Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to 'demolish Hamas' as his military prepared ground operations in Gaza to root out the militant
FILE IMAGE: Palestinians walk in an empty street as smoke rises nearby in the aftermath of Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to “demolish Hamas” as his military prepared ground operations in Gaza to root out the militant group, whose deadly rampage through Israeli border towns stunned the nation.
In a call with his French counterpart, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi warned about further escalation if Israel attacked the Gaza Strip, Iranian state media reported. “May God keep me alive to take care of her,” said her grandmother Um Muhammed Al-Laham, who held the little girl’s hand as she lay in a hospital with a bandaged arm and on a drip.
Some Palestinians who went south said they were heading back north because they were attacked wherever they went. The World Health Organization said Israel’s orders for the evacuation of 22 Gaza hospitals were a “death sentence for the sick and injured”.
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