The war has already claimed at least 2,200 lives on both sides, and a ground offensive in Gaza is likely to increase casualties.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a leading opposition figure on Wednesday created a war-time Cabinet to oversee the fight against Hamas militants after their stunning weekend attack. In the sealed-off Gaza Strip ruled by Hamas, Palestinians struggled to find safety as Israeli bombardment demolished entire neighborhoods and the territory's only power plant ran out of fuel.
Israel's chief opposition leader, Yair Lapid, was invited to join to new Cabinet but did not immediately respond to the offer. Israel stopped entry of food, water, fuel and medicine into Gaza — a 40-kilometer-long strip of land wedged among Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea that is home to 2.3 million Palestinians. The sole remaining access from Egypt was shut down Tuesday after airstrikes hit near the border crossing.US airlines halt flights in and out of Israel after a massive attack by Hamas starts heavy fighting
In one, "we consumed three weeks worth of emergency stock in three days, partly due to 50 patients coming in at once," Matthias Kannes, the aid group’s head of mission in Gaza, said Wednesday. He said the territory's biggest hospital, Al-Shifa, only has enough fuel for three days. Israeli airstrikes late Tuesday struck the family house of Mohammed Deif, the shadowy leader of Hamas’ military wing, killing his father, brother and at least two other relatives in the southern town of Khan Younis, senior Hamas official Bassem Naim told The Associated Press.Exchanges of fire over Israel’s northern borders with militants in Lebanon and Syria, meanwhile, pointed to the risk of an expanded regional conflict.
"The objective is for this war to end very differently from all of the previous rounds. There has to be a clear victory," said Chuck Freilich, a former deputy national security adviser in Israel. "Whatever has to be done to fundamentally change the situation will have to be done." "I sell toys, not missiles,’’ the 46-year-old said, weeping. "I want to leave Gaza. Why do I have to stay here? I lost my home and my job."
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