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Gaza death toll rises, as Palestinians in Israel face escalating crackdown
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Live: Gaza death toll rises, as Palestinians in Israel face escalating
crackdown

Follow MEE's updates as Israeli strikes continue to pound Gaza, Hamas
rockets hit Israel and protesting Palestinians risk assault and arrest

Key Points

Netanyahu vows to crack down on mass protests by Palestinian citizens of
Israel

Israeli air strikes on Gaza kill at least 53 Palestinians, including 14
children

Five Israelis killed by rockets fired from Gaza, including one child and
one woman

Live Updates

Gaza death toll rises to 56: Health ministry

1 minute ago

Israeli air strikes this week have killed 56 Palestinians, including 14
children and five women, in the besieged Gaza Strip as of 5pm local time
(2pm GMT) on Wednesday, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.

Another 335 Palestinians have been reportedly injured in the blockaded
enclave.

Five people have reportedly been killed in Israel by rockets fired from
Gaza, while two Palestinians were killed overnight during Israeli army
raids in the occupied West Bank.

Top Hamas commander killed in Israeli air strike

9 minutes ago

The Hamas movement has confirmed the death of its Gaza City commander,
Bassem Issa, reportedly the highest-ranking military figure in Hamas to be
killed by Israel since its 2014 offensive on the enclave.

Issa was killed on Wednesday, the movement said, along with "other leaders
and warriors".

"Thousands of leaders and soldiers will follow in their footsteps," a Hamas
spokesperson said.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Israeli army announced that it had also killed
Hassan Kaogi, head of the Hamas military intelligence security department,
and his deputy, Wail Issa, head of Hamas' military intelligence
counterespionage department.

Israeli president called Lod protesters 'bloodthirsty Arab mob'

1 hour ago

The Israeli government has been taking a hardline stance on Palestinian
citizens of Israel, especially in the mixed Jewish-Palestinian town of Lod
south of Tel Aviv, where Palestinians have taken to the streets in
solidarity with Jerusalem and Gaza.

Confrontations erupted overnight in Lod between Palestinians and
Jewish-Israelis in Lod, with cars and buildings burnt, and at least one
synagogue torched.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin called the events on Tuesday in Lod a
“pogrom” carried out by "a bloodthirsty Arab mob".

Israeli security officials have said they reassigned 16 border police
battalions from the occupied West Bank to Lod and other towns in Israel,
after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a “state of emergency” in
Lod.

Palestinian citizens of Israel constitute around 20 percent of the
country’s population, and are subjected to a number of discriminatory laws
compared to Jewish-Israelis. Palestinian-majority towns and villages have
long complained of being neglected and underserved by the state.

Gaza death toll rises to 53: Health ministry

2 hours ago

Israeli air strikes have killed 53 Palestinians, including 14 children and
three women, in the besieged Gaza Strip as of 3pm local time (12pm GMT) on
Wednesday, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.

Another 320 Palestinians have been reportedly injured in the blockaded
enclave.

Five people have reportedly been killed in Israel by rockets fired from
Gaza, while two Palestinians were killed overnight during Israeli army
raids in the occupied West Bank.

In pictures: The morning after in Gaza

2 hours ago

Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip took stock of the extent of the
damage caused by Israeli air strikes overnight, with some residential
buildings heavily damaged.

[image: The remains of a tower building are visible in Gaza City on 12 May
2021 after Israeli air strikes (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)]
The remains of a tower building are visible in Gaza City on 12 May 2021
after Israeli air strikes (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)

[image: Palestinian women check the damage inside an apartment in a heavily
damaged building in Gaza City early on 12 May 2021 (AFP/ Mohammed Abed)]
Palestinian women check the damage inside an apartment in a heavily damaged
building in Gaza City early on 12 May 2021 (AFP/ Mohammed Abed)

Explainer: How Israel turned a holy site into a battleground

3 hours ago

With the situation evolving rapidly over the past week - with planned
expropriations of Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem, violence at
al-Aqsa mosque, air strikes and rockets in the besieged Gaza Strip and
large protests in Israel and the occupied West Bank - following the news
coming out of Palestine and Israel has been a daunting prospect.

MEE's own Frank Andrews has done a day-by-day breakdown of how, during a
long weekend of violence, prayer and protest, Israeli security forces
turned al-Aqsa, one of the holiest sites in Islam and a symbol of
Palestinian resistance, into a battleground. And not for the first time.

For those of you seeking to understand the events unfolding in recent days,
you can read the story here
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-aqsa-attacks-how-violence-unfolded>
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