More than 20 dead as violence flares between Gaza and Israel
2019-05-06 09:45:51 source：The Guardian
May 5, 2019
Militants in Gaza and Israeli forces engaged in a bloody and spiralling clash over the weekend, with Palestinian factions launching hundreds of rockets towards towns and cities in Israel, which retaliated with more than 250 strikes.
In exchanges that marked some of the worst fighting in recent years, 19 Palestinians, including two pregnant women and a toddler, have been killed since hostilities began on Friday, the health ministry in Gaza said. The dead included at least eight militants and a Hamas commander killed in the first targeted assassination Israel has conducted in the strip for years.
Four Israelis were reported as killed by rockets, the highest death toll on the Israeli side since the 50-day war in 2014.
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