Israel kept pounding Hamas targets in Gaza, where entire city blocks lay in rubble Wednesday, as its soldiers sweeping battle-torn southern towns found more victims five days after the Islamist militants' onslaught.
Fears have been intense in Israel for the fate of at least 150 hostages – mostly Israelis but also including foreign and dual nationals – being held in Gaza by Hamas.
President Joe Biden has pledged to send more munitions and military hardware to its close ally Israel and expressed revulsion at the "sheer evil" of the slaughter of civilians in the unprecedented assault Hamas unleashed from Saturday. Israel again struck targets Wednesday in southern Lebanon, an area controlled by Hezbollah, an ally of Israel's arch enemy Iran.
Israeli forces have retaken more than a dozen southern towns near Gaza after days of gruelling street battles that have left the bodies of at least 1,500 Hamas militants strewn in the streets. "The war is progressing well," said Weizman Nissan, 72, a resident of Sderot near Gaza and a veteran of three of Israel's wars.
Rubble, burnt out cars and broken glass covered roads in Gaza City, where bombs struck the Hamas-linked Islamic University. Also targeted were residential buildings, mosques, factories and shops, said Salama Marouf of the Gaza government's media office. Israeli cities have been eerily quiet and tense, with some residents noting a growing sense of fear and distrust between Jews and members of the Arab-Israeli minority.
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