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Rockets hit Beersheba, Ashdod in latest salvo; 200 projectiles fired overnight

Gaza medics say family of 10 killed in Israeli airstrike on western Gaza, as military says it hit dozens of terror targets in Strip overnight

A long exposure picture shows an interception by the Iron Dome anti-missile system over the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, May 14, 2021. (Avi Roccah/Flash90)

Rockets batter southern Israel; 10 Gazans, including kids, killed in IAF strikes

Projectiles fired from Gaza hit Ashdod apartment building, port; military targets terror sites across Palestinian enclave

Black smoke billows after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City targeted the Intaj Bank linked to Hamas on May 14, 2021. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Israel and Hamas likely to reach ceasefire in coming days — diplomat

A view into the Temple Mount compound amid clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces, May 10, 2021 (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)

IDF: Hamas chiefs spurred to launch war after seeing Monday Temple Mount clashes

By Judah Ari Gross

Smoke billows above buildings after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City in the Gaza Strip early on May 15, 2021. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Live updates (closed)Rockets rain on south; Hamas says kids among 7 killed in Israeli strike

By Jacob Magid and TOI staff

Rockets from Gaza, on right, are seen in the night sky fired towards Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 14, 2021, while Iron Dome interceptor missiles, on left, rise to meet them. (Anas Baba/AFP)

Photo EssayDeadly duel: Photos capture battle between Iron Dome and Hamas rockets

A 12-year-old boy and his 10-year-old sister were injured late Friday, May 14, 2021, after their home in Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood was firebombed by unknown assailants. Police have launched an investigation. (Screenshot/Twitter)

2 Arab kids hurt in firebombing of Jaffa home; riots spread across Israel

By TOI staff and Agencies

Violence between Arab and Jewish communities across the country flare; protesters clash with police in northern towns, East Jerusalem

Israeli police seen on the streets of the central Israeli city of Lod, where synagogues and cars were torched as well as shops damaged, as Arab residents rioted in the city on May 12, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Shin Bet aiding attempt to clamp down on Jewish-Arab ‘terror’ wracking cities

Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai (L) and MK Itamar Ben Gvir (R). (Flash90)

Police chief said to blame far-right lawmaker Ben Gvir for ‘internal intifada’

Israeli special forces gather in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Lod on May 13, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Soldier viciously beaten in Jaffa, synagogue burned in Lod, as rioting deepens

LiveUpdated 23sec ago

Rockets hit Beersheba, Ashdod in latest salvo; 200 projectiles fired overnight

Gaza medics say family of 10 killed in Israeli airstrike on western Gaza, as military says it hit dozens of terror targets in Strip overnight

A long exposure picture shows an interception by the Iron Dome anti-missile system over the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, May 14, 2021. (Avi Roccah/Flash90)

Rockets batter southern Israel; 10 Gazans, including kids, killed in IAF strikes

Projectiles fired from Gaza hit Ashdod apartment building, port; military targets terror sites across Palestinian enclave

Israel and Hamas likely to reach ceasefire in coming days — diplomat

IDF: Hamas chiefs spurred to launch war after seeing Monday Temple Mount clashes

By Judah Ari Gross

Live updates (closed)Rockets rain on south; Hamas says kids among 7 killed in Israeli strike

By Jacob Magid and TOI staff

Photo EssayDeadly duel: Photos capture battle between Iron Dome and Hamas rockets

A 12-year-old boy and his 10-year-old sister were injured late Friday, May 14, 2021, after their home in Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood was firebombed by unknown assailants. Police have launched an investigation. (Screenshot/Twitter)

2 Arab kids hurt in firebombing of Jaffa home; riots spread across Israel

By TOI staff and Agencies

Violence between Arab and Jewish communities across the country flare; protesters clash with police in northern towns, East Jerusalem

Israeli police seen on the streets of the central Israeli city of Lod, where synagogues and cars were torched as well as shops damaged, as Arab residents rioted in the city on May 12, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Shin Bet aiding attempt to clamp down on Jewish-Arab ‘terror’ wracking cities

Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai (L) and MK Itamar Ben Gvir (R). (Flash90)

Police chief said to blame far-right lawmaker Ben Gvir for ‘internal intifada’

Israeli special forces gather in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Lod on May 13, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Soldier viciously beaten in Jaffa, synagogue burned in Lod, as rioting deepens

Netanyahu vows unrelenting response to Hamas; Arab-Jewish violence spreads

Fresh rocket barrage hits southern Israel; Acre theater set alight; 2 Arab kids hurt after home firebombed in Jaffa; riots break out in northern Israel

Smoke billows above buildings after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City in the Gaza Strip early on May 15, 2021. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Israeli airstrike on Gaza house said to kill family of 10, mostly kids

By TOI staff and AP

Israeli soldiers stand guard after firing flares above the northern town of Metulla, by the border with Lebanon, following a pro-Palestinian protest across the border in the Lebanese Khiam area, on May 14, 2021 (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

3 rockets shot at Israel from Syria after Hezbollah man killed in border fracas

Lebanese protesters demonstrate along their border with Israel on May 14, 2021. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Lebanese man killed as protesters rush Israeli border fences

A Palestinian demonstrator throws a burning tire onto a pile during clashes with Israeli forces near the Jewish settlement of Beit El near Ramallah in the West Bank on May 14, 2021. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

At least nine Palestinians reported killed as violence spreads to West Bank

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinians report 500 injured in clashes, including by live fire; IDF says 3,000 participate in violent riots that involve stone-throwing, Molotov cocktails

AnalysisWith Israel and Gaza already beset by chaos, West Bank ‘explosion’ looms

By Aaron Boxerman

Soldiers stand by the scene of the suspected car-ramming and stabbing attack near a military post near Ofra in the West Bank on May 14, 2021. (Courtesy / Ofra Youth)

IDF says stabbing attack thwarted in West Bank; Palestinian assailant killed

By Emanuel Fabian

Smoke billows after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City targeted the Ansar compound, linked to the Hamas movement, in the Gaza Strip on May 14, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Report: Heavy bombing of Hamas ‘metro’ destroyed miles of tunnels, killed dozens

By TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross

Air force officer: Operations such as this likely ‘make the enemy want to stop… but we will continue to act for as long as necessary’

An explosion lights the sky following an Israeli air strike on Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 14, 2021. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

IDF: Overnight bombardment targeted Hamas’s tunnel network under Gaza City

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli soldiers at a staging area near the Israeli border with Gaza, amid the escalation of Palestinian and Israeli violence. May 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

With invasion that wasn’t, IDF suspected of duping foreign press to trick Hamas

By Judah Ari Gross

An explosion lights the sky following an Israeli air strike on Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip early on May 14, 2021. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Israeli air, ground forces bombard northern Gaza in heaviest strike yet

By Judah Ari Gross

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