Tensions in Gaza: at least eight Palestinians and three Israelis killed by bombings

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the armed forces to continue their "mbadive attacks" against Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets in the Gaza Strip, in an escalation that left eight Palestinians and three Israelis died in just over 24 hours.

"I asked the army to continue its mbadive attacks against terrorist elements of the Gaza Strip and to reinforce the forces surrounding it, with tanks, artillery and artillery. troops, "said Netanyahu at the beginning of the weekly council of ministers.

Following Netanyahu's announcement, two Palestinians were killed in the eastern Gaza Strip, victims of an Israeli attack, according to Palestinian sources.

Shortly after, Israeli police announced the death of two people in the Israeli city of Ashkalon, who were victims of a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip.

Since the start of the clashes, the Gazette authorities have announced the death of eight Palestinians, including a mother and her young daughter, but the Israelis accused Hamas of both deaths.

Gaza's health minister announced Saturday that 37-year-old Palestinian Abu Arar and her 14-month-old daughter were killed in an Israeli bombing.

"His unfortunate death was not caused by (Israeli) weapons, but by a Hamas rocket that exploded where it should not," Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus told reporters. .

In addition, Moshe Agadi, a 58-year-old Israeli, died early Sunday in Ashkelon, while a rocket fired from the nearby Palestinian enclave hit his home, according to Israeli media reports.

Saturday's 250 Palestinian rockets are the biggest attack on Israel in a single day in recent years. The Israeli army said its tanks and planes had reached some 220 military targets in Gaza.

Palestinians fired shells at locations in southern and central Israel. Dozens of people have been intercepted by missile defense, the Israeli armed forces said, much of which has hit uninhabited areas, the police said.

Turkey, for its part, spoke of "boundless aggression" after the Israeli attack on a multi – storey building in Gaza that, according to locals and Ankara, housed the office of the president. Turkish official news agency Anadolu.

According to Anadolu, the agency staff evacuated the building shortly before the attack that had been preceded by a warning. In this context, Israel has announced the closure of border crossing points in Gaza and the closure of fishing on the shores of the enclave.