Jerusalem, Undefined– Israel is relentlessly pounding Hamas targets in Gaza, five days after the Islamist fighters shot dead civilians in their homes and on the streets in an unprecedented assault on Israeli soil.
Smoke plumes billow following Israeli bombardment in Gaza City on October 11, 2023 on the fifth day of fighting between Israel and the Hamas movement. Israel declared war on Hamas on October 8 following a shock land, air and sea assault by the Gaza-based Islamists.
The Iran-backed Islamists fired thousands of rockets from Gaza into Israel and used explosives and bulldozers to break through the security fence around the blockaded Palestinian enclave. The bombing campaign has flattened more than 1,000 homes, while 560 more have been so severely damaged they are uninhabitable, UN humanitarian agency OCHA said, citing Palestinian authorities.
By Tuesday evening, the United Nations said that the air strikes had forced more than 260,000 people to flee their homes in the impoverished territory hemmed in by an Israeli-Egyptian blockade for more than 15 years. There was also an exchange of fire between Israel and forces in Syria on Tuesday, after Israel's military said munitions were fired towards the Golan Heights it has occupied since 1967.In total, the war has claimed more than 3,700 lives of Israeli and Palestinian civilians, soldiers and combatants.
Eighteen Thais, 14 US citizens and 10 Nepalis are among foreigners from more than a dozen countries killed.Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, on Monday said Israeli air strikes on Gaza had killed"four of the enemy's prisoners", in a claim that could not be independently verified. It has ruled out negotiating a prisoner swap with Israel as"the military operation is still ongoing".
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