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Dozens of homes destroyed in renewed Israeli attacks on Gaza

Tuesday 18-May-2021

Dozens of Israeli airstrikes at dawn Tuesday pounded different areas of the Gaza Strip destroying more houses apartments residential buildings swaths of cultivated land and civilian facilities.

According to local sources the Israeli occupation army waged over 50 aerial attacks on Gaza City and the northern cities of Beit Lahia and Jabalia causing widespread destruction.

Later in the morning another airstrike reduced a six-story apartment building to rubble in al-Rimal neighborhood in the west of Gaza City.

Local sources said that several air-to-surface missiles hit the building which is located near UNRWA schools and the Islamic University.

There was no immediate information about casualties in the aerial attack.

At least 212 Palestinians including 61 children and 36 women have been killed in Gaza since Israel started its aggression. About 1500 others have also been wounded many seriously.

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