US President Joe Biden ordered that Israel be guaranteed everything the country needs to confront Hamas attacks, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken revealed.
“We are reviewing specific additional requests that the Israelis have made. President Biden’s guidance has been to ensure that we provide Israel with everything it needs at this time to confront Hamas attacks.
The worst escalation of the conflict in recent decades has already left more than 600 dead on the Israeli side, the government press office said, while Gaza authorities reported at least 370 dead, with thousands injured on each side.
“We have reports that several Americans have been killed. We are working overtime to verify that. At the same time, there are reports of missing Americans and, again, we are working to verify those reports,” Blinken told ABC, adding that “This is “a massive terrorist attack that is massacring Israeli civilians in their cities, in their homes and, as we have seen so graphically, literally dragging people across the border into Gaza and the world should be outraged by what it has seen.”
An Israeli military spokesman revealed this Sunday that troops continue to encounter Palestinian militiamen who have infiltrated several Israeli communities near the Gaza border, while another 24 cities in the area have already begun to be evacuated and their inhabitants transferred to others. safest areas of the country.
Anti-aircraft sirens sound practically non-stop in the area due to rocket fire from Gaza, from where militias have fired 3,255 rockets since the start of the offensive on Saturday morning, according to the latest estimates from the Israeli army, which continues to bomb targets. in the Gaza Strip.
The Islamic group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israeli territory this Saturday, called Operation “Al-Aqsa Storm”, with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed militiamen by land, sea and air.
In response to the surprise attack, Israel bombed several Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip from the air, in an operation it called “Iron Swords.”
Source: TSF
