More dead on Nakba Day: Israeli attack destroys press building


More dead on Nakba day
Israeli attack destroys press building

The deadly conflict between Israel and radical Islamic Hamas rages on. Ten members of a Palestinian family die after an attack in a refugee camp. A skyscraper reported by several international media outlets from Gaza City is also attacked.

The deadly violence between Israel and radical Islamic Hamas continues unabated. The Israeli Air Force continued its attacks in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. According to doctors, ten members of a single family were killed in an attack. The Israeli army also attacks a building with international media. The 14-story high-rise was hit by several rockets and destroyed, reported journalists. The Qatari TV broadcaster Al-Jazeera and the US news agency Associated Press (AP) had their offices in the building.

According to an AP journalist, the owner of the skyscraper was “warned” by the Israeli army that the attack would be “a target”. Another US news agency correspondent reported on Twitter: “We ran down the stairs from the eleventh floor.”

Al-Jazeera TV station also confirmed that its offices were in the building. At the same time, he showed live recordings of the collapsing high-rise. The Israeli army initially made no comment on the attack.

Shelling on both sides on Nakba day

Despite attempts at international mediation, the worst escalation of violence in years between Israel and Palestinians in the Middle East has been going on for days. The Israeli army has attacked around 800 targets in the Gaza Strip since Monday. For their part, radical Palestinians fired more than 2,300 rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip.

A renewed escalation of violence was feared because on today’s Nakba Day the Palestinians commemorate the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people as a result of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Militant Palestinians in the Gaza Strip also continued their rocket attacks on Israeli cities. In the desert city of Beershevah in southern Israel and in border towns to the Gaza Strip, the warning sirens howled in the morning, as the Israeli military announced.

Again victims on both sides

The Israeli army reportedly continued to attack targets in the Palestinian Territory. The air force fired at several rocket launchers and two combat units belonging to the Islamist Hamas ruling in the Gaza Strip, it said.

According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, a house has been hit in the Shati refugee camp in western Gaza. Ten members of a Palestinian family were killed, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said, including eight children. A five-month-old boy survived the attack. “They carried no weapons, they did not fire any rockets,” said Mohammed Al Hadidi, lamenting the death of his four children, who were among the victims. Civilians have also been killed in Beit Lahia in the north of the coastal strip and in other places, according to Wafa. An Israeli army spokeswoman said the reports were being checked.

In Ramat Gan, a suburb of Tel Aviv, a 50-year-old Israeli died in rocket attacks from the Palestinian Territory at noon, according to police. The Israeli military announced that around 300 rockets had been fired into southern Israel the night before. According to the authorities, ten people have died in Israel since the outbreak of violence and more than 560 people have suffered injuries. According to Hamas, 139 people were killed in the Gaza Strip, including 39 children. About 950 other people were injured.

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