We have a special edition today bringing you everything you need to know about the attack Israel has dubbed “our 9/11”.
Report on the latest developments in the Israel- Hamas War
Today’s Top News
Israel’s troops were battling to clear out Hamas gunmen more than two days after they burst across the fence from Gaza, and the army said it would soon go on the offensive after the biggest mobilization in Israeli history.
Hundreds of cars abandoned in the scramble to flee a massacre at an Israeli music festival where gunmen killed 260 people and took captives back into Gaza underline the scale of the deadliest attack on Israel in decades.
Here’s a summary of the latest developments.
A careful campaign of deception ensured Israel was caught off guard when the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched its attack, enabling a force using bulldozers, hang gliders and motorbikes to take on the Middle East’s most powerful army.
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations vowed that it was time to “obliterate Hamas terror infrastructure,” as the U.N. Security Council met to discuss the conflict.
The United States will send multiple military ships and aircraft closer to Israel as a show of support, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, with Washington believing Hamas’ deadly attacks may have been motivated to disrupt a potential normalizing of Israel-Saudi Arabia ties.
With misinformation flying, we’ve been fact-checking videos shared on social media.
Netanyahu vows to intensify attacks; Hamas threatens to kill civilian captives in retaliation
In a fiery speech Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military would intensify its operations against Hamas, adding that “What we will do to our enemies in the coming days will reverberate with them for generations.” Earlier, a spokesman for Hamas’s military arm, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, warned Israel that attacks “without prior warning” on people sheltering in their homes in the Gaza Strip would result in retaliatory executions of captured Israeli civilians. The threat came after Israel announced a siege of Gaza on the third day of fighting since Hamas’s attack began, with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant saying there would be “no electricity, no food, no fuel.”
Key updates
- Prime Minister Netanyahu addresses Israel: ‘We have hard days coming’
- The human toll of the war continued to climb Monday. Israeli media reported at least 900…
- American says 5 family members, including 80-year-old, kidnapped in Israel
Here’s what to know:
At least 900 people have been killed in Israel and about 2,600 wounded, according to reports in local media. President Biden said in a statement that at least 11 American citizens were among the dead, and more “still remain unaccounted for.”
At least 260 bodies were recovered at the site of a music festival near the border with Gaza. Israeli authorities have also said that 73 soldiers have been killed and more than 100 people taken captive. Palestinian authorities said that in Gaza, at least 680 people have been killed and about 3,700 injured. On Monday, a State Department spokesman said nine U.S. citizens have been killed in the fighting between Hamas and Israel.
Earlier Monday, Hamas said it struck the Israeli cities of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Sderot, Ashkelon and Ashdod with rockets; later in the day, the Israeli army said it intercepted militants crossing into Israel from Lebanon. Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, said it was taking Israeli troops “more time than we thought” to repel Hamas forces, an effort slowed by the presence of civilians in the area.
Source: Washington Post
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