Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City flattened three buildings and killed at least 42 people on Sunday, Palestinian medics said. Rescue workers search for victims amid rubble at the site of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on Sunday. In its airstrikes, Israel has levelled a number of Gaza City's tallest office and residential buildings, alleging they contain Hamas military infrastructure. In the Israeli city of Ashkelon, Zvi Daphna, a physician whose neighbourhood has been struck by several rockets, described a feeling of "fear and horror." Israeli security forces inspect a site in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon following a rocket attack fired from the Gaza Strip on Sunday.

Source: CBC News May 16, 2021 16:07 UTC