IDF jets launch ‘intensive assaults’ on Gaza as violence enters 2nd week

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Dozens of loud explosions could possibly be heard all through the Gaza Strip because the IDF carried out one other spherical of “intensive assaults on terrorist targets,” with ongoing violence between Israel and Hamas coming into the second week.

“Our fighter jets are presently placing terror targets in Gaza,” the IDF tweeted round 2am Monday, amid stories of Israeli warplanes concentrating on dozens of areas all throughout the Gaza Strip.

There have been additionally stories of a number of Hamas rocket interceptions over Israel earlier on Sunday evening, though on a a lot smaller scale than the evening earlier than.

Whereas there have been no fast stories of latest casualties, the dying toll in Gaza reached 192, together with 58 kids and 34 girls, with greater than 1,200 injured by Sunday. In Israel 10 individuals had been killed, together with two kids, and over reportedly 500 wounded after every week of nightly hearth exchanges, most by shrapnel or whereas speeding for canopy in bomb shelters.

The most recent Israeli-Palestinian battle escalation follows days of unrest in Jerusalem, prompted by Israel’s plans to forcefully evict a number of Palestinian households in an occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood. The plan triggered mass protests, which had been met with a heavy-handed response. Israeli police even stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque within the final days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, prompting accusations that it intentionally cracked down on worshippers. In retaliation, Hamas launched the primary volley of rockets into Israel final Monday, triggering a full-scale Israeli army operation.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly vowed that the airstrike marketing campaign in opposition to Hamas will final “so long as needed to revive calm and quiet to Israel’s residents.” The IDF claims that Hamas launched over three,000 missiles into Israel, indiscriminately, whereas it destroyed a whole bunch of terrorist targets and neutralized dozens of prime operatives in pinpoint strikes.

Claiming to do its finest to reduce any collateral harm amongst civilians, Israel dismissed any criticism of placing Gaza disproportionately. Tel Aviv argued that any perceived disparity in casualties between the 2 sides solely proves that the IDF and its Iron Dome missile protection system are working at an “unbelievable degree,” whereas Hamas was misfiring its personal rockets, and committing “double battle crimes” by concentrating on Israeli civilians whereas utilizing Palestinians as “human shields.”

With no finish to violence in sight after seven days of preventing, UN Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres has warned that the “completely appalling” hostilities in Israel and Gaza may plunge the entire area into an “uncontrollable disaster.” The United Nations is “actively partaking all sides towards a right away ceasefire,” he mentioned, urging each side “to permit mediation efforts to accentuate and succeed.”

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