Israeli Defense Minister Joaw Gallant has ordered a total blockade of the Gaza Strip. “There will be no electricity, no food and no fuel,” Gallant said. We are dealing with barbarians and will act accordingly. 300,000 reservists are mobilized. Meanwhile, new details emerge about Hamas’s atrocities.
The Israeli security cabinet had already decided on Sunday evening to fundamentally halt the import of electricity, fuel and goods to the Palestinian territory. The water supply has already been stopped with immediate effect. “What was in the past will no longer be in the future,” explained Infrastructure Minister Israel Katz.
A military spokesman said Hamas itself had destroyed border crossings into Israel in Saturday’s major attack. Border traffic is currently not possible anyway. There will also be no rush with the reconstruction. Tens of thousands of troops with heavy military equipment gathered around the Gaza Strip.
Mass exodus from Gaza
After the Islamic Hamas attacks on Israel, more than 123,000 Palestinians have fled into the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli counterattack. The UN Emergency Relief Office (OCHA) announced this on Monday evening. It was said that people fled out of fear for their safety or because their homes had been destroyed.
Residential homes shot at
Israeli forces shelled residential buildings, OCHA reported. According to Gaza’s Ministry of Public Works and Housing, 159 housing units were destroyed and 1,210 were seriously damaged. The Israeli airstrikes also caused damage to water and sanitation infrastructure for more than 400,000 people and several health facilities, according to OCHA.
According to the UN, more than two million people live in very poor conditions in the Gaza Strip. The coastal area extends for about 40 kilometers along the Mediterranean Sea and is about six to twelve kilometers wide. The area is slightly smaller than that of Vienna. Hamas seized power by force in 2007. Israel subsequently tightened the blockade of the coastal area, which Egypt supported. It is unclear whether Cairo would allow humanitarian transports to the Gaza Strip across the Egyptian border.
After Hamas invaded Israel with hundreds of fighters in its major attack on Saturday morning, fighting was still ongoing on Monday morning. The Israeli military said there are still “between seven and eight” open fighting sites in the border area with the Gaza Strip, where fighting continues.
Further burglary possible
While there may still be more “terrorists” in the region, control has been regained over sites in southern Israel attacked by Hamas, army spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Monday. But more militants could still get in, another military spokesman admitted: “I can’t deny that people are still coming in.”
Hamas fighters have killed and kidnapped civilians and soldiers in Israel. According to preliminary information, more than 700 people were killed on the Israeli side and more than 2,100 others were injured. Israel responded by bombing hundreds of targets in the Gaza Strip. Nearly 560 people have been killed and 2,900 injured so far, according to local authorities. There is great concern about the fate of more than a hundred Israelis abducted to the Gaza Strip.
Hamas: Hostages killed in airstrike
According to Palestinian information, four Israeli hostages have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. The information provided by a spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamist Hamas, could not be independently verified. “The bombing of the Gaza Strip last night and today resulted in the deaths of four enemy prisoners and their captors,” Qassam Brigade spokesman Abu Ubaida said.
An Israeli military spokesperson said they were aware of the reports and were investigating them. According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, dozens of Palestinians have been killed and injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip; So far, a total of 65 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombings.
Fight in Sderot
According to media reports, there was a heavy gun battle in a swimming pool in the Israeli town of Sderot, in which several Israelis were injured. The Israeli army said the paratroop brigade was engaged in a “stubborn battle” as soldiers searched Sderot “to liberate the city from terrorists.” Sderot is located about a kilometer from the Gaza Strip.
“Slaughtered in cold blood”
Hamas fighters killed up to 250 people in their attack on a music festival in southern Israel on Saturday alone, according to an Israeli rescue agency. There were about “four or five trucks carrying 50 bodies each” from the festival site near the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for Israel’s Zaka rescue service said. He assumes there are “about 200 to 250 bodies.” “They slaughtered people in cold blood in a way that was absolutely unbelievable,” Zaka’s spokesman said. He has never seen anything like this in the 28 years that he has worked for the organization that specializes in retrieving bodies.
Source: Krone
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