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TANK RAID. This screen grab taken from handout footage released by the Israeli army on October 26 shows a"targeted raid" in northern Gaza through a gap in the border fence with tanks and infantry. AFPIsrael said Thursday that a column of tanks and infantry had launched an overnight raid into Hamas-controlled Gaza, striking “numerous” targets before retreating to home soil.
In Manila, the Department of Foreign Affairs on Thursday said three Filipinos are still in Gaza City, the center of hostilities between the IDF and Hamas terrorist group. Some 133 have already fled to the south of Gaza and are waiting to leave through Egypt. Just hours earlier Netanyahu had delivered a nationally televised address to Israelis still grieving and furious after Hamas’s bloody Oct. 7 attacks, telling them “we are in the midst of a campaign for our existence.”
He pledged to “eliminate Hamas” and “bring our captives home” but stressed that “I will not detail when, how or how many” forces would take part. “It’s their decision, but I did not demand it,” Biden said, as he called on Congress to allocate more money for Israeli defense. About 1.4 million people — more than half of Gaza’s population — have been displaced, according to the United Nations.
“We performed a number of surgeries without anesthetic,” said Ahmad Abdul Hadi, an orthopedic surgeon working at Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis.The war has sparked fears of a regional conflagration if it draws in more of Israel’s enemies. Violence has also risen sharply in the occupied West Bank, where health officials said more than 100 Palestinians had been killed, mostly in raids by Israeli troops or in clashes with Israeli settlers.
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