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The Israeli military has continued its bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, targeting several areas after rockets were fired from the enclave.It is the most intense airstrikes in Gaza since the bombardment in 2014. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Occupied East Jerusalem: Forced expulsions and raids on Al-Aqsalist 2 of 4Sheikh Jarrah residents speak out on Israel’s forced expulsionslist 3 of 4Possible Israel war crimes in East Jerusalem land right case: UNlist 4 of 4Hamas says Israel to pay ‘heavy price’ for East Jerusalem attacksend of listHealth authorities in Gaza said at least 35 Palestinians – including 10 children – were killed in Israeli air strikes on the Strip since late on Monday, after Hamas launched rockets from the coastal territory towards Israel. At least 233 others were injured.At least five people in Israel have also been killed.The rocket fire came after Hamas, which rules Gaza, issued an ultimatum demanding Israel stand down its security forces from the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem after days of violence against Palestinians.Israeli police stormed the compound on Monday for a third consecutive day, firing rubber-coated steel rounds, stun grenades and tear gas at Palestinian worshippers inside the mosque in the final days of the holy month of Ramadan.More than 700 Palestinians were hurt in Jerusalem and across the occupied West Bank in recent days.Here are the latest updates:12 May 2021 - 06:03 GMTOne Palestinian killed by Israeli army in West Bank: ministryGet instant alerts and updates based on your interests. Be the first to know when big stories happen.A Palestinian was killed in clashes with the Israeli army in the south of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian authorities said Wednesday, as violence escalates between Israel and the Palestinian territories.The unnamed person was killed after being hit by Israeli bullets in Fawwar refugee camp, near the Palestinian town of Hebron, the health ministry reported.The official Wafa news agency said the victim was 26-year-old Hussein Al-Titi.12 May 2021 - 05:57 GMTIsraeli strikes hit Gaza’s interior ministry buildingsThe interior ministry reported that several of its offices in Gaza, including the passport office, were hit by heavy Israeli strikes on Wednesday morning.The interior ministry also confirmed earlier reports by Al Jazeera that all of Gaza’s police stations have been destroyed by the bombardment.A video, which Al Jazeera posted on social media showed the heavy strikes hitting several buildings in Gaza on Wednesday morning.12 May 2021 - 05:35 GMTPalestinians in Gaza evacuate amid Israeli bombardmentResidents of Gaza have evacuated from their homes amid intense bombardment by Israeli forces of several areas in the Palestinian territory.The Israeli army has reported hitting several targets across Gaza, including in the southern Khan Younis neighbourhood early on Wednesday.12 May 2021 - 05:09 GMTIsrael strikes hit targets in Gaza’s Khan YounisA video posted on social media by the Safa Press agency showed the aftermath of a series of Israeli strikes on Wednesday morning in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.Israel earlier announced that it has launched its largest bombardment of the Palestinian territory since its operation started on Monday.There were no immediate reports of additional casualties in the last bombardments. 📹 فيديو صفا| جانب من الغارات العنيفة التي استهدفت مواقع في خان يونس جنوبي قطاع غزة pic.twitter.com/VN23PEOOh1 — وكالة صفا (@SafaPs) May 12, 202112 May 2021 - 04:27 GMTRocket from Gaza hits Israeli piplelineIsraeli authorities reported on Wednesday that a Gaza rocket attack has hit an Israeli pipeline near Ashkelon causing a large fire.The Gaza-based Palestinian group, Hamas, has vowed to hit Israeli targets in retaliation against air strikes on Gaza Strip and the police attack on Palestinian worshippers at Al Aqsa Mosque.12 May 2021 - 04:08 GMTIsrael hits several police stations in GazaIsraeli air strikes on Wednesday morning, the heaviest since the operation started on Monday, hit several police stations in the Gaza Strip.Al Jazeera’s Safwat al Kahlout, reporting from Gaza, said that the main police headquarters in the Palestinian territory was also “completely destroyed.” Kahlout also reported that the death toll from the Israeli strikes has risen to 36, with 250 others injured.Al Jazeera has also received reports that houses of senior commanders of Hamas were also hit.Overnight, tens of families have been left homeless after their homes were also destroyed by Israeli air strikes, Kahlout reported.A social media post by Omar El Qattaa showed the moment Israeli strikes hit several targets in Gaza. ثلاثون ثانية من الجنون 💔#GazaUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/jzpL6DjJiA — Omar El Qattaa 𓂆 🇵🇸 Sniper 📸 (@OmarElQattaa) May 12, 202112 May 2021 - 03:46 GMTIsrael tanks ‘on the move’ heading to border with GazaAccording to social media posts and news reports, the Israeli army has reportedly deployed its tanks to its southern border with the Palestinian territory of Gaza, signaling a new phase in its operation against Palestinians.Israeli and Palestinian analysts have also confirmed on Wednesday the movement of tanks near the Israeli border.Dov Waxman, an analysts from the University of California, told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces have been moving their tanks near the border, but it is still unclear if it is preparing for a prolonged operation. “I don’t think that the Israeli government would want to initiate a major ground incursion,” he said, even as he cautioned that the situation on the ground could go out of control fomenting more violence.12 May 2021 - 03:16 GMTIsrael says it ‘neutralised’ key Hamas figuresThe Israeli army has announced that its fighter jets have “neutralised key figures of Hamas’ intelligence” in the Gaza strip.In a social media post early on Wednesday, the army identified the officials as Hassan Kaogi, head of the Hamas military intelligence security department, as well as his deputy, Wail Issa, head of the military intelligence counterespionage department. “Looks like our intel was better,” the statement said.There was no immediate confirmation from Hamas regarding the claim.12 May 2021 - 02:43 GMTActivists, analysts urge Biden to ‘hold Israel to account’Phyllis Bennis, an analyst at the US-based Institute for Policy Studies, said that “as long as the US is not prepared to hold Israel to account”, any statements from the Biden administration about the ongoing violence would not lead to a de-escalation. “We keep hearing from President Biden that he wants a foreign policy that’s based on human rights. What we are not seeing is any actual commitment to human rights – and certainly in this case, there’s no willingness to use political capital,” Bennis told Al Jazeera in an interview.Yara Asi, a non-resident fellow at Arab Center Washington, DC and a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Central Florida, also said that when the US funnels $3.8bn in military aid to Israel annually and provides diplomatic and political cover to the Israeli government in international arenas such as the United Nations, it is “disingenuous” for Washington to try to be disengaged. “There is no more intimate external actor outside of Israelis and Palestinians than the United States, and this has been the case for decades – and it is continuing,” she told Al Jazeera.12 May 2021 - 02:32 GMTRocket launched from Gaza kills two in LodAt least two more people were reported killed in the Israeli city of Lod, also known as al-Lydd, after a rocket fired from Gaza hit the area.That brings to five the number of people killed in Israel due to rockets fired from Gaza.Some news reports identified the latest fatalities as an Israeli woman and her seven-year-old son. Other reports said the two were of Israelis of Arab descent.12 May 2021 - 02:15 GMTUnrests erupt within Israel in support of PalestiniansUnrests have erupted across Israel on Tuesday night and into Wednesday in support of Palestinian rights.Social media posts showed fiery protests in Rahat, a predominantly Bedouin city in southern Israel as well as in Qalansawe, an Israeli Arab town in central Israel.Earleir, the Israeli government declared a state of emergency in Lod, southeast of Tel Aviv also known in Arabic as al-Lydd, amid escalating violence following the killing of a Palestinian citizen by a Jewish Israeli in the city.12 May 2021 - 01:40 GMTPregnant Palestinian woman, 5-year-old son killed in latest Israeli strikeA woman, who is four months pregnant, and her five-year-old son, were reported killed following the latest Israeli air strike on their house in Tel al-Hawa, a neighbourhood in the southern part of Gaza.The deaths of the woman, identified only as Reem, and her son, Zaid, was reported on social media by her brother, Ahmed Saad.At least 35 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in the latest strikes, which Israel said were in response to rockets fired by Hamas into Israeli. Tel al-Hawa killings confirmed. Ahmad Saad tweeted in Arabic his sister Reem, four months pregnant, and her five year old son Zaid were killed in Israeli strike on their house https://t.co/JRsEdmDom3 pic.twitter.com/bx3OMkZvur — لينة (@LinahAlsaafin) May 12, 202112 May 2021 - 01:25 GMTAt least three reported killed after Gaza building collapsesAt least three Palestinians have been reported killed after a residential building was targeted by Israeli strike in Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood in Gaza City, raising to 35 the number of people killed in the Palestinian territory.Israeli warplanes also targeted at least four times the al-Johara building in Gaza City, which houses several media organisations.Initial reports said that Al Jazeera’s office, located adjacent to the al-Johara building also suffered some damage.12 May 2021 - 00:40 GMTHamas says fired more than 200 rockets into IsraelHamas says it has fired more than 200 rockets into Israel.The al-Qassam Brigades – Hamas armed branch – said in a statement that it was “in the process of firing 110 rockets towards the city of Tel Aviv”, and 100 rockets towards the town of Beersheva, “as reprisal for the restarting of strikes against civilian homes”.12 May 2021 - 00:20 GMTBlinken reiterates call for de-escalation of violenceUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reiterated US calls for a de-escalation of violence in a discussion with Israel’s Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi.Blinken “reiterated his call on all parties to deescalate tensions and bring a halt to the violence, which has claimed the lives of Israeli and Palestinian civilians, including children,” the State Department said in a statement.11 May 2021 - 23:29 GMTSituation ‘has to be dealt with as a question of colonialism’: ExpertPhyllis Bennis, an analyst at the US-based Institute for Policy Studies, told Al Jazeera that “as long as the United States is not prepared to hold Israel to account”, statements from the Biden administration would not lead to de-escalation. “We keep hearing from President Biden that he wants a foreign policy that’s based on human rights. What we are not seeing is any actual commitment to human rights – and certainly in this case, there’s no willingness to use political capital.” 11 May 2021 - 23:12 GMTUS official conveys Biden’s ‘unwavering support for Israel’s security’In a call with his Israeli counterpart, Jake Sullivan, US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, conveyed Biden’s “unwavering support for Israel’s security” amid the recent escalation. “He also conveyed the United States’ encouragement of steps toward restoring a sustainable calm,” National Security Council Spokeswoman Emily Horne said in a statement.Sullivan also spoke to the Egyptian government about the situation in Gaza and Jerusalem, the statement said. “They discussed steps to restore calm over the coming days and agreed to stay in close touch.” 11 May 2021 - 22:38 GMTIsrael declares state of emergency in LodThe Israeli government has declared a state of emergency in Lod, southeast of Tel Aviv also known in Arabic as al-Lydd, amid escalating violence following the killing of a Palestinian citizen of Israel by a Jewish Israeli in the city.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the situation with top government officials, including his defence and public security ministers, and “directed that lawbreakers be dealt with severely”, the Israeli government press office said in a statement.Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett, reporting from southern Israel, said “things have really erupted” in the city over the past few hours. “The sparks of violence that have been flickering for this whole month of Ramadan … those sparks have really, literally caught flame, and that fire is spreading,” he said. “These are very dangerous days.” This is tonight from el Lydd, Palestine. Lydd was depopulated after 1948, and inhabited by settlers, and was renamed Lod. Tonight, and few days before the commemoration of el Nakba, Lydd reclaims its history. https://t.co/fssebNJp4q — islam (@outvertigo) May 10, 202111 May 2021 - 22:20 GMT1,000 Palestinians injured by Israeli forces in East Jerusalem between May 7 and 10The United Nations’ humanitarian affairs office in the occupied Palestinian territories (UN-OCHA) says Israeli forces have injured 1,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem between May 7 and May 10. The agency said “735 of these [injuries were] due to rubber bullets”. “On 10 May, 657 Palestinians were injured, mostly in the upper bodies, with at least one Palestinian losing his eye,” it said in a statement.11 May 2021 - 21:38 GMTSituation ‘escalating towards a full scale war’: UN envoy“Stop the fire immediately,” UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland tweeted.11 May 2021 - 21:26 GMTUS delays UN Security Council statement on escalating tensions: ReutersThe US is delaying attempts by the UN Security Council to issue a public statement on tensions between Israel and the Palestinians, diplomats and a source familiar with Washington’s strategy told Reuters.The source told the news agency that the US is “actively engaged in diplomacy behind the scenes with all parties to achieve a ceasefire” and was concerned that a UNSC statement might be counterproductive.The Security Council is expected to meet privately on Wednesday.11 May 2021 - 21:18 GMTIsrael sending border police to city of LodIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said border police officers would be redeployed from the occupied West Bank to the city of Lod, about 15km southeast of Tel Aviv, amid recent protests and deadly violence.Earlier in the day, thousands of people took part in funeral processions for 33-year-old Musa Hassuna, a Palestinian citizen of Israel who was shot dead on Monday by a Jewish Israeli.11 May 2021 - 21:14 GMTPalestinian families displaced after Gaza building destroyed: CorrespondentAl Jazeera’s Safwat al-Kahlout, reporting from Gaza, said there are fears that violence will escalate further in the coming hours. “Families now are in the street,” al-Kahlout said, after a 13-storey building was destroyed in an Israeli air strike.He added that many Palestinians in Gaza are frustrated and worried that renewed violence will worsen an already dire humanitarian crisis in the territory.11 May 2021 - 20:33 GMTHamas chief says group ‘ready’ if Israel seeks escalationThe head of Hamas said the group was “ready” if Israel escalates violence. “If (Israel) wants to escalate, we are ready for it, and if it wants to stop, we’re also ready,” Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s leader who currently lives outside the strip, said in a televised address.11 May 2021 - 20:13 GMTUN chief demands halt to Israeli-Gaza escalationUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is demanding an immediate halt to the “spiraling escalation” in Israeli-Palestinian violence.Guterres “is gravely concerned” by the upsurge in violence, UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said, and “is deeply saddened to learn of increasingly large numbers of casualties, including children, from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, and of Israeli fatalities from rockets launched from Gaza. “Israeli security forces must exercise maximum restraint and calibrate their use of force.” He also added that “the indiscriminate launching of rockets and mortars towards Israeli population centers is unacceptable”. He said when asked whether Guterres had been in contact with key players that “contacts are continuing to be held at all levels with all interested parties in an effort to de-escalate the situation”.11 May 2021 - 20:03 GMTNetanyahu says Gaza groups will pay ‘very heavy price’ over rocket firePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said has said that Hamas and the Islamic Jihad will “pay a very heavy price,” after a day of Gaza rocket fire and Israeli air strikes on the Palestinian coastal enclave. “We are at the height of a weighty campaign,” Netanyahu said in televised remarks alongside his defence minister and military chief. “Hamas and Islamic Jihad paid … and will pay a very heavy price for their belligerence … their blood is forfeit.” 11 May 2021 - 19:50 GMTAfrican Union head condemns Israeli ‘bombardments’ in GazaThe chairman of the African Union Commission has condemned Israeli “bombardments” in the Gaza Strip as well as “violent attacks” by Israeli security forces at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem.Chadian Moussa Faki Mahamat “reiterates that the Israeli army’s actions, including the continued forced, illegal evictions of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem, are in stark violation of international law and further heighten tensions in the region,” the AU said in a statement.The AU has long expressed support for “the Palestinian people in their legitimate quest for an independent and sovereign State” with East Jerusalem as its capital, the statement read.Faki had used the 2020 summit to denounce then-US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Middle East, saying it “trampled on the rights of the Palestinian people”, drawing applause in the main hall at AU headquarters in Addis Ababa.11 May 2021 - 19:46 GMTIsraeli energy pipeline hit in Gaza rocket attack, sources sayA pipeline belonging to an Israeli state-owned energy company was hit in a rocket attack from Gaza late on Tuesday, an Israeli government official and an energy sector official told Reuters news agency.Video broadcast by Channel 12 showed flames rising from what appeared to be a large fuel vat near the Israeli Mediterranean city of Ashkelon, south of Tel Aviv.Operations at a power plant in Ashkelon were not interrupted, Channel 13 TV said.11 May 2021 - 19:42 GMTLiverpool’s Mo Salah calls on world leaders to act, stop Palestine violenceLiverpool footballer Mohamed Salah has called on world leaders to “do everything in their power” to end the killing of innocent people, in what appeared to be a reference to rising tension in Palestine where at least 28 people, including children, have been killed by Israeli attacks.Salah’s appeal came as the Israeli military continued its bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday, targeting several areas after rockets were fired from the enclave.Read more here.11 May 2021 - 19:38 GMTArab foreign ministers urge ICC probe into Israel war crimesArab foreign ministers have urged the International Criminal Court to proceed with an investigation into Israel’s possible war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinians, including the planned forced expulsion of Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in east Jerusalem.The ministers met virtually on Tuesday to discuss the latest escalation of violence in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the Gaza Strip. In a statement after the meeting, they called for the ICC to mobilise resources for such an investigation.They strongly condemned what they call Israel’s crimes against Muslim worshippers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the latest court orders to evict families of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.The ministers urged the UN Security Council to take action in order to stop the “Israeli aggression” and provide “international protection” to the Palestinian people.11 May 2021 - 19:01 GMTOne killed in rocket attack on Tel Aviv, say medicsIsraeli medics confirmed the death of a 50-year-old woman from rocket attacks near Tel Aviv.Several people were also reported injured.11 May 2021 - 18:43 GMTIsrael’s airport authority closes Ben Gurion AirportIsrael’s airport authority closed the country’s main international airport which is located just next to Tel Aviv after rocket attacks from Gaza hit the city.11 May 2021 - 18:31 GMTGerman foreign minister condemns rocket attack on IsraelGerman Foreign Minister Heiko Maas condemned rocket attacks on Israel, saying they must end immediately after Hamas said it fired more than 130 rockets towards Tel Aviv in response to an Israeli air strike on Gaza. “The rocket attack on Israel is absolutely unacceptable and must end immediately. Israel has in this situation the right to self-defence. This escalation of violence can be neither tolerated nor accepted,” Maas tweeted.11 May 2021 - 18:26 GMTUS deeply concerned by escalating violenceUS State Department spokesman Ned Price has called for calm in Israel-Palestine saying: “We are deeply concerned about the escalation between Israel and those launching rockets from Gaza and we call for restraint and for calm.” “Israel has a right to defend itself and to respond to rocket attacks. The Palestinian people also have the right to safety and security, just as Israelis do,” said Price. “We are deeply concerned about the reported loss of life in Gaza, in Israel, including the deaths of children as well as many innocent civilians injured,” he added.11 May 2021 - 18:06 GMTHamas says launched 130 rockets towards Tel AvivHamas said they launched 130 rockets towards the Israeli city of Tel Aviv in retaliation for an air strike that levelled a 12-storey building in Gaza.Hamas’s armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, had warned it would retaliate over the strike on the tower near Gaza’s coast, before confirming it had launched an attack on “Tel Aviv and its suburbs with 130 missiles”.11 May 2021 - 17:52 GMTRocket-warning sirens sound in Tel AvivRocket-warning sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and explosions were heard, said the Israeli military.The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, said it launched dozens of rockets towards Tel Aviv.The group had threatened to strike Tel Aviv if Israel continues to target residential buildings in Gaza. Breaking: Rocket sirens are sounding in Tel Aviv, Israel. pic.twitter.com/4PzubyR9hv — PM Breaking News (@PMBreakingNews) May 11, 202111 May 2021 - 17:44 GMTJordanians protest against Israeli actions in AmmanJordanians continued carrying out protests near the Israeli embassy in the capital, Amman, denouncing what they call continuing violations of the rights of Jerusalemites in Jerusalem, including at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.More than one thousand protesters chanted anti-Israel slogans and called for the Jordanian government to end all diplomatic ties with Israel, including expelling the Israeli ambassador, closing the embassy and annulling the country’s peace treaty with them.Demonstrators also denounced the government’s performance towards what is happening in Jerusalem and demanded real action against Israel, saying that condemnation statements will not help the Palestinians. من مظاهرة اليوم في عمّان الأردن" بالروح بالدم نفديك يا أقصى " . Von heutigen Protest in Jordanien Amman “mit unsere Seele und Blut im Namen des Aqsa”From today’s protest in Jordan Amman” we sacrifice our life to Al-Aqsa”#AlAqsa #حي_الشيخ_الجراح #Siehe_SheikhJarrah_Nachbarsch pic.twitter.com/pmkH51cai5 — سَلْمى فليحانْ (@salmaflayhan) May 11, 202111 May 2021 - 17:34 GMTInstagram, Twitter blame glitch for deleted Sheikh Jarrah postsInstagram and Twitter have blamed technical errors for deleting posts mentioning the possible forced expulsion of Palestinians from East Jerusalem, but data rights groups fear “discriminatory” algorithms are at work and want greater transparency.Palestinians living in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah – an area claimed illegally by Jewish settlers – have taken to social media to protest as they face expulsion, but some found their posts, photos or videos removed or their accounts blocked from last week.Read more here.11 May 2021 - 17:28 GMTArab League condemns Israeli air strikes on GazaThe head of the Arab League has condemned deadly Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip as “indiscriminate and irresponsible” and said Israel had provoked an earlier increase in violence by its actions in Jerusalem. “Israeli violations in Jerusalem, and the government’s tolerance of Jewish extremists hostile to Palestinians and Arabs, is what led to the ignition of the situation in this dangerous way,” Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in a statement.Read more here.11 May 2021 - 17:22 GMTResidential tower in Gaza collapses after Israeli strikeA 13-storey residential tower in western Gaza City collapsed after Israeli air strikes targeted the building.There were no reports of casualties among the residents, who reportedly vacated the Hanadi tower before it was hit.Video footage showed three plumes of thick smoke rising from the tower, its upper storeys still intact until it collapsed to the ground. The tower houses an office that is used by the political leadership of Gaza’s rulers Hamas.Electricity in the area around the building went out after the collapse. Residents were using flashlights to search for personal belongings nearby.11 May 2021 - 17:15 GMTRed Cross urges all sides to step backThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on all sides in the conflict between Israel and Hamas-run Gaza to de-escalate the violence that has killed at least 30 people and reminded them of the rules of war.The ICRC regional director for the Middle East, Fabrizio Carboni, said in a statement sent to Reuters that international humanitarian law prohibits indiscriminate attacks against civilians, any attack must be proportionate, and all necessary precautions must be taken to avoid civilian casualties.He called for “rapid, safe and unimpeded movement for ambulances” and for staff and volunteers of both the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the Magen David Adom Society in Israel.11 May 2021 - 17:07 GMTIran’s Khamenei urges Palestinians to build up powerIranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei called on Palestinians to build up their fighting power to stop Israel’s “brutality”, saying Israelis “only understand the language of force”, Iran’s state TV reported. “Zionists understand nothing but the language of force, so the Palestinians must increase their power and resistance to force the criminals to surrender and stop their brutal acts,” Khamenei said.11 May 2021 - 17:06 GMTAl-Qassam threatens to strike Tel AvivThe al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, threatened to strike Tel Aviv if Israel continued to target residential buildings in Gaza. “If the enemy persists in bombing civilian towers, then Tel Aviv will be on time with a more severe missile strike than what happened in Ashkelon,” said group spokesman Abu Ubaida in a tweet.11 May 2021 - 17:03 GMTFootballers express support for PalestiniansFootballers around the world expressed support for Palestinians in recent days, including on social media. “The world needs peace and love. It will soon be Eid, let us all love one another #PrayForPalestine,” Manchester United’s Paul Pogba wrote on a photo on Instagram, referring to the Eid al-Fitr holiday this week marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.Algerian striker Riyad Mahrez, who plays for Manchester City, tweeted a picture of the Palestinian flag with the hashtag #SaveSheikhJarrah. The post has been retweeted more than 50,000 times.Former Mali and Tottenham forward Frederic Kanoute wrote on Twitter, “apartheid continues and Palestinians are being expelled from their homes while most ‘leaders’ are complicit with their silence at best and their direct support at worst”.11 May 2021 - 16:58 GMTPalestinian solidarity march in LebanonPalestinians, Lebanese and other activists in Lebanon’s capital city, Beirut, marched in solidarity with Palestinians.Dozens of people took part in the march which started in Mar Elias refugee camp in the southwest of city, to Shatila, another Palestinian refugee camp set in southern Beirut.11 May 2021 - 16:49 GMTUN working to de-escalate tensionsThe United Nations is urgently working to de-escalate tensions between Israel and the Palestinians,” said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric.Dujarric added that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was saddened by “the increasingly large numbers of casualties, including children, from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, and of Israeli fatalities from rockets launched from Gaza”. “Israeli security forces must exercise maximum restraint and calibrate their use of force. The indiscriminate launching rockets and mortars towards Israeli population centres is unacceptable,” Dujarric told reporters.11 May 2021 - 16:41 GMTIran’s FM condemns ‘racist, criminal’ IsraelIran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif condemned in a statement over Twitter “the attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque and the killing of worshippers”. “This [the attack] was the clearest evidence of the racist and criminal nature of this occupying entity [Israel] which has been the main cause of instability and insecurity in the region,” said Zarif. “The Palestinian cause has always been a central issue for the Muslim world. And unity is the most important weapon in the fight for Jerusalem,” said Zarif.He added that the only solution to the conflict, was to refer the issue of Palestine to the will of the people.11 May 2021 - 15:52 GMTEgypt FM says efforts to reach out to Israel failedEgypt’s top diplomat told an emergency Arab League meeting that although it had reached out to Israel to calm tensions in Jerusalem, it was met with indifference. “In the last few days, Egypt extensively reached out to Israel and other concerned countries urging them to exert all possible efforts to prevent the deterioration of the situation in Jerusalem,” said Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry. “But we did not get the necessary response,” he told the meeting of the Arab League via videoconference.While not specifying the other countries Egypt contacted, he condemned “Israeli violations at the walls of Al-Aqsa Mosque which crossed over into Sheikh Jarrah” in East Jerusalem.Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit also lambasted Israeli violence directed towards Palestinians in east Jerusalem in the meeting’s opening remarks.11 May 2021 - 15:44 GMT‘Constant rocket fire’ continues over southern IsraelReporting from southern Israel, about 5km north of the border fence separating the Israeli territory from Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett said rocket fire was continuous. “Throughout the afternoon there has been constant rocket fire coming over [from Gaza]. “There was this barrage that came from the Gaza Strip earlier in the day with Hamas saying it was their biggest ever – nearly 140 rockets in five minutes,” said Fawcett, adding that Israel has neither confirmed nor denied these attacks. “Whatever it was, it was enough to get through the Israeli air defences, the Iron Dome system,” he explained. “We have also been hearing Israeli military jets going the other way – very frequent interceptions,” said Fawcett.11 May 2021 - 15:31 GMT‘Streets of Gaza almost empty’Reporting from the Gaza Strip after Israeli strikes killed 28 people, including 10 children, Al Jazeera’s Safwat al-Kahlout, said the situation in the besieged coastal enclave was tense. “The streets of Gaza are almost empty. People are staying home because of the intensive air strikes that Israel is carrying out,” said Kahlout. “At this time of Ramadan, markets and the streets are usually overcrowded,” he added. “We have been seeing the exchange of fire between the Israelis and the Palestinian armed groups. The last one was just a few seconds before we went on air,” he explained.11 May 2021 - 15:15 GMTPA receives letter from Biden administration: Palestinian mediaPresident of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas has received a letter from US President Joe Biden, reported Palestinian news agency, Wafa.The letter discussed the latest escalations in Jerusalem and along the Israeli-Gaza border, according to the agency.Speaking from Washington, DC, Al Jazeera’s Kimberly Halkett said that there was no confirmation of a letter being sent from the Biden administration to the PA.She added, however, that US President Biden was facing increasing pressure to get involved in resolving the tensions between Palestine and Israel.11 May 2021 - 15:00 GMTThousands in Lod mourn killing of PalestinianThousands of people took part in funeral processions for 33-year-old Musa Hassuna, a Palestinian citizen of Israel who was shot dead on Monday by a Jewish Israeli in Lod, southeast of Tel Aviv.The gunman behind the shooting has reportedly been arrested.11 May 2021 - 14:39 GMTGaza death toll reaches 28, says health ministryThe death toll caused by Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip has reached 28, said the Palestinian ministry of health in Gaza.The victims included 10 children and one woman, said the ministry.At least 152 people were also injured in the raids, it added.11 May 2021 - 14:30 GMT‘A horrible moment’: Gaza resident on Israeli strikesGaza resident Mahmoud Ahmed, 21, recounted events from Israel’s air strikes on Gaza which killed 26 people, including nine children. “I suddenly heard the neighbors knocking on the door. Each one was telling the other to flee. It was a horrible moment,” Ahmed told Al Jazeera’s Hana Salah. “Tens of families rushed into the street before Israeli war planes destroyed their homes. We avoided a potential massacre,” Ahmed told Al Jazeera. “People are still staying outside of their homes, because we don’t know when they will be targeted again,” he added.11 May 2021 - 14:17 GMTIsraeli strikes hit Gaza, againAt least 14 strikes hit various areas of the Gaza Strip, reported Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent in Gaza.Footage from the Strip showed plumes of smoke rising through the skies.No casualties were so far reported.11 May 2021 - 13:56 GMTNetanyahu says Israel stepping up Gaza strikesIsrael will step up its Gaza strikes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after Palestinian rocket launches killed two women in a southern city. “At the conclusion of a situational assessment, it was decided that both the might of the attacks and the frequency of the attacks will be increased,” he said in a video statement.11 May 2021 - 12:48 GMTDeath toll rises to 26, Gaza health ministry saysAshraf al-Qudra, spokesperson for Gaza’s healthy ministry, said the death toll from Israeli raids since Monday night has risen to 26. Nine of those who lost their lives were children, al-Qudra said.At least 122 people others were wounded, he added.11 May 2021 - 12:40 GMTTwo Israelis killed in Hamas rocket fire: HaaretzTwo Israelis have been killed after rocket fire from Gaza hit Ashkelon, Israeli daily Haaretz reported.The victims were two women, one aged in her 40s, the other in her mid-60s, the Magen David Adom emergency service told AFP, while the city’s Barzilai Medical Center said it was treating 70 people.Reporting from southern Israel, Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett said that Ashkelon has been the target of rockets from Gaza. “Serious damage was done to several buildings, including a school in Ashkelon,” he said.11 May 2021 - 12:32 GMTBritish MPs condemn Israeli attacks on Gaza, Al-AqsaJeremy Corbyn, a British Member of Parliament (MP) and former leader of the opposition Labour Party, said: “Deliberately provocative attacks on the Al-Aqsa mosque and the ongoing home invasions #SheikhJarrah have led to horrendous violence in Jerusalem.” Israel should “rectify the current situation and not exacerbate it,” he said in a Twitter post.Zarah Sultana, another Labour MP, said Israel’s “brutal attacks must be condemned”. “Tonight, seeing footage of Israeli airstrikes kill men, women and children in Gaza, I send my solidarity, my love and my prayers to the Palestinian people,” she wrote on Monday night.11 May 2021 - 12:30 GMTPalestinians in Gaza mourn killing of loved onesHundreds of Palestinians in Gaza gathered to mourn some of those who were killed in overnight Israeli raids.Funeral processions took place for 57-year-old Amira Abdel Fattah Subuh, and her son, 17-year-old Abdulrahman, who were killed when their home was struck in the al-Shati refugee camp on the edge of Gaza City. “I bid farewell to the most precious person in my heart, my mother, and I ask God to have mercy on her,” Subuh’s son told Maan news agency.Meanwhile, in northern Gaza, thousands gathered to mourn eight others, including a Hamas military commander, who died overnight as a result of Israeli air strikes.11 May 2021 - 11:38 GMTHamas launches over ’70 rockets in less than 30 minutes’Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, reporting from the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, said Hamas’s armed wing fired their “largest barrage” yet from the enclave towards Israel. “That’s more than 70 rockets in less than 30 minutes,” Ibrahim said, according to a statement released by Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades.In total, more than 300 rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel since Monday.The al-Qassam Brigades earlier said Israel crossed “all red lines” in Al-Aqsa, and that it is its duty to respond.11 May 2021 - 11:06 GMTJordanian FM says maintaining peace and stability is ‘key’Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said maintaining peace and stability in Jerusalem is “key”. “Our focus right now on ensuring that the escalation stops, and for that to happen we do believe that all illegal and provocative measures … must stop,” he said, referring to Israel’s actions in Sheikh Jarrah and in the Al-Aqsa mosque. “The status quo needs to be preserved, and the rights of the Palestinians need to be respected.” 11 May 2021 - 10:40 GMTNetanyahu ‘ready to do’ anything to stay in power: Knesset memberSami Abu Shehadeh, Palestinian Knesset member and leader of the Balad party, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allowed for an “escalation” in a bid to remain in power.Speaking to Al Jazeera, he said: “In order to survive this political crisis he finds himself in now, and in order for him not to lose control and not to lose his seat as prime minister … he is ready to do anything. “All the escalation we are seeing now has a clear political target from Netanyahu’s point of view, and he is ready to do anything to keep himself in power including this massacre that we are going to see in Gaza,” Shehadeh said. “What is happening here is a clear political decision that Netanyahu is responsible for to keep power.” 11 May 2021 - 10:07 GMTThousands of Israeli soldiers ordered to mobiliseThe Israeli army said in a statement Defense Minister Benny Gantz called in troop reinforcements near the fence with Gaza.Gantz ordered the mobilisation of 5,000 Israeli soldiers to “deepen home front defense,” the statement said.11 May 2021 - 09:41 GMTTwo killed in fresh Israeli raid on GazaAt least two people have been killed in an Israeli air strike that struck a residential building in Gaza City’s Rimal neighbourhood, Maan news agency said, bringing the total number of deaths to 26. The two killed were identified as Islamic Jihad commanders. A third commander was severely injured, according to Maan.At least five other civilians suffered wounds and were being transported to hospital.11 May 2021 - 09:17 GMTIsraeli forces used ‘unwarranted, excessive force’: AmnestyRights group Amnesty International said that Israeli forces have used “unwarranted and excessive force” against Palestinian protesters in East Jerusalem.In a statement, the UK-based rights group said: “Israeli forces have repeatedly deployed disproportionate and unlawful force to disperse protesters during violent raids on al-Aqsa mosque and have carried out unprovoked attacks on peaceful demonstrators in Sheikh Jarrah. “Israel must not be allowed to continue its rampage against Palestinians who are simply defending their right to exist and protesting against their forced displacement,” the group’s Middle East Deputy Director, Saleh Higazi, said.11 May 2021 - 08:42 GMTArab League chief condemns Israeli air strikes on GazaIsraeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip were “indiscriminate and irresponsible,” Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit said.He said that Israel was responsible for a “dangerous escalation” in Jerusalem, and called on the international community to act immediately to stop the violence.11 May 2021 - 08:02 GMTTense calm in East Jerusalem’s Old CityDespite signs of relative calm in the Old City, the Palestinian Red Crescent said at least 520 Palestinians have been wounded since Monday, including more than 200 who are hospitalised – five of whom are in a critical condition.Siraj, a 24-year-old Palestinian man, suffered a spleen injury being hit by a rubber-coated steel bullet a day earlier.He sat in a wheelchair with his two legs bandaged at East Jerusalem’s crowded Makassed Hospital. “They shot everyone, young and old people,” he told Al Jazeera, referring to Israeli police.The hospital’s director, Adnan Farhoud, said most of those wounded suffered injuries to the head, chest and limbs.11 May 2021 - 07:59 GMTIsrael trying to ‘redeem its humiliation’ in Jerusalem by striking GazaAli Abunimah, an author and the co-founder of the Electronic Intifada website, called out Israel’s actions in the occupied Palestinian territories.Speaking to Al Jazeera from Amman, he said: “It’s horrific to see Israel once again deciding to try to redeem its humiliation in Jerusalem by killing Palestinians, particularly children … in Gaza due to Israeli attacks targeting residential homes among many other sites. “What happened yesterday in Jerusalem was Israel suffered a humiliating defeat when Palestinian popular resistance, without the support of any governments, without the support of the Palestinian Authority … defeated Israel, forced them to cancel the settler march, and is continuing to resist the ethnic cleansing in Sheikh Jarrah,” Abunimah said. “What Hamas and the other resistance factions were trying to say to Israel is ‘Do not think you can attack Jerusalem and attack Palestinians in the West Bank and count on the resistance not to respond to you’. “So that was a major strategic miscalculation by Israel because they thought that we can do as we please because we’ve divided the Palestinian people – there are little bits of them in the West Bank, little bits of them in Gaza,” he added.11 May 2021 - 06:55 GMTGaza health ministry announces new deathsHealth authorities in Gaza said three people died overnight, including an elderly woman and a man with special needs, taking the total number of those killed in Israeli raids to 24.Atleast 103 people were wounded, it added.11 May 2021 - 06:02 GMTIsrael launches more air raids on GazaThe Israeli army unleashed new air strikes on Gaza and said it struck “130 targets” there since last night “in response” to rockets fired from the Strip.Hamas said it launched dozens of rockets from Gaza after it earlier warned Israel to stop the violence against Palestinian worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.In a statement issued early Tuesday, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said the rocket attacks would continue until Israel stops “all scenes of terrorism and aggression in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque”.

The Israeli military has continued its bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, targeting several areas after rockets were fired from the enclave.It is the most intense airstrikes in Gaza since the bombardment in 2014.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Occupied East Jerusalem: Forced expulsions and raids on Al-Aqsalist 2 of 4Sheikh Jarrah residents speak out on Israel’s forced expulsionslist 3 of 4Possible Israel war crimes in East Jerusalem land right case: UNlist 4 of 4Hamas says Israel to pay ‘heavy price’ for East Jerusalem attacksend of listHealth authorities in Gaza said at least 35 Palestinians – including 10 children – were killed in Israeli air strikes on the Strip since late on Monday, after Hamas launched rockets from the coastal territory towards Israel. At least 233 others were injured.At least five people in Israel have also been killed.The rocket fire came after Hamas, which rules Gaza, issued an ultimatum demanding Israel stand down its security forces from the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem after days of violence against Palestinians.Israeli police stormed the compound on Monday for a third consecutive day, firing rubber-coated steel rounds, stun grenades and tear gas at Palestinian worshippers inside the mosque in the final days of the holy month of Ramadan.More than 700 Palestinians were hurt in Jerusalem and across the occupied West Bank in recent days.Here are the latest updates:12 May 2021 - 06:03 GMTOne Palestinian killed by Israeli army in West Bank: ministryGet instant alerts and updates based on your interests. Be the first to know when big stories happen.A Palestinian was killed in clashes with the Israeli army in the south of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian authorities said Wednesday, as violence escalates between Israel and the Palestinian territories.The unnamed person was killed after being hit by Israeli bullets in Fawwar refugee camp, near the Palestinian town of Hebron, the health ministry reported.The official Wafa news agency said the victim was 26-year-old Hussein Al-Titi.12 May 2021 - 05:57 GMTIsraeli strikes hit Gaza’s interior ministry buildingsThe interior ministry reported that several of its offices in Gaza, including the passport office, were hit by heavy Israeli strikes on Wednesday morning.The interior ministry also confirmed earlier reports by Al Jazeera that all of Gaza’s police stations have been destroyed by the bombardment.A video, which Al Jazeera posted on social media showed the heavy strikes hitting several buildings in Gaza on Wednesday morning.12 May 2021 - 05:35 GMTPalestinians in Gaza evacuate amid Israeli bombardmentResidents of Gaza have evacuated from their homes amid intense bombardment by Israeli forces of several areas in the Palestinian territory.The Israeli army has reported hitting several targets across Gaza, including in the southern Khan Younis neighbourhood early on Wednesday.12 May 2021 - 05:09 GMTIsrael strikes hit targets in Gaza’s Khan YounisA video posted on social media by the Safa Press agency showed the aftermath of a series of Israeli strikes on Wednesday morning in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.Israel earlier announced that it has launched its largest bombardment of the Palestinian territory since its operation started on Monday.There were no immediate reports of additional casualties in the last bombardments. 📹 فيديو صفا| جانب من الغارات العنيفة التي استهدفت مواقع في خان يونس جنوبي قطاع غزة pic.twitter.com/VN23PEOOh1 — وكالة صفا (@SafaPs) May 12, 202112 May 2021 - 04:27 GMTRocket from Gaza hits Israeli piplelineIsraeli authorities reported on Wednesday that a Gaza rocket attack has hit an Israeli pipeline near Ashkelon causing a large fire.The Gaza-based Palestinian group, Hamas, has vowed to hit Israeli targets in retaliation against air strikes on Gaza Strip and the police attack on Palestinian worshippers at Al Aqsa Mosque.12 May 2021 - 04:08 GMTIsrael hits several police stations in GazaIsraeli air strikes on Wednesday morning, the heaviest since the operation started on Monday, hit several police stations in the Gaza Strip.Al Jazeera’s Safwat al Kahlout, reporting from Gaza, said that the main police headquarters in the Palestinian territory was also “completely destroyed.”Kahlout also reported that the death toll from the Israeli strikes has risen to 36, with 250 others injured.Al Jazeera has also received reports that houses of senior commanders of Hamas were also hit.Overnight, tens of families have been left homeless after their homes were also destroyed by Israeli air strikes, Kahlout reported.A social media post by Omar El Qattaa showed the moment Israeli strikes hit several targets in Gaza. ثلاثون ثانية من الجنون 💔#GazaUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/jzpL6DjJiA — Omar El Qattaa 𓂆 🇵🇸 Sniper 📸 (@OmarElQattaa) May 12, 202112 May 2021 - 03:46 GMTIsrael tanks ‘on the move’ heading to border with GazaAccording to social media posts and news reports, the Israeli army has reportedly deployed its tanks to its southern border with the Palestinian territory of Gaza, signaling a new phase in its operation against Palestinians.Israeli and Palestinian analysts have also confirmed on Wednesday the movement of tanks near the Israeli border.Dov Waxman, an analysts from the University of California, told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces have been moving their tanks near the border, but it is still unclear if it is preparing for a prolonged operation.“I don’t think that the Israeli government would want to initiate a major ground incursion,” he said, even as he cautioned that the situation on the ground could go out of control fomenting more violence.12 May 2021 - 03:16 GMTIsrael says it ‘neutralised’ key Hamas figuresThe Israeli army has announced that its fighter jets have “neutralised key figures of Hamas’ intelligence” in the Gaza strip.In a social media post early on Wednesday, the army identified the officials as Hassan Kaogi, head of the Hamas military intelligence security department, as well as his deputy, Wail Issa, head of the military intelligence counterespionage department.“Looks like our intel was better,” the statement said.There was no immediate confirmation from Hamas regarding the claim.12 May 2021 - 02:43 GMTActivists, analysts urge Biden to ‘hold Israel to account’Phyllis Bennis, an analyst at the US-based Institute for Policy Studies, said that “as long as the US is not prepared to hold Israel to account”, any statements from the Biden administration about the ongoing violence would not lead to a de-escalation.“We keep hearing from President Biden that he wants a foreign policy that’s based on human rights. What we are not seeing is any actual commitment to human rights – and certainly in this case, there’s no willingness to use political capital,” Bennis told Al Jazeera in an interview.Yara Asi, a non-resident fellow at Arab Center Washington, DC and a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Central Florida, also said that when the US funnels $3.8bn in military aid to Israel annually and provides diplomatic and political cover to the Israeli government in international arenas such as the United Nations, it is “disingenuous” for Washington to try to be disengaged.“There is no more intimate external actor outside of Israelis and Palestinians than the United States, and this has been the case for decades – and it is continuing,” she told Al Jazeera.12 May 2021 - 02:32 GMTRocket launched from Gaza kills two in LodAt least two more people were reported killed in the Israeli city of Lod, also known as al-Lydd, after a rocket fired from Gaza hit the area.That brings to five the number of people killed in Israel due to rockets fired from Gaza.Some news reports identified the latest fatalities as an Israeli woman and her seven-year-old son. Other reports said the two were of Israelis of Arab descent.12 May 2021 - 02:15 GMTUnrests erupt within Israel in support of PalestiniansUnrests have erupted across Israel on Tuesday night and into Wednesday in support of Palestinian rights.Social media posts showed fiery protests in Rahat, a predominantly Bedouin city in southern Israel as well as in Qalansawe, an Israeli Arab town in central Israel.Earleir, the Israeli government declared a state of emergency in Lod, southeast of Tel Aviv also known in Arabic as al-Lydd, amid escalating violence following the killing of a Palestinian citizen by a Jewish Israeli in the city.12 May 2021 - 01:40 GMTPregnant Palestinian woman, 5-year-old son killed in latest Israeli strikeA woman, who is four months pregnant, and her five-year-old son, were reported killed following the latest Israeli air strike on their house in Tel al-Hawa, a neighbourhood in the southern part of Gaza.The deaths of the woman, identified only as Reem, and her son, Zaid, was reported on social media by her brother, Ahmed Saad.At least 35 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in the latest strikes, which Israel said were in response to rockets fired by Hamas into Israeli. Tel al-Hawa killings confirmed. Ahmad Saad tweeted in Arabic his sister Reem, four months pregnant, and her five year old son Zaid were killed in Israeli strike on their house https://t.co/JRsEdmDom3 pic.twitter.com/bx3OMkZvur — لينة (@LinahAlsaafin) May 12, 202112 May 2021 - 01:25 GMTAt least three reported killed after Gaza building collapsesAt least three Palestinians have been reported killed after a residential building was targeted by Israeli strike in Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood in Gaza City, raising to 35 the number of people killed in the Palestinian territory.Israeli warplanes also targeted at least four times the al-Johara building in Gaza City, which houses several media organisations.Initial reports said that Al Jazeera’s office, located adjacent to the al-Johara building also suffered some damage.12 May 2021 - 00:40 GMTHamas says fired more than 200 rockets into IsraelHamas says it has fired more than 200 rockets into Israel.The al-Qassam Brigades – Hamas armed branch – said in a statement that it was “in the process of firing 110 rockets towards the city of Tel Aviv”, and 100 rockets towards the town of Beersheva, “as reprisal for the restarting of strikes against civilian homes”.12 May 2021 - 00:20 GMTBlinken reiterates call for de-escalation of violenceUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reiterated US calls for a de-escalation of violence in a discussion with Israel’s Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi.Blinken “reiterated his call on all parties to deescalate tensions and bring a halt to the violence, which has claimed the lives of Israeli and Palestinian civilians, including children,” the State Department said in a statement.11 May 2021 - 23:29 GMTSituation ‘has to be dealt with as a question of colonialism’: ExpertPhyllis Bennis, an analyst at the US-based Institute for Policy Studies, told Al Jazeera that “as long as the United States is not prepared to hold Israel to account”, statements from the Biden administration would not lead to de-escalation.“We keep hearing from President Biden that he wants a foreign policy that’s based on human rights. What we are not seeing is any actual commitment to human rights – and certainly in this case, there’s no willingness to use political capital.”11 May 2021 - 23:12 GMTUS official conveys Biden’s ‘unwavering support for Israel’s security’In a call with his Israeli counterpart, Jake Sullivan, US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, conveyed Biden’s “unwavering support for Israel’s security” amid the recent escalation.“He also conveyed the United States’ encouragement of steps toward restoring a sustainable calm,” National Security Council Spokeswoman Emily Horne said in a statement.Sullivan also spoke to the Egyptian government about the situation in Gaza and Jerusalem, the statement said. “They discussed steps to restore calm over the coming days and agreed to stay in close touch.”11 May 2021 - 22:38 GMTIsrael declares state of emergency in LodThe Israeli government has declared a state of emergency in Lod, southeast of Tel Aviv also known in Arabic as al-Lydd, amid escalating violence following the killing of a Palestinian citizen of Israel by a Jewish Israeli in the city.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the situation with top government officials, including his defence and public security ministers, and “directed that lawbreakers be dealt with severely”, the Israeli government press office said in a statement.Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett, reporting from southern Israel, said “things have really erupted” in the city over the past few hours.“The sparks of violence that have been flickering for this whole month of Ramadan … those sparks have really, literally caught flame, and that fire is spreading,” he said. “These are very dangerous days.” This is tonight from el Lydd, Palestine. Lydd was depopulated after 1948, and inhabited by settlers, and was renamed Lod. Tonight, and few days before the commemoration of el Nakba, Lydd reclaims its history. https://t.co/fssebNJp4q — islam (@outvertigo) May 10, 202111 May 2021 - 22:20 GMT1,000 Palestinians injured by Israeli forces in East Jerusalem between May 7 and 10The United Nations’ humanitarian affairs office in the occupied Palestinian territories (UN-OCHA) says Israeli forces have injured 1,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem between May 7 and May 10.The agency said “735 of these [injuries were] due to rubber bullets”.“On 10 May, 657 Palestinians were injured, mostly in the upper bodies, with at least one Palestinian losing his eye,” it said in a statement.11 May 2021 - 21:38 GMTSituation ‘escalating towards a full scale war’: UN envoy“Stop the fire immediately,” UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland tweeted.11 May 2021 - 21:26 GMTUS delays UN Security Council statement on escalating tensions: ReutersThe US is delaying attempts by the UN Security Council to issue a public statement on tensions between Israel and the Palestinians, diplomats and a source familiar with Washington’s strategy told Reuters.The source told the news agency that the US is “actively engaged in diplomacy behind the scenes with all parties to achieve a ceasefire” and was concerned that a UNSC statement might be counterproductive.The Security Council is expected to meet privately on Wednesday.11 May 2021 - 21:18 GMTIsrael sending border police to city of LodIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said border police officers would be redeployed from the occupied West Bank to the city of Lod, about 15km southeast of Tel Aviv, amid recent protests and deadly violence.Earlier in the day, thousands of people took part in funeral processions for 33-year-old Musa Hassuna, a Palestinian citizen of Israel who was shot dead on Monday by a Jewish Israeli.11 May 2021 - 21:14 GMTPalestinian families displaced after Gaza building destroyed: CorrespondentAl Jazeera’s Safwat al-Kahlout, reporting from Gaza, said there are fears that violence will escalate further in the coming hours.“Families now are in the street,” al-Kahlout said, after a 13-storey building was destroyed in an Israeli air strike.He added that many Palestinians in Gaza are frustrated and worried that renewed violence will worsen an already dire humanitarian crisis in the territory.11 May 2021 - 20:33 GMTHamas chief says group ‘ready’ if Israel seeks escalationThe head of Hamas said the group was “ready” if Israel escalates violence.“If (Israel) wants to escalate, we are ready for it, and if it wants to stop, we’re also ready,” Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s leader who currently lives outside the strip, said in a televised address.11 May 2021 - 20:13 GMTUN chief demands halt to Israeli-Gaza escalationUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is demanding an immediate halt to the “spiraling escalation” in Israeli-Palestinian violence.Guterres “is gravely concerned” by the upsurge in violence, UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said, and “is deeply saddened to learn of increasingly large numbers of casualties, including children, from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, and of Israeli fatalities from rockets launched from Gaza.“Israeli security forces must exercise maximum restraint and calibrate their use of force.” He also added that “the indiscriminate launching of rockets and mortars towards Israeli population centers is unacceptable”.He said when asked whether Guterres had been in contact with key players that “contacts are continuing to be held at all levels with all interested parties in an effort to de-escalate the situation”.11 May 2021 - 20:03 GMTNetanyahu says Gaza groups will pay ‘very heavy price’ over rocket firePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said has said that Hamas and the Islamic Jihad will “pay a very heavy price,” after a day of Gaza rocket fire and Israeli air strikes on the Palestinian coastal enclave.“We are at the height of a weighty campaign,” Netanyahu said in televised remarks alongside his defence minister and military chief.“Hamas and Islamic Jihad paid … and will pay a very heavy price for their belligerence … their blood is forfeit.”11 May 2021 - 19:50 GMTAfrican Union head condemns Israeli ‘bombardments’ in GazaThe chairman of the African Union Commission has condemned Israeli “bombardments” in the Gaza Strip as well as “violent attacks” by Israeli security forces at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem.Chadian Moussa Faki Mahamat “reiterates that the Israeli army’s actions, including the continued forced, illegal evictions of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem, are in stark violation of international law and further heighten tensions in the region,” the AU said in a statement.The AU has long expressed support for “the Palestinian people in their legitimate quest for an independent and sovereign State” with East Jerusalem as its capital, the statement read.Faki had used the 2020 summit to denounce then-US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Middle East, saying it “trampled on the rights of the Palestinian people”, drawing applause in the main hall at AU headquarters in Addis Ababa.11 May 2021 - 19:46 GMTIsraeli energy pipeline hit in Gaza rocket attack, sources sayA pipeline belonging to an Israeli state-owned energy company was hit in a rocket attack from Gaza late on Tuesday, an Israeli government official and an energy sector official told Reuters news agency.Video broadcast by Channel 12 showed flames rising from what appeared to be a large fuel vat near the Israeli Mediterranean city of Ashkelon, south of Tel Aviv.Operations at a power plant in Ashkelon were not interrupted, Channel 13 TV said.11 May 2021 - 19:42 GMTLiverpool’s Mo Salah calls on world leaders to act, stop Palestine violenceLiverpool footballer Mohamed Salah has called on world leaders to “do everything in their power” to end the killing of innocent people, in what appeared to be a reference to rising tension in Palestine where at least 28 people, including children, have been killed by Israeli attacks.Salah’s appeal came as the Israeli military continued its bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday, targeting several areas after rockets were fired from the enclave.Read more here.11 May 2021 - 19:38 GMTArab foreign ministers urge ICC probe into Israel war crimesArab foreign ministers have urged the International Criminal Court to proceed with an investigation into Israel’s possible war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinians, including the planned forced expulsion of Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in east Jerusalem.The ministers met virtually on Tuesday to discuss the latest escalation of violence in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the Gaza Strip. In a statement after the meeting, they called for the ICC to mobilise resources for such an investigation.They strongly condemned what they call Israel’s crimes against Muslim worshippers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the latest court orders to evict families of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.The ministers urged the UN Security Council to take action in order to stop the “Israeli aggression” and provide “international protection” to the Palestinian people.11 May 2021 - 19:01 GMTOne killed in rocket attack on Tel Aviv, say medicsIsraeli medics confirmed the death of a 50-year-old woman from rocket attacks near Tel Aviv.Several people were also reported injured.11 May 2021 - 18:43 GMTIsrael’s airport authority closes Ben Gurion AirportIsrael’s airport authority closed the country’s main international airport which is located just next to Tel Aviv after rocket attacks from Gaza hit the city.11 May 2021 - 18:31 GMTGerman foreign minister condemns rocket attack on IsraelGerman Foreign Minister Heiko Maas condemned rocket attacks on Israel, saying they must end immediately after Hamas said it fired more than 130 rockets towards Tel Aviv in response to an Israeli air strike on Gaza.“The rocket attack on Israel is absolutely unacceptable and must end immediately. Israel has in this situation the right to self-defence. This escalation of violence can be neither tolerated nor accepted,” Maas tweeted.11 May 2021 - 18:26 GMTUS deeply concerned by escalating violenceUS State Department spokesman Ned Price has called for calm in Israel-Palestine saying: “We are deeply concerned about the escalation between Israel and those launching rockets from Gaza and we call for restraint and for calm.”“Israel has a right to defend itself and to respond to rocket attacks. The Palestinian people also have the right to safety and security, just as Israelis do,” said Price.“We are deeply concerned about the reported loss of life in Gaza, in Israel, including the deaths of children as well as many innocent civilians injured,” he added.11 May 2021 - 18:06 GMTHamas says launched 130 rockets towards Tel AvivHamas said they launched 130 rockets towards the Israeli city of Tel Aviv in retaliation for an air strike that levelled a 12-storey building in Gaza.Hamas’s armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, had warned it would retaliate over the strike on the tower near Gaza’s coast, before confirming it had launched an attack on “Tel Aviv and its suburbs with 130 missiles”.11 May 2021 - 17:52 GMTRocket-warning sirens sound in Tel AvivRocket-warning sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and explosions were heard, said the Israeli military.The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, said it launched dozens of rockets towards Tel Aviv.The group had threatened to strike Tel Aviv if Israel continues to target residential buildings in Gaza. Breaking: Rocket sirens are sounding in Tel Aviv, Israel. pic.twitter.com/4PzubyR9hv — PM Breaking News (@PMBreakingNews) May 11, 202111 May 2021 - 17:44 GMTJordanians protest against Israeli actions in AmmanJordanians continued carrying out protests near the Israeli embassy in the capital, Amman, denouncing what they call continuing violations of the rights of Jerusalemites in Jerusalem, including at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.More than one thousand protesters chanted anti-Israel slogans and called for the Jordanian government to end all diplomatic ties with Israel, including expelling the Israeli ambassador, closing the embassy and annulling the country’s peace treaty with them.Demonstrators also denounced the government’s performance towards what is happening in Jerusalem and demanded real action against Israel, saying that condemnation statements will not help the Palestinians. من مظاهرة اليوم في عمّان الأردن" بالروح بالدم نفديك يا أقصى " .Von heutigen Protest in Jordanien Amman “mit unsere Seele und Blut im Namen des Aqsa”From today’s protest in Jordan Amman” we sacrifice our life to Al-Aqsa”#AlAqsa #حي_الشيخ_الجراح #Siehe_SheikhJarrah_Nachbarsch pic.twitter.com/pmkH51cai5 — سَلْمى فليحانْ (@salmaflayhan) May 11, 202111 May 2021 - 17:34 GMTInstagram, Twitter blame glitch for deleted Sheikh Jarrah postsInstagram and Twitter have blamed technical errors for deleting posts mentioning the possible forced expulsion of Palestinians from East Jerusalem, but data rights groups fear “discriminatory” algorithms are at work and want greater transparency.Palestinians living in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah – an area claimed illegally by Jewish settlers – have taken to social media to protest as they face expulsion, but some found their posts, photos or videos removed or their accounts blocked from last week.Read more here.11 May 2021 - 17:28 GMTArab League condemns Israeli air strikes on GazaThe head of the Arab League has condemned deadly Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip as “indiscriminate and irresponsible” and said Israel had provoked an earlier increase in violence by its actions in Jerusalem.“Israeli violations in Jerusalem, and the government’s tolerance of Jewish extremists hostile to Palestinians and Arabs, is what led to the ignition of the situation in this dangerous way,” Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in a statement.Read more here.11 May 2021 - 17:22 GMTResidential tower in Gaza collapses after Israeli strikeA 13-storey residential tower in western Gaza City collapsed after Israeli air strikes targeted the building.There were no reports of casualties among the residents, who reportedly vacated the Hanadi tower before it was hit.Video footage showed three plumes of thick smoke rising from the tower, its upper storeys still intact until it collapsed to the ground. The tower houses an office that is used by the political leadership of Gaza’s rulers Hamas.Electricity in the area around the building went out after the collapse. Residents were using flashlights to search for personal belongings nearby.11 May 2021 - 17:15 GMTRed Cross urges all sides to step backThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on all sides in the conflict between Israel and Hamas-run Gaza to de-escalate the violence that has killed at least 30 people and reminded them of the rules of war.The ICRC regional director for the Middle East, Fabrizio Carboni, said in a statement sent to Reuters that international humanitarian law prohibits indiscriminate attacks against civilians, any attack must be proportionate, and all necessary precautions must be taken to avoid civilian casualties.He called for “rapid, safe and unimpeded movement for ambulances” and for staff and volunteers of both the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the Magen David Adom Society in Israel.11 May 2021 - 17:07 GMTIran’s Khamenei urges Palestinians to build up powerIranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei called on Palestinians to build up their fighting power to stop Israel’s “brutality”, saying Israelis “only understand the language of force”, Iran’s state TV reported.“Zionists understand nothing but the language of force, so the Palestinians must increase their power and resistance to force the criminals to surrender and stop their brutal acts,” Khamenei said.11 May 2021 - 17:06 GMTAl-Qassam threatens to strike Tel AvivThe al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, threatened to strike Tel Aviv if Israel continued to target residential buildings in Gaza.“If the enemy persists in bombing civilian towers, then Tel Aviv will be on time with a more severe missile strike than what happened in Ashkelon,” said group spokesman Abu Ubaida in a tweet.11 May 2021 - 17:03 GMTFootballers express support for PalestiniansFootballers around the world expressed support for Palestinians in recent days, including on social media.“The world needs peace and love. It will soon be Eid, let us all love one another #PrayForPalestine,” Manchester United’s Paul Pogba wrote on a photo on Instagram, referring to the Eid al-Fitr holiday this week marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.Algerian striker Riyad Mahrez, who plays for Manchester City, tweeted a picture of the Palestinian flag with the hashtag #SaveSheikhJarrah. The post has been retweeted more than 50,000 times.Former Mali and Tottenham forward Frederic Kanoute wrote on Twitter, “apartheid continues and Palestinians are being expelled from their homes while most ‘leaders’ are complicit with their silence at best and their direct support at worst”.11 May 2021 - 16:58 GMTPalestinian solidarity march in LebanonPalestinians, Lebanese and other activists in Lebanon’s capital city, Beirut, marched in solidarity with Palestinians.Dozens of people took part in the march which started in Mar Elias refugee camp in the southwest of city, to Shatila, another Palestinian refugee camp set in southern Beirut.11 May 2021 - 16:49 GMTUN working to de-escalate tensionsThe United Nations is urgently working to de-escalate tensions between Israel and the Palestinians,” said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric.Dujarric added that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was saddened by “the increasingly large numbers of casualties, including children, from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, and of Israeli fatalities from rockets launched from Gaza”.“Israeli security forces must exercise maximum restraint and calibrate their use of force. The indiscriminate launching rockets and mortars towards Israeli population centres is unacceptable,” Dujarric told reporters.11 May 2021 - 16:41 GMTIran’s FM condemns ‘racist, criminal’ IsraelIran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif condemned in a statement over Twitter “the attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque and the killing of worshippers”.“This [the attack] was the clearest evidence of the racist and criminal nature of this occupying entity [Israel] which has been the main cause of instability and insecurity in the region,” said Zarif.“The Palestinian cause has always been a central issue for the Muslim world. And unity is the most important weapon in the fight for Jerusalem,” said Zarif.He added that the only solution to the conflict, was to refer the issue of Palestine to the will of the people.11 May 2021 - 15:52 GMTEgypt FM says efforts to reach out to Israel failedEgypt’s top diplomat told an emergency Arab League meeting that although it had reached out to Israel to calm tensions in Jerusalem, it was met with indifference.“In the last few days, Egypt extensively reached out to Israel and other concerned countries urging them to exert all possible efforts to prevent the deterioration of the situation in Jerusalem,” said Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry.“But we did not get the necessary response,” he told the meeting of the Arab League via videoconference.While not specifying the other countries Egypt contacted, he condemned “Israeli violations at the walls of Al-Aqsa Mosque which crossed over into Sheikh Jarrah” in East Jerusalem.Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit also lambasted Israeli violence directed towards Palestinians in east Jerusalem in the meeting’s opening remarks.11 May 2021 - 15:44 GMT‘Constant rocket fire’ continues over southern IsraelReporting from southern Israel, about 5km north of the border fence separating the Israeli territory from Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett said rocket fire was continuous.“Throughout the afternoon there has been constant rocket fire coming over [from Gaza].“There was this barrage that came from the Gaza Strip earlier in the day with Hamas saying it was their biggest ever – nearly 140 rockets in five minutes,” said Fawcett, adding that Israel has neither confirmed nor denied these attacks.“Whatever it was, it was enough to get through the Israeli air defences, the Iron Dome system,” he explained.“We have also been hearing Israeli military jets going the other way – very frequent interceptions,” said Fawcett.11 May 2021 - 15:31 GMT‘Streets of Gaza almost empty’Reporting from the Gaza Strip after Israeli strikes killed 28 people, including 10 children, Al Jazeera’s Safwat al-Kahlout, said the situation in the besieged coastal enclave was tense.“The streets of Gaza are almost empty. People are staying home because of the intensive air strikes that Israel is carrying out,” said Kahlout.“At this time of Ramadan, markets and the streets are usually overcrowded,” he added.“We have been seeing the exchange of fire between the Israelis and the Palestinian armed groups. The last one was just a few seconds before we went on air,” he explained.11 May 2021 - 15:15 GMTPA receives letter from Biden administration: Palestinian mediaPresident of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas has received a letter from US President Joe Biden, reported Palestinian news agency, Wafa.The letter discussed the latest escalations in Jerusalem and along the Israeli-Gaza border, according to the agency.Speaking from Washington, DC, Al Jazeera’s Kimberly Halkett said that there was no confirmation of a letter being sent from the Biden administration to the PA.She added, however, that US President Biden was facing increasing pressure to get involved in resolving the tensions between Palestine and Israel.11 May 2021 - 15:00 GMTThousands in Lod mourn killing of PalestinianThousands of people took part in funeral processions for 33-year-old Musa Hassuna, a Palestinian citizen of Israel who was shot dead on Monday by a Jewish Israeli in Lod, southeast of Tel Aviv.The gunman behind the shooting has reportedly been arrested.11 May 2021 - 14:39 GMTGaza death toll reaches 28, says health ministryThe death toll caused by Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip has reached 28, said the Palestinian ministry of health in Gaza.The victims included 10 children and one woman, said the ministry.At least 152 people were also injured in the raids, it added.11 May 2021 - 14:30 GMT‘A horrible moment’: Gaza resident on Israeli strikesGaza resident Mahmoud Ahmed, 21, recounted events from Israel’s air strikes on Gaza which killed 26 people, including nine children.“I suddenly heard the neighbors knocking on the door. Each one was telling the other to flee. It was a horrible moment,” Ahmed told Al Jazeera’s Hana Salah.“Tens of families rushed into the street before Israeli war planes destroyed their homes. We avoided a potential massacre,” Ahmed told Al Jazeera.“People are still staying outside of their homes, because we don’t know when they will be targeted again,” he added.11 May 2021 - 14:17 GMTIsraeli strikes hit Gaza, againAt least 14 strikes hit various areas of the Gaza Strip, reported Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent in Gaza.Footage from the Strip showed plumes of smoke rising through the skies.No casualties were so far reported.11 May 2021 - 13:56 GMTNetanyahu says Israel stepping up Gaza strikesIsrael will step up its Gaza strikes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after Palestinian rocket launches killed two women in a southern city.“At the conclusion of a situational assessment, it was decided that both the might of the attacks and the frequency of the attacks will be increased,” he said in a video statement.11 May 2021 - 12:48 GMTDeath toll rises to 26, Gaza health ministry saysAshraf al-Qudra, spokesperson for Gaza’s healthy ministry, said the death toll from Israeli raids since Monday night has risen to 26.Nine of those who lost their lives were children, al-Qudra said.At least 122 people others were wounded, he added.11 May 2021 - 12:40 GMTTwo Israelis killed in Hamas rocket fire: HaaretzTwo Israelis have been killed after rocket fire from Gaza hit Ashkelon, Israeli daily Haaretz reported.The victims were two women, one aged in her 40s, the other in her mid-60s, the Magen David Adom emergency service told AFP, while the city’s Barzilai Medical Center said it was treating 70 people.Reporting from southern Israel, Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett said that Ashkelon has been the target of rockets from Gaza.“Serious damage was done to several buildings, including a school in Ashkelon,” he said.11 May 2021 - 12:32 GMTBritish MPs condemn Israeli attacks on Gaza, Al-AqsaJeremy Corbyn, a British Member of Parliament (MP) and former leader of the opposition Labour Party, said: “Deliberately provocative attacks on the Al-Aqsa mosque and the ongoing home invasions #SheikhJarrah have led to horrendous violence in Jerusalem.”Israel should “rectify the current situation and not exacerbate it,” he said in a Twitter post.Zarah Sultana, another Labour MP, said Israel’s “brutal attacks must be condemned”.“Tonight, seeing footage of Israeli airstrikes kill men, women and children in Gaza, I send my solidarity, my love and my prayers to the Palestinian people,” she wrote on Monday night.11 May 2021 - 12:30 GMTPalestinians in Gaza mourn killing of loved onesHundreds of Palestinians in Gaza gathered to mourn some of those who were killed in overnight Israeli raids.Funeral processions took place for 57-year-old Amira Abdel Fattah Subuh, and her son, 17-year-old Abdulrahman, who were killed when their home was struck in the al-Shati refugee camp on the edge of Gaza City.“I bid farewell to the most precious person in my heart, my mother, and I ask God to have mercy on her,” Subuh’s son told Maan news agency.Meanwhile, in northern Gaza, thousands gathered to mourn eight others, including a Hamas military commander, who died overnight as a result of Israeli air strikes.11 May 2021 - 11:38 GMTHamas launches over ’70 rockets in less than 30 minutes’Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, reporting from the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, said Hamas’s armed wing fired their “largest barrage” yet from the enclave towards Israel.“That’s more than 70 rockets in less than 30 minutes,” Ibrahim said, according to a statement released by Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades.In total, more than 300 rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel since Monday.The al-Qassam Brigades earlier said Israel crossed “all red lines” in Al-Aqsa, and that it is its duty to respond.11 May 2021 - 11:06 GMTJordanian FM says maintaining peace and stability is ‘key’Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said maintaining peace and stability in Jerusalem is “key”.“Our focus right now on ensuring that the escalation stops, and for that to happen we do believe that all illegal and provocative measures … must stop,” he said, referring to Israel’s actions in Sheikh Jarrah and in the Al-Aqsa mosque.“The status quo needs to be preserved, and the rights of the Palestinians need to be respected.”11 May 2021 - 10:40 GMTNetanyahu ‘ready to do’ anything to stay in power: Knesset memberSami Abu Shehadeh, Palestinian Knesset member and leader of the Balad party, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allowed for an “escalation” in a bid to remain in power.Speaking to Al Jazeera, he said: “In order to survive this political crisis he finds himself in now, and in order for him not to lose control and not to lose his seat as prime minister … he is ready to do anything.“All the escalation we are seeing now has a clear political target from Netanyahu’s point of view, and he is ready to do anything to keep himself in power including this massacre that we are going to see in Gaza,” Shehadeh said.“What is happening here is a clear political decision that Netanyahu is responsible for to keep power.”11 May 2021 - 10:07 GMTThousands of Israeli soldiers ordered to mobiliseThe Israeli army said in a statement Defense Minister Benny Gantz called in troop reinforcements near the fence with Gaza.Gantz ordered the mobilisation of 5,000 Israeli soldiers to “deepen home front defense,” the statement said.11 May 2021 - 09:41 GMTTwo killed in fresh Israeli raid on GazaAt least two people have been killed in an Israeli air strike that struck a residential building in Gaza City’s Rimal neighbourhood, Maan news agency said, bringing the total number of deaths to 26.The two killed were identified as Islamic Jihad commanders. A third commander was severely injured, according to Maan.At least five other civilians suffered wounds and were being transported to hospital.11 May 2021 - 09:17 GMTIsraeli forces used ‘unwarranted, excessive force’: AmnestyRights group Amnesty International said that Israeli forces have used “unwarranted and excessive force” against Palestinian protesters in East Jerusalem.In a statement, the UK-based rights group said: “Israeli forces have repeatedly deployed disproportionate and unlawful force to disperse protesters during violent raids on al-Aqsa mosque and have carried out unprovoked attacks on peaceful demonstrators in Sheikh Jarrah.“Israel must not be allowed to continue its rampage against Palestinians who are simply defending their right to exist and protesting against their forced displacement,” the group’s Middle East Deputy Director, Saleh Higazi, said.11 May 2021 - 08:42 GMTArab League chief condemns Israeli air strikes on GazaIsraeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip were “indiscriminate and irresponsible,” Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit said.He said that Israel was responsible for a “dangerous escalation” in Jerusalem, and called on the international community to act immediately to stop the violence.11 May 2021 - 08:02 GMTTense calm in East Jerusalem’s Old CityDespite signs of relative calm in the Old City, the Palestinian Red Crescent said at least 520 Palestinians have been wounded since Monday, including more than 200 who are hospitalised – five of whom are in a critical condition.Siraj, a 24-year-old Palestinian man, suffered a spleen injury being hit by a rubber-coated steel bullet a day earlier.He sat in a wheelchair with his two legs bandaged at East Jerusalem’s crowded Makassed Hospital.“They shot everyone, young and old people,” he told Al Jazeera, referring to Israeli police.The hospital’s director, Adnan Farhoud, said most of those wounded suffered injuries to the head, chest and limbs.11 May 2021 - 07:59 GMTIsrael trying to ‘redeem its humiliation’ in Jerusalem by striking GazaAli Abunimah, an author and the co-founder of the Electronic Intifada website, called out Israel’s actions in the occupied Palestinian territories.Speaking to Al Jazeera from Amman, he said: “It’s horrific to see Israel once again deciding to try to redeem its humiliation in Jerusalem by killing Palestinians, particularly children … in Gaza due to Israeli attacks targeting residential homes among many other sites.“What happened yesterday in Jerusalem was Israel suffered a humiliating defeat when Palestinian popular resistance, without the support of any governments, without the support of the Palestinian Authority … defeated Israel, forced them to cancel the settler march, and is continuing to resist the ethnic cleansing in Sheikh Jarrah,” Abunimah said.“What Hamas and the other resistance factions were trying to say to Israel is ‘Do not think you can attack Jerusalem and attack Palestinians in the West Bank and count on the resistance not to respond to you’.“So that was a major strategic miscalculation by Israel because they thought that we can do as we please because we’ve divided the Palestinian people – there are little bits of them in the West Bank, little bits of them in Gaza,” he added.11 May 2021 - 06:55 GMTGaza health ministry announces new deathsHealth authorities in Gaza said three people died overnight, including an elderly woman and a man with special needs, taking the total number of those killed in Israeli raids to 24.At least 103 people were wounded, it added.11 May 2021 - 06:02 GMTIsrael launches more air raids on GazaThe Israeli army unleashed new air strikes on Gaza and said it struck “130 targets” there since last night “in response” to rockets fired from the Strip.Hamas said it launched dozens of rockets from Gaza after it earlier warned Israel to stop the violence against Palestinian worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.In a statement issued early Tuesday, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said the rocket attacks would continue until Israel stops “all scenes of terrorism and aggression in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque”.

Two people have been critically injured in Lod.

The two have died. A mother and her 7 year old son.

The names of the fatalities in Lod are 52 year old Khalil Awad and his 16 year old daughter Nadin

BREAKING: Two Israelis are in serious condition after a rocket fired from Gaza explodes in the Israeli city of Lod, near Tel Aviv.

This is 16-year-old Nadine Awad, an Arab citizen of Israel, who was killed last night along with her 52-year-old father, Khalil, when a Hamas rocket fired from Gaza hit their home in central Israel. May their memories be a blessing.

The deaths in Lod come amid dozens of causalities in Gaza [SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty-file photo] A 16-year-old Palestinian girl was killed alongside her father, 52, near the Israeli city of Lod on Wednesday. Their deaths were caused by rocket fire believed to have been fired by Gaza-based Hamas or other groups. The BBC’s Arabic-language service reported that the rocket hit their car, while The Guardian reported they were killed when a missile hit their home's courtyard. The Arabic-language outlet said the deaths occurred in Dahmash, a village close to Lod, the city which has been the centre of protests by Palestinian-Israeli protests against Israeli violence in Jerusalem. The president of Dahmash's village committee said: "We lost my sister's husband and his late daughter Nadeen today. "We say only that which pleases God, truly, we belong to Allah and, indeed, to Him we return." The chief, Ismail, added that they had not received shelters from the regional council, which he claims "does not recognise us", despite asking for this. They were instead told they would be "uprooted" from the area, he said. He also confirmed that Nadeen’s mother, Sawsan, and two siblings were taken to the hospital, though they were largely unharmed.

Correction: It was a father and 16 yr old daughter killed. A family member explains. Here in Dahmash we don't have security rooms/shelters, so we run out of the home since its better to be outside on the ground. The family took cover next to the car, which got hit by the rocket.

Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel's religions and Diaspora affairs correspondent. The principal of the 16-year-old Arab Israeli teenager Nadine Awad, who was killed alongside her father in a Hamas rocket attack early this morning outside Lod, remembers her student as a “talented girl” who wanted to change the world. “I know it sounds like a cliché and they always say that the best people are the ones who lose their lives, but Nadine really was a very, very special girl,” her principal Shirin Natur Hafi told the Reshet Bet radio station. “She was in 10th grade, studying in the biology-chemistry track. She had dreams of changing the world. She was such a special girl, such a talented girl. She wanted to conquer the world,” Hafi said of her student. According to Hafi, principal of Lod’s Ort school, Awad was involved in a number of science-related and social projects with Jewish schools in the area and with schools in America and planned to participate in a biomedical studies program through Petah Tikva’s Schneider Medical Center. Watch DocuNation Season 3: The Heart of Israel when you join the ToI Community In this season of DocuNation, you can stream five outstanding Israeli documentaries with English subtitles and then join a live online discussion with the filmmakers. The selected films show Israel beyond the conflict: a place of storytellers and musicians, of dreamers, makers, and communities rooted in meaning and trust. When you watch DocuNation, you’re also supporting Israeli creators at a time when it’s increasingly difficult for them to share their work globally. To learn more about DocuNation: The Heart of Israel, click here. Support ToI and get DocuNation Support ToI and get DocuNation Already a member? Sign in to stop seeing this If you’d like to comment, join The Times of Israel Community.

Updated May 12, 2021 at 8:47 PM ET LOD, Israel — Intense exchanges of rocket fire and airstrikes have turned life upside down for people in Gaza and Israel, and the conflict has no end in sight. In many instances, the violence has killed indiscriminately. In Gaza, at least 56 Palestinians have died, Palestinian health authorities say — a figure that includes militants but also civilians and 14 children — and more than 300 have been wounded. In Israel, local authorities say at least six people have been killed, including a soldier, a teenager and a grandmother. As of Wednesday morning, militants in Gaza had fired more than 1,050 rockets at Israel in the previous 38 hours, Israel's military said. The Foreign Ministry notes that around 200 of those rockets fell inside Gaza itself. In the early morning, a father and his teenage daughter, Khalil and Nadin Awad, who were Palestinian citizens of Israel, were killed when a rocket struck outside their home near Lod, just south of Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. Hours after the attack, the air outside their home smelled of the charred remains of their car, which had caught fire. A friend of the family, Buthaina Dabit, said that 16-year-old Nadin wanted to be a doctor. The violence, she added, is affecting everyone. "It's against all of us, this situation, because violence or war is against all humanity, not just Arabs or Jews," Dabit said. "It's against nature." Lod, a city where Jews, Muslims and Christians normally manage to live peacefully side by side, is now caught up in the turmoil that started with intense disputes between Israelis and Palestinians stemming from tensions in Jerusalem. There has been street violence, and houses of worship have been set on fire. In an extraordinary move, Israel has sent paramilitary troops from the occupied West Bank to the area. At night, life is disrupted by air raid sirens. Tania Isaev, a Jewish woman who works as a supermarket cashier, says she was up all night with her young kids, who were frightened by the blaring alarms. Seeking shelter, they ran into the stairwell of their apartment building — where they met their neighbors, who are Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel. "I hugged my neighbor's kids, and my neighbor hugged my kids," she said. A few miles to the west, in Rishon LeZion, 63-year-old Israeli grandmother Leah Yom-Tov was killed Tuesday when a rocket hit her home. To the south, a foreign worker from India, Soumya Santhosh, was also killed when a rocket hit the town of Ashkelon. That attack reportedly hit while Santhosh was on a video call with her husband and son in India. The tragic deaths resulted from rare rocket fire that is reaching deep inside Israel, launched by militants in Gaza. Those attacks, as well as Israel's airstrikes, are prompting international concern that the region could see violence on a scale not seen since the 2014 Israel-Gaza war, when thousands were killed. "We're escalating towards a full scale war," Tor Wennesland, U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, said on Twitter. In Gaza, residents have been up all night, hearing the whoosh of rockets being fired and the booming sounds of Israeli warplanes striking inside Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces says it's targeting Hamas leaders and operatives, as well as weapons caches. But Israeli airstrikes have also hit several residential buildings that Israel says are used by both militants and civilians. Early in the conflict, a strike targeted the home of the Masri family in the Gaza Strip. A militant unrelated to the family was apparently killed there, but five members of the family also died, including children, according to officials in Gaza. Israeli officials say a Hamas rocket, not an airstrike, was responsible for those deaths. During a visit by journalists to anguished families visiting their wounded relatives in the hospital, one mother told journalists that their boys were being killed on behalf of Jerusalem. Other family members cursed Hamas, saying that the fight for Jerusalem will not bring back their loved ones. Palestinians perceive Jerusalem as being under attack from Israel, as legal proceedings play out that could result in some Palestinians being evicted from their homes to make way for Jewish settlers in the Old City. Also in Jerusalem, Israeli police have used force to break up Ramadan gatherings in the city and at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which is located on what Muslims call Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, and Jews call the Temple Mount. There are no signs that the violence will stop. A senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is not close to a Gaza cease-fire yet, as the two sides engage in strikes and counterstrikes. By early Wednesday evening, air raid sirens were again sounding in central Israel, sending residents to shelters. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to Netanyahu on Wednesday. In the call, spokesperson Ned Price said, Blinken "expressed his concerns regarding the barrage of rocket attacks on Israel, his condolences for the lives lost as a result, and the United States' strong support for Israel's right to defend itself." Blinken "reiterated his call on all parties to deescalate tensions and bring a halt to the violence," Price said, adding that the secretary "emphasized the need for Israelis and Palestinians to be able to live in safety and security, as well as enjoy equal measures of freedom, security, prosperity, and democracy." Blinken also spoke with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday, Price said. He offered condolences on lives lost and Blinken "condemned the rocket attacks and emphasized the need to de-escalate tensions and bring the current violence to an end." "The Secretary also expressed his belief that Palestinians and Israelis deserve equal measures of freedom, dignity, security and prosperity," the spokesman said. "The Secretary conveyed his best wishes for Eid and that peace and calm may prevail." NPR's Bill Chappell reported from Washington, D.C. Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

#Photo of the site where a rocket from #Gaza landed in the Dahmash Arab neighborhood of #Lod, resulting in the death of a woman and her child and the injury of the father.

#صورة لمكان سقوط صاروخ من #غزة على حي دهمش العربي في #اللد ما أدى لاستشـ هاد سيدة وطفلتها وإصابة الأب

Mr. Khalil Awad, 50 years old, and his daughter Nadine, 16 years old, were killed this morning when a rocket hit their house in the Dahmash neighborhood of Lod.

السيد خليل عوض 50 عاماً، وابنته نادين 16 عاماً ارتقيا فجر اليوم اثر سقوط صاروخ على بيت في حي دهمش باللد

Two people were killed in Lod, east of Tel Aviv, after the city was hit by rocket fire, according to the Israeli newspaper Maariv.

قتيلان في اللد شرق تل أبيب بعد تعرض المدينة لرشقات صاروخية بحسب صحيفة معاريف الإسرائيلية

#Breaking | Israelis attack Dahmash Mosque in #Lod, the second mosque they have attacked in the city (eyewitnesses)

#عاجل | إسرائيليون يهاجمون مسجد دهمش في #اللد وهو المسجد الثاني الذي يهاجمونه بالمدينة (شهود عيان)

Nadine Awad, 16, and her father, Khalil Awad, 54, were killed when a rocket fired from Gaza struck their home in the unrecognized village of Dahmash, located between Lod and Ramla. The village lacks basic services and essential resources. Its residents have been fighting for recognition for years.

نادين عوض 16عاما ووالدها خليل عوض 54 عاما اللذان اعلن وفاتهما بعد اصابتهما جراء سقوط صاروخ اطلق من غزة واصاب منزل العائلة في قرية دهمش منزوعة الاعتراف بين اللد والرملة والتي لا تحظى بالخدمات الأساسية وأدنى مقومات الحياة. اهالي القرية يناضلون منذ سنوات لإنتزاع الاعتراف

Khalil Awad, 54, and his daughter Nadine, 15, were killed by a missile that fell in the Dahmash neighborhood of occupied Lod.

وفاة خليل عوض 54 عاما وابنته نادين 15 عاما جراء صاروخ سقط في حي دهمش باللد المحتلة

Israeli police confirm that a man and his daughter were killed in Lod; they were Palestinians from the Dahmash neighborhood. #Palestine #AlQudsNewspaper #Breaking #News #FollowUp #AlAqsa #Occupation #Israel #SheikhJarrah #AlQassam #Deif #Gaza #Resistance #SwordOfJerusalem #GazaUnderAttack #TelAviv

الشرطة الإسرائيلية تؤكد أن رجل وابنته هما من قتلا في اللد وهما فلسطينيان من حي دهمش #فلسطين #جريدة_القدس #عاجل #اخبار #متابعة #الأقصى #الاحتلال #اسرائيل #الشيخ_جراح #القسام #الضيف #غزة #المقاومة #سيف_القدس #غزة_تحت_القصف #تل_ابيب

This red teddy bear bearing the word "love" lies on the floor in the room of Nadine Awad, the young woman killed along with her father, Khalil, tonight when a rocket fired by the terrorist group Hamas struck their home. Hamas launched 500 rockets at Israeli cities tonight, killing five civilians. Operation #GuardianOfTheWalls continues.

هذا الدبدوب الأحمر الذي يحمل الكلمة "حب" ملقى على الأرض في غرفة الشابة نادين عوض التي قتلت مع والدها خليل هذه الليلة جراء سقوط صاروخ أطلقته حماس الإرهابية على منزلهما. حماس أطلقت هذه الليلة 500 صاروخ على المدن الإسرائيلية مما أدى إلى مقتل 5 مواطنين. عملية #حارس_الأسوار مستمرة.

Gaza rockets make no distinction between Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel - Khalil Awad and his daughter Nadine were killed this morning, succumbing to their serious injuries after a rocket from Gaza struck a house in the Dahmash neighborhood between Lod and Ramla.

صواريخ غزة لا تفرق بين مواطنين إسرائيل العرب واليهود - خليل عوض وابنته نادين لقوا مصرعهم فجر اليوم متأثرين بجراحهما الخطيرة بعد سقوط صاروخ من غزة على بيت في حي دهمش بين اللد والرملة

On October 24, the White House launched an attack on Somali activist Mahad Mahmud, calling him a “criminal scum” and apparently wrongly accusing him of involvement in the kidnapping of two French spies in Mogadishu. However, his country welcomed him back as a hero after his deportation from the United States. According to Agence France-Presse, the post, which appeared that day on the X platform and included a picture of a man with a short beard wearing a plaid shirt, surprised Mahmud's fellow citizens. In his native Somalia, he is a popular social media star with nearly 450,000 followers on TikTok. Somalia has been facing an insurgency since 2006 led by the al-Shabaab extremist group, which is linked to al-Qaeda. The war continues to this day, just 60 kilometers from the capital, Mogadishu. Amid this reality, Mahad Mahmud focuses on the verbal sparring between rival Somali factions and seems far removed from the atmosphere of the extremist insurgents. Agence France-Presse (AFP) investigated the man, who was deported to Somalia in November. Somali and French security sources consider him a new victim of the Trump administration's immigration policy, not an accomplice in a case that rocked France, in which he denies any involvement. On July 14, 2009, a group of gunmen kidnapped two agents of the French Directorate General for External Security (DGSE) from the Sahafi International Hotel in Mogadishu, where they were staying. One of them, Marc Aubryère, managed to escape a month later. The other, Denis Allex, died three and a half years later in January 2013. Paris confirmed that his captors executed him when French forces attempted to free him. “Not true,” the White House statement described Mahad Mahmud as a “criminal scum” and accused him of being “involved in the kidnapping of French officials at the Sahafi Hotel and the murder of one of them by al-Shabaab.” In an interview with AFP on Saturday, Mahmoud stated that the accusation was "not true," explaining that he had lived in South Africa between 2008 and 2021 and was not in Somalia when the incidents occurred. He denounced the accusations as serving the "political agenda" of the US authorities. While Mahad Mahmoud lacks any official documentation to support his claims, two of his relatives corroborated his account to AFP. A document issued by the Somali police on June 28, 2025, and reviewed by AFP, showed that he had no prior convictions. Two Somali security sources interviewed by AFP also deemed the US accusations lacking credibility. One stated, "We have no evidence of his direct involvement" in the kidnapping, while the other suggested that "the United States may have received incorrect information." In France, where foreign intelligence spent years searching for those responsible for the kidnapping of its two agents, a security source confirmed to Agence France-Presse that Mahad Mahmoud was not involved. In the statement accusing him, the White House praised the "heroic action" of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in "pulling him out" from the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota (in the northern United States), home to a large Somali community. Several international organizations have condemned the numerous human rights violations committed by U.S. immigration authorities as part of the mass deportation policy pursued by President Donald Trump's administration. "A victim of injustice," Mahmoud recounted that men "with their faces covered and wearing bulletproof vests" surrounded him as he left his home and approached his car on May 27, "pointed a gun" to his head, and arrested him. Despite acknowledging that he was not mistreated during his arrest or the more than five months of detention that followed, Mahmoud, who has lived in the United States since 2022, lamented the “injustice” that shattered his dream. “Trump is responsible for what happened to me,” said Mahmoud, who has worked primarily for Uber and Amazon. “But I’m not alone. Millions of people from all over the world who live in the United States, whether Somali or not, have been affected.” However, the Somali community to which he belongs appears to be a clear target. Trump has made harsh statements against Somalis, claiming that “gangs” of them are terrorizing Minnesota. In early December, he said, “I don’t want them in our country… and we’re going in the wrong direction if we continue to accept garbage.” Mahad Mahmoud, who emphasizes the “dignity” and “morality” of his people, was ultimately deported to Mogadishu, via Kenya, in early November, along with seven other Somalis. Since returning to his country, the TikTok star has been posting videos showing his warm welcome. His popularity has skyrocketed, with nearly 100,000 new followers joining his TikTok account, and one of his videos garnering approximately 2.5 million views. Mahad Mahmud, who had not returned to Somalia since leaving for South Africa in 2008, confirmed that he was "very happy" with the reception he received in his homeland. However, he noted that this was "largely due to the fact that people" see him as "a victim of injustice."

في 24 أكتوبر (تشرين الأول)، شنّ البيت الأبيض هجوماً على الصومالي مهاد محمود، واصفاً إياه بأنه «حثالة مجرم» واتهمه خطأ على ما يبدو بالمشاركة في اختطاف جاسوسين فرنسيين في مقديشو، لكنّ بلده استقبله كالأبطال بعد ترحيله من الولايات المتحدة. ووفقاً لوكالة الصحافة الفرنسية، ذاك المنشور الذي ورد يومها على منصة «إكس» وأُرفِق بصورة لشخص ذي لحية قصيرة يرتدي قميصاً بنقشات مربعات، فاجأ مواطني محمود، إذ يُعَدّ في بلده الأصلي نجماً على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي يحظى بشعبية واسعة، ويبلغ عدد متابعيه على «تيك توك» نحو 450 ألفاً. تواجه الصومال منذ عام 2006 تمرداً تقوده حركة «الشباب» المتطرفة المرتبطة بتنظيم «القاعدة»، ولا تزال الحرب مستمرة إلى اليوم على بعد 60 كيلومتراً من العاصمة مقديشو. في هذا الواقع، يركّز مهاد محمود على المناوشات الكلامية بين الفصائل الصومالية المتناحرة ويبدو بعيداً جداً عن أجواء المتمردين المتطرفين. وأجرت وكالة الصحافة الفرنسية عملية تحَقُق من هذا الرجل الذي رُحِّل إلى الصومال في نوفمبر (تشرين الثاني)، وترى فيه مصادر أمنية صومالية وفرنسية ضحية جديدة لسياسة إدارة ترمب المتعلقة بالهجرة، لا ضالعاً في قضية هزّت فرنسا، ينفي أي دور له فيها. ففي 14 يوليو (تموز) 2009، أقدمت مجموعة من المسلحين على خطف اثنين من عملاء مديرية الأمن الخارجي الفرنسية من «فندق صحافي العالمي» (Sahafi international) الذي كانا يقيمان فيه بمقديشو، وما لبث أحدهما ويُدعى مارك أوبريير أن تمكن من الهرب بعد شهر. أما الآخر، وهو دوني أليكس، فتوفي بعد ثلاث سنوات ونصف سنة من الأسر، في يناير (كانون الثاني) 2013، وأكدت باريس أن خاطفيه أعدموه عندما كانت القوات الفرنسية تحاول تحريره. «ليس صحيحاً» وصف منشور البيت الأبيض مهاد محمود بأنه «حثالة مجرم خارج على القانون»، واتهمه بأنه «ضالع في اختطاف مسؤولين فرنسيين في فندق صحافي وقتل أحدهما من قِبل حركة الشباب». وقال محمود في حديث مع وكالة الصحافة الفرنسية، السبت، إن هذا الاتهام «ليس صحيحاً»، موضحاً أنه كان يقيم بين عامَي 2008 و2021 في جنوب أفريقيا ولم يكن موجوداً في الصومال لدى حصول هذه الواقعات، مندداً باتهامات «تخدم الأجندة السياسية» للسلطات الأميركية. ومع أن مهاد محمود لا يمتلك أي مستندات إدارية تثبت أقواله، أكد اثنان من أقربائه لوكالة الصحافة الفرنسية روايته. وأظهرت وثيقة صادرة عن الشرطة الصومالية في 28 يونيو (حزيران) 2025 اطلعت عليها وكالة الصحافة الفرنسية أن سجلّه العدلي لا يتضمن أي سوابق. كذلك رأى مصدران أمنيان صوماليان استصرحتهما وكالة الصحافة الفرنسية أن الاتهامات الأميركية تفتقر إلى الصدقية، وقال أحدهما: «ليس لدينا أي دليل على ارتباطه مباشرة» بالخطف، فيما توقع الآخر «أن تكون الولايات المتحدة تلقّت معلومات مغلوطة». أما في فرنسا التي بقيت استخباراتها الخارجية تسعى طوال سنوات إلى العثور على المسؤولين عن خطف عميليها، فقد أكّد مصدر أمني لوكالة الصحافة الفرنسية جازماً أن مهاد محمود ليس ضالعاً في ذلك. وفي المنشور الذي تضمّن اتهامه، أشاد البيت الأبيض بـ«العمل البطولي» لإدارة الهجرة والجمارك الأميركية التي «سحبته» من شوارع مدينة مينيابوليس في ولاية مينيسوتا (بشمال الولايات المتحدة)، حيث تعيش جالية صومالية كبيرة. ودانت منظمات دولية عدة ارتكاب سلطات الهجرة الأميركية انتهاكات كثيرة لحقوق الإنسان في إطار سياسة الترحيل الجماعي التي اتبعتها إدارة الرئيس دونالد ترمب. «ضحية ظلم» روى محمود أن رجالاً «ذوي وجوه مغطاة ويرتدون سترات واقية من الرصاص» طوقوه لدى خروجه من منزله واقترابه من سيارته في 27 مايو (أيار) الفائت و«وجهوا مسدساً» إلى رأسه وأوقفوه. ورغم إقراره بأنه لم يتلقَ معاملة سيئة لدى توقيفه، ولا خلال أكثر من خمسة أشهر تلته من الاحتجاز، شكا محمود الموجود في الولايات المتحدة منذ عام 2022 «الظلم» الذي قضى على حلمه. وقال محمود الذي عمل خصوصاً مع «أوبر» و«أمازون»: «ترمب مسؤول عما حدث لي (...) ولكن لست الوحيد. فقد طال ذلك ملايين الأشخاص من مختلف أنحاء العالم الذين يعيشون في الولايات المتحدة، سواء أكانوا صوماليين أم لا». إلا أن الجالية الصومالية التي ينتمي إليها تبدو مستهدفة بالفعل. فترمب أدلى بتصريحات لاذعة ضد الصوماليين، واعتبر أن «عصابات» منهم تُرهّب مينيسوتا. وقال في مطلع ديسمبر (كانون الأول): «لا أريدهم في بلدنا (...) وسنذهب في الاتجاه الخاطئ إذا استمررنا في قبول القمامة». أما مهاد محمود الذي يؤكد «كرامة» شعبه و «أخلاقه»، فرُحِّل في نهاية المطاف إلى مقديشو، عبر كينيا، في بداية نوفمبر (تشرين الثاني)، مع سبعة صوماليين آخرين. ومنذ عودته إلى بلده، راح نجم «تيك توك» ينشر مقاطع فيديو تُظهِر الترحيب به. وبلغت شعبيته ذروتها، إذ انضم نحو مائة ألف متابع إضافي إلى حسابه على «تيك توك»، وحظيَ أحد مقاطع الفيديو التي نشرها عليه بنحو مليونين ونصف مليون مشاهَدة. وأكد مهاد محمود الذي لم يكن عاد إلى الصومال منذ مغادرته إياها إلى جنوب أفريقيا عام 2008، أنه «سعيد جداً» بهذا الاستقبال الذي ناله في بلده. لكنه لاحظ أنه «يعود في جزء كبير منه إلى أن الناس» يرونه «ضحية ظلم».

Khalil Awad and his daughter Nadine killed after a rocket struck their home in the Dahmash neighborhood near Lod May 12, 2021 - 8:10:48 AM Early Wednesday morning, Khalil Awad and his daughter Nadine (50 and 16 years old, respectively) succumbed to their critical injuries after a rocket fired from Gaza struck their home in the Dahmash neighborhood between Lod and Ramla. They were taken to Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, where they were pronounced dead. Emergency medical teams responded to the scene. Your browser does not support HTML5 video. The opinions expressed in the articles published are solely those of their authors. Al-Madar website provides a platform for writers to express their thoughts and offers everyone a space for free expression. Copyright © almadar.co.il 2010-2025 | All Rights Reserved © All rights reserved to Al-Madar, the leading website in the North

مصرع خليل عوض وابنته نادين بعد سقوط صاروخ على منزل في حي دهمش قرب مدينة اللد 12/05/2021 - 08:10:48 am لقي فجر اليوم الاربعاء، الاب خليل عوض وابنته نادين (50 عاما و16 سنوات) متأثرين بجراحهما الخطيرة بعد سقوط صاروخ من غزة على بيت في حي دهمش بين اللد والرملة. وتم نقلهما الى مستشفى اساف هروفيه حيث اعلن عن وفاتهما. وباشرت الطواقم الخاصة بمعالجة المكان. Your browser does not support HTML5 video. المقالات المنشورة تعبر عن رأي كاتبها فقط، وموقع المدار بفسح المجال أمام الكاتب لطرح افكاره االتي كتبت بقلمه ويقدم للجميع مساحة حرة للتعبير Copyright © almadar.co.il 2010-2025 | All Rights Reserved © جميع الحقوق محفوظة لموقع المدار الاول في الشمال

Mr. Khalil Awad, 50 years old, and his daughter Nadine, 16 years old, were killed this morning when a rocket hit their house in the Dahmash neighborhood of Lod.

السيد خليل عوض 50 عاماً، وابنته نادين 16 عاماً ارتقيا فجر اليوم اثر سقوط صاروخ على بيت في حي دهمش باللد

Khalil Awad and his daughter Nadine were killed when a rocket struck their home in the Dahmash neighborhood near Lod. Early Wednesday morning, a father and his daughter (50 and 16 years old) succumbed to their critical injuries after a rocket fired from Gaza struck their home in the Dahmash neighborhood between Lod and Ramla. They were taken to Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, where they were pronounced dead. Emergency medical teams began treating the scene.

مصرع خليل عوض وابنته نادين بعد سقوط صاروخ على منزل في حي دهمش قرب مدينة اللد لقي فجر اليوم الاربعاء، اب وابنته (50 عاما و16 سنوات) متأثرين بجراحهما الخطيرة بعد سقوط صاروخ من غزة على بيت في حي دهمش بين اللد والرملة. وتم نقلهما الى مستشفى اساف هروفيه حيث اعلن عن وفاتهما. وباشرت الطواقم الخاصة بمعالجة المكان.

Al-Majd News Platform - May 12, 2021; Coverage continues. Martyrs, God willing. Khalil Awad and his daughter Nadine Awad killed after a rocket hit their home in the Dahmash neighborhood near Lod. This morning, Wednesday, Khalil Awad (50) and his daughter Nadine (16) succumbed to their serious injuries after a rocket struck their home in the Dahmash neighborhood between Lod and Ramla. They were taken to Assaf Harofeh Hospital, where they were pronounced dead. Al-Majd News from the event.

& منبر اخبار المجد - 12/5/2021 ؛؛؛ التغطية مستمرة، شهداء إن شاء الله، مصرع خليل عوض وابنته نادين عوض بعد سقوط صاروخ على منزل في حي دهمش قرب مدينة اللد & لقي فجر اليوم الاربعاء، الاب خليل عوض (50) عاماً وابنته نادين (16) عام متأثرين بجراحهما الخطيرة، بعد سقوط صاروخ على بيت في حي دهمش بين اللد والرملة، حيث تم نقلهما الى مستشفى اساف هروفيه وأعلن عن وفاتهما. & اخبار المجد من الحدث &

A 35-year-old father and his 7-year-old daughter were killed when a rocket fired from Gaza struck their home in the Dahmash Arab neighborhood of Lod.

اعلان وفاة اب 35 عاما وطفلته 7 سنوات جراء سقوط صاروخ اطلق من غزة واصاب منزل في حي دهمش العربي في مدينة اللد

The village of Dahmesh near Lod was recognized by the Supreme Court about a month ago, after residents have been asking to set up shelters for years. Yesterday, a 52-year-old father and his 16-year-old daughter were killed by a direct hit on their home. Residents say that no social assistance has arrived from the local council so far. "Netanyahu came to Lod to incite against the Arabs, but they don't count us here," they say.

הכפר דהמש ליד לוד הוכר על ידי בית המשפט העליון לפני כחודש, שנים שהתושבים מבקשים להקים מקלטים. אתמול אב בן 52 ובתו בת ה16 נהרגו מפגיעה ישירה בבית. התושבים מספרים כי מהמועצה המקומית לא הגיע כל סיוע סוציאלי עד עתה. "נתניהו בא ללוד להסית נגד הערבים אבל פה לא סופרים אותנו" הם אומרים

Your location on the siteNewsPoliticsBithoniyav and his daughter were killed by a rocket strike in the village of Dhamesh; residents: "We have nowhere to run" "We only have the grace of God," said one of the residents of the unrecognized village south of Lod, where about 600 people live. "We asked for a protected area and there is no approval from the council. The Thai workers built shelters, and we are not allowed to because we are not human beings" Khalil (50) and Nadine (16) Awad, a father and daughter who were killed by a rocket strike in the village of Dhamesh south of Lod, had no way to protect themselves from the gunfire. There is no protected area in the unrecognized village, where about 600 people live. "We have nowhere to go here," Arafat Ismail, a relative of the two, who also lives there, told Haaretz. "We only have the grace of God. There is no shelter here and there is nothing here." On the agenda: Netanyahu: The October 7th Committee will challenge everyone - the political, military and legal echelons. True, this is spin - but don't be surprised when this noose also reaches the streets. After Trump's warning: Paramount submitted a higher offer than Netflix's to acquire WarnerMedia. Suspected attempted carjacking at an ultra-Orthodox demonstration on Route 4: 16-year-old moderately injured. Israel Harel, the Kibbutzim of the Envelopment do not want or need religious Zionism to save them. Articles you may have missed.

מיקומך באתרחדשותמדיני ביטחוניאב ובתו נהרגו מפגיעת רקטה בכפר דהמש; התושבים: "אין לנו לאן לברוח""יש לנו רק את חסדי האל", אמר אחד מתושבי הכפר הלא-מוכר שמדרום ללוד, שבו חיים כ-600 בני אדם. "ביקשנו מרחב מוגן ואין אישור מהמועצה. לפועלים התאילנדים עשו מקלטים, ולנו אסור כי אנחנו לא בני אדם"לחליל (50) ונדין (16) עוואד, אב ובתו שנהרגו מפגיעת רקטה בכפר דהמש שמדרום ללוד, לא היתה דרך להתגונן מהירי. בכפר הלא-מוכר, שבו מתגוררים כ-600 בני אדם, אין אף מרחב מוגן. "אין לנו פה לאן ללכת", סיפר ל"הארץ" ערפאת איסמעיל, קרוב משפחה של השניים, שגר גם הוא במקום. "יש לנו רק את חסדי האל. אין פה מקלט ואין פה כלום". על סדר היוםנתניהו: הוועדה ל-7 באוקטובר תאתגר את כולם - הדרג המדיני, הצבאי והמשפטינכון, מדובר בספין - אבל אל תתפלאו כשחבל התלייה הזה יגיע גם לרחובאחרי אזהרת טראמפ: פרמאונט הגישה הצעה גבוהה מזו של נטפליקס לרכישת וורנרחשד לניסיון דריסה בהפגנת חרדים בכביש 4: בן 16 נפצע בינוניישראל הראל, קיבוצי העוטף לא רוצים ולא צריכים שהציונות הדתית תציל אותםכתבות שאולי פספסתם

Father and daughter killed by rocket fire in an unrecognized village near Lod: "We asked for shelters, we didn't receive permission" Residents of the village of Dahmesh, which has no official status, say that the Planning and Building Committee prevented them from building shelters that could have saved the lives of Khalil and Nadine Awad, who were killed by a rocket strike: "Agricultural workers have shelters, and we don't - because we are not human beings" Khalil Awad, 52, and his 16-year-old daughter Nadine were killed tonight (between Tuesday and Wednesday) by a direct rocket hit in the village of Dahmesh near Lod. Their relatives and residents of the village, which has no official status, say that they had previously asked to build shelters there - but the Central District Planning and Building Committee did not allow this. As a result, the victims had no way to evacuate to a protected area that might have saved their lives. Arafat Ismail, the uncle of the girl who was killed, said that she and her father were killed while they were having breakfast before the start of the Ramadan fast. "There was an alarm and suddenly there was a loud boom and I realized that there was a fall down," he said. "I came running, I live 200 meters from here. The whole neighborhood came to help." According to testimonies from the scene, the girl was in her room inside the house at the time of the shooting - while her father was standing at the entrance to the house. A relative of the family complained about the lack of protection in their area: "We have nowhere to go here, we only have the grace of God. There is no shelter here and there is nothing here, the Thai workers made shelters and we are not allowed because we are not human." A neighbor of the family, Pireus Sha'aban, also expressed anger at the lack of protection in the unfamiliar village. "We heard the first alarm, we looked for shelter - and then there was an indescribable boom. We don't have a protected space here - if there was one, this disaster wouldn't have happened. We asked for shelters and there is no permission from the council." The outer walls of the house that was hit are full of holes from the rocket shrapnel, and two cars in the yard are sooty. On the other side of the house, where the fall occurred, lie several dead sheep that were also hit by gunfire. "The father was a golden man," said Sha'aban. "We are asking for shelters, and there is no permission for that. But the agricultural workers have shelters. Why don't we have them here?" Continue reading

אב ובתו נהרגו מירי רקטות בכפר לא מוכר ליד לוד: "ביקשנו מקלטים, לא קיבלנו אישור"תושבי הכפר דהמש, שאין לו מעמד רשמי, מספרים כי ועדת התכנון והבנייה מנעה מהם לבנות מקלטים שיכלו להציל את חייהם של חליל ונאדין עווד שנהרגו מפגיעת רקטה: "לעובדי החקלאות יש מקלטים, ולנו אין - כי אנחנו לא בני אדם"חליל עווד בן ה-52 ובתו נאדין בת ה-16 נהרגו הלילה (בין שלישי לרביעי) מפגיעה ישירה של רקטה בכפר דהמש שליד לוד. קרובי משפחתם ותושבי הכפר, שאין לו מעמד רשמי, מספרים כי ביקשו בעבר לבנות בו מקלטים - אך ועדת התכנון והבנייה של מחוז מרכז לא אפשרה זאת. כתוצאה מכך, לא היה לקורבנות כל דרך להתפנות למרחב מוגן שייתכן שהיה מציל את חייהם.ערפאת איסמעיל, דודה של הנערה שנהרגה, סיפר כי היא ואביה נהרגו כשהיו בזמן ארוחת הבוקר לפני תחילת צום הרמדאן. "הייתה אזעקה ופתאום היה בום כבד והבנתי שיש נפילה למטה", אמר. "באתי בריצה, אני גר 200 מטר מפה. הגיעו כל השכונה לעזור". לפי עדויות מהמקום, הנערה הייתה בחדרה שבתוך הבית בזמן הירי - ואילו אביה עמד בכניסה לבית. קרוב המשפחה התלונן על היעדר מיגון באזור שלהם: "אין לנו פה לאן ללכת, יש לנו רק את חסדי האל. אין פה מקלט ואין פה כלום, לפועלים התאילנדים עשו מקלטים ולנו אסור כי אנחנו לא בני אדם". שכן של בני המשפחה, פיראוס שעאבן, הביע גם הוא זעם על היעדר המיגון בכפר הלא מוכר. "שמענו את האזעקה הראשונה, חיפשנו מחסה - ואז היה בום שאי אפשר לתאר. אין לנו פה מרחב מוגן - אם היה כזה לא היה קורה האסון הזה. ביקשנו מקלטים ואין אישור מהמועצה".קירותיו החיצוניים של הבית שנפגע מלאים בחורים בעקבות רסיסי הרקטה, ושתי מכוניות בחצר הבית מפויחות. בצידו השני של הבית, היכן שהייתה הנפילה, שוכבות כמה כבשים מתות שנפגעו גם הן בירי. "האבא היה בן אדם זהב", סיפר שעאבן. "אנחנו מבקשים מקלטים, ואין לזה אישור. אבל לעובדי החקלאות יש מקלטים. למה לנו פה אין?".להמשך קריאה

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