Israel and Palestine Violence: 83 people already killed in Gaza and seven in Israel amidst escalations, BBC Report
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BBC. Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups in Gaza have a wide variety of missiles GETTY IMAGES ®
Palestine continued to fire rockets into Israel while Israel continued with airstrikes amid civilian unrest among Jewish and Israeli Arab mobs. 83 people in Palestine and Seven in Israel have already been killed as of 13 May 2021 according to BBC report. BBC report states that Israel had been targeted with 1600 rockets ‘A BBC reporter in Gaza said it had been the “longest and most difficult night since the 2014 war”. Israel said it had been targeted with 1,600 rockets.’
BBC is reporting that the violence this time is the worst since 2014 “This is now the worst violence since 2014, fuelled initially by weeks of Israeli-Palestinian tension in East Jerusalem which led to clashes at a holy site revered by both Muslims and Jews. This spiralled into an incessant exchange of Palestinian rocket fire and Israeli airstrikes.”
While violence continues, the civilian population continue to be more vulnerable ‘Najwa Sheikh-Ahmada, a Gaza mother, said of Wednesday night: “You cannot sleep… In any moment your home might be your grave….You cannot be secure. As a mother it’s very terrifying, it’s very exhausting for my feelings, for my humanity,” she told the BBC’s Today programme’
Houses have reportedly been destroyed in Israel, ‘an apartment block was destroyed in the city of Petah Tikva shortly after residents had gone to their bomb shelters.
“We heard an alarm and suddenly there was a bang. Smoke entered the shelter, and the neighbour next to me who was sitting on a chair flew back,” one resident told the news website Ynet.’
Read the up to date story on BBC through the link below: Israel-Gaza: Deaths mount as Israel-Gaza violence worsens – BBC News
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