The heavy Israeli air, land and sea bombardment of the Gaza Strip continued, hospitals filled with the injured, and the only power plant in the Gaza Strip stopped after running out of fuel.

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Edited by| Hugh Gey

 

Middle East  section -  CJ journalist

 

Tel Aviv - October,12,2023  

 

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The intensive Israeli bombardment continues by air, land and sea on the Gaza Strip, where 1,100 Palestinians were killed (including at least 140 children, according to the organization "Save the children"), and another 5,184 thousand citizens were injured, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip،

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced on Wednesday night that it had released an Israeli woman with her two children, according to a statement and a video broadcast by the Palestinian movement's Al-Aqsa satellite.

"An Israeli settler and her two children were released after being detained during the clashes,"al-Qassam said in a statement. The video showed a woman in a blue T-shirt with two children walking away from an area where barbed wire was erected, accompanied by three elements of the movement.

Israeli security forces have killed at least 27 Palestinians during clashes in the West Bank since Saturday after Palestinian factions called on citizens in the Palestinian territories to participate in the fight against the Israeli occupation.

Israeli security forces and masked Jewish settlers killed three Palestinians in the village of Qusra near the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday, the Palestinian foreign ministry said, after the Israeli army said it would distribute thousands of weapons to licensed holders to "strengthen defense systems" throughout the country.

The Israeli military said it was ready for an escalation in the West Bank and that its forces were on high alert, making arrests and thwarting possible attacks.

"Anyone who challenges us in Judea and Samaria, we will respond with fierce force," Israeli army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said This Week, Using the Jewish name for the West Bank in the Torah.

US President Joe Biden called on Israel on Wednesday to respect the "laws of war" in its response to the attack launched by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, while warning Iran against interfering in the current conflict between the Jewish state and the Palestinian movement.

"I have told the Israeli Prime Minister (Benjamin Netanyahu) one thing is that it is really important that Israel, despite all the anger and resentment it has, act in accordance with the laws of war," Biden said during a meeting with representatives of Jewish Americans in the United States, adding that "I have sent a clear message to the Iranians: beware.

"We will continue to work with our partners in Israel and around the world to ensure that Israel has what it takes to defend its citizens and cities and respond to these attacks,"he said.

On Wednesday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned members of the Palestinian Hamas movement that "every Hamas member is a dead man".

Netanyahu's statement came as he announced the formation of an Israeli emergency government with the accession of opposition leader and former Defense Minister Benny Gantz.

Gantz said the cooperation between the opposition and Netanyahu was" not political "but a"partnership for the fate of Israel".

He added: "Our partnership will lead to a clear victory, it will change the reality as we face all the challenges . There is a time of peace and a time of war, and now is the time of war".

Current Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said during the announcement that his country would "wipe Hamas off the face of the earth".

 

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