Israeli forces clashed with gunmen from the Palestinian group Hamas on Sunday.
Israeli forces clashed with gunmen from the Palestinian group Hamas on Sunday, 24 hours after the militants launched a surprise attack on Israel in which about 500 people were killed in the deadliest day of violence in Israel for 50 years.
The conflict was spreading, with fire from Lebanon into northern Israel, which the armed group Hezbollah said it carried out "in solidarity" with the Palestinian people. Hamas fighters killed at least 250 Israelis in clashes throughout Saturday and into Sunday, and escaped back into Gaza with dozens of hostages. More than 250 Gazans were killed when Israel responded with one of its most devastating days of retaliatory strikes.
In the north, Iran-backed Hezbollah said in a statement it had carried out a rocket and artillery attack on three posts including a "radar site" in the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms, a slice of land occupied by Israel since 1967 that Lebanon claims.The escalation comes against a backdrop of surging violence between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where a Palestinian authority exercises limited self-rule, opposed by Hamas that wants Israel destroyed.
Bodies of Israeli civilians surrounded by broken glass were strewn across the streets of Sderot in southern Israel near Gaza. The bodies of a man and woman were sprawled across the front seats of a car.Flares illuminate the sky over northern Gaza, as seen from Ashkelon, southern Israel October 7, 2023.Senior military officers were among those killed in fighting near Gaza, the Israeli military said.
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