Israel summons 360,000 reservists to join the fight against Hamas, with many dropping everything to return home. One Australian-Israeli shares his reasons for coming back to fight.
Here in Jerusalem , you see Israel i Defence Force soldiers everywhere. Israel is serve in the military once they turn 18, with men serving 32 months and women doing 24 months. After that, almost everyone remains in the reserves until they turn 40.
"My hope is that I can keep her safe for long enough until this is over. And then everything goes back to normal, she goes to school, her mum goes to work. And everything just goes back to normal, with people just trying to live without the hate, without the violence."The city of Sderot is one of the closest places you can get to near the Gaza border and you can usually have a clear view into the northern parts of the enclave.
I can hear machine guns as Hamas militants are locked in gun battle with Israeli troops on the ground. Officials at Gaza's Indonesian Hospital said more than 50 Palestinians had been killed and 150 wounded when airstrikes struck residential dwellings in the heart of the Jabalia camp in urbanised north Gaza.Palestinians protested on the streets of the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday and prayed for the victims of Israeli strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
About 1,400 people, mainly civilians, were killed in the cross-border Hamas assault on October 7, Israel says.Video shows debris, craters and ruined buildings at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza on Tuesday after the area was hit by Israeli air strikes. "During the afternoon hours, infantry and armored forces secured a central Hamas stronghold in the west part of Jabalia," Hagari said.
He expressed deep concern at the risk of a "dangerous escalation" beyond Gaza and called the level of aid getting into the Palestinian territory "completely inadequate".He again condemned "the acts of terror perpetrated by Hamas" against Israel on October 7, and the killing of civilians in Gaza, saying he was "dismayed by reports that two-thirds of those who have been killed are women and children.
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