The Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip reports today, May 13, that as a result of ongoing Israeli strikes in the Palestinian enclave, 83 people were killed, including 17 children and eight women. 487 people were injured in various degrees of severity.
The Israeli side has also suffered casualties from the incessant rocket launches and mortar attacks from Gaza. Omer Tabib, a 21-year-old IDF sergeant, was killed and two other soldiers were wounded, along with an Israeli civilian, after Hamas militants fired an anti-tank guided missile at their Jeep north of the Gaza Strip last Wednesday.
Earlier on Thursday, the Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported that an Israeli air strike in Gaza destroyed a building where the office of a Turkish charity organization was located.
According to the IDF, since the evening of Monday, May 10, more than 600 strikes have been carried out on Gaza, most of them by air, while Hamas and other groups operating in the enclave have fired more than 1,600 rockets and other projectiles towards Israel, most of which were intercepted and destroyed by the Iron Dome tactical anti-missile system.
Eadaily recalls that street clashes between the Arab population in East Jerusalem, with the epicenter in the area of the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, and the Israeli police in recent days have rapidly escalated into an armed conflict between the Jewish state and the Palestinian groups controlling the Gaza Strip. This was followed by an ongoing exchange of blows, which killed dozens of people and injured hundreds.
