More than 1,000 rockets have now been fired by Palestinian militants, Israel says. Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes, destroying two towers in Gaza on Tuesday and Wednesday.
As now 53 Palestinian and six Israelis have been killed since Monday.
That includes 14 Palestinian children caught up in the conflict between the two countries.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was “gravely concerned” by the ongoing violence.
Violent occurs in towns in Israel with mixed Jewish and Arab population has led to hundred of arrests. Lod near Aviv is under a state of emergency.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Government would use all its strength to protect Israel from enemies on the outside and Rioters in the inside.
What had caused the Violence between them?
The fighting between Israel and Hamas was triggered on day of increasing clashes between Palestinian and Israelis police at a hilltop compound in East Jerusalem.
The site is taken by both Muslim, who call it the Haran al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) and Jews for whom it is known as the Temple Mount. Hamas demanded to remove police from there and the nearby areas of Arab District of ShiekhJarrah, where Palestinian families faced eviction by Jewish settlers. Hamas launched rockets when its ultimatum is disagreed.
Palestinian anger had already been fir3d by two weeks of rising tension in East Jerusalem, inflamed by a series of confrontation with police since the start of Islamic holy month of Ramadan in mid-April.
It was further fired by the threaten eviction of the Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers and Israel’s annual celebration of its capture of East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle east war, Known as Jerusalem day.
The fate of the city, with its deep religious and national significance to both sides, lies at the heart of the decade – old Israel’s – Palestinian conflict. Israel in effect Conquer East Jerusalem in 1980and consider the entire city its capital, though this is not recognized by the vast majority of the other countries.
Palestinian claims the eastern half of Jerusalem as the capital of hoped-for state of their own.
