Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured this Monday that his country will “change the Middle East” in the context of the war with Hamas, saying that these first three days of war are “just the beginning.”
“What Hamas will experience will be difficult and terrible… we will change the Middle East”Netanyahu told local officials in southern Israel, where Hamas fighters carried out a surprise attack on Saturday morning.
This Monday, the Israeli army ordered a “total siege” of the Gaza Strip, controlled by Hamas, on the third day of the surprise and massive offensive launched by the Palestinian Islamic movement that destroyed the Israeli government on September 11. has bought. 2001. twins from New York, United States.
“We are already at the heart of the campaign, but this is just the beginning”Netanyahu said at the meeting, adding that Israel would defeat them “with force, with great force.”
According to the army, more than 700 Israelis were killed and at least 2,150 injured in just over 48 hours.
On the Palestinian side, 560 deaths and 2,900 injuries have already been reported, according to local authorities.
The Islamist group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israeli territory on Saturday, dubbed 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 aerially bombed several Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip, in an operation dubbed “Iron Swords”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel is “at war” with Hamas.
According to the UN, there are already at least 123,000 internally displaced people in the Gaza enclave, home to more than two million people, while Israel imposes a total blockade on fuel, food and electricity supplies to the area.
The high number of deaths confirmed in just over 24 hours is unprecedented in Israel’s history and comparable only to the bloody first Israeli-Arab war of 1948, after the establishment of the State of Israel.
Source: DN
