Israeli soldiers engaged in combat with Hamas mercenaries on Sunday, 24 hours after the militants’ surprise assault on Israel that left about 500 people dead and was the bloodiest day of bloodshed in Israel in fifty years.
Israeli forces clash with Hamas: The largest invasion into Israeli territory in decades may jeopardise U.S.-supported efforts to establish regional security alliances that might endanger Palestinian statehood aspirations and the aspirations of the group’s primary supporter, Iran.
Hamas fighters launched a massive rocket bombardment into southern Israel at the crack of dawn on Saturday, providing cover for an unprecedented, multifaceted fighter incursion into Israel from Gaza, a small area that is home to 2.3 million Palestinians.
On Sunday, the Israeli military reported that mortar bombs were launch into northern Israel from Lebanon, leading to the spread of the conflict.
Israeli soldiers attacked Lebanon with artillery in retaliation.
Hamas fighters killed at least 250 Israelis in fighting that lasted throughout Saturday and into Sunday. They subsequently fled with dozens of hostages back into Gaza.
When Israel retaliated with one of its most brutal days of airstrikes, more than 250 Gazans perished. The words of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday were, “We will exact mighty vengeance for this wicked day.”
On Sunday, an Israeli military spokesman reported that operations were ongoing in eight locations surrounding Gaza, while Al Hadath TV claimed the Palestinian Red Crescent as reporting that 18 people had died as a result of Israeli airstrikes on two homes in the Beit Hanoun neighbourhood of Gaza.
“Escalation of Violence and Humanitarian Crisis: Updates from the Israeli-Occupied West Bank”
According to Palestinian health officials, 20 children were among the 256 deceased civilians.
According to them, there were around 1,800 injuries.
Violence between Israel and Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where a Palestinian authority exercises limited self-rule but faces opposition from Hamas, which seeks to destroy Israel, is escalating.
Israeli raids, Palestinian street attacks, and Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian towns have all increased in the West Bank, which is occupied.
Palestinians’ circumstances have gotten worse under Netanyahu’s hard-right administration. The pursuit of peace has long remained stagnant.
“We cautioned you”
Ismail Haniyeh, the chairman of Hamas, predicted that the attack that started in Gaza will move to the occupied West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.
Israel has been enforcing a blockade on Gaza for 16 years. Haniyeh underlined threats to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, the ongoing Israeli blockade of Gaza, and Israeli normalisation with neighbours in a speech.
How many times have we reminded you that the Palestinian people have been residing in camps as refugees for 75 years while you continue to deny our people’s rights?
Shattered glass encircled the bodies of Israeli residents in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, which is close to Gaza.
A guy and a woman’s remains were strewn across the front seats of an automobile. Israelis in safe rooms, gripped with fear, described their situation on live television over the phone.
According to the Israeli military, senior military officers were among those killed in battle close to Gaza. According to Netanyahu’s office, his security cabinet has approved measures to undermine the military and political might of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad Movement “for many years,” including shutting off Gaza’s access to electricity, fuel, and products.
Black smoke, orange lights, and sparks from explosions lit up the sky over Gaza. Israeli drones were audible in the sky.
Congested, dilapidated hospitals with serious shortages of medical supplies and technology received the dead and injured from Gaza.
According to the health ministry, 232 people were murdered and at least 1,700 were injured.
Netanyahu receives support from Biden
The United States and other Western nations condemned the attack. President Joe Biden issued a stern warning to Iran and other nations while speaking on national television from the White House, saying that Israel had the right to self-defense.
“Any group that is antagonistic to Israel should not take advantage of these strikes at this time. The entire globe is looking.
However, Israel views a deal to normalise relations with Saudi Arabia as the largest victory yet in their decades-long pursuit for Arab recognition, and the United States has been pursuing such a deal.
Palestinians worry that such an accord may compromise their aspirations for a free state.
Hamas’s head in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, told Reuters that Arab nations should learn from Saturday’s operation that giving in to Israeli security demands would not lead to peace.
In support of Hamas rallies, people marched through Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen while carrying Palestinian flags and torching Israeli and American flags.
Iranian allies in Lebanon, Hezbollah, applauded the Hamas assault. Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy leader of Hamas, claimed to Al Jazeera that the organisation was imprisoning many Israelis, including high-ranking officials.
Furthermore, He said that Hamas has enough prisoners to force Israel to release every Palestinian detained there.
Additionally, The attack, according to Hamas, stemmed from what it described as intensified Israeli attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Israeli jails.
Further, Many lamented that Israel’s complete lack of preparedness constituted one of the worst intelligence failures in its history, shocking a nation that boasts of its intensive infiltration and monitoring of militants.