Israel also carried out retaliatory attacks on the Gaza Strip for the third night in a row. Violence has also broken out in the West Bank and near the border with Lebanon. This is what we know now:
• Throughout the night, the Israeli army bombarded the Gaza Strip with air raids. It is still unclear whether there were any casualties.
• The number of deaths in Israel due to an unprecedented attack by the Islamist Hamas movement has continued to rise. According to Israeli media, more than 900 dead counted. Again 2,600 people were injured. More than 150 Israelis would kidnapped and transferred to the Gaza Strip.
• This is happening on the Palestinian side 560 dead and about 2,900 injured.
• Israel says it is the border has regained full control of Gaza and closed the breaches where Hamas militants broke through on Saturday. Moreover, they are at the border mines placed to prevent future breakage.
• Hamas threatens to carry out any bombing of Gaza that Israel does not warn about 150 hostages to kill who owns it. The terrorist movement also says not wanting to negotiate about captured Israelis as long as the Gaza Strip is under fire.
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• The UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees certainly says so 187,518 people their homes in Gaza escaped are. Also UN chief António Guterres has expressed his concerns now that Israel is restricting the supply of, among other things blocks power, electricity and fuels. It was already “extremely dire” and will now “only worsen exponentially”
• In the South of Lebanon more and more people are fleeing their homes towards the north after the limited confrontations between Hezbollah fighters and Israeli soldiers. Last night an Israeli lieutenant colonel died in a firefight.
• Certainly eleven Americans were killed in Hamas’ surprise attack. An unknown number of American citizens are also missing. The United States has no plans to send soldiers to Israel for the time being.
• Of European Commission is not suspending financial aid to the Palestinians. Monday afternoon’s announcement raised many questions. The Commission had not requested the necessary consent from the EU Member States. According to critics, the measure also affected our own ranks – innocent and desperate Palestinians.
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