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33 killed in Israeli airstrikes, Hamas rocket attacks as unrest spreads beyond Jerusalem
Israel would "increase both the intensity of the attacks and the rate of attacks," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.



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May 11, 2021, 6:52 AM EDT / Updated May 11, 2021, 5:09 PM EDT
By Alexander Smith, Lawahez Jabari and Paul Goldman
At least 30 Palestinians, including 10 children, and three Israelis have been killed as tensions in Jerusalem spread Tuesday with Israeli airstrikes flattening a multistory apartment building in Gaza and rockets fired from the Gaza Strip reaching Tel Aviv.

The clashes prompted international calls for calm and raised fears that the situation could ignite into a wider conflict, even as Israelis and Palestinians promised that their respective campaigns were far from over.


"We’re in the midst of a big operation," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement Tuesday. "We decided that Hamas and Islamic Jihad will pay a heavy price for their aggressive acts, their blood is in their heads. This operation will take time."

Benny Gantz, defense minister and opposition leader, sounded a similar note: "We will restore quiet and security and we will do so for the long term."

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh called on the United Nations Security Council to intervene to stop "the Israeli aggression against our people."

And for his part, Ziyad Al-Nakhalah, secretary general of the Islamic Jihad movement, said his group "will continue this battle, and we promise our people that we will not retreat and will continue to resist, God willing."


The 13-story residential building in Gaza, containing 80 apartments, was struck Tuesday evening. Reuters reported that it was hit by an Israeli airstrike, and the Israeli military confirmed Tuesday that it struck a multistory building in Gaza's Rimal neighborhood.

There were no immediate reports of casualties.

Image: Smoke billows from an Israeli air strike on the Hanadi compound in Gaza City, controlled by the Palestinian Hamas movement, on May 11, 2021.
Smoke billows from an Israeli air strike on the Hanadi compound in Gaza City, controlled by the Palestinian Hamas movement, on May 11, 2021.Mahmud Hams / AFP - Getty Images
Shortly after, 130 rockets were fired toward Tel Aviv, a city on Israel’s Mediterranean coast, and its suburbs, Hamas said in a statement. Israel briefly halted all flights at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport.

The Israeli military called up 5,000 reservists for active duty.


In Ashkelon, an Israeli city less than 10 miles from Gaza, two people were killed in rocket attacks Tuesday, Israel's Zaka emergency response team said.


Israeli firefighters check out damaged vehicles in the Israeli town of Holon near Tel Aviv, on May 11, 2021, after rockets are launched towards Israel from the Gaza Strip controlled by the Palestinian Hamas movement.Ahmad Gharabli / AFP - Getty Images
Hamas, a militant group that controls the strip and is considered a terrorist organization by Israel and the United States, has launched 480 rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip, including targeting Jerusalem, according to the Israeli Defense Forces.

In response to the rockets, the IDF bombed 130 targets in Gaza, including a Hamas commander's home. It released photos of fighter jets laden with missiles.

Israel's emergency agency Magen David Adom said a bus was hit in Holon, a city south of Tel Aviv, injuring seven people, including a 5-year-old.

One woman has been confirmed dead after a rocket attack in Rishon LeZion, a suburb south of Tel Aviv, according to a volunteer emergency response team.

Several injured were also reported in Gush Dan, the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv, and Giv'atayim, east of the city.

The Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., tweeted a video that appears to show rockets over Tel Aviv.

Abu Hamza, military spokesman for the Al-Quds Brigades, said, "Tel Aviv is now the closest place to the Gaza Strip, and the enemy should be well aware of what we say, and that our agenda is Full and we have more."

Netanyahu said in a video posted online that Hamas "will receive blows here that it did not expect." A day earlier, he had warned that the "conflict may continue for some time."

The Palestinian Health Ministry earlier said that 26 people were killed, including nine children, and 122 people were wounded in the airstrikes.

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33 killed in airstrikes, rocket attacks as unrest spreads beyond Jerusalem
Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit called the Israeli airstrikes "indiscriminate and irresponsible" and said Israel was responsible for the "dangerous escalation" in Jerusalem, Reuters reported.

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As in other years, recent hostility centered around Jerusalem's Old City, which has some of the holiest sites for Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Both the Israelis and the Palestinians claim the city as their capital.

On Monday night, unrest spread to Lod, a city southeast of Tel Aviv, where Mayor Yair Revivo said "Arab youths" vandalized public property, threw Molotov cocktails and lowered the Israeli flag to be replaced with the Palestinian one. He said one person was shot to death, with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reporting it was an Arab man killed by a Jewish resident.


A rocket launched from Gaza city controlled by the Palestinian Hamas movement, is intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome aerial defense system, on May 11, 2021.Mohammed Abed / AFP - Getty Images
Nightly clashes have punctuated Ramadan, the Muslim holy month. The unrest has been fueled by plans to evict Palestinian families from a neighborhood in east Jerusalem whose land is claimed by Jewish settlers.

Tensions escalated Friday and Monday as Israeli police used stun grenades and rubber-coated bullets on Palestinians at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which is the third holiest site of Islam and the holiest site of Judaism.

Israeli officials said this was in response to Palestinians throwing stones toward the Western Wall, where thousands of Jews had gathered to pray. Netanyahu's spokesman Ofir Gendelman tweeted that "extremist Palestinians planned well in advance to carry out riots."

But a spokesperson for the mosque said the clashes began when police tried to evacuate the compound, where many Palestinian worshippers sleep during Ramadan, to allow Israelis in.

The violence came as some Israelis were celebrating the anniversary of their country's capture of the Old City and its eastern neighborhoods in the 1967 Six-Day War.

State Department spokesman Ned Price said the U.S has "urged Israelis to de-escalate, we have urged Palestinians to de-escalate" and he "condemned in the strongest possible terms, the Hamas rocket fire, that is, within recent minutes, has been raining down on Israel."

The European Union's executive branch said in a statement that "firing of rockets from Gaza against civilian populations in Israel is totally unacceptable and feeds escalatory dynamics." German Foreign Minister Heiko Mass said in a tweet that "rocket fire on Israeli civilians is not justifiable under any circumstances."

Alexander Smith reported from London, and Lawahez Jabari and Paul Goldman reported from Jerusalem. The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital based in London.

Lawahez Jabari
Lawahez Jabari is a producer based in Tel Aviv. She has covered the Middle East conflict — on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides — for more than a decade.

Paul Goldman
Paul Goldman is a Tel Aviv-based producer and video editor for NBC News.



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The Muslims have been uploading these updates and the killings on their status....Even more than the killings in Nigeria....


But what is the real cause of this fight?

yanabasee1:
The Muslims have been uploading these updates and the killings on their status....Even more than the killings in Nigeria....


But what is the real cause of this fight?

[b]Nightly clashes have punctuated Ramadan, the Muslim holy month. The unrest has been fueled by plans to evict Palestinian families from a neighborhood in east Jerusalem whose land is claimed by Jewish settlers.

Tensions escalated Friday and Monday as Israeli police used stun grenades and rubber-coated bullets on Palestinians at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which is the third holiest site of Islam and the holiest site of Judaism.


Israeli officials said this was in response to Palestinians throwing stones toward the Western Wall, where thousands of Jews had gathered to pray. Netanyahu's spokesman Ofir Gendelman tweeted that "extremist Palestinians planned well in advance to carry out riots."

But a spokesperson for the mosque said the clashes began when police tried to evacuate the compound, where many Palestinian worshippers sleep during Ramadan, to allow Israelis in.

The violence came as some Israelis were celebrating the anniversary of their country's capture of the Old City and its eastern neighborhoods in the 1967 Six-Day War[/b].
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Looks like Isreal got it wrong

Really don't know what to say again

Enough of this please we all need peace

Mixedfruit:
Enough of this please
we all need peace

Muslim hate peace

Ogonisoul:
Muslim hate peace

If the Arabs/muslims put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel'

I think this is the end time....

Abeg people should repent ooo

To put thus in context, Israel is doing to Palestine what many claim herdsmen are doing in the South and what white folks did to black people in South Africa prior to Mandela.

Isreali iron Dome intercepting Palestinian missiles


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH2WT3IBSpQ

If you look at the actual videos with honesty, the Palestinians are the aggressors.

I saw a fake video yesterday on tiktok claiming that an Israeli deliberately rammed people with his car. Cut and zoomed, I searched and found the original video and behold an Israeli driver was being killed with his small daughter in the car while driving. He lost control and rammed into a rock where someone was standing with a weapon waiting to kill the same man.

These mofo give cocktail bombs to kids to go and throw at Israelis expecting the kids to be shot so they can take to the media and play the kids card. Are there no kids in Israel?

You fire 100 rockets at a time on someone and go back to play the kids card, don't Israelis have kids?

I was watching the whole thing live on even CNN and they confirmed Palestinians initially shot hundreds of rockets into Southern Israel. I despise war, destruction and chaos, But to any rational mind what did u expect to happen? Action and reaction are both equal and opposite. Civilians on both sides are not the ones prosecuting this war and launching rockets, it is the Military factions on either side that are on each other's throats. In the end, unfortunately, Civilians are always likely going to be among the casualties.. really sad.

I want to know much about israel iron doom

Staphylococcus:

Continue to spread nonsense.

Staphylococcus:

sorry

Staphylococcus:

read your history textbook instead of propaganda.....sorry

illitracy:
If you look at the actual videos with honesty, the Palestinians are the aggressors.

I saw a fake video yesterday on tiktok claiming that an Israeli deliberately rammed people with his car. Cut and zoomed, I searched and found the original video and behold an Israeli driver was being killed with his small daughter in the car while driving. He lost control and rammed into a rock where someone was standing with a weapon waiting to kill the same man.

These mofo give cocktail bombs to kids to go and throw at Israelis expecting the kids to be shot so they can take to the media and play the kids card. Are there no kids in Israel?

You fire 100 rockets at a time on someone and go back to play the kids card, don't Israelis have kids?

.

Your last line.

It is actually more than 100 rockets. The Islamic terrorists should be Glad it is Netayan that's ruling. If it is someone with African mentality, and with good war head readily available, trust some of us would be on our way to Gaza by now, not for anything but exxcursion to check a once inhibited land that turned Desert due to some religious nuts who believed their religion must conquer the world.

I'm only disappointed Israel didn't return the favour with 150 rockets. I really wouldn't care where they fall so far it is on Terrorist territories.


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budaatum:
To put thus in context, Israel is doing to Palestine what many claim herdsmen are doing in the South and what white folks did to black people in South Africa prior to Mandela.

Israel is giving it to you Muslims back to back to back,front and back without condom

AstroG:


Israel is giving it to you Muslims back to back to back,front and back without condom

Whites were giving it to blacks in South Africa. Cattle is givng it to you in Nigeria.

Pity. If only you had Christ in your life you'd love your neighbours and not have enemies, but see how you delight in enmity.

May the Lord God forgive you in Jesus Mighty Name for you obviously know not what you say or do.

Say "amen" now, astrog.

budaatum:


Whites were giving it to blacks in South Africa. Cattle is givng it to you in Nigeria.

Pity. If only you had Christ in your life you'd love your neighbours and not have enemies, but see how you delight in enmity.

May the Lord God forgive you in Jesus Mighty Name for you obviously know not what you say or do.

Say "amen" now, astrog.

Cattle can never give it to me madam,am not a coward and will never be.
Don't claim you're a Christian whereas your not,u just a pitiful Muslim


IF ALL THE MUSLIMS FAITHFULS SHOULD DROP THEIR VIOLENCE ATTITUDES THERE WILL BE PEACE IN THIS WORLD,BUT IT'S NOT POSSIBLE CAUSE IT'S INBUILT IN THEM

AstroG:

Cattle can never give it to me madam,am not a coward and will never be.
Don't claim you're a Christian whereas your not,u just a pitiful Muslim


IF ALL THE MUSLIMS FAITHFULS SHOULD DROP THEIR VIOLENCE ATTITUDES THERE WILL BE PEACE IN THIS WORLD,BUT IT'S NOT POSSIBLE CAUSE IT'S INBUILT IN THEM

We can tell what you are by your fruits. See as you are turning the other cheek and forgiving 7 times 70 times instead of allowing hatred to abound in your heart.

There is immense Power in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ, I need not tell Christian you.

budaatum:


We can tell what you are by your fruits. See as you are turning the other cheek and forgiving 7 times 70 times instead of allowing hatred to abound in your heart.

There is immense Power in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ, I need not tell Christian you.

Madam,the Christianity card you're trying to play on me won't work,so find another.



This is my last reply to YOU

AstroG:


Madam,the Christianity card you're trying to play on me won't work,so find another.

This is my last reply to YOU

For it is written that you would depart for a season.