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Today's D Brief: Hundreds die in Israeli strikes; Space Force CO fired; USAF’s AI-powered drone; US military vs. segregation; And a bit more.
By Ben Watson
May 17, 2021

    The D Brief

After eight days of rocket attacks and retaliatory airstrikes, Israel’s military is in the middle of a concerted effort to blow up more than nine miles of alleged tunnels belonging to Hamas fighters around Gaza City. That operation follows a series of Israeli airstrikes over the weekend that are believed to have killed a commander for the Hamas-linked group Islamic Jihad whose name is Hussam Abu Harbeed.

So far, Hamas-linked fighters have launched more than 3,150 rockets into Israel, and Israeli Defense Forces’ Iron Dome interceptors have destroyed 90% of those before they hit their target, the IDF said on Twitter Monday. A “Hamas submergible naval weapon” was also allegedly intercepted at sea over the weekend, the Washington Post reports.

    More than 200 Palestinians are believed to have died from IDF airstrikes, “including 59 children and 35 women, with 1,300 people wounded,” the Associated Press reports from Gaza City. (Reuters’ numbers are very similar.)
    By contrast, at least “Eight people in Israel have been killed in rocket attacks launched from Gaza, including a 5-year-old boy and a soldier,” according to AP. (Israel’s military says the Israeli death toll is actually 10; the New York Times puts it at 11.)

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