![]() ![]() After two days of Arab rioting and please for Arab leaders to call for calm, Wednesday saw Jewish residents instigating much of the fighting. Meanwhile, Israel was also dealing with unrest in several Arab and mixed Jewish-Arab neighborhoods. ![]() This morning, an anti-tank missile launched from northern Gaza hit an Israeli army vehicle, killing one of the occupants, Staff Sgt. ![]() Unclear was who died in a direct hit on an Ashkelon apartment where a woman and her aide, a foreign worker, were at the time. In Rishon Letzion, Leah Yom Tov was killed in her home from a rocket attack. Yesterday four Israelis were killed including an Arab-Israeli girl, 16-year-old Nadine Awad, and her father Khalil, whose car was hit directly by a rocket near Lod. dispatched the deputy assistant secretary for Israeli-Palestinian affairs Hady Amr to the region to help deescalate tensions. Secretary of State Antony Blinken who reiterated Israel's right to defend itself, according to the Prime Minister's Media Advisor. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with U.S. Throughout the day, the Israel Defense Forces carried out several “significant attacks,” taking out senior Hamas commanders and infrastructure, Gantz said. IDF Artillery Corps seen firing into Gaza, near the Israeli border with Gaza on May 12, 2021, following heavy rocket and missile barrage fired into Israel by militants in Gaza. So far, six Israelis have been killed and Palestinians say that more than 40 Palestinian have been killed in Gaza and nearly 300 injured in a massive Israeli bombing campaign. The family was in their bomb shelter in their apartment building, but in a rare occurrence, shrapnel from the rocket pierced the wall of the room and injured the family, according to a report on Channel 12. Three more people – including a 6-year-old in critical condition – were injured in a direct impact to a building in Sderot. Meanwhile, Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza renewed rocket attacks on southern Israel this evening. And an Arab driver in Bat Yam was pulled from his car and beaten by a Jewish mob chanting "death to Arabs." The man is in critical condition. A Jewish man in Akko was rushed to the hospital in critical condition after he was hit in the head with a rock. This as cities across Israel were burning from violent clashes between Jews and Arabs on Wednesday night creating a sense of anarchy with barely enough police protection to go around. Hamas has launched 1,200 rockets in 48 hours from the Gaza Strip and shows little sign of letting up as we enter the third night of Israel under fire. ![]()
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