🇮🇱 An emergency meeting of the Israeli government, chaired by Netanyahu, has commenced

Against the backdrop of escalating tensions, Netanyahu identified the primary objective for Israeli forces as clearing the areas under attack and restoring security. He also called upon Israelis to unite in order to achieve victory in the war.

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📹 Hamas fighters dropped a projectile from a drone on an Israeli military automatic machine gun

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📹 The site of a missile hit in a southern suburb of Tel Aviv, the city of Rishon Lezion

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🇷🇺🗣 Russian Foreign Ministry on the escalation in Israel:

▪️Moscow expresses its most serious concern about the sharp escalation of the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone;

▪️Russia calls on the parties to forge a ceasefire, renounce violence and establish a negotiation process with the assistance of the international community;

▪️Moscow regards the escalation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone as a consequence of non-compliance with UN and Security Council resolutions.

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📹 Four captured Israeli Merkava tanks and one Namer armored personnel carrier allegedly shown in footage that has appeared on social networks

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⚡️ The number of casualties in Israel due to the escalation with Palestine has increased to 779, media reports

🇮🇱 Israeli military intelligence was caught unprepared by Palestinian shock offensive

🗣 Hamas has been preparing this operation for a long time, Retired Brig. Gen. Dr. Meir Elran, a senior research fellow and head of three security programs at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, believes.

💬 "They have been trying to deceive and to hide this from us. And apparently they were successful. And this just shows you that here in this neighborhood, here in the Middle East, anything can happen. Even those things that you do not really predict will happen", Dr. Elran said.

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⚡️ Civilians are being held hostage in their homes in the towns of Be'eri and Ofakim in southern Israel, according to a local newspaper

⚡️The Israeli cabinet meeting has ended without any decisions being made and will take place again this evening