Gaza Strip: clash between Israelis and Palestinians leaves 50 dead

Clashes between Palestinian terrorist groups, which fired more than 1,000 rockets into Israeli territory, and Israel, which is intensively bombing the Gaza Strip, left at least 50 dead, raising fears of the start of a “large-scale war.” Israel woke up on Wednesday to considerable damage not seen since the 2014 Gaza war, with houses, cars and oil facilities vandalized. A violence that may involve “possible crimes” and that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced that it wants to investigate. The Israeli air strikes, the most intense since 2014, are according to the army a response to the “more than 1,000 rockets” launched by various armed groups from the Gaza Strip to Israel since Monday night. So far the clashes have left at least 43 dead in Gaza, including 13 children, in addition to two Palestinians killed in the West Bank and five Israelis. About 850 Rockets fell on Israel or were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system, another 250 crashed in the Gaza Strip, said Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus. Hamas fired a rocket salvo Monday night as a gesture. of “solidarity” with the more than 700 Palestinians injured in recent clashes with Israeli police on the Esplanade of the Mosques, the third holiest site in Islam, located in Jerusalem n East, annexed by Israel in 1967. Faced with escalation, the international community called for calm, but the two sides have so far shown no signs of appeasement. “Full-scale war” Israel and Hamas are heading towards a “Full-scale warfare,” UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland warned on Tuesday.”A war in Gaza would be devastating and people would pay the price” in this small Palestinian enclave, where two million people live, and which already suffers from poverty and an unemployment rate of around 50%, said the diplomat. On Tuesday night, Israeli aviation blew up a 12-story building in which senior Hamas officials had their offices and then another nine-story building, which contained a local television channel, homes and shops. The army said that The target was Hamas’s “military intelligence chief” Hasan Kaogi and the armed Islamist movement’s “counterintelligence director” Wael Isa. After the night attacks, Hamas launched a new barrage of rockets, again at Tel. Aviv, but also “to many more targets.” “There are still many targets in our sights. This is just the beginning, “warned Defense Minister Benny Gantz, who was chief of the army during the last conflict in Gaza in 2014. For his part, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured that Hamas” will be beaten in a way that not expected. ”“ If [Israel] wants an escalation, we are prepared, ”Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said, calling on security forces to withdraw from the East Jerusalem Mosque Esplanade, a scene in the last days of clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters that left more than 700 injured.