APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza - 17 May 2021. Head of the government media office, Salama Maarouf speaks during a press conference, at al-shifa hospital in Gaza city
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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 197.
At least 200 people in the besieged Palestinian enclave were killed, including 59 children and 35 women.
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