Missile firing between Israel and Gaza continues

The Asociated Press has published a video showing the trajectories of rockets fired at night in the Gaza Strip. Many of them were intercepted by Israel’s air defense system, but some of the shavings still reached the country’s territory. So far, 12 people have been killed in Israel, and yesterday a rocket in the south of the country also killed two Thai workers.

Israeli aviation continues to strike at Palestinian militant positions, but more information on the progress of the operation in recent hours has not yet been made public. Gaza’s health ministry says human casualties are widespread, with a total of 213 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes, including 61 children and 36 women, and more than 1,400 injured.

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Israel and the Palestinian Territories are currently experiencing the sharpest clashes since 2014. Palestinian Hamas continues to fire rockets at Israeli cities, while Israeli forces respond with deadly blows in Palestinian territory. Both sides blame each other for exacerbating the conflict. UN representatives worriedthat a new war could break out in the region. But this conflict is just a page in an ancient and bloody battle.

The state of Israel was founded in 1948 as the world tried to recover from the devastation of World War II. However, the new Jewish state was established in an area that the Arabs also considered their own. They still have not come to terms with the consolidation of the Jews in this place.

In the war of 1948 the coalition of arab states tried to destroy the newborn state of israel, but was defeated, and Israel began to expand beyond the territory allotted to the Jews according to the plan proposed by the United Nations. Israel’s expansion continued after the Six-Day War in 1967, when Israel defeated Arab forces again and occupied the Palestinian territory. The Palestinians are outraged that, after the 1967 war, Israel expropriated even more of their land and began building Jewish colonial settlements.

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