The military action escalation between Hamas and Israel intensified on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday with a rain of rockets launched by the Islamist movement on the Israeli metropolis Tel Aviv and a deluge of fire from the Israeli army on the strip of Gaza.
The international community has called for calm and Muslim countries have expressed outrage at the worst outbreak of violence in years between the ruling Islamist movement in the Gaza Strip and the Hebrew state, sparked by clashes in Jerusalem.
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On the Palestinian side, Israeli attacks carried out with fighter jets and helicopter gunships have left at least 32 dead, including ten children, and at least 220 injured, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
Commanders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the second armed group in the Gaza Strip, also perished in the strikes, the groups confirmed.
However, At least 20 people, including nine children and a senior Hamas commander, died Monday evening in strikes attributed to the Israeli army carried out in the Gaza Strip in response to dozens of rockets fired from the Palestinian enclave, after new clashes that left more than 500 injured on the Esplanade des Mosques, the third holy place of Islam named Temple Mount by the Jews, in East Jerusalem.
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According to a last assessment of the Israeli army shortly before midnight, more than 150 rockets had been fired from Gaza towards Israel, of which “dozens” were intercepted by the anti-missile shield “Iron Dome”.
And as the salvos continued into the night, an Israeli Arab died of gunshot wounds on the sidelines of clashes with Israelis in the city of Lod (center), where cars were set on fire, local police said. without epilogue.
This violence coincided with “Jerusalem Day”, which according to the Hebrew calendar marks the capture of the eastern part, populated by Palestinians, of the Holy City by the Israeli army in 1967. And it comes after weeks of tensions in Israel. Jerusalem.
“Terrorist organizations in Gaza have crossed a red line by firing rockets into the Jerusalem region,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the evening.
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“Israel will react with force, whoever attacks will pay a heavy price. I tell you, citizens of Israel, the current conflict could last for some time,” added the prime minister, who was holding consultations late in the evening with the heads of the army and the internal secret service, the Shin Beth.
After violent clashes in the morning in Jerusalem, Hamas had issued an ultimatum to Israel demanding that its forces withdraw by 6 p.m. from the Mosque esplanade, a hotbed of tensions between Palestinians and Israelis in the heart of the Old City. city.
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