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Gaza death toll rises to 139, including some 40 children

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TBS Report
15 May, 2021, 01:55 pm
Last modified: 15 May, 2021, 04:03 pm

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Gaza death toll rises to 139, including some 40 children

In the early hours of Saturday, rescue workers were still trying to pull bodies from under the rubble as more people are believed to be dead

TBS Report
15 May, 2021, 01:55 pm
Last modified: 15 May, 2021, 04:03 pm
FILE PHOTO: A rocket is fired towards Israel, in the southern Gaza Strip February 24, 2020. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
FILE PHOTO: A rocket is fired towards Israel, in the southern Gaza Strip February 24, 2020. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip continued for a fifth consecutive day, with Israeli air raids hitting a refugee camp where at least 10 Palestinians, including eight children, were killed.

In the early hours of Saturday, rescue workers were still trying to pull bodies from under the rubble as more people are believed to be dead, reports the Al Jazeera.

Hamas, the group that controls the besieged enclave, responded to the latest attack by firing a barrage of rockets towards the southern Israeli towns of Askhelon and Ashdod. No casualties were reported.

At least 139 Palestinians, including some 40 children, have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Monday. Some 950 others have been wounded. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have killed at least 13 Palestinians protesting against continued Israeli occupation and the ongoing bombardment of Gaza.

Confrontations between Israeli police and Palestinian demonstrators continued into the night in occupied East Jerusalem.

At least eight people in Israel have also been killed. The Israeli army said hundreds of rockets have been fired from Gaza towards various locations in Israel and they have added reinforcements near the enclave's eastern lands.

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