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Palestinian terrorists from the Hamas group, which dragged off about 150 people in its surprise weekend assault on Israel, threatened to execute the hostages if Israeli air strikes continue targeting Gaza residents without warning.
The threat came after Israel on Monday imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip, cutting off food, water, and electricity supplies, and sparking fears of an increasingly dire humanitarian disaster. Fears of a regional conflagration have surged amid expectations of an Israeli ground incursion into the crowded Palestinian Gaza Strip from where Hamas launched its land, air and sea attack on the Jewish Sabbath.
The veteran leader at the helm of Israel’s hard-right coalition also called for an “emergency government of national unity” after years of political crisis and bitter societal divisions. Hamas has held around 150 hostages since its ground incursion, among them children, elderly, and young people who were captured at a music festival where some 270 died.
Israel imposed a total siege on long-blockaded Gaza on Monday, cutting off the water supply, food, electricity, and other essential supplies. TAKING A BREATHER. Two Israeli soldiers lean on a painted wall of a structure in Kfar Aza, in the south of Israel bordering the Gaza Strip on October 10. Israel said the bodies of 1,500 Islamist militants were found in southern towns recaptured by the army in grueling battles near the Palestinian enclave. AFP
Three Palestinian journalists were killed early Tuesday in an Israeli air strike that hit a Gaza City residential building, a media union and a Hamas official said.Israel, which has long prided itself on a high-tech military and intelligence edge, has been shaken to the core after being blindsided by the massive attack.
Hamas has called on “resistance fighters” in the West Bank and in Arab and Islamic nations to join what it has dubbed “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Israel against “indiscriminately” attacking civilians and also delivered measured criticism of Hamas, urging both sides to respect the “ethics” of war.
The Philippine Embassy in Israel, he said, is also working with authorities to confirm the veracity of reports of Filipinos allegedly kidnapped by Hamas.
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