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 ...
![Israel-Palestine director for Human Rights Watch, Omar Shakir [Twitter]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Palestine_2017/OmarShakirHRW.jpg?itok=xZVj1zDO "Israel-Palestine director for Human Rights Watch, Omar Shakir [Twitter]")
![The last three Israeli operations – Operation Protective Edge, Operation Pillar of Defense and Operation Cast Lead – have led to the destruction of over 80,000 structures in Gaza. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Palestine_2017/Gaza_destruction.jpg?itok=hcNzVqxw "The last three Israeli operations – Operation Protective Edge, Operation Pillar of Defense and Operation Cast Lead – have led to the destruction of over 80,000 structures in Gaza. [AFP]")
