Israel-Gaza conflicts moved into second weeks yet UN Security Council made no progress on resolving the conflict. Israeli warplanes started attacking Gaza again. Munia Iffat reports.
- IDF launched another round of extensive attacks on terrorist targets, with ongoing violence between Israel and Hamas entering the second week.
- IDF tweeted around 2 am on Monday that “Our fighter jets are currently striking terror targets in Gaza,” amid reports of Israeli warplanes targeting dozens of locations all across the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continuously vowed that the airstrike campaign against Hamas will last “as long as necessary to restore calm and quiet to Israel’s citizens.”
- On Saturday, an Israeli airstrike destroyed a well-known 12-story building Gaza city the housed some of the world’s leading media organizations including The AP and Al Jazeera.
- More artists have spoken out about the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine as protests take place all over the world.
- The death toll in Gaza reached 192, including 58 children and 34 women, with more than 1,200 injured by Sunday.
- In Israel, 10 people were killed, including two children, and over reportedly 500 wounded after the week of nightly fire exchanges.
The latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict escalation follows days of unrest in Jerusalem, prompted by Israel’s plans to forcefully evict several Palestinian families in an occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood.
