GAZA: Israeli Attack on Gaza has claimed more lives and there is no peace in sight. Diplomatic efforts so far have failed to yield any results. “Israel’s near-relentless bombing campaign has killed 217 Palestinians, including 63 children, and wounded more than 1,400 people in just over a week in the Hamas-run enclave,” This was the statement issued by Gaza´s health ministry yesterday.

Heavy airstrikes from Israeli air force have claimed more lives on Tuesday as IAF carried out fresh round of intensive bombing in Northern Gaza. After the fresh round of violence, the tensions flared in Palestinian “day of anger” protests in Jerusalem and the West Bank and Israeli authorities are finding it difficult to curtail the situation.

Amid global calls for a ceasefire intensified, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel would continue its onslaught on the coastal enclave of Gaza “as long as necessary,”. His statement came just after a UN Security Council meeting broke up after less than an hour without issuing a statement.

Israeli forces and protesters meanwhile clashed at multiple flash points across the occupied West Bank and in east Jerusalem, hospitalizing scores, as Palestinians rallied in solidarity with their besieged Gazan counterparts. Dozens were treated for wounds caused by live bullets, medics said.

The violence committed by Israel has also received reaction from Hamas this time as the death toll on the Israeli side rose to 12 when a volley of rockets Hamas fired at the southern Eshkol region killed two Thai nationals working in a factory and wounded several others, according to the Israeli police said.

Israeli strikes that again sent fireballs, debris and black smoke into the sky have left two million Palestinians in Gaza desperate for reprieve.

“They destroyed our house but I don´t know why they targeted us,” said Nazmi al-Dahdouh, 70, of Gaza City who remained shocked by what he called “a terrifying, violent night”.

The humanitarian crisis deepened in the impoverished strip, from where Hamas has launched nearly 3,500 rockets at Israel since May 10, often forcing people living near Gaza into bomb shelters around the clock.

But a convoy of international aid trucks that started rolling into Gaza through a border crossing from Israel, Kerem Shalom, was halted when Israel quickly shuttered it again, citing a mortar attack on the area.

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