Israel is set to carry out “large-scale” attacks on Gaza today to targets belonging to Hamas, the country’s military has said.
The Israeli Defence Force gave no other details.
Gaza has been relentlessly pounded in recent days in retaliation for deadly attacks by the terrorist group that have killed 1,200 Israelis, a staggering toll unseen since the 1973 war with Egypt and Syria that lasted weeks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that the attackers engaged in atrocities, including binding children and shooting them in the head, burning people alive, raping women and beheading soldiers.
A further 1,200 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, while Israel’s military claims to have taken out roughly 1,500 Hamas militants were killed inside Israel.
Even with the evacuation warnings, Palestinians say some are unable to escape or have nowhere to go, and that entire families have been crushed under rubble.
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