Both sides of Israel and Palestine’s Gaza Hamas group continue to drop bombs that have already resulted in the loss of many lives.
Israel again carried out airstrikes in an area in Palestine allegedly connected to Hamas on Wednesday.
Hamas and other Palestinian militants, meanwhile, fired rockets at Tel Aviv and Beersheba, and a residential building was blown up.
According to a Reuters report, 35 people were killed in Gaza and five in Israel.
According to Israel, their warplanes shot and killed several Hamas intelligence leaders. The others allegedly targeted by their bombs were rocket launch sites and offices and homes of Hamas leaders.
This is the worst clash between Israel and Hamas since 2014.
Some foreign leaders fear that the situation will get worse.
According to UN Middle East peace envoy Tor Wennesland, the United Nations is working to ease the unrest.
The unrest came after weeks of tension in Jerusalem during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, in which there were clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters in and around the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Situation in Israel and Gaza getting worse
The now-canceled court hearing in the case about Palestinian families who could be evicted from their home in East Jerusalem claimed by Jewish settlers has added to the tension.
In addition, a 16-year-old Palestinian was killed in a clash with Israeli forces in the West Bank.
The Gaza–Israel conflict is a part of the localized Israeli–Palestinian conflict, but is also a scene of power struggle between regional powers including Egypt, Iran and Turkey together with Qatar, supporting different sides of the conflict in light of the regional standoff between Iran and Saudi Arabia on one hand and between Qatar and Saudi Arabia on the other, as well as crisis in Egyptian-Turkish relations.
The conflict originated with the election of the Islamist political party Hamas in 2005 and 2006 in the Gaza Strip and escalated with the split of the Palestinian Authority Palestinian government into the Fatah government in the West Bank and the Hamas government in Gaza and the following violent ousting of Fatah after Fatah lost the election to Hamas. Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, and the joint Egyptian-Israeli blockade of Gaza have exacerbated the conflict.
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