### [2021-05-15](/feed/2021/05/15/index.md)

##### 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
# The death toll in Gaza from the Israeli airstrikes rise to 140 people killed, including thirty-nine children. A second refugee camp is also bombed, after another was struck yesterday resulting in multiple casualties. At least 950 others are wounded, while two protesters are killed in the West Bank. The headquarters of many journals, including Al Jazeera, is destroyed in Gaza by being bombed. A man dies in Ramat Gan, in central Israel, during a rocket attack, bringing the death toll there to 9. 

Protests in occupied West Bank and around world as number of people killed by Israeli bombardment on Gaza reaches 140.


### Sources:

1. [Al Jazeera](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/15/palestinian-death-toll-in-gaza-occupied-west-bank-mounts-live-news) [Image](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-05-15T093527Z_48649797_RC29GN9ZU0J3_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS.jpg?resize=1200%2C630)

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