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A View From the Gaza Strip Amid the Current Escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

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A View From the Gaza Strip Amid the Current Escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

09:11 GMT 16.05.2021 (Updated: 09:21 GMT 05.12.2023)

View of a building damaged by a rocket fired from Gaza, in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv District, Israel, 15 May 2021 in this still image obtained from a social media video. - Sputnik International, 1920, 16.05.2021

For the past week, tensions have been on the rise on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory.

Live from the Gaza Strip, as violence continues to escalate between Israel and Palestine.

As of Saturday evening, 2,800 rockets had been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, about 430 of which fell inside the enclave, the Israel Defence Forces reported. Several civilians and at least one soldier were killed in Israel in the rocket attacks.

Israel has retaliated with hundreds of attacks on suspected Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip. The number of Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes has reached 145, including 41 children.

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