### [2021-05-12](/feed/2021/05/12/index.md)

##### Israeli–Palestinian conflict
# Two more people are killed during Hamas' rockets in Lod, bringing the Israeli civilian death toll to 5, while an IDF soldier is killed as a military jeep outside Gaza is bombed. 

The barrage of Palestinian militant rockets and Israeli air strikes grows, in the worst violence in years.


### Sources:

1. [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57083595) [Image](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/4CB5/production/_118473691_gettyimages-1232836770.jpg)

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