ISRAEL GAZA VIOLENCE- TIMELINE OF THE CONFLICT

Israel and Hamas entered into a truce brokered by Egypt after 11-days of hostilities that killed at least 232 Palestinians, including 65 children. Calls for humanitarian aid have begun to help rebuild a battered Gaza.

Here is how the conflict unfolded:

May 10

Hamas & Palestinian Islamic Jihad issued their ultimatum to Israel

Israel asked to remove its forces from the al-Aqsa mosque

Hamas launched its first barrage of rockets into Israel

Israel responds with deadly strikes on the Palestinian enclave.

May 11

The Israeli air force bombed a Gaza tower block

Hamas responds by raining rockets down on Tel Aviv

Several reported clashes between Israeli Arabs & Jews

May 12

Over 850 rockets are fired overnight from Gaza to Israel

Unrest flares in mixed Jewish-Arab Israeli towns.

Israel declares a state of emergency in Lod, near Tel Aviv

Emergency meeting of the EU, Russia, US and the UN called

May 13

Israel threatens a full-scale invasion of the strip

Israel mobilised 9,000 of its reserve forces along Gaza border

Israel launched twin attacks from ground and air on Gaza

May 14

Israel targets Hamas’ underground tunnels,

Israel claims dropped more than 450 bombs in 40 minutes

Hamas said 20 of its commanders were killed

Demonstrations across occupied West Bank, 11 killed

May 15

Air strike in Gaza's Shati refugee camp kills 10

Building housing Associated Press and Al Jazeera TV struck

US President Joe Biden expresses his "grave concern".

On May 16

Israel says destroyed the home of Hamas' political leader

UN chief appeals for an end to the "utterly appalling" violence

May 17

Islamic Jihad says one of its commanders has been killed

US blocks a joint UNSC statement calling for a halt to the violence

President Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement calls for a "day of anger".

Violence erupts again in east Jerusalem and across the West Bank

May 18

France's President meets his Egyptian counterpart & Jordan's King to push for a truce

Biden speaks to Israeli PM Netanyahu on phone

Biden: expect "a significant de-escalation on the path to a ceasefire"

Late-night meeting of Netanyahu's Security Cabinet

May 19

Israel drops 122 bombs on Hamas tunnels.

250 rockets, mortars launched towards Israel

Netanyahu briefs foreign diplomats that Israel wants to end fighting

May 20

Israel and Hamas announced a ceasefire, ending a bruising 11-day war

May 21

Hours after truce Israeli police storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, fire tear gas