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 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.  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.