About 1,000 people have been confirmed dead in Israel and Gaza after a massive co-ordinated assault by Hamas militants that started early Saturday
Summary
- About 1,000 people have been confirmed dead in Israel and Gaza after a massive co-ordinated assault by Hamas militants that started early Saturday
- In Gaza, air strikes have displaced 123,000 Palestinians with close to 74,000 seeking shelter in schools, the UN says
- Oil prices jumped on Monday as investors gauged the possibility of a prolonged conflict in the oil-producing region
- The US is moving its aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, closer to Israel as President Joe Biden pledged Washington’s ‘rock solid’ support to Tel Aviv
- On Sunday night, rockets were still being fired from the Palestinian enclave of Gaza into southern Israel, a BBC reporter said
- A wave of attacks launched by the Hamas militant group on Saturday morning was the biggest escalation between the two sides for decades
- Several other nations have said their own citizens have been killed or abducted by Hamas, and the UN Security Council held crisis talks on Sunday
