The death toll from the ongoing violent conflict between Israel and Palestine is nearing 1,000 with over 600 Israelis and 370 Palestinians killed so far.
LEADERSHIP reports that the clashes broke out after a Palestinian Islamist group, Hamas, attacked Israel on Saturday with a barrage of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, initially killing 22 people.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed, saying: “Our enemy will pay a price the type of which it has never known. We are in a war and we will win it.”
Israeli government said Sunday afternoon that more than 600 Israelis have been killed and 100 kidnapped in attacks from Gaza since Saturday.said the country’s government has received reports that several Americans have died in Israel and that officials were trying to verify the reports.He said the US is “likely” to give details on new military assistance for Israel later on Sunday, adding that, “Our first focus is to make sure Israel has what it needs.
This just as the Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, on Sunday, spoke with the leader of Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad after the latest developments, state media in Iran reports. “Raisi discussed the developments in Palestine in separate phone calls with Ziyad al-Nakhalah, secretary general of the Islamic Jihad Movement, and Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political bureau,” state news agency IRNA reported, without giving further details.
“I am congratulating this great and strategic victory, which is a serious warning to all compromisers in the region,” he added in a letter to Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Saturday.At the time, Raisi said Israel was seeking to normalise ties with more Arab and Muslim countries “to discourage young Palestinians from liberate the occupied territories,” according to the Iranian presidency.
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