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  • Ben Wedeman

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Smoke billows from a fire following multiple Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on May 16.

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A tower housing AP, Al Jazeera offices collapses after Israeli missile strikes in Gaza city, May 15, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

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CNN correspondent reports in midst of tear gas and hurled rocks in West Bank

Smoke rises from a tower building destroyed by Israeli air strikes amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence in Gaza City Israel carried out hundreds of air strikes in Gaza on Wednesday and Palestinian militants fired multiple rocket barrages at tel aviv and the southern city of Beersheba in the region's most intense hostilities in years. (Photo by Ahmed Zakot / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

Hell has been unleashed in Gaza