Israel stepped up its response to Hamas' surprise attack with increased bombing as its warplanes hit more than 200 targets in Gaza City overnight.
Gaza's Health Ministry said more than 1,000 people were killed and 5,000 injured in this crowded coastal area, according to a New Arab's Gaza reporter.
Videos circulating online show young children and civilians killed in strikes. Meanwhile, Hamas fired a series of large rockets at the Israeli city of Ashkelon in response to the attack in Gaza, while rockets were also launched from southern Lebanon towards the western Galilee.
Israel intercepted a number of missiles. Former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal has called for protests across the Muslim world in support of the Palestinians and urged people in neighboring countries to join the fight against Israel.
“[We must] reach the squares and streets of the Arab and Muslim world on Friday,” Meshaal, who now heads the diaspora office of Hamas, said in a recorded statement sent to Reuters. Meshaal, based in Qatar, said the governments and people of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt have a greater obligation to support the Palestinians.
“Tribes of Jordan, sons of Jordan, brothers and sisters of Jordan... This is the moment of truth, and the border is close to you; you all know your responsibility,” Meshaal said. Jordan and Lebanon are home to the largest number of Palestinian refugees.
"For all scholars who teach jihad... for all those who teach and learn, this is the time to put theory into practice,” Meshaal said. Israel kills two Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem Two Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli police in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday evening, October 10, as protests broke out in various parts of the city following Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
Abdel Rahman Faraj, 18, and Ali Abbasi, 24, were killed in clashes in Silwan, near the old city. Israel kills at least 1,000 infiltrators in Gaza during nationwide reinforcement (Israeli army) Israeli troops killed at least 1,000 Palestinian gunmen who infiltrated from Gaza in attacks that began over the weekend and reinforced all communities in Israel as hostilities spread, the Israeli army said Wednesday to other fronts.
In a quote posted online by the Israel Hayom newspaper, chief military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari also said that among the Hamas targets destroyed in the counterattack in Gaza was a computer tracking system. advanced flying.