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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.
