Police said two Thai workers were killed and seven injured in a rocket attack on an Israeli farm near the Gaza border. Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.

Rockets were also launched in the northern Israeli cities of Ashdod and Beersheba.

Residents of Gaza say that Israel is stepping up air strikes. Witnesses claimed that an Israeli tank shell hit a paint factory in the southern Gaza Strip and caught fire.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video on Twitter: “We will continue to take all actions to restore peace to all citizens of Israel.” He reiterated his speech over the past few days.

He said in the hangar of the air force base: “Another thing: I’m sure all the enemies around us can see the price we paid for aggression, and I’m sure they will absorb this lesson.” There is a fighter plane behind him. .

The death toll has risen

Hamas started launching rockets eight days ago in retaliation for Israel’s alleged human rights violations against Palestinians in Jerusalem. The hostilities between militant groups and Israel are the worst in many years.

Gaza medical staff said that 215 Palestinians had been killed, including 61 children and 36 women, and more than 1,400 were injured. The Israeli authorities said that 12 people were killed in Israel, including two children.

The UN humanitarian agency says that nearly 450 buildings in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed or severely damaged, including 6 hospitals and 9 primary health care centers. Of the 52,000 displaced persons, approximately 47,000 fled to UN schools.

Israel said it had fired 3,450 rockets from Gaza, some of which were missed and others were shot down by its Iron Dome air defense system.

The military said on Tuesday that a soldier was slightly injured when he fired an artillery shell after allowing the fuel escort to enter the Gaza Strip. It said its forces had killed about 130 Hamas fighters, and another 30 were killed by Islamic Jihad.

Call for a ceasefire

During his visit to Iceland, US Secretary of State Anthony Brinken said that Washington has received further requests from Israel to destroy the high-rise building in Gaza that is home to the Associated Press and Al Jazeera’s local news agency.

Brinken did not provide any detailed information about the intelligence he was talking about. The intelligence was obtained through intelligence channels about the attack on Saturday.

Ron Dermer, the former Israeli ambassador to Washington, is now an adviser to Netanyahu.

Dema told CNN that Hamas’ activities would undermine Israel’s ability to effectively target targets and intercept incoming rockets.

The White House said that U.S. President Joe Biden said in a call to Netanyahu on Monday that Israel has the right to defend itself from random rocket attacks, but it encouraged Israel to make every effort to protect civilians.

Egypt and the UN mediators have also stepped up diplomatic efforts, and the UN General Assembly will discuss the violence on Thursday.

Germany called for a ceasefire and provided more assistance to help the Palestinians before the emergency EU talks.

Full strike

On Tuesday, a general strike was held in East Jerusalem with Israel as the background, Arab towns in Israel, and cities in the West Bank area occupied by Israel.

The Israeli bombing of Gaza, the Ramadan conflict between the police and the faithful at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, and the lawsuit filed by Israeli settlers to expel the residents of East Jerusalem Sheikh Jarrah from the Palestinians. Anger aroused.

The Israeli military said that in the West Bank, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian who tried to attack Palestinians with guns and improvised explosives. A drone was shot down near the border with Jordan on Tuesday.

Health officials said another Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces during a protest in the West Bank. The military said the soldiers were attacked by artillery fire, wounding two of them, and they fired back.

Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud cabinet minister, Yuval Steinitz, expressed regret for the strike, saying it was “another time to crack down on the fragile structure of relations and cooperation between Jews and Arabs”.

Palestinian businesses throughout East Jerusalem were closed, including in the walled old city and the mixed Jewish and Arab port city of Haifa in northern Israel. Protest organizer Raja Zaatar told Reuters that the strike had shut down 90% of businesses in Arab communities.

Overall, in Israel, the strike seems to have little effect on the overall pace of business or the high-tech industry. An official of a large supermarket chain that employs many Arab workers said that although some deliveries have been delayed, its stores are still open as usual.

Witnesses from Reuters said that the strike’s participation in Ramallah in the West Bank appeared to be high.

The owner of a grocery store in Ramallah, 50-year-old Mahmoud Jabr, said: “We have closed our store like everyone else, and we stand in solidarity with all Palestinians and oppose actions against all of us.”

Ra’afat al-Saman, the business owner of Sarahaddin Street in East Jerusalem, named after the Muslim conqueror who occupied Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187. He said: “This is We can at least do for our own people.”