The escalation between Israel and Hamas continues, which exploded after weeks of tension in Jerusalem and the clashes between Israeli police forces and Palestinian demonstrators on the Temple Mount. After the first day of violence, with the firing of over 100 rockets from Hamas and the Israeli retaliation, the conflict continued on May 11 at an even more intense pace. The Iron Dome, the Israeli system of protection from missile attacks, has come under stress due to the rockets launched from Gaza: 630 in total, of which 400 arrived in Israeli territory and 200 neutralized by the missile defense system. There are currently 28 Palestinian victims, including 10 children and a woman, while on the Israeli front there are three victims in the southern city of Askelon. Premier Benjiamin Netanyahu responded to the killings by deciding to “increase the strength and intensity” of the air strikes against Gaza.
In the evening there were new explosions in Tel Aviv, due to the anti-missile interception system of the Iron Dome, while the Israeli army killed a member of the Palestinian secret services in the West Bank. Tel Aviv airport has temporarily suspended air traffic, diverting it to Cyprus. The rockets fired on the area have been claimed by Islamic Jihad.
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In Gaza, a 13-story building, home to a Hamas office, collapsed under the attack of the Israeli air force. During a Hamas bombing of Holon, an urban area south of Tel Aviv, some people were injured and an empty bus was also hit in the immediate vicinity. A woman was killed in a massive rocket launch on the outskirts of Tel Aviv by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The woman, directly hit by one of the bombs, was killed in the town of Rishon Lezion, according to reports from the humanitarian organization Zaka. Eight people were injured as a result of rocket launches: four in the town of Holon and four in Givatayim, a suburb of Tel Aviv.
Netanyahu: We will intensify the attacks
Egypt tried to broker a ceasefire between the parties, without success. The military army has reinforced its presence on the border with Gaza and the Ministry of Defense has ordered the mobilization of about 5 thousand soldiers from the reserve. Israel “will further intensify the strength and pace of attacks” against the Gaza Strip, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“We are in the middle of a military campaign,” said Netanyahu, quoted by the Times of Israel. “Our goal is to hit Hamas hard, weaken it and make it regret its decision” to launch missiles at Israel, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said, speaking to reporters near a missile battery in the Iron Dome defense system. in the south of Israel.