Drone footage of Gaza City on Monday showed the scale of the destruction as Israel intensified its bombardment in retaliation for a major surprise attack by Hamas.
Entire mosques were leveled, appearing from the air as piles of rubble.
Israel hit more than 1,000 targets in Gaza, its military said, including airstrikes that leveled much of the town of Beit Hanoun in the enclave’s northeast corner.
More than two days after Hamas launched its unprecedented incursion from Gaza, the military said the fighting had largely died down for now.
The attack caught Israel’s vaunted military and intelligence apparatus completely off guard, bringing heavy battles to its streets for the first time in decades.
Israel formally declared war on Sunday, portending greater fighting ahead, and a possible ground assault into Gaza — a move that in the past has brought intensified casualties.
Palestinian militants continued firing barrages of rockets, setting off air raid sirens in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Civilians are already paying a high price.
Around 700 people have been killed in Israel — a staggering toll by the scale of its recent conflicts.
Nearly 500 have been killed in Gaza, a tiny, impoverished enclave of 2.3 million Palestinians bordering Israel and Egypt.
Palestinian militant groups claimed to be holding over 130 captives from the Israeli side.
Hamas has been branded a terrorist organization by the West and Israel.
Hamas refuses to recognize the state of Israel and opposes the interim Oslo peace accords which Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization negotiated in the mid-1990s.
Hamas won Palestinian parliament elections in 2006, and seized full control of Gaza in 2007, after driving out the forces loyal to its political rival, internationally recognized Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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They're not cheering now.
Hamas is a terrorist organization. Not a militant group. Sanitizing baby rapers. Unbelievable Leftist "news".
Hand out some candy and dance now. Demons.
Every single death of an innocent Palestinian is the fault of their terroristic leadership. Not Israel. The leaders hoarded hundreds of millions of dollars given to them by Israel, United States and Europe, for humanitarian purposes, and instead use it for violence because of a twisted ideology. Israel wants peace with the Palestinians. The Palestinians want peace without Israel… It’s not that complicated. It will never work because it’s a deranged and defective ideology. In this way, Islam did not do a service for these people. I pray that one day the Palestinian people will have the power to rise up against their terroristic and greedy leaders, and finally have just and good representation and finally befriend Israel.
6 This is what the Lord says:
“For the many crimes of Gaza,
I will punish them.
They sold all the people of one area
as slaves to Edom.
why 1,000 missiles. only 5 atomic bomb, finished!
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Well that's what you get for harboring terrorists. Have you ever met a good Palestinian? They move into Western countries and live off our wealth while despising us even though they know the truth about the lies they've grown up with.
Level that shithole.
دا البلال
Think of all the great views, they all have now without those pesky buildings in the way😂🎉👋🖕🖕
Ya so? You don’t get to cut babies heads off and then run home and hide
VAE VICTIS!!!!
another stalingrad!
Hamas kidnapped and raped many young women for hours before they killed them lets talk about that first. And they are still launching rickets at Israel even right now. If you want out walk twards Egypt. Hand hamas over to Israel. Israel gives all sorts of notice before they vaporizer a building full of terrorists hiding like roaches behind their own children.
Maybe this would all stop if Hamas wasn't trying to kill innocent people in Israel everything minute of every day.
You don’t go and sh!t on someone house and expect them to throw you flowers on you and clap for what you did to their hole now face the fist of justice
Who chops up parents in front of their Children ? What kind of monsters handcuff a bunch of children together and burn them to death ? Who kills a pregnant mother and cuts out the baby and then kills it too.Who votes for them?
Hamas was burning babies and decapitating them. Flatten Gaza. Enough is enough.
The Palestinians know and support Hamas and the ideology they possess…at least the ones who did not leave when offered the chance to do so.. So, i cannot feel bad that Israel is going to flatten that 25 mile stretch of coastline in retaliation for the terrorist attack they had to endure.. the Bible says Ye reap what ye sow…they drew first blood, and anyone who supports Hamas and the terrorists is really no different than the SS who rounded up millions of Jews during WW2..Tlaib, for one needs to be expelled from Congress, not censured, EXPELLED! People like her obviously have an agenda and are using their position in OUR Congress to try to sway support their way….i do not hate the Muslims or the Palestinians, but i do hate the ideology that they have been harboring and nurturing for years in indoctrinating their children to hate Jews, just as many have been brainwashed to hate Americans….it starts with the littles.. you can see the same thing here with our kids and the woke agenda…it's no different
I don’t see any cheering on the streets now like they did when hamas brang innocent civilians to Gaza
Isreal warned you gaza Don't let Hamas in. They gave you roof knocks as a warning. You let the leaders of hamas send all these men in. They raped and pilaged committed jihad. And the leaders who are safe elsewhere forsakend a few hundred insurgents also sacrificed all of gaza. And you all ate it up due to your God They leveraged against you. Enjoy.
The "fuck around" phase has ended and the "find out" phase has begun
I think Allah is on Israel's side.
Hamas is a terror group! This news sucks
What people don't know, Israel warns the areas before they attack
Why attack if you're going to get obliterated?
Please save the people!!!!!! Stop killing innocents. Please free Palestine
Hamas ki g*** d mar do
Free Palestine
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hamas sell it,israel buy it so it just that simple🤣
All support for the besieged Palestinian resistance that does not cry for America to protect it.
Gaza is resisting
They told them
Gaza civilians weren't innocent as you think.. They were breading terrorists
Too much is still standing
no dancing in GAZA ? wha ?
Without an Iron Dome you pay the lead price.
Not rubbly enough
I am surprised honestly that Gaza has not turned into rubble and dust
Full plane
Just remember. Hamas did this to you. Be sure to re-elect them.
It's disgusting that HAMAS has to cower behind civilians instead of protecting them. I wish there was a way to single out the HAMAS members and eliminate those threats without civilian casualties, but those innocent folks' blood is on HAMAS's hands. I only wish HAMAS cared enough to stop this madness once and for all.
The mosque which was celebrating through loudspeaker leveled to the ground 😅
Great job Israel send Palestine where they belong
Palestine is getting what they asked for
The question is: Since Israel cut off water and food from Gaza, what about the hostages? What will they eat? The American hostages will die of hunger