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The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that the killed in the Gaza Strip amounted to 43, including 13 children and three women, in the fighting between Israel and Palestinian militias .
Israel has responded to the firing of dozens of rockets from the blocked enclave with more than 500 bombardments against targets that, according to their own sources, have killed a score of militiamen.
A video circulating on social networks shows the moment when the Israeli army demolishes a building in Gaza City, just when Al-Jazeera International correspondent, Yumna Al- Sayed, he was doing a live broadcast.
While Al-Jazeera International correspondent in Gaza City, Yumna Al-Sayed , he spoke live, a tall building fell in Gaza City due to Israeli air strikes.
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The Palestinians of the overcrowded enclave, with more than two million inhabitants in 365 square kilometers, experienced an intense night of retaliatory Israeli bombing.
Most of the attacks occurred between 3 o’clock: and the 7: 00 GMT, especially in the western part of Gaza City against buildings of the security apparatus of the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the enclave.
In addition, three towers, between twelve and fourteen floors, have been demolished in Gaza City so far.
The explosion of the bombings in the enclave are intermittent, while the Islamist groups, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, continue to launch rockets from Gaza towards Israel that so far have killed five people.
And while the bombings are happening, the United States government announced the shipment to the Middle East from the State Department’s Deputy Under-Secretary for Palestinian and Israeli Affairs, Hady Amr, and asked Israel to do “everything possible” to avoid civilian casualties.
At a press conference, the Secretary of State for The United States, Antony Blinken, affirmed that Amr will travel “immediately” to the region to mediate in the conflict and meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
With information from Efe.
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