Ahmed Mosabeh, a 28-year-old Palestinian man with special needs, holds one of several rescue kitten he cares for, next to a destroyed building, after evacuating his home earlier to a safer area due to Israeli air raids in Gaza City, on May 18, 2021. (Photo/Agencies)
Israel launched its air campaign on the Gaza Strip controlled by the Palestinian Hamas group on May 10, after the enclave's rulers fired a barrage of rockets in response to unrest in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.
Palestinians sit among the rubble of their home that was destroyed during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City, on May 18, 2021. (Photo/Agencies)
Israel maintained its heaviest-ever bombardment of the blockaded enclave overnight, sending a fireball and a black plume of smoke into the sky following one heavy strike, an AFP journalist reported.
A Palestinian youth looks for salvageable items amid the rubbe of the Kuhail building which was destroyed in an early morning Israeli airstrike on Gaza City on May 18, 2021. The building had a printshop and university accessories and books storage facility for educational institutes in Gaza as well as a mosque. (Photo/Agencies)
The UN Security Council was due to hold an emergency meeting today amid a flurry of urgent diplomacy aimed at stemming Israel air strikes that have killed more than 200 Palestinians.
A Palestinian man is pictured through the rubble of their home that was destroyed during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City, on May 18, 2021. (Photo/Agencies)
Palestinians look for salvageable items amid the rubbe of the six-storey Kuhail building which was destroyed in an early morning Israeli airstrike on Gaza City on May 18, 2021. (Photo/Agencies)
