GAZA/JERUSALEM — Israel bombarded Gaza with air strikes early on Monday (Oct 23) and its aircraft struck southern Lebanon overnight, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a meeting of his top generals and his war cabinet to assess the escalating conflict.
A Palestinian boy checks the damage at a mosque which was hit in an Israeli air strike, in Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Oct 22, 2023.
Health authorities in Gaza said at least 4,600 people were killed in Israel's two-week bombardment that began after a Hamas Oct 7 rampage on southern Israeli communities in which 1,400 people were killed and 212 were taken into Gaza as hostages. Fears that the Israel-Hamas war could mushroom into a wider Middle East conflict rose over the weekend with Washington warning of a significant risk to United States interests in the region and announcing a new deployment of advanced air defenses.
Iranian security officials told Reuters Iran's strategy was for Middle East proxies like Hezbollah to pursue limited strikes on Israeli and US targets but to avoid a major escalation that would draw in Tehran, a high-wire act for the Islamic Republic. Israeli aircraft struck two Hezbollah cells in Lebanon early on Monday which were planning to launch anti-tank missiles and rockets toward Israel, its military said.
A second convoy of 14 aid trucks entered the Rafah crossing to the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday night, and US President Joe Biden and Netanyahu affirmed in a call that"there will now be continued flow of this critical assistance into Gaza", the White House said.
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