ANOTHER Gaza tower reportedly goes down, Israeli Iron Dome intercepts dozens of missiles in night time of tit-for-tat strikes (VIDEOS)

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An Israeli air strike has reportedly leveled one other main high-rise within the Gaza Strip – the second within the span of 24 hours – as a barrage of Palestinian rocket fireplace continues to rain down on Tel Aviv and different Israeli cities.

Footage from the embattled Palestinian enclave purported to indicate the al-Jawhara Tower because it took a direct hit by an Israeli struggle aircraft early on Wednesday morning, sending a large column of smoke into the night time sky. It’s at the very least the second giant construction in Gaza Metropolis severely broken in latest air raids, with the Hanandi Tower, reportedly a residential advanced, decreased to rubble on Tuesday night time.

The Israeli Protection Forces (IDF) posted footage of an air strike on a high-rise quickly after the preliminary movies started making the rounds, claiming the constructing included Hamas “intelligence headquarters” and an “info division.” It’s unclear if the grainy IDF video depicts al-Jawhara or one other construction, nevertheless.

Whereas the al-Jawhara Tower appeared to maintain catastrophic injury in Wednesday morning’s strike, it isn’t the primary time it was focused by Tel Aviv, with Israeli warplanes bombing the identical construction throughout combating in 2014. On the time, the Committee to Shield Journalists famous the constructing housed each Palestinian media retailers in addition to flats.

The IDF additionally reported “continuous” rocket fireplace into central and southern Israel, including elsewhere that it’s persevering with strikes on “quite a lot of important terrorist targets and operatives within the Gaza Strip.” It stated the strikes had been waking Israeli residents, who scrambled to bomb shelters with their households for the night time throughout the 3am offensive.

Different unconfirmed movies circulating on-line claimed to indicate a flurry of rockets launched from Gaza towards Tel Aviv, in addition to town’s Iron Dome air defenses intercepting lots of the incoming projectiles.

The IDF additionally shared video of interceptions over southern Israel.

The tit-for-tat strikes come after greater than a full day of combating, seeing at the very least 30 Palestinians, together with 9 kids, in addition to three Israelis killed within the trade. Violence spiked on Monday amid heated demonstrations over deliberate evictions for Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, with Israeli police forcibly cracking down on the gatherings, injuring a whole lot within the ensuing clashes. 

As anger over the evictions reached a boiling level and sparked unrest across the Al Aqsa mosque – the third holiest web site in Islam – on Monday, Hamas started a barrage of rocket fireplace into Israeli territory, launching a whole lot of projectiles and prompting an identical variety of Israeli counter-strikes. 

Hamas, a political social gathering with a militarized wing, has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2006, when it struck a significant win over the Fatah Celebration. There was no election within the blockaded territory since, with a race deliberate for Could 22 postponed indefinitely by the Palestinian Authority amid ongoing disputes with Israeli authorities over whether or not Arab residents of Jerusalem can be permitted to solid ballots.

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