A ball of fire erupts from the al-Jala Tower, which housed Qatar-based Al Jazeera television and the Associated Press news agency, as it is destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, May 15, 2021. /AFP
A ball of fire erupts from the al-Jala Tower, which housed Qatar-based Al Jazeera television and the Associated Press news agency, as it is destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, May 15, 2021. /AFP
Israel bombed the home of Yahya al-Sinwar, Hamas's chief in Gaza, early on Sunday, Palestinian media reported. No immediate casualties have been reported so far.
Israel pounded Gaza on Saturday, destroying a tower block that housed news media organizations, while Palestinian rocket salvos hit Tel Aviv with no sign of an end to almost a week of fighting.
At dawn on Saturday, 10 Palestinians – most of them children, including four brothers and their mother – were killed by the explosions of missiles fired by Israeli war jets toward their home in the Beach refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
The camp is the third largest refugee camp in the Palestinian territory, with a population of 85,000 registered refugees. Due to the high density, any Israeli attack on the camp would cause a large number of casualties.
So far, the attacks in the center of Gaza City have brought the death toll of Palestinians to 174, including 47 children, according to health officials. Israel has reported 10 dead, including two children.
(With input from Reuters)
(Noor Harazeen contributed to the story.)