There are already more than 100 dead in Israel due to the surprise attack by land, sea and air from Gaza of the Islamist group Hamas and the wounded exceed 900, at a time when the escalation of the war continues and the situation is overwhelmed.
According to local media citing medical sources, the dead in Israel have exceeded one hundred and the wounded are 908 since the Hamas offensive began early in the morning, in what is an unprecedented armed conflict that took Israel completely off guard. , which now has hospitals on maximum alert while the injured arrive.
On the other hand, While the fighting continues and after the Israeli retaliatory bombings, the deaths in Gaza rise to 198 and there are at least 1,160 injured, among them at least twenty militiamen. Hospital centers in the Strip are also on alert in the face of continuous Israeli attacks, which called its military operation “Iron Swords.”
In turn, according to Gaza sources, estimates that there could be hundreds or even more than a thousand Palestinian militiamen still inside Israeli territory after their incursionwhich left an as yet undetermined number of dead, including soldiers who lay dead on the ground, according to videos broadcast on social networks.
Israeli forces continue to fight against Palestinian militiamen at various points and in Israeli communities on the border with Gaza, where Palestinian militiamen took military personnel, civilians and even Asian immigrants hostage, according to images on networks, where Palestinians are also seen walking and showing to bodies of Israelis killed in the Strip, including that of a partially naked woman.
According to Gaza sources, The number of kidnapped people currently held captive inside the enclave is more than fifty.
Following this, the spokesman for the Islamist group Islamic Jihad in Gaza, Daoud Hishab, assured that “all captives in the hands of the resistance groups will be held until the release” of the Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons. At the same time, according to him, among those kidnapped there are also women and minors.
The main spokesman for the Israeli Army, Daniel Hagari, made the first official confirmation that Palestinian militias took Israelis hostage inside Gaza and assured that there were also soldiers killed in the fighting, although he did not specify figures.
In turn, given the serious circumstances on the ground, the Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, declared a state of national emergency, which will be adopted this afternoon and will apply to the entire country. In turn, tens of thousands of Israeli reservists have been mobilized into the ranks.
We are at war: Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed this Saturday the state of war in his first public intervention after the surprise attack by land, sea and air by Palestinian militiamen against Israel from the Gaza Strip.
“Citizens of Israel, we are at war. Not in an operation, they are not rounds of combat, it is a war,” Netanyahu said in a video broadcast on his social networks.
“We are at war and we will win it“He stressed, hours after the start of the attack by Hamas, considered a terrorist group by Israel, the United States and the European Union.
“I ordered, first of all, that the communities into which terrorists had infiltrated be evacuated. This is currently being carried out. At the same time, I have ordered a broad mobilization of reserves and a return fire of a magnitude the enemy has never known. ANDThe enemy will pay an unprecedented price“he added.
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