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 ...
![A Palestinian girl takes a photo of masked militants of Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, using her mobile phone as they parade in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, on November 14, 2013, during an anti-Israel march as part of the celebrations marking the first anniversary of Israel's Operation 'Pillar of Defence'. [MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/187969753.jpg?itok=7kGoKqP5 "A Palestinian girl takes a photo of masked militants of Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, using her mobile phone as they parade in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, on November 14, 2013, during an anti-Israel march as part of the celebrations marking the first anniversary of Israel's Operation 'Pillar of Defence'. [MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images]")
![Masked fighters from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing 'Saraya Al-Quds' or 'Jerusalem Brigades' take part in a military parade in the streets of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on October 28, 2010 [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/108636514.jpg?itok=8VrnQjDe "Masked fighters from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing 'Saraya Al-Quds' or 'Jerusalem Brigades' take part in a military parade in the streets of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on October 28, 2010 [Getty Images]")
![US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with journalists from Israel's Channel 2 and the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation on November 6, 2013. [US State Department/Twitter]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/intifada.jpg?itok=lpBl6JRc "US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with journalists from Israel's Channel 2 and the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation on November 6, 2013. [US State Department/Twitter]")
![View of the Gaza Strip's sole power plant in Nusairat, on March 26, 2012 [AFP/File, Mohammed Abed]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/gaza.jpg?itok=c_F-Lpya "View of the Gaza Strip's sole power plant in Nusairat, on March 26, 2012 [AFP/File, Mohammed Abed]")
![A Palestinian militant of the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigade. [MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/157855044.jpg?itok=Mk0q-kQG "A Palestinian militant of the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigade. [MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images]")
