Added to the cocktail that threatens a new war are rocket attacks on Israel from Lebanon, raising the possibility of another front in the fighting. Israel carried out 150 more airstrikes in Gaza on Thursday night into Friday morning, wounding more than 50 people. And yesterday Israel added ground forces to the assault on Gaza’s border, albeit still short of an incursion. The clashes between its own citizens, the worst violence in decades in Israeli cities, are also raising the prospect of civil war. The violence spread quickly to the mixed Israeli cities of Acre and Haifa, long proud of their inter-communal relations, and to the Arab towns of the Galilee.

Source: The Irish Times May 16, 2021 08:48 UTC