Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared a gruesome photo of a child’s bed covered in blood, declaring “Hamas is worse than ISIS” — as the death toll Wednesday reached 1,000 on each side of the Israel-Gaza border.
The prime minister posted the blood-soaked graphic before he and a leading opposition figure agreed to form an emergency unity government.
The wartime cabinet – which is creating a degree of unity after years of divisive politics – comes as the Israeli military looks increasingly likely to launch a fierce ground attack on Gaza.
The move is likely to raise the death toll in a war that has claimed the lives of 1,200 Israelis and 1,100 Palestinians, according to officials.
Under intense public pressure to oust Hamas, the new unity government will consist of Netanyahu, Benny Gantz — a senior opposition figure and former defense minister — and current Defense Minister Yoavi Gallant.
The coalition will imbue leadership with greater military experience, which will boost public trust and increase the government’s legitimacy to make important wartime moves, such as ground attacks, political analysts say. Israel has mobilized about 360,000 reservists.
“Expertise and legitimacy, these are the two assets that the government now has to fight this war,” Professor Gideon Rahat, a political scientist at Hebrew University and senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute told the Wall Street Journal.
Twitter/Benjamin Netanyahu Destruction caused by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 11, 2023.AP Photo/Adel Hana The cabinet, which will focus only on war issues, will consist of Netanyahu, Benny Gantz — a senior opposition figure and former defense minister — and current Minister of Defense Yoava Gallant.AP
Meanwhile, Israel continued its bombardment of the closed Gaza Strip until Wednesday – with strikes flattening neighborhoods as the region’s only power plant ran out of fuel.
The military said dozens of its fighter jets had struck more than 200 targets in Gaza City neighborhoods Tuesday night that it claimed had been used by Hamas to launch its attacks.
“We start the attack from the air, then we will also come from the ground,” Gallant, the defense minister, told Israeli soldiers near the fence.
The worst attack on Israel in 50 years: How we got here
2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip three decades after winning the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.
2006: The terrorist group Hamas wins Palestinian legislative elections.
2007: Hamas takes control of Gaza in a civil war.
2008: Israel launched a military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fired rockets into the city of Sderot.
2023: Hamas launches its biggest attack on Israel in 50 years.
More than 1,200 Israelis have been killed, more than 3,000 injured and at least 100 taken hostage, with the death toll expected to rise after Hamas terrorists fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of militants into Israeli cities.
Hamas terrorists are seen taking women hostage and parading them through the streets in a gruesome video.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced “We are at war” and promised Hamas would pay an “unprecedented price.”
Gaza health officials reported at least 1,050 Palestinians killed and more than 5,000 injured.
The Hamas-run Interior Ministry said Israeli airstrikes had destroyed the entire al-Karama neighborhood in Gaza City — with “a large number” of people killed or injured.
Some 250,000 have been displaced amid the destruction, Hamas officials said.
After Gaza’s only power plant ran out of fuel Wednesday evening, the region’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, warned it only had enough fuel to keep electricity running for three days, according to Matthias Kannes, a Doctors Without Borders official. based in Gaza.
Other hospital generators are likely to run out within five days, the Palestinian Red Crescent added.
The IDF fires artillery into Gaza amid clashes between Israel and Hamas on October 11, 2023. Ilia Yefimovich/dpa via ZUMA Press Benny Gantz is a senior opposition figure and former defense minister.AP
Elsewhere, Hamas terrorists in Gaza – who are still holding about 150 men, women and children hostage – continued to fire rockets into Israel Wednesday, including a heavy raid on the southern city of Ashkelon.
Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted at least one rocket before it rained down on the city.
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The children’s wing of Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon took a direct hit from one of the attacks, although no casualties were reported.
The risk of war spilling over became apparent on Wednesday after Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah fired anti-tank missiles at Israeli military positions and claimed to have killed and wounded soldiers.
Injured Palestinian children receive treatment in an ambulance in Khan Younis.REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa Palestinians carry bodies out of the rubble in Khan Younis.REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa Gallant, also part of the newly formed Cabinet, said the country ” will not allow a reality where Israeli children are killed.” Getty Images
The Israeli military confirmed the attack, although it would not comment on possible casualties.
After nightfall, Israel urged residents in the north to take cover after it detected “hostile aircraft” coming in from Lebanon. But the Israeli military later said a warning alert for incoming aircraft, far from Gaza in the south, may not have worked.
As of Wednesday, Israel’s death toll was 1,200 with more than 2,700 wounded, its military said. Meanwhile, Israel’s counterattack on Gaza has killed 1,100 people and injured more than 5,300, the Gaza Ministry of Health said.
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