Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured this Monday that his country will “change the Middle East” in the context of the war with Hamas, stating 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 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 the Israeli Government bought the towers on December 11. September. 2001. twins from New York, United States.
“We are already in the center of the campaign, but this is just the beginning,” Netanyahu said during the meeting, adding that Israel “will defeat them hard, very hard.”
More than 700 Israelis were killed in just over 48 hours and at least 2,150 were wounded, according to the army.
On the Palestinian side, 560 people have already been reported dead and 2,900 injured, according to local authorities.
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 called “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, where more than two million people live, while Israel imposes a total blockade on the supply of fuel, food and electricity in the territory.
The high number of deaths confirmed in just over 24 hours is unprecedented in the history of Israel, comparable only to the bloody first Arab-Israeli war of 1948, after the founding of the State of Israel.
Source: TSF
