The Israeli army attacks by air and artillery on the Gaza Strip continue. Palestinians residing on the outskirts of Gaza City have fled their homes as the offensive escalates, with a family of six killed in their home yesterday. Israel is deploying troops on the border and calling in up to 9,000 reservists to support its attack. Hamas fired around 1,800 rockets, while Israel responded with at least 600 air strikes. “We will go on as long as necessary,” said Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, ruling out any quick de-escalation. “I said we were going to hit Hamas and the other terrorist groups with significant blows and that’s what we’re doing.” Premier Benyamin Netanyahu said this, adding that “it is not over yet. We will do everything to restore the safety of our citizens ».
The “gaffe” about the entrance to Gaza? Maybe a ruse
The alleged “gaffe” of the announcement of the entry of Israeli troops, spread and then denied in the night between 13 and 14 May, would have turned out instead to be a stratagem to “make Hamas fighters enter underground tunnels the army was striking in a massive night bombardment. ‘
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Thus Canale 12 reconstructed the story of the news circulated all over the world, first through a message, then with the subsequent confirmations provided by the military spokesman Jonathan Conricus to the foreign media. The Times of Israel website, which reports the reconstruction of Channel 12, returns to the episode citing the other military spokesman Hidai Zilberman according to whom “the army is investigating what led to the misunderstanding”. Ynet’s site also wonders if “the confusion was intentional.” Already yesterday evening Conricus himself had spoken of a “communication problem” and this morning, in a press conference to update the situation with the international media, he assumed responsibility for the facts
The toll: 119 Palestinian victims and seven Israelis
The conflict has reached the fifth day and shows no signs of diminishing. Alarm sirens are ringing in Beersheba and nearby towns. The same happened in the same day in Kiryat Malach and elsewhere, after Hamas announced its intention to strike with rockets from the Gaza Strip. Israel fired warning shots against gripping protesters who were crossing the border from Lebanon in a protest against Israeli incursions into Gaza. Yesterday the first rockets were also launched from Lebanon, which landed on the coast off Galilee. The Gaza Ministry of Health currently counts a total of 119 Palestinian victims, including 31 children and 19 women, as well as 830 injured. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad group confirm 20 killings in their ranks, but the number could be higher. There are seven Israeli casualties, including a six-year-old boy and a soldier.
Jerusalem: hundreds of Jordanians demonstrate at the border
Hundreds of Jordanian citizens gathered in the area of al Karameh, a short distance from the border with the West Bank, to show their solidarity with the “Palestinian brothers”. The news was reported by the Petra agency according to which the demonstrators shouted “anger over the Israeli attack on Gaza, the holy city of Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories”. At the same time, according to the Israeli media, one of the most in-tune slogans was ‘With spirit and blood, we will redeem you, o Aqsa’, referring to the Mosque on the Esplanade in Jerusalem. Another demonstration took place in Amman