Hundreds of people in Gaza were killed over the last day amid punishing Israeli strikes, a death toll worsened by the collapse of health facilities.
Rapidly expanding Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip killed more than 700 people in the last day as medical facilities across the territory were forced to close because of bombing damage and a lack of power, health officials said Tuesday. The soaring death toll from Israel’s escalating bombardment was unprecedented in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Amid fears that the fighting could expand into a wider regional war, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Tel Aviv on Tuesday and told top Israeli officials that he came “to express our support and solidarity and share your pain” as well as to assure Israel it is “not left alone in the war against terrorism.” In a joint news conference with Macron, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would make every effort to fight the war quickly, “but it could be a long war.
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