Israel’s warplanes have launched new airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip amid escalating tensions in the region over the US President Donald Trump’s so-called deal of the century on Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Media sources in Palestine said the airstrikes on Tuesday targeted a position belonging to the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement in the city of Rafah, south of the coastal enclave. The warplanes also fired five missiles at Hamas positions in ...
![Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/185638747.jpg?itok=d-v4jM2J "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas [Getty Images]")
![A Palestinian man sits on the roof of his house in a flooded area of Gaza city on December 15, 2013 following heavy rain. A fierce winter storm shut down much of the Middle East the past days. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/PALESTINE/000_Nic6275356.jpg?itok=NGXYVRsy "A Palestinian man sits on the roof of his house in a flooded area of Gaza city on December 15, 2013 following heavy rain. A fierce winter storm shut down much of the Middle East the past days. [AFP]")
![Palestinian civil defense volunteers help people to travel across flood waters in Gaza City following rain storms for the past few days, on December 14, 2013. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iran/456506759.jpg?itok=Ny8ADHUc "Palestinian civil defense volunteers help people to travel across flood waters in Gaza City following rain storms for the past few days, on December 14, 2013. [Getty Images]")
