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Israel is on the brink of a ground invasion of Gaza, nearly two weeks after Hamas terrorists killed 1400 people and captured 200 hostages.
“It will take a week, it will take a month, it will take two months, until we eliminate them,” he said. “You are not alone in battle.”Bullet holes and bloodstains seen in a house in Nir Oz. Picture: Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty ImagesHamas terrorists tied up families in their homes and tortured young children in front of their parents, according to Israeli first responders.
Hezbollah supporters carry the coffin of a militant in Kherbet Selem. Picture: Manu Brabo/Getty Imagesto the highest level, “do not travel”, citing the “volatile security situation and the risk of the security situation deteriorating further”. Hamas has claimed that it is holding about 203 Israeli hostages within the network of tunnels it built underneath Gaza — which Mr Barkat vowed will become the “world’s biggest cemetery”.
Three “land-attack cruise missiles and several drones” were intercepted by a destroyer, a spokesman told reporters. The attack had been conducted from Yemen and “potentially toward targets in Israel”. “Our defensive response was one we would have taken for any similar threat in the region,” he said. “We have the capability to defend our broader interests in the region and to deter regional escalation and broader expansion of the conflict that began with Hamas’ attack on Israeli civilians.”
Asked by journalists late on Wednesday about reports that his administration had told Israel that US forces would fight alongside Israeli troops in response to any attack by the powerful Lebanese movement Hezbollah against Israel, Biden said this was “not true”. Prince Mohammed “affirmed that the kingdom considers targeting civilians in Gaza a heinous crime and a brutal attack, stressing the necessity of working to provide protection for them”, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
They also “agreed on the pressing need for humanitarian access into Gaza to provide vital water, food and medicine”, it said. Since the war broke out, Saudi Arabia has issued a series of statements denouncing the displacement of Palestinians from their homes and attacks on “defenceless civilians” while affirming its support for the Palestinian cause.
Egyptian state-linked broadcaster Al Qahera News said the crossing — the only one into and out of the besieged enclave not controlled by Israel — would open on Friday. “The pace of death, of suffering, of destruction … cannot be exaggerated,” said UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths. They also warned about the conflict spreading, with anger across the Middle East at Israel and its Western allies.
Cairo has so far kept the Rafah crossing closed, pointing to repeated Israeli strikes near the checkpoint and voicing fears that Israel may be hoping to permanently drive Palestinians out and into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Both sides in the war have traded blame, but neither the provenance of the strike nor the death toll could immediately be independently verified.
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