Also on that Monday, the 28th day of the Hebrew month of Iyer, Israeli nationalists were planning to hold a controversial annual “Jerusalem Day” march through Muslim quarters of the Old City, marking Israel’s capture of Jerusalem during the Six Day war in 1967. That day, Israel’s supreme court was due to hear the Sheikh Jarrah case. Image Credit: MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty ImagesĪ Palestinian girl plays with a hula hoop at a school hosting refugees in Gaza city, on May 14th, the second day of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr feast, which marks the end of Ramadan.The funeral of an Israeli soldier Omer Tabib, 21, in Elyakim in northern Israel, on May 13. Tabib was killed when Palestinian militants in Gaza fired an anti-tank missile near the border, the Israeli army said. The funeral of Israeli soldier Omer Tabib, 21, in Elyakim, Israel, on May 13th. Palestinians attend the funeral of 10 members of a single extended family in Gaza City, on May 15th, after an Israeli air strike in the Al-shatea refugee camp in Gaza. Image Credit: Atia Mohammed/Flash90/Redux People hang out in a main Tel Aviv square on Sunday, amid the threat of incoming rockets from the Gaza Strip.Ī woman inside a torched religious school in the Israeli city of Lod, near Tel Aviv, on May 11th, 2021, as the conflict was escalating.
Forty-two people, including 10 children, were killed by Israeli airstrikes that day alone.Ī child runs in front of damaged buildings after airstrikes by Israel hit buildings in Gaza City on Monday. Palestinian paramedics carry a girl from the rubble of a destroyed building in Gaza City’s Rimal residential district on May 16th. Image Credit: MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images On Monday, as fighting continued into its second week, Israelis inspect the damage outside a building which received a direct hit by rockets from the Gaza Strip, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod. Image Credit: AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images Smoke rises after Israeli forces destroyed a building in Gaza, where Al-Jazeera and the Associated Press had their offices, on May 15th, 2021. Image Credit: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Israeli Forces Bomb Building Housing Al-Jazeera, Associated Press.Palestinians inspect ruins after Israeli warplanes bombed and destroyed a six-story building in Gaza City on Saturday, May 15th. Image Credit: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency/ Getty Images According to CNN, about 1,210 of 2,650 rockets were intercepted, as of Sunday. The system, which has been active for the past decade, interceps about 90 percent of the rockets it targets.
The Israeli Iron Dome missile defence system intercepts rockets fired by Hamas towards southern Israel. Image Credit: ANAS BABA / AFP/Getty Images
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