Israel says 1,300 of its citizens have died since Hamas carried out a wave of attacks after storming the border from Gaza at the weekend.
Hundreds of children and women are reported to have been killed in Gaza following days of Israeli airstrikes - as the US said Hamas's surprise attack on Israel was 'equivalent to ten 9/11s'. At least 500 children and 276 women are among the estimated 1,537 Palestinians who have died with more than 6,000 wounded, the Gaza health ministry has said. The total figure is 120 more deaths than the ministry reported this afternoon.
' The overnight retaliatory strikes targeted Hamas's elite Nukhba forces, including command centres used by the fighters who attacked Israel, and the home of a senior Hamas operative where unspecified weapons were stored, the Israeli military said. Elsewhere, Israeli airstrikes have struck the international airports of the Syrian capital Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo, damaging their runways and putting them out of service, said Syrian state media.
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