Israel airstrikes kill 8 children, flatten building housing Associated Press, Al Jazeera offices
[NBC] Israeli warplanes pounded the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least eight children in a refugee camp and flattening a high-rise building housing the offices of international media outlets as Hamas unleashed a new barrage of rockets targeting central Israel.
The bombardments — for a sixth consecutive day — fed fears of a return to all-out war between Israel and the militant group Hamas.
U.S. diplomat Hady Amr
Nah — the Lebanon-born American who only works for Democratic administrations is merely one of Secretary of State Blinken’s senior aides.... | arrived Saturday in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv to meet with senior Israeli and Palestinian officials to push for calm, though sirens blaring throughout the city to alert incoming rocket fire signaled the conflict showed no signs of abating.
One rocket hit a neighborhood in central Israel's Ramat Gan, where raw footage showed fire and debris in the streets. The Magen David ambulance service said one man died at the scene.
Posted by: Besoeker 2021-05-15 |