Rockets are launched from Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip towards Israel. The escalation of violence between the Gaza Strip and Israel has continued on Wednesday for a third day with 53 Palestinians killed in Gaza by the Israeli air raids and 6 Israelis killed by the rockets fired from Gaza. The confrontation follows intense Israeli-Palestinian tensions in East Jerusalem since the start of Ramadan and which culminated in Israeli police raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Palestinian factions began firing rockets on Monday after Hamas’ warnings to Israel to withdraw from the site; the rocke

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Rockets are launched from Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip towards Israel. The escalation of violence between the Gaza Strip and Israel has continued on Wednesday for a third day with 53 Palestinians killed in Gaza by the Israeli air raids and 6 Israelis killed by the rockets fired from Gaza. The confrontation follows intense Israeli-Palestinian tensions in East Jerusalem since the start of Ramadan and which culminated in Israeli police raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Palestinian factions began firing rockets on Monday after Hamas’ warnings to Israel to withdraw from the site; the rocket attacks were then followed by retaliatory air strikes on the Gaza Strip

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