US president decries ‘campaign of pure cruelty’ and warns Iran to tread carefully as Israel conducts significant airstrikes on Palestinian enclave
Joe Biden has condemned the attack by Hamas militants on Israel at the weekend as the “deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust”, as Israeli jets continued to strike Gaza, an enclave running desperately low on medical supplies, according to the World Health Organization.
He added that the deployment of US military ships and aircraft closer to Israel should be seen as a signal to Iran, which backs Islamist groupsAt around 4.30am on Thursday, Israel’s military said it was conducting a “large-scale strike” on targets belonging to Hamas in Gaza. It did not provide details. Israel is expected to launch a ground offensive in Gaza in the coming days, in response to Saturday’s attacks by Hamas that are known so far to have killed 1,200 Israelis.
The number of Gaza residents displaced by the war has risen to 338,000, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said, with around 65% of them seeking safety at shelters or schools. The enclave’s population is 2.3million. In a televised address late on Wednesday, Netanyahu described atrocities that took place during the weekend attack by Hamas militants, who he said shot children in the head, burned people alive, raped women and beheaded soldiers. “Every Hamas member is a dead man,” he said. “We will crush and destroy it.”
The number of American citizens known to have been killed in the Hamas attack has risen to 22, the State Department said, with at least 17 more Americans unaccounted for.
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