Israel destroyed another of the tallest buildings in Gaza: video

The Israeli military in response to shelling by Hamas with two airstrikes destroyed the third high-rise building in the Gaza Strip – the 14-story Al Shoruk building, where the office of the Hamas Al-Aqsa TV channel was located. This is reported by AP.

The building was located in the old Roman district, on the busiest shopping street in Gaza City.

Hamas said it fired 130 rockets at Israel in response to the attack.

Ukrainian journalist Andriy Tsaplienko said that he knows the building well, “because it houses the offices of leading local and foreign media outlets.”

“The IDF warned Al Shoruk’s guards that the building would be destroyed, and struck several strikes as a warning. That is, they gave time for their Al Shoruk to get people out. Such preemptive strikes in Gaza are called” knock knock on the ceiling. ” , they are delivered by rockets without warheads. And then they are bombed for real, “he wrote.

Whether anyone was injured as a result of the shelling is still unknown.

Tsaplienko posted a video that “a doctor who lives next to Al Shoruk” sent him.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza reports that since the beginning of the conflict, more than 300 people have been injured there, 53 people have been killed, writes the BBC. In Israel, according to the agency, six people were killed in missile strikes.

• Fighting between Israel and Hamas began after days of escalation between Palestinians and Israeli police on a sacred hill in East Jerusalem. The conflict erupted over Israel’s plans to evict several Palestinian families from East Jerusalem.
• On May 10, in the evening, Hamas fighters fired over 400 rockets at Israel, killing two Israelis.
• The Israeli military said it attacked 130 “terrorist targets” in Gaza overnight, killing at least 16 militants.
• On the morning of May 12, Israel launched hundreds of airstrikes on Gaza after massive shelling of Tel Aviv and Beersheba.