Damage to Gaza from Israeli strikes up to $244 million, authorities say

The damage caused to the Gaza Strip by Israeli bombardments has grown to $244 million, TASS reports, citing the authorities of the coastal enclave.

"The total damage to Gaza caused by the Israeli bombardments since May 10 has reached $244 million," the Palestinian radio broadcaster Donia Al-Watan quotes the authorities as saying.

Earlier, Gaza's Ministry of Public Works and Housing Construction said that missile and artillery bombardments from Israel ruined 800 homes and partially destroyed 10,000 others.

Radical Palestinian groups and the Israeli army have been exchanging bombardments since May 10, following unrest near the Al Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem, triggered by an Israeli court ruling to confiscate homes from several Arab families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. According to the latest statistics, no less than ten people have been killed on the Israeli side and more than 230 on the Palestinian side (in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank).