The death toll in Gaza is rising as Israel’s top Hamas authorities New conflicts

The death toll in Gaza has risen in the worst rise in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as Israel killed several high-ranking Hamas military officials and destroyed three multi-storey towers as it crushed the Gaza Saw with airstrikes.

Piles of gray smoke rose in Gaza on Wednesday as Israeli airstrikes hit apartment towers and blew up several Hamas security facilities. Hundreds of rockets fired by Israel, Hamas authorities and other groups in Israel overcame missile defenses and sent sirens and explosions of airstrikes to Tel Aviv, Israel’s largest metropolitan area and echoing other cities.

The Gaza Ministry of Health said the death toll since the last offensive was 56, including 16 children. At least 365 people were injured.

Six people have been killed by an Israeli rocket, including the first death of an Israeli soldier in this round of conflict.

Other civilian deaths include three women and two children, one of whom was injured in a six-year-old rocket attack in an apartment building in the city of Sderot. Dozens of people in Israel have been injured.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Gaza City Brigade Commander was among the top members of Hamas who were killed on Tuesday.

“This is just the beginning. We will treat them like they never dreamed possible, ”he said.

Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett, who has been accused by southern Israel, according to Israeli media, is discussing the possibility of using Israeli ground forces in conjunction with airstrikes.

“That’s something Israel hasn’t done since 2014. It poses all sorts of risks to the lives of Israeli soldiers … So that’s not a quick decision to make, but it seems like the least chance is to put it in its place,” he said.

Enemies erupted on Monday after Hamas issued an ultimatum, urging Israel to withdraw its security forces from the Al-Aqsa mosque complex in Jerusalem’s Old Quarter after heavy violence against Palestinians.

Monday marked the third day in a row for Israeli police he attacked the third holiest site of Islam, hundreds of wounded with rubber-coated steel shots fired, stun grenades and tear gas at Palestinian worshipers in the last days of the holy month of Ramadan.

This escalation was sparked by Israel’s intentions forcibly evict neighbors To make way for Israeli settlers from the occupied Sheikh Jarrah district of East Jerusalem.

‘Open’ confrontation

Hamas has confirmed that Gaza City Commander Bassem Issa was killed in an Israeli air strike on Wednesday, along with other key members of the group.

Ismail Haniyeh himself added: “The confrontation against the enemy is open.”

A Palestinian source has said that the truce of Egypt, Qatar and the United Nations has not progressed towards ending the violence.

The Israeli army has carried out more than 350 airstrikes in a crowded coastal enclave, targeting what it calls military sites. At least 24 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Tuesday, the Gaza health ministry said.

Gaza’s armed groups have reportedly fired more than 1,000 rockets since Monday. Across the Gaza border, an Israeli soldier was killed Wednesday by an anti-tank missile, the military said. Two people were killed by a rocket in Lod, a mixed Arab-Jewish town near Tel Aviv on Wednesday.

Calling the scenes of destruction “horrific,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he would send Hady Amr as his chief aide to the Israelis and Palestinians in search of calm.

Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin reaffirmed “iron aid against Israel’s legal right to defend itself.”

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has said that Israel will continue to strike Hamas to restore long-term calm, according to the document called.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the international community “should give Israel a strong and dissuasive lesson”Over and above the Palestinian behavior.

Fighting has been fiercest between Israel and Hamas since the Hamas-ruled enclave war in 2014, and there is growing concern that the situation could get out of control.

The towers were leveled in Gaza

In Gaza, a multi-storey apartment building and a media tower collapsed, warning Israel to evacuate the occupants in advance and damaging another structure in airstrikes.

The Al-Aqsa tower, which housed the Al-Aqsa TV channel’s office, is the third tallest structure fired by Israelis since the bombing campaign began on Monday.

Gaza city journalist Youmna al-Sayed told Al Jazeera. The tower housed the offices of many media outlets on the Gaza Strip and is located in a very densely populated area.

“Addressing this building with media offices is a clear message to the Israeli occupation that it does not want the media to tell the truth about what is happening on the Gaza Strip: the crazy airstrikes that are happening at the moment; killing and targeting civilians in apartment buildings and apartments; two Palestinians injured climbing the day, ”al-Sayed said.

Hamas says it fired 130 rockets at Israel in the Al-Shorouq tower as a result of the Israeli attack.

Israelis went to shelters or lay on sidewalks in some communities far from Gaza.

“All of Israel is under attack. It’s a very scary situation to be there, ”said 26-year-old Margo Aronovic, a Tel Aviv student.

The tension also occurred in mixed Arab-Jewish Israeli villages, where there have been demonstrations over enemies.

Israel imposed a nightmare on the Arab majority in the city of Lod, also known as Lydd.

A Palestinian man was shot dead and a synagogue and dozens of vehicles were set on fire. The mayor likened it to the “civil war”.

Harry Fawcett of Al Jazeera said Israel has sent a large number of military hardware to the Gaza border.

“That doesn’t necessarily mean there will be a ground invasion – there are certainly big risks on the part of Israel, how much it has already done from the air,” Fawcett said.

“But we’ve seen dragged vehicles, heavy artillery and self-propelled howitzers being placed in the back of flatbed trucks, which are then returning empty-handed.” So it’s definitely preparing for another phase, or at least it’s a sign of a show of strength. “