Seven killed after Israeli raids in the Gaza Strip, dozens of rockets launched in retaliation

More deaths in the Gaza Strip. The Ministry of Health reported on Wednesday, May 10, four people killed by Israeli strikes. This brings to 22 the number of people who have died in this area since Tuesday.

Two members of Islamic Jihad also died on Wednesday in the occupied West Bank, during an Israeli incursion near Jenin. The Palestinian organization, described as “terrorist” by Israel, the European Union and the United States, confirmed in a statement that the two men killed were members of its armed wing.

Dozens of rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Wednesday, shortly after further Israeli strikes. Rocket warning sirens sounded in the Tel Aviv area, an AFP journalist noted, while others went off in the cities of Sderot, Ashdod and Ashkelon, according to the Israeli army . Emergency services did not report any injuries.

The international community is concerned

This is the most significant escalation between Palestinian armed groups and Israel since August 2022.

Reacting to Israeli strikes, Egyptian diplomacy on Tuesday denounced “attacks” Who “could drive the situation out of control in the occupied Palestinian territories”. The United States, for its part, called “all parties to de-escalation” and the UN envoy for the Middle East, Tor Wennesland, judged “unacceptable” the death of civilians in the Gaza Strip, under Israeli blockade since the takeover of the Islamist Hamas in 2007.

Since the beginning of 2023, at least 129 Palestinians, 19 Israelis, a Ukrainian and an Italian have been killed in violence linked to the conflict between the two states, according to an AFP count compiled from official Israeli sources and Palestinians.