Israeli warplanes strike Gaza as EU calls for ‘accountability’ - Al Jazeera English

Air raids connected Gaza travel successful a week wherever 10 Palestinians person been killed by Israeli forces successful the occupied West Bank.

Israeli warplanes person attacked sites successful the Gaza Strip aft a rocket landed successful confederate Israel and arsenic tensions scope a boiling constituent successful the occupied West Bank, wherever 10 Palestinians person been killed by Israeli forces since past week.

The Israeli subject said the aerial raids successful the aboriginal hours of Sunday targeted a weapons manufacturing installation and an underground passageway belonging to Hamas, according to the Associated Press quality agency.

“The onslaught overnight continues the advancement to impede the unit build-up”, the Israeli service said successful notation to Hamas, the AP reported.

No radical has claimed work for the rocket, reported to beryllium the archetypal fired successful a month, which the Israeli subject said landed successful an unfastened country adjacent the Gaza-Israel obstruction connected Saturday evening without causing casualties oregon harm to property.

The aerial onslaught connected Gaza follows outrage implicit the killing of a young Palestinian man, Ammar Mufleh, 23, by an Israeli worker successful wide daylight connected Friday and which was captured connected video. The harrowing footage has sparked wide choler among Palestinians and calls connected societal media to escalate absorption against the Israeli occupation.

The Palestinian overseas ministry condemned the shooting of Mufleh arsenic tantamount to an execution, and Palestinian activists and societal media users person adopted the hashtag “Huwara Execution” successful Arabic, calling for a effect to crimes by Israeli forces.

The European Union’s overseas argumentation chief, Josep Borrell, released a statement saying helium was “greatly acrophobic astir the expanding level of unit successful the occupied West Bank”.

“During the past days alone, 10 Palestinians person been killed by ISF (Israeli Security Forces). Yesterday’s tragic sidesplitting of a Palestinian man, Ammar Mifleh, by a subordinate of the ISF (Israeli Security Forces) was the latest example,” Borrell said.

“Such unacceptable facts indispensable beryllium investigated and determination indispensable beryllium afloat accountability. Under planetary law, lethal unit is lone justified successful situations successful which determination exists a superior and imminent menace to life,” helium said.

The rising unit has made 2022 the deadliest twelvemonth since the extremity of the 2nd Intifada successful 2005, with astatine slightest 207 Palestinians killed successful the occupied territories of the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and East Jerusalem truthful acold this year.

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