JERUSALEM, Oct 10 — Israel imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip yesterday and cut off the water supply as it kept bombing targets in the crowded Palestinian enclave in...
JERUSALEM, Oct 10 — Israel imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip yesterday and cut off the water supply as it kept bombing targets in the crowded Palestinian enclave in response to the Hamas surprise assault it has likened to the 9/11 attacks.
Israel said it had called up 300,000 army reservists for its “Swords of Iron” campaign, and truck convoys were moving tanks to the south, where its forces had dislodged the last holdout Hamas fighters from embattled towns. Netanyahu has warned Gaza civilians to get away from all Hamas sites, which he vowed to turn “to rubble”.Middle East tensions have spiked as Israel’s arch enemy Iran and their Lebanese ally Hezbollah have praised the Hamas attack, although Tehran rejected any role in the military operation.
Israel, which has long prided itself on a high-tech military and intelligence edge in its many conflicts, has been shaken to the core by Hamas’s unprecedented attack. Among the hostages they took back into Gaza were children and a Holocaust survivor in a wheelchair, Israeli officials have said. But for now its people appeared to have put aside deep political divisions that have long roiled the country and braced for what the right-wing veteran premier Netanyahu has warned will be a “long and difficult war”.“Never before have so many Israelis been killed by one single thing, let alone enemy activity in one day,” said army spokesman Jonathan Conricus.
Earlier strikes have levelled residential tower blocks, a large mosque and the territory’s major bank building.“The situation is unbearable,” said Amal al-Sarsawi, 37, as she took shelter in a school classroom with her terrified children.
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