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A view shows the site of an Israeli air strike amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence, in Gaza City on May 11, 2021. [Reuters]
A 13-storey residential block in the Gaza Strip collapsed on Tuesday night after being hit by an Israeli airstrike, witnesses said, and three people were wounded in a retaliatory rocket attack from Gaza on Tel Aviv.
Video footage showed three plumes of thick, black smoke rising from the Gaza tower, its upper storeys still intact as they fell. The building houses an office used by the political leadership of the enclave's Islamist rulers, Hamas.
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