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Israel, raid on Gaza: 26 dead including 8 children. Hamas leader’s house hit

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FROM THE ENCOUNTER IN BEIRUT. There are eight minors among the 26 dead in the Israeli air raid against three buildings in Gaza City on Al-Wehda Street, the heaviest raid since the military escalation against the Hamas-ruled Palestinian enclave. This was reported by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The injured are 50.

Fifteen members of the al-Kulk family and two doctors remained in the raid. Rescuers work to extract the injured from the rubble: five children have so far been pulled alive.

During the night 130 rockets had been launched from Gaza on Israel, including on Tel Aviv and in the center of the country. Meanwhile, the meeting of the government’s security cabinet has just begun, addressing the situation with the Strip and the next steps to be taken. Biden Hady Amr’s correspondent started his round of meetings by seeing Defense Minister Benny Gantz: his goal is a de-escalation of the conflict. According to media reports, some ministers intend to call for a quick end to the fighting.

The head of the Israeli armed forces asked political leaders for a “few more days” of raids before the truce. The goal is to end the destruction of tunnels, missile factories and multiple launchers, but also to eliminate the group’s military and political commanders. Before dawn, a raid hit the home of Hamas leader in the Strip, Yahya Sinwar, in Khan Younis. It wasn’t there at the time of the explosion. One of the brothers, who manages the logistics of the group, was also targeted. The army has confirmed that much of the tunnel network in the Northern Strip has been destroyed, with damages of “millions of dollars”, as excavating one meter costs “500 dollars, one kilometer half a million”.

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Aviation is now hunting multiple launchers, capable of firing four to nine rockets at a time and reloading in seconds. It is these weapons that have challenged the Iron Dome defense system. Hamas has about fifty of these launchers. During the night, the militants managed to launch 55 rockets towards Tel Aviv in one shot and force tens of thousands of people to run to shelters. Israeli casualties rose to 10 yesterday, with hundreds of injuries, mostly minor. 170 people died in Gaza, more than a thousand injured.

Gaza, Israeli army: “The home of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar hit”. The video of the bombing

Guerrillas in Hebron, two killed
In the West Bank, the demonstrations in memory of the Nakba, the “catastrophe” of 1948, degenerated into guerrilla warfare in the night. The toughest clashes in Hebron, where two Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire, near the Al-Fawar refugee camp. Two soldiers were hit by a car and were injured. Other clashes are still ongoing, with a very tense situation in Tulkarm. Since the start of the new conflict, nineteen Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank.

Gaza, Israeli army: “The home of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar hit”. The video of the bombing

Mediation of the head of the Egyptian services
The UN Security Council will meet at 10 am in New York, 4 pm in Italy, 5 pm in Israel. Among the first to speak will be the Egyptian foreign minister, the Palestinian representative and the Israeli ambassador, Gilad Erdan. The meeting should give a boost to Egyptian-American mediation, now led personally by Cairo intelligence chief Abbas Kamel, with the backing of White House envoy Hady Amr. The basis of the negotiations is the agreement signed after the 2014 war.

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Egypt reopened the Rafah crossing to send medicines and evacuated dozens of seriously injured. Gaza is almost without electricity and hospitals are struggling to operate, saturated with patients. The humanitarian aspect worries the US, which has also asked Egypt for help on this front. Arab countries allied to Washington are pushing for a ceasefire. Yesterday, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan phoned his Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki and condemned the “illegal practices of the Israeli occupation” in the Territories.

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