itemprop=description content=The United Nations said more than 123,000 Gazans have been displaced by the fighting.
Israel’s military scoured the country’s south for Hamas fighters and guarded breaches in its border fence with tanks on Monday, as it pounded the Gaza Strip from the air
Civilians are already paying a high price. Around 700 people have been killed in Israel – a staggering toll by the scale of its recent conflicts, and nearly 500 have been killed in Gaza, a tiny, impoverished enclave of 2.3 million Palestinians bordering Israel and Egypt.Chief military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told reporters Israel has “control” of its border communities.He warned, however, that there could still be militants in the area and that forces are carrying out searches.
He also provided the first official acknowledgement of the death toll, saying around 700 had been killed on the Israeli side. Hamas is deeply rooted in Gaza and has ruled the territory since driving out forces loyal to the internationally recognised Palestinian Authority in 2007. Its rule has gone unchallenged through a 16-year Israeli and Egyptian blockade and four previous wars with Israel.
The Palestinians want a state of their own in all three territories, captured by Israel in the 1967 war, but the last serious peace talks broke down well over a decade ago, and Israel’s far-right government is opposed to Palestinian statehood. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said a school sheltering more than 225 people took a direct hit. It did not say where the fire came from.
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