- Title: Moment Israeli air strike hits residential building in Gaza City
- Date: 13th May 2021
- Summary: GAZA CITY, GAZA (MAY 13, 2021) (REUTERS) VIEW OF CITY SKYLINE / EXPLOSION AND SMOKE RISING BEHIND BUILDINGS WHITE FLASH SMOKE RISING BEHIND BUILDINGS
- Embargoed: 27th May 2021 07:41
- Keywords: Gaza Israel Jerusalem Palestine explosion
- Location: GAZA CITY, GAZA
- City: GAZA CITY, GAZA
- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA001ECSPYRR
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Israel carried out an air strike on a residential building in central Gaza City on Thursday morning (May 13) after a night of escalating violence as the fiercest hostilities in years dragged on with no end in sight.
Hamas launched rocket barrages at southern Israel overnight and the sound of rockets being shot down by Israel's Iron Dome system filled the sky, sending thousands of Israelis to shelters.
By dawn on Thursday, Israel had renewed its air strikes on the Palestinian coastal enclave, destroying a six-story residential building in the middle of Gaza City.
As world powers reiterate calls for calm, a wave of violence between Jewish Israelis and the country's Arab minority has continued to spread in several Israeli cities, with attacks on synagogues and Arab-Jewish fighting in the streets.
At least 67 people have been killed in Gaza since violence escalated on Monday (May 10), according to the enclave's health ministry. Seven people have been killed in Israel, its military said.
Israel has prepared combat troops along the Gaza border and was in "various stages of preparing ground operations," a military spokesman said, a move that would recall similar incursions during Israel-Gaza wars in 2014 and 2008-2009.
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