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GAZA INVASION STARTS AS MORE ROCKETS HIT ISRAEL
- By The Financial District
- May 14, 2021
- 2 min read
Israel on Thursday said it was massing troops along the Gaza frontier and calling up 9,000 reservists ahead of a possible ground invasion of the Hamas-ruled territory, as the two bitter enemies plunged closer to all-out war, Josef Federman and Fares Akram reported for the Associated Press (AP).
Minutes earlier, the New York Times quoted Israeli military sources as saying the invasion has begun while Egyptian mediators rushed to Israel for cease-fire efforts but showed no signs of progress.
The report was later denied. The stepped-up fighting came as communal violence in Israel erupted for a fourth night, with Jewish and Arab mobs clashing in the flashpoint town of Lod. The fighting took place despite a bolstered police presence ordered by the nation’s leaders.
Nidal Al-mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller reported for Reuters that Israel fired artillery rounds and mounted more airstrikes on Friday against Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip amid constant rocket fire deep into Israel’s commercial center.
As hostilities entered their fifth day, with no sign of abating, the Israeli military said in a statement shortly after midnight that air and ground forces were attacking the Hamas-run enclave. Rocket barrages from Gaza swiftly followed.
At least 109 people were killed in Gaza, including 29 children, over the previous four days, Palestinian medical officials said. On Thursday alone, 52 Palestinians were killed in the enclave, the highest single-day figure since Monday.
Seven people were killed in Israel: a soldier patrolling the Gaza border, five Israeli civilians, including two children, and an Indian worker, Israeli authorities said.
Sebastian Engel, Sara Lemel, and Saud Abu Ramadan also reported for Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) that seven people have been killed by shelling in Israel so far while Palestinian militants have now fired more than 1,750 rockets from Gaza at Israel since the latest flare-up of fighting began earlier this week. Israel's military has attacked almost 1,000 targets in Gaza with massive airstrikes, destroying three multi-storey buildings, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
