Israel strikes back…
According to reports from multiple media outlets and information from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israel’s border is once again secure after Tuesday’s air strikes in Gaza put Hamas on defense.
The air strikes are reportedly the heaviest and most aggressive in Israel’s 75-year-long conflict with the Palestinians.
From Newsmax:
Israel has vowed to take “mighty revenge,” calling up hundreds of thousands of reservists and placing Gaza, crowded home to 2.3 million people, under total siege.
Israel’s embassy in Washington said the death toll from Hamas’ weekend attacks had surpassed 1,000, dwarfing all modern Islamist attacks on the West bar 9/11.
The victims were overwhelmingly civilians, gunned down in homes, on streets or at a dance party. Scores of Israelis and some foreigners were captured and taken to Gaza as hostages, some paraded through the streets.
Gaza’s health ministry said Israel’s retaliatory strikes had killed at least 770 people and wounded more than 4,000. The air strikes, already the heaviest ever, intensified on Tuesday night, shaking the ground and pouring columns of smoke and flames into the morning sky.
The United Nations said more than 180,000 Gazans had been made homeless, many huddling on streets or in schools.
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NEW: PM Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has “only started” their mission to destroy Hamas as the Gaza Strip continues to get obliterated by airstrikes.
“What we will do to our enemies in the coming days will reverberate with them for generations.”
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🚨 Israeli air strikes hit Gaza
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