Israel said it has notified the families of 120 hostages taken captive by Hamas during its cross-border attack.
In an update early Saturday, Israel Defense Forces spokesman Jonathan Conricus stressed that Palestinian civilians “are not our enemies.” “We are fighting against Hamas, that needs to be abundantly clear,” he said. The comments come after the IDF gave civilians 24 hours to evacuate northern Gaza and as Israeli troops gather around the border for an anticipated ground invasion. Conricus said the IDF alerted Palestinian civilians in advance, “not because it has any military logic. It doesn’t.
1 million people so quickly potentially “calamitous.” Gaza is facing food and water shortages, while hospitals are running out of power after Israel ordered a “full siege” of the territory this week. Hamas told citizens to stay and dismissed the evacuation order as psychological warfare, a move Conricus described as the “peak of cynicism.
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