The wave of violence due to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians rose to 188 the death toll in Gaza , including 52 minors and 31 women, and at least 1, 225 wounded.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, only the Israeli bombings of last morning was the attack deadliest since hostilities began by leaving 42 people without life, including 10 children and 12 women, thus raising the figure to at least 188.
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While in Israel 10 people have died of which 2 are minors . The deaths were caused by the impacts of rockets fired by Hamas towards Israeli territory.
According to reports from the Israeli army, Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip fired about 2
, . rockets into Israel from the start of the war conflict last Monday.
Of the total number of projectiles launched, at least 450 fell within Israelite territory and about 1, 150 were intercepted by the anti-missile system, “Iron Dome” , according to a military spokesperson.
While in Gaza City, the demolition of emblematic buildings such as the “Jala Tower” that housed the offices of various international media such as the US agency The Associated Press or the Al Jazeera chain.
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Faced with the imminent escalation of violence, this Sunday Israel defended before the United Nations (UN) its bombing campaign in Gaza ensuring that it is taking all possible measures to protect its citizens, and accused the separatist organization Hamas of being responsible for the deaths and initiating the current hostilities in an attempt to seize power also in the West Bank.
The Israeli ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, blamed the Islamist group for the civilian casualties registered and n the Gaza Strip, claiming that while Israel uses bombs to protect its children, Hamas uses children to protect its missiles.
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The Israeli representative insisted that his country attacks terrorists, while Hamas shoots at civilians in Israel and uses its population as human shields.
During a videoconference speech before the Security Council, it made it clear that Israel will do “whatever it takes to defend” its citizens from what it called a “massive unprovoked attack by Hamas.”
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According to him diplomat, the current escalation is the result of a political move by the Islamist movement to try to seize power in the West Bank and replace the Palestinian National Authority.
“Hamas was frustrated last month when President (Mahmud) Abbas postponed the Palestinian elections after not holding them for 15 years and looked for another way to get the power. Unfortunately, it chose to escalate tensions in Jerusalem as a pretext to start this war, “he said.
Israel thanked the United States for support and other countries that “support Israel’s right to defend its citizens from this terror” and insisted that Israeli forces are responding to Hamas’s “indiscriminate” rockets with “precision strikes against military targets.”
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For his part the Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad al Malki, also denounced to the UN the Israeli attacks on Gaza and demanded that the international community condemn them and take measures to stop this ” aggression ”and ending the“ apartheid ”created by the Israeli authorities.
“ There are no words to describe the horrors that our people are suffering “, said Al Malki in a videoconference also before the United Nations Security Council. United, which met urgently to address the crisis in the Middle East.
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The head of Palestinian diplomacy highlighted the high number of civilian casualties, including many children, who are leaving the Israeli bombings in Gaza and accused the world of being, in some way, an accomplice.
“Every time Israel hears a foreign leader speak of his right to defend himself, he becomes even more emboldened to continue murdering entire families while they sleep,” he said.
“ How many murdered Palestinian civilians does it take for a conviction? “, asked Al Malki, who accused Israel of committing “crimes of war and crimes against humanity. ”
In this sense, the minister wondered what the Palestinians have the right to do to resist and defend themselves:“ Is violence When is it committed by the Palestinians and self-defense when it is committed by Israel? “, he wondered.
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Al Malki listed a series of measures that the international community could take to stop Israel, from the deployment of protection forces to the imposition of a arms embargo, and demanded that the powers of the Security Council assume their responsibility to promote peace.
With information from Efe.
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