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Sirens wailed again in Israel. Children are dying on both sides

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The World Daily | News Desk           MAY  13th   2021

 

In Israel, sirens wailed again in many parts of the country on Wednesday night. Emergency services said a six-year-old boy was killed in a rocket attack by Hamas from the Gaza Strip on residential buildings in the city of Sderot, on the border with the Gaza Strip. Six other people are injured. Israel responded with attacks on the Gaza Strip. The authorities of the airport. Ben Gurion in Tel Aviv said on Thursday that all flights to the international airport had been diverted until further notice.

Sirens warning against rockets fired from the Gaza Strip sounded in Tel Aviv as well as in the south and, for the first time, in the north of Israel.

A rocket launched from the Gaza Strip struck a block of flats in an apartment complex in the city of Sderot, and a fragment of it ricocheted towards another building and entered the apartment through a window. The fragment broke through the security and hit the room serving as the shelter, where the family living there was gathered, reported Israeli TV channel 12. A six-year-old boy was killed, and his mother was seriously injured. A five-year-old child suffered moderate injuries, and four other people were left slightly injured, reported the Times of Israel.

Five people were injured after a Palestinian rocket struck a residential complex in Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv on Thursday past midnight, AFP reported, citing emergency services.

The Israeli Air Force responded by targeting Hamas. Among the targets were places related to this organization's counterintelligence operations and the house of its commander Ijad Tajjeb. Israeli forces continued firing early Thursday morning.

Israel's death toll from rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip since Monday has almost continuously risen to seven. According to the latest reports by the Gaza Health Ministry, 67 people, including 17 children, have been killed in the fighting in recent days, and 400 people have been injured.

 

Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport authorities said on Thursday that all flights to the international airport had been diverted until further notice.

The decision has no impact on flights from the airport, where traffic has already been temporarily suspended on Tuesday evening due to a Hamas missile fired on the Israeli metropolis, the source said, quoted by the AFP agency.

The planes will be directed to the Ramon airport near Eilat in southern Israel, the airport representatives said.

On Wednesday evening in the Gaza Strip, a radical Palestinian group Hamas announced that it had fired another 130 rockets at the Israeli cities of Sderot, Netivot and Ashkelon. Hamas said in a press release that this is a response to the killing of several leaders of the organization by Israeli forces on Wednesday, including the commander of its armed wing in the city of Gaza - Bassem Issa, and the bombing of another high rise building in Gaza. Since Monday, about 1,500 rockets have been fired towards the territory of the Jewish state.

As a result of the shelling in Ashkelon, a small child was injured, he is in a critical condition - informs the AFP agency, citing the Israeli police announcements. According to the Times of Israel website, rockets hit 14 different locations in Ashkelon, including an empty kindergarten.

There were also riots in many Israeli cities on Wednesday evening. Groups of far-right Jewish nationalists demonstrated across the country, engaging in clashes with the police and attacking Israeli Arabs. Such riots took place, among others in Bat Jam near Tel Aviv, where, according to Israeli public television, a crowd of extremists also beat up a Jewish resident, mistaking him for an Arab. Similar scenes also took place in Acre, Tiberias, and Lod.

With the escalation of fighting, the third extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council will be held on Friday, this time in public. In the first two videoconferences that were not available to the media, the US opposed the adoption of a joint declaration to halt clashes, considering that it would be "counterproductive" at this stage.

 

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