And more than 70 Israeli soldiers have been killed in fighting since the offensive was launched, the Israeli military says. 7, mostly civilians, according to the Israeli government. At the same time, many Israelis have been torn over how hard to retaliate against Hamas - the militant group killed 1,200 Israelis on Oct. “I do not think it is necessary to belabor the point, not even now, but I hope there will be good news soon.”īut his handling of the war and the hostage crisis has cost him politically and come at a time when the country was dangerously polarized. In the hours leading to the announcement of the truce, Netanyahu’s office sought to extend a bit of hope to his anxious and shaken nation: “We are currently advancing,” he said. International condemnation has intensified against Israel in recent weeks as Palestinian deaths have soared, medical centers have been devastated and bodies of children have been pulled from rubble.īiden and European leaders have pressed Netanyahu to pause the fighting to allow a hostage release and open humanitarian corridors through Egypt for shipments of fuel, food and medical supplies to reach Gazans in what the United Nations has described as a war with a “staggering and unacceptable number of civilian casualties.” Netanyahu is navigating mounting political peril as his right-wing government, some of whose members oppose any deal with Hamas, has been criticized by families of hostages for not doing enough to free their loved ones. With infrastructure and neighborhoods a shambles, Gaza is facing a humanitarian crisis of power outages, food shortages and more than 1 million people displaced. Israel’s ground invasion and round-the-clock aerial bombardment have killed more than 13,000 Palestinians, more than half women and children, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.

World & Nation Inside the Israeli lab ‘reassembling and reconnecting’ the mangled bodies of the deadĪ forensic investigator in Tel Aviv works to reassemble remains of victims of Hamas militants, trying to understand the causes of death and the underlying cruelty.

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