Israel’s death toll rose to 1,200 with over 2,700 wounded, its military said, from Hamas militants’ weekend rampage after breaching the border fence enclosing
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to form a war cabinet with former defence minister and the main opposition party leader, Benny Gantz, a joint statement from Gantz’s National Unity party said.Israeli reprisal attacks on blockaded Gaza have killed 1,100 people and wounded 5,339, Gaza’s Health Ministry said. Some 535 residential buildings had been destroyed leaving around 250,000 homeless, Hamas officials said. Most of the displaced were in U.N.
Hamas’s armed wing said it had targeted the northern Israeli coastal city of Haifa with an R60 rocket. There were no immediate reports of casualties after sirens sounded in Haifa and nearby towns.
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