APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza - 18 May 2021. Palestinians look at an unexploded bomb dropped by an Israeli F-16 warplane on Gaza City's Rimal neighbourhood.
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A general strike is observed in the occupied West Bank and Arab Israeli cities in solidarity with Gaza and Jerusalem
The UN Security Council was due to hold an emergency meeting amid a flurry of urgent diplomacy aimed at stemming Israel air strikes that have killed more than 200 Palestinians.
Deadly violence erupted across the West Bank amid a massive aerial bombardment in Gaza and unprecedented unrest among Arabs and Jews inside the country.
At least 213 people in the besieged Palestinian enclave were killed, including 61 children and 36 women according to the Palestinian Health Ministry
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