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Yazan al-Masri. Published by IMEMC News

Some 200 Gaza rockets fired at Israel. A home in the coastal city of Ashkelon suffered a direct hit, this morning. Credit: Ilan Assayag
Published by Haaretz
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by IMEMC News
May 11, 2021

The Israeli army carried out, on Tuesday afternoon, a series of airstrikes targeting several areas in the Gaza Strip, causing excessive property damage, in addition to killing at least five Palestinians, and injuring more than ten.

Media sources said the strikes targeted many homes, residential buildings, structures, farmlands, and sites run by armed resistance groups, in several parts of the Gaza strip.

Update: Amira Abdul-Fattah Sobeh, 57, killed by an Israeli shell targeting her apartment in the Shati’ refugee camp.

Update: Abdul-Rahman Sobeh (special needs) the son of Amira, killed in the same bombings.

Update: An Israeli missile killed Kamal Taiseer Qreiqe’, 35, in the Rimal neighborhood in Gaza city.

Update: Israeli sources said two Israelis were killed, and two were injured, one seriously, by Palestinian shells in Asqalan.

Update: The Al-Jazeera News Agency has reported that the Israeli army fired missiles into a school for orphans in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

Update: The Israeli army fired missiles into a building in Gaza city, killing Sameh Fahim Hashem al-Mamlouk, 34.

A Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Yahia Mohammad Abu al-Ata, 30, was killed in one of the Israeli strikes in Gaza city, medical sources said.

The army also fired a missile at a Palestinian car, in Gaza, causing injuries, while the Israeli navy fired sporadic missiles at sites close to the Gaza shore.

Medical sources in Gaza also said two Palestinians were killed, and eight were injured, when the army fired missiles into an apartment in the Rimal neighborhood in Gaza. Most of the wounded are children.

The Israeli army also fired a barrage of missiles targeting homes and residential buildings in the al-Shati’ refugee camp, in northern Gaza, causing excessive damage.

The three Palestinians are senior leaders of the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, and were killed in targeted assassination strikes.

As of Tuesday morning, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has confirmed that Israeli airstrikes have killed 27 Palestinians, including 9 children and one woman, and wounded at least a hundred in the Gaza Strip. Israel began its assault on Gaza Monday evening, following three weeks of Israeli settler and soldier attacks on Palestinians.

It added that at least 122 Palestinians have been injured, including more than 15 who suffered serious wounds and said that among the injured are 41 children.

In addition, the Al-Jazeera news agency has reported that the Israeli army fired, on Tuesday afternoon, several missiles and shells targeting many areas in the eastern, and northeastern parts of the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, Israeli sources said Palestinian fighters fired more than 40 shells within a few minutes, into Asqalan and Ashdod, and added that the shells caused damage and five injuries.

They added that more than 300 shells have been fired from Gaza since Monday evening, especially when Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, in retaliation to the Israeli offensive on Gaza, and the escalating violations in Jerusalem, mainly in and around Al-Aqsa Mosque, and Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.

The Al-Qassam Brigades said it managed to fire 137 shells into Ashdod and Asqalan within five minutes and added that warned that its retaliation will be unprecedented if Israel does not end its offensive on Gaza, and does not stop its violations against the Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, especially in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

On its part, the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad said its “response to the Israeli crimes against civilians, and resistance fighters, is just beginning.”

Its statement came after Israeli assassinated several prominent members of the group in Gaza and vowed to keep Israel on constant alert.

It is worth mentioning that the Israeli army has decided to deploy more than five thousand reservists, across the fence with Gaza, in preparation for a possible ground offensive.
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Gaza Flare-up: Explosions Heard Across Central Israel After Rocket Barrages at Tel Aviv

Two women killed in southern Israel as militants expand rocket fire ■ Israel says it assassinated senior Islamic Jihad, Hamas operatives ■ Twenty-eight Gazans, including 10 children, reported killed ■ Direct hit to Israeli houses, dozens wounded, as Iron Dome battery malfunctions

by Haaretz

Two women were killed in Israel and dozens were wounded as more than 250 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army struck some 140 targets in the coastal enclave, after Hamas openly joined the hostilities Monday following a weekend of clashes in Jerusalem.

Palestinian media have reported 28 deaths in Israeli strikes, while Gaza's Hamas and Islamic Jihad continued to rain rockets on Israeli communities along the border.

The Israeli military boosted its presence along the border. Authorities called on local residents to remain at home and near bomb shelters until further notice. Violent clashes between police and protesters spread through Arab cities inside Israel, with one man shot dead.

8:49 Sirens sound in Tel Aviv

Sirens warning of incoming rocket fire blared in Tel Aviv and central Israel on Tuesday night, Reuters witnesses said.

The sounds of multiple explosions were also heard, just minutes after Gaza militants Hamas and Islamic Jihad vowed to respond to an Israeli air strike on a residential tower in the Strip earlier in the night. (Reuters)

8:43 P.M. Islamic Jihad to fire rockets at Tel Aviv at 9 P.M.

*And then Hamas did two unexpected things
*Israeli Arab shot dead as Jerusalem riots spillover; Two Jewish suspects arrested
*Protests spread to major Israeli Arab cities amid Jerusalem tensions, violence
*Rivals’ coalition talks mean Netanyahu's in no rush to de-escalate Gaza tensions
*Jerusalem Day reminds me: Israel's extremists and fanatics are not my Jewish people
*A spokesman for the Islamic Jihad military wing said the militant group will fire rockets at Tel Aviv at 9 P.M. in response to an Israeli strike that took down a 13-story building in Gaza City, used by Hamas leadership. (Jack Khoury)

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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on all sides in the conflict between Israel and Hamas-run Gaza on Tuesday to de-escalate the violence that has killed at least 30 people and reminded them of the rules of war.

The ICRC regional director for the Middle East, Fabrizio Carboni, said in a statement sent to Reuters that international humanitarian law prohibits indiscriminate attacks against civilians, any attack must be proportionate, and all necessary precautions must be taken to avoid civilian casualties. (Reuters)

7:47 P.M. UN working to de-escalate tensions between Israel, Palestinians

The United Nations is urgently working to de-escalate tensions between Israel and the Palestinians and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is saddened by "the increasingly large numbers of casualties, including children, from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, and of Israeli fatalities from rockets launched from Gaza," UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said

"Israeli security forces must exercise maximum restraint and calibrate their use of force. The indiscriminate launching of rockets and mortars towards Israeli population centers is unacceptable," Dujarric told reporters on Tuesday. (Reuters)

7:45 P.M. Nearly 500 rockets fired at Israel

Approximately 480 rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel so far in the current flare-up, including 150 that fell inside the Strip, the Israeli army spokesman reported. Israel's Iron Dome missile-interception system has intercepted 200 rockets, the spokesman's office added. (Haaretz)

7:19 P.M. Hamas says would target 'skyscrapers in Tel Aviv' if Israeli strikes persist

A spokesman for the Hamas military wing warned in a statement the group would target “skyscrapers in Tel Aviv” should Israel “continue its aggression,” in the form of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. The attack, Abu Ubaida added, “will be much worse than what happened in Ashkelon,” where two women were killed earlier on Tuesday after a house took a direct hit. (Jack Khoury)

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