It is a “total siege” on the Gaza Strip. Israeli authorities cut off electricity, food, fuel and water supplies in response to an attack launched on Saturday by Hamas militias that plunged Israel into terror. As Palestinian rockets continue to rain down on several areas of Israel, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, attacks in the Gaza Strip intensify and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it has mobilized around 300,000 reservists in just 48 hours. . Benjamin Netanyahu, on the phone with the White House, told Joe Biden that Israel has no choice but to launch a ground operation in Gaza. “We have to go in.” Biden would not have tried to dissuade the Israeli leader, who, meeting with local authorities in the south of the country, appealed to the people to “remain firm because we are going to change the Middle East”, “Hamas will go through difficult and terrible times, we have just begun” .
The number so far is at least 900 dead and 2,250 injured in Israel, 576 victims and almost 3,000 injured in the Strip, more than 50 deaths in the attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp alone, one of the most populous in Gaza. Among those who lost their lives in the Hamas attacks are at least 11 Americans, as reported last night by President Biden, and two French people, while Russia and the United Kingdom are searching for their four and 10 missing citizens, respectively. The biggest fears are about the dozens of civilian hostages taken to Gaza by the militias. At least four of them, according to Palestinian forces, died in one of the attacks in Tel Aviv and others could be killed in retaliation. «Tel Aviv blamed the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah, close to Hamas, and attacked some of its positions in southern Cedar Country, killing a militiaman. However, Hezbollah immediately denied having launched operations in Israel and just a few hours later, when the population of southern Lebanon was preparing to evacuate towards the north, Palestinian Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the infiltrations.
Israeli rescue service Zaka said more than 100 bodies were found in Be’eri, a small kibbutz in southern Israel that was attacked by Hamas on Saturday. The news comes after Israeli army units cleared the area during patrol.
The two Italian-Israeli citizens whose traces disappeared for 48 hours lived in the same kibbutz. The two have Jewish surnames and it is feared that they have been taken hostage. They are husband and wife, Eviatar Mosche Kipnis and Lilach Lea Havron. Israel has therefore decided to follow the hard line, confirming that attacks against terrorist targets in Gaza will be carried out with great force and breadth, even at the cost of building a small kibbutz in southern Israel, which on Saturday was attacked by Hamas against the Israelis taken hostage by Hamas. This was reported by a government source who then specified, reports the Times of Israel, that if the government had accurate intelligence information about where the hostages were being held, it would obviously avoid attacking those locations. But as this information is currently lacking, all Hamas targets will be affected.
Source: IL Tempo

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