Israel is “at war,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, after militants from the Gaza Strip fired over 3,000 missiles and infiltrated southern parts of the country early Saturday. The surprise attack — not yet under control as of early Sunday — killed at least 200 Israelis, while at least 230 Palestinians died in fighting and reprisal strikes by the Israeli military.
The operation by militant group Hamas — which included taking scores of Israeli hostages — was an unprecedented incursion into Israel and a consequential failure of the nation’s intelligence operations. The Israel embassy in the US said 100 civilians and soldiers have been kidnapped.
There was limited mortar fire this morning in the Har Dov area and near the Astra outpost on the northern border with Lebanon, Hecht said. Israeli forces rescued at least 48 people who were held hostage in a dining hall in Kibbutz Be’eri, the paper said.Dozens of bodies were reported to have been removed from the site of a music festival held in the Negev Desert in southern Israel, the New York Times said, citing local media.
The Israeli prime minister said children and elderly civilians are among the dead and among the hostages taken to Gaza.President Joe Biden condemned the deadly surprise attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas as an assault by a “terrorist organization” and pledged “rock solid” US support for Israel.
Yair Lapid, Netanyahu’s predecessor as prime minister and now opposition leader, warned there “is a serious risk that this becomes a multi-front war.”He said he told Netanyahu he was “willing to put aside our differences and form an emergency, narrow professional government.”A spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry praised the attacks, saying they “opened a new page in resistance and armed operations against the usurpers of occupied territories.
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