UN warns of “full-scale war” as Israel-Palestinian violence intensifies - BBC News

May 14, 2021

The UN has expressed fears of a

full

scale

war as the deadly conflict between Israeli forces and Palestinians continues for a third day. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Palestinian militants that this was just the beginning and threatened to deal blows they had not even dreamed of. Tonight President Biden said that he had spoken with Mr Netanyahu and said that he hoped the

violence

would end sooner rather than later. At least 65 Palestinians, including 15 children and six Israelis, have reportedly been killed since Monday. In recent days, Palestinian militants have fired a massive barrage of rockets toward Israel, including over Tel Aviv, and Israel has carried out a intense bombardment of gaza launching hundreds of airstrikes tensions have been growing in jerusalem partly fueled by a long-standing threat to evict

palestinian

s from their homes in east jerusalem everything came to a head on friday at the mosque of al- aqsa the place where it is located is highly sensitive and sacred for both Muslims and Jews the Israeli police used cs gas and stun grenades in the mosque and young Palestinians threw stones at them here is our correspondent in the Middle East, tom bateman the the world wonders yes the region is on the brink of war the people working on this feel it is already here the

palestinian

s in gaza face the fiercest

israel

i bombardment since the last total conflict

israel

says it is going after militant leaders some were killed in their homes but they died civilians in this attack, say palestinian health officials in gaza, a territory under blockade, grief quickly turns to anger, dozens have died here since

violence

broke out on monday and they are still counting their dead.

The rocket fire from gaza has continued deep into israel and the sirens are coming non-stop in nearby cities we heard airstrikes hit the gaza strip just a couple of miles away over the course of this morning into the afternoon more retaliation more fire from gaza under fire asha and her son ran to safety, but their neighbor An 89-year-old woman did not survive she is seriously injured her carer died in the strike says there are growing international calls for restraint but for now it seems that No one here is listening It is the intensity of these attacks that has led both sides to say they will intensify their attacks in retaliation A descent into much more violence seems inevitable More rockets will be shot down in the skies over Israel tonight in a mixed Arab city jews i saw how fear and chaos is spreading violence between jews and arabs inside israel is spiraling here jewish extremists attack an ambulance then check a car to see if there are any arabs or jews inside along the coast a popular Arab restaurant is attacked in another mixed city a Jewish man is beaten by Israeli Arabs a synagogue has also been burned down Israel's leader calls it anarchy a wave of anger that began in Jerusalem has spread to the occupied territories and to Israel itself country is embroiled in multiple flashpoints of tension it may be too late to contain it now that a curfew is being imposed in one of those cities appears to be largely ineffective tonight and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said that is now considering sending army troops to some of those areas that are experiencing those types of confrontations in terms of the broader military conflict, as you were saying, sophie, the president of the United States, joe biden, says that his expectations and The hope is that This will end sooner rather than later and at the same time he says he believes Israel has the right to defend itself, but with more airstrikes hitting the Gaza Strip in the last few hours and more rocket fire in that time, that certainly seems from this perspective a A far cry from our Middle East correspondent, Tom Batman, in Jerusalem.

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Thank you. Well, let's talk to Rushdie Abu Alof, who is in Gaza City and what the situation is there tonight. The sound of bombs and airstrikes continues shortly after midnight. Here in Gaza, it has been the longest day. of fighting for years, israel attacked hundreds of targets and hamas, the militant group fired hundreds of rockets. This situation is leaving this burning in a very, very bleak picture, people are suffering from the sound of sounds, the sound of pumping a It is a very angry and shocking mood to see the

scale

of destruction around the Strip of Gaza after a very long day and night of fighting and it does not seem that the night is over yet.

In the last five minutes, Israeli planes have targeted a place where Ghanaians are also talking about victims there and the latest figure from the Ministry of Health speaks of more than 60 people dead, half of them are civilians, thank you very much, well it's the worst violence in the region in seven years tensions have been rising in jerusalem during the holy month of ramadan our correspondent caroline hawley looks at what has sparked this deadly confrontation the conflict between israelis and palestinians hasn't made the headlines in recent years but it has been a powder keg waiting to set off the spark jerusalem a city of sacred sites and simmering tensions are at the heart of the conflict and now with depressing familiarity it has ignited violence once again so what lies behind the The latest escalation of Palestinian anger has been rising for weeks: there have been clashes over a threat to evict dozens of families from their homes in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem in favor of Jewish settlers.

There have also been problems between Israeli police and Palestinians. Angered by the restrictions imposed on them, they gathered at the entrance to the old city at dusk and then, on the last weekend of Ramadan, clashes broke out at the al-Aqsa mosque, where Israeli security forces said Palestinians They had been throwing stones on Monday. Israel accused worshipers of preparing to attack a planned march by Israeli hardliners and troops stormed the holy site. Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, now presents itself as the protector of Jerusalem, the defender of the Muslim faithful. It's called their Jerusalem sword rocket launch operation so why does Jerusalem matter so much?

The importance of Jerusalem is perhaps the only thing the two sides can really agree on. It has both religious and national significance. Israelis see it as eternal and undivided, while Palestinians want it, or at least its eastern part, as capital of their future state, but this latest escalation has gone far beyond Jerusalem and has revived memories of the war in Gaza in 2014, which left more than 2,000 Palestinians and dozens of Israelis dead. It was the last time there was an explosion of violence on this scale, so the international response was one of growing alarm. The UN secretary general said peace talks were the only way forward and should be revived.

Boris Johnson and the Americans urged the Israelis. and palestinians to move away from the abyss we believe that palestinians and israelis equally deserve to live in security and we will continue to work with palestinians israelis and other regional partners to urge a reduction in tensions and bring khan, but for now none of the sides show the slightest sign of backing down and as is often the case it is the civilians on both sides who pay the price caroline hawley bbc