Casualties on both sides are expected to continue rising; Hamas says it holds more than 100 hostages. Meanwhile, people in Afghanistan reel from a deadly earthquake
and into nearby Israeli towns in an unprecedented surprise attack on Saturday, killing dozens and kidnapping others. On Sunday, Israel declared war,Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to punish Hamas, the Islamist group that rules Gaza. Casualties on both sides are expected to keep rising, as clashes continued in several Israeli towns where pockets of Hamas fighters were holding out.
Hamas says it is holding more than 100 hostages in Gaza, a number that reportedly includes three Canadians. One of them is believed to be Vivian Silver, a 74-year-old woman and peace activistHamas said yesterday that it would start executing hostages if Israel didn’t halt its attacks on Gaza’s civilians. Earlier, Hamas had said four of the Israelis it had taken hostage had died because of the air strikes.
Islamic Jihad, a separate militant formation that joined Hamas in the assault, has said it is separately holding 30 hostages. The two groups have said they would trade their hostages for the thousands of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons. An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson said yesterday it was not at the moment negotiating for the release of hostages.
U.S. President Joe Biden said yesterday that an unspecified number of U.S. citizens are still unaccounted for as he reiterated his vow to back Israel in the fight and promised help to end the hostage crisis. His administration has scrambled warships and planes to the region, announced further military aid for Israel and pressed other regional countries to denounce the attack in a bid to contain the fighting.
Everyone knew bad things were happening on the Naslund farm. Then, in the fall of 2017, Miles’s body was found welded into a box at the bottom of a pond, and his wife and son were charged with first-degree murder. Jana G. Prudenof Helen Naslund, who got 18 years in prison for killing the man who violently abused her for three decades.
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