Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the country was “at war” on Saturday, after Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a deadly barrage of rockets and sent gunmen into Israeli territory in a major escalation of the long running conflict between the two sides.
The early-morning surprise assault, which has left at least 40 people
dead and over 779 injured, according to Israel’s rescue service Magen
David Adom (MDA), is unprecedented in recent history in its scale and
scope. It comes on the 50th anniversary of the 1973 War in which
states blitzed Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
A barrage of some 2,200 rockets were launched from the Gaza
Strip into Israel on Saturday morning starting at 6:30 a.m.,
according to the Israeli military, while armed gunmen infiltrated
across the border in a ground assault into southern Israel.
Multiple explosions were heard over Jerusalem, Tel Aviv
and in southern Israel – some blasts likely the interceptions
of incoming rockets – with air raids sent Israelis pouring into underground
shelters.
Story Source: CNN News
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