Tel Aviv [Israel], May 12: Israel kills another senior military commander in Gaza while Palestinian cross-border rocket attacks cause Israel's first loss of life.Amid Egypt's efforts at reconciliation, neither side seems willing to stand still in the worst outbreak of violence between Israel and the Palestinians since August 2022. Fighting entered its third day on May 11, killing at least 30 people in Gaza, including women and children, according to Reuters."We are at the culmination of a campaign, both offensively and defensively... Whoever comes to harm us will bleed," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video released during his visit. an air base.The Israeli military killed Ali Ghali, commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) rocket force, and his deputy, Ahmed Abu Daqqa, in air strikes on Gaza on May 11. With this development, the total number of high-ranking figures of the PIJ has increased to 5 since Israel began attacking Gaza in the early morning of 9/5.PIJ, the second largest armed group in Gaza after Hamas and sponsored by Iran, continued to fire rockets towards Israel. "We will not retreat and those assassinations will only make us stronger. Our revenge continues," the PIJ said in a statement.Hundreds of rockets were launched that triggered sirens as far north of Israel as Tel Aviv. About 1.5 million Israelis - 16% of the population - have been ordered to shelter, according to Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari.The Israeli military said that although interceptors such as Iron Dome and David's Sling destroyed 96% of rockets, one of which hit a residential building in Rehovot on May 11. An elderly man was killed, the first in Israel in the latest fighting, and five others were injured, according to medics.After more than a year of violence between Israel and Palestine has flared up again, killing more than 140 Palestinians and at least 19 Israelis and foreigners since January 2022, the latest escalation has caused concern in the community. international copper. Cairo, which is acting as a mediator, is cautious about the prospects of negotiations."Egypt's efforts to de-escalate the situation and resume the political process have not yet yielded results," Foreign Minister SamehShoukry told reporters on Monday.Meeting his Jordanian, French and German counterparts in Berlin, Mr Shoukry called for "peace-guarantor countries to intervene and prevent attacks" and said Israel must "put an end to unilateral measures aimed at disrupting destroy the future of the state of Palestine".Israel seems to be hoping that the PIJ, with its dwindling rocket arsenal and the deaths of its commanders, will unilaterally end the fighting. The PIJ's position is not to co-exist with Israel, and under the terms of a ceasefire, they want Israel to stop its attacks on its leadership.Israel occupied Gaza and the West Bank, areas that Palestinians consider its legitimate territory and wanted to establish an independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital, during the 1967 war. Israeli civilians withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Negotiations on the creation of a Palestinian state have been frozen since 2014.Source: ThanhNien Newspaper
