said that 23 killed at the building in Gaza City following massive Israeli bombardment.
Israel's army said it had bombed the home of the political leader of Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, as the UN Security Council was to meet amid global alarm about the escalating conflict
Deadly violence erupted across the West Bank amid a massive aerial bombardment in Gaza and unprecedented unrest among Arabs and Jews inside the country. The West Bank clashes, described as among the most intense since the second intifada that began in 2000, left 11 people dead from Israeli fire, the Palestinian health ministry said, as overall fatalities from strikes on Gaza rose to 184.
Since Monday, Israel pounded Gaza with hundreds of air strikes and shells, killing at least 184 people, including 52 children and 31 women. Meanwhile, rockets fired by militant groups in Gaza killed 10 people.
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