Israel Palestine conflict LIVE: More Israeli reservists are drafted in as warplanes hammer neighborhoods in Gaza and reduce buildings to rubble

Israeli warplanes hammered neighbourhoods on the Gaza Strip last night reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety.

Israel has now stopped the entry of food, fuel and medicines into Gaza into response to Hamas' lethal attack in Israel on Saturday.

Yesterday, the sole remaining access from Egypt shut down following airstrikes near the border.

The death toll from the war that began just days ago has alreday claimed at least 1,900 lives on both sides - and is expected to climb.

More than 150 people have been kidnapped by Hamas, with families around the world fearing for loved ones.

More than 137,000 Palestinians were packed into United Nations shelters, and the World Health Organization reported that the medical supplies it had pre-positioned in seven Gaza hospitals were already used up.

The head of Doctors Without Borders for the Palestinian Territories said he was concerned the humanitarian medical group's team in Gaza would soon run out of medical supplies.

Pictured: A young girl being rescued from the rubble of a destroyed residential building in Gaza

Israel has expanded its mobilization of military reservists to 360,000, the country's news outlets have reported.

The chief military spokesman emphasized the unprecedented nature of the current campaign against Hamas, saying 'all options are on the table'.

• Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to meet opposition leaders to discuss a unity government;
• Reservists drafted into active service swelled the IDF’s ranks to more than 600,000;
• The scale of Hamas’s brutality was laid bare amid claims women and babies had been beheaded;
• The Home Secretary wrote to chief constables urging warning pro-Palestinian slogans could constitute a hate crime;
• President Joe Biden confirmed 14 US citizens had been killed and at least 20 taken hostage;
• The FA continued to drag its feet over illuminating Wembley Arch to show support to the victims of the Hamas atrocity;
• The Board of Deputies of British Jews wrote to the Culture Secretary to complain about BBC coverage of the attacks.
• Last night there were fears of escalation after Israel’s military said a number of shells were fired from Syrian territory. Syria’s government did not comment.

A Briton has told of the horrific moment he discovered his 78-year-old mother had been kidnapped from a retirement home in southern Israel by Hamas gunmen who left nothing behind of her but bloodstains on the walls where she was living.

Noam Sagi, 53, said he woke on Saturday morning to frantic phone calls from relatives in Israel worried for the safety of his mother, Ada Sagi.

Ada, whose parents survived the Holocaust, was among 90 residents of the Nir-Oz Kibbutz who were shot, injured and abducted during a terrifying raid on the settlement close to the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning.

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The UK’s largest Jewish community body has said the BBC’s refusal to call Hamas a terrorist organisation ‘feels little short of obscene’.

While the Government classifies the Palestinian group as a single terrorist organisation, the broadcaster has continually referred to it as a ‘militant’ group and the killing of civilians as ‘militant’ attacks.

BBC bosses are under pressure to change their guidelines, with ministers criticising the corporation’s refusal to use the term ‘terrorists’.

A 66-year-old Sydney-born woman is the first known Australian to die in the Hamas attack on Israel, Australia's government said Wednesday.

Australian Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil said Galit Carbone was killed Saturday at the Be'eri kibbutz near Gaza.

O'Neil told Seven Network television that Carbone's death was a 'senseless act of violence ... and the Australian government condemns it in the strongest possible terms'.

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong is leading government efforts to help an estimated 10,000 Australians in Israel who want to leave.

The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations described Israel's bombing of the Gaza Strip and vow to completely seige the Hamas-controlled enclave as 'nothing less than genocidal'.

Israel retaliated with air strikes on Gaza after Hamas launched the deadliest attack in Israel's history when gunman rampage through its towns, killing more than 1,000 people.

It led to a 'total blockade' to stop foot and fuel reaching Gaza, home to 2.3 million people, on Monday.

Last night Palestinain UN envoy Riyad Mansour wrote a letter to the UN Security Council, seen by Reuters.

He said: 'These acts constitute war crimes.'

The boat in the port of Gaza City was ablaze following the strike by Israel yesterday.

Israeli Defence Forces carry the coffin of their comrade Noam Elimeleh Rothenburg during his funeral at Mount Herzel Cemtery in Jerusalem last night.

An Israeli woman has been hailed a hero after saving kibbutz Nir Am from Hamas as infiltrating terrorists began to invade.

Inbar Lieberman, 25, who is the security coordinator for the village near the Gaza Strip, lead a group of residents to kill more than two dozen advancing terrorists.

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At least 187,518 people living across the Gaza Strip have been displaced in the last four days, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.

The aid agency warned the figure is likely to rise, with its shelters having a limited amount of clean drinking water, cleaning supplies and blankets.

Canada is planning to evacuate Canadians from Israel in the coming days with the help of aircraft from the Canadian Armed Forces, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said on Tuesday.

'We are planning to begin the assisted departure of Canadians from Tel Aviv in the coming days ... We are also working on additional options for those who cannot reach the airport in Tel Aviv,' Joly said on X, formerly Twitter.

A protester scaled Sheffield Town Hall and ripped down the Israeli flag, replacing it with the Palestine flag to applause from gathered crowds.

Academics at some of Britain’s top universities have been accused of legitimising Hamas' attacks on Israel that have so far killed an estimately 1,000 people.

Professor Dr Ashok Kumar at Birkbeck University of London and Dr Mahvish Ahmad, an assistant professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) appeared to express justification for the attacks in posts that were condemned on social media.

Professor Dr Kumar claimed the gunning down of innocent Israelis at the Supernova outdoor rave was a ‘consequence’ for ‘partying on stolen land’ while Dr Ahmad called on students to show solidarity with the 'Palestinian struggle'.

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US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will travel to Israel tomorrow to meet senior leaders of the country, Sky reports.

He will then travel to Jordan to meet senior officials.

White House spokesperson Matthew Miller said: 'It will be a message of solidarity and support.

'He, of course, wants to hear from the leaders of Israel, hear from them directly about the situation they're facing about what they need and how we can best support them.'

An Israeli woman has been hailed a hero after saving kibbutz Nir Am from Hamas as infiltrating terrorists began to invade.

Inbar Lieberman, 25, who is the security coordinator for the village near the Gaza Strip, lead a group of residents to kill more than two dozen advancing terrorists.

Lieberman, who has been part of the security detail in the region since December 2022, heard explosions erupting early Saturday when Hamas launched the unprecedented and deadly attack on Israel, according to Walla News.

Gigi Hadid has broken her silence on Hamas' attacks on Israel which left at least 1,400 Israelis and Palestinians dead.

The supermodel, 28, whose father Mohamed, 74, is of Palestinian origin, took to Instagram to share a post condemning the 'terrorizing of innocent people' under the Free Palestine movement' and sending love and support to her Palestinian and Jewish friends.

Israel launched retaliatory strikes against Hamas after the militant group launched a series of attacks on Saturday which killed more than 1,000 people, in the biggest escalation in the region in decades.

Irish premier Leo Varadkar has said international solidarity for Israel will dissipate if it 'goes too far' in its response to recent attacks by Hamas.

The Taoiseach also expressed his support for the family of 22-year-old Kim Damti, who has been unaccounted for in Israel since Saturday.

'I think like everyone, I'm just really horrified at what we're seeing happening in Israel and Palestine, particularly the targeting of civilians, the killing of women and children and the taking of hostages,' he told RTE.

'We're particularly concerned for an Irish-Israeli citizen, Kim Damti, we don't know yet whether or not she's still alive.

'We certainly hope she is and will help in any way that we can. I heard her mother speak several times now, I don't think anyone's heart could not go out to a family worried in the way they are.

'And one thing Hamas has done is not just attack the people of Israel but also citizens of many other countries as well. From Ireland's point of view, we are saying to Israel, that, yes, you have a right to defend yourself, you're surrounded by enemies who want to end your existence, but any response must be proportionate.'

The first plane carrying US ammunition has landed in Israel, the Israli military has said.

It comes after the US said it would supply air defenses, munitions and other security assistance to its ally.

Earlier President Joe Biden said the US is 'surging' extra military assistance into Israel.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv is 'certain' Russia is supporting Hamas operations in Israel.

He told France 2 television channel tonight: 'We are certain that Russia is supporting, in one way or another, Hamas operations.

'The current crisis ... bears wtiness to the fact that Russia really is seeking to carry out destablising action all over the world.'

He added: 'I don't wish to make any comparisons. There is a terrible war going in our country. In Israel, many peopel have lost their loved ones. These tragedies are dfferent, but both are immense.

There is a risk that international attention will turn away from Ukraine, and that will have consequences.'

The war between Hamas militants and Israel has threatened to engulf the Middle East as neighbouring countries were drawn into the conflict and US president Joe Biden urged aligned groups not to get involved.

At least 1,800 people have been killed since Saturday when the Al-Qassam Brigades, the militia arm of Hamas, staged a surprise attack on Israel that saw a fusillade of missiles launched into the country and gunmen invade its streets.

Today, the war has escalated to draw in surrounding territories after shells were fired from Syria into Israel, reportedly by a Palestinian faction, prompting Israeli troops to fire back.

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Israeli troops fired artillery and mortar shells toward Syria on Tuesday after a number of shells launched from its northern neighbour landed in open areas on Israeli territory, Israel's military said.

A source in southern Syria told Reuters news agency a Palestinian faction had fired three rockets toward Israel.

The development raises fears the violence could lead to a wider war, as Israel trades cross-border salvoes with Lebanon's Hezbollah and battles Hamas militants in Gaza.

The military said its soldiers had fired 'toward the origin of the launching in Syria'. It did not provide details.

Two Palestians have been killed during a clash wtih Israeli security for two Palestinians killed during clashes with Israeli Security forces, Palestinian state television has reported.

Israel's military have said that a number of shells have been launched from Syrian territory toward Israel, with some landing in open areas in Israeli terrirtory.

The military did not provide details. There were no reports of damage or injuries.

The IDF said its soliders are responding with artillery and mortar shells towards the origin.

Israeli airstrikes struck the only land exit from Gaza into Egypt today, shortly after a senior IDF spokesperson advised civilians in the Strip to flee through it.

Sinai for Human Rights, an Egyptian NGO, said that strikes through Tuesday had forced the border shut. Witnesses claim a building was damaged, Afp reported.

The Israeli military confirmed area strikes, claiming hits on 'an underground tunnel for smuggling weapons and equipment'. No casualties were reported.

The number of Palestinains killed has risen from 830 to 900, the Gaza health ministry has said.

Among those dead are 260 children and 230 women while the number of people wounded has risen to 4,600.

The airstrikes have caused the deaths of 150 members of 22 families, six health workers, and eight journalists, while 15 health workers and 20 journalists have been wounded, the ministry said.

Airstrikes on residential neighborhoods have displaced approximately 140,000 citizens to U.N. shelters and hospitals, the ministry said. The U.N. is reporting that at least 200,000 residents have been displaced.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is set to travel to Israel 'within the coming days', the BBC has reported.

Blinken, who is Jewish, is expect to travel to Israel 'to engage our Israeli partners directly about the situation on the ground'.

Statedepartment spokeesperson Matthew Miller said the meeting will navigate how the US can continue tot support Israel.

He said, according to CNN: 'The secretary looks forward to meeting with senior leaders in the Israeli government and continuing the discussions he and the president have been having with them since the initial attacks on Saturday.'

Suella Braverman has urged officers to use the 'full force of the law' against shows of support for Hamas or bids to intimidate the UK's Jewish community in the wake of the terror group's attack on Israel.

Waving a Palestinian flag on British streets 'may not be legitimate' if it is deemed to be a show of support for acts of terrorism, the Home Secretary told police chiefs.

Police should also consider whether chants such as 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free', which is popular with the Palestine solidarity movement, 'should be understood as an expression of a violent desire to see Israel erased from the world' and amount to a racially aggravated public order offence.

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Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a phone call today, the Turkish presidency said.

The two leaders discussed possible measures to prevent increasing the tensions in the region and initiatives for delivering humanitarian aid there, it said in a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.

In the call, Erdogan said Turkey will maintain its efforts to ensure calm in the region, according to the statement.

Tonight President Joe Biden said the number of American citizens killed in Israel has risen to 14.

Meanwhile at least eight French citizens have been killed during the fighting.

Joe Biden calls Hamas attack 'an act of sheer evil' as he speaks at the White House, as he confirms at least 11 Americans have been killed.

He said: 'The people of Israel lived through moment of unadulterated evil this weekend.'

'In this moment we must be clear. We stand with Israel. There is no justification for terrorism, there is no excuse.'

'Holocaust survivors are among those held hostage by Hamas,' he said.

'Women raped, assaulted, paraded as trophies. Families hidden in fear for hours and hours, desperately trying to keep their children quiet to avoid drawing attention.

 And thousands of wounded, alive but carrying with them the bullet holes and the shrapnel wounds and the memory of what they endured.'

'You know these traumas never go away,' he added.

The US President said Israel has a 'duty to respond' to 'viscious attacks' adding 'If the United States was experiencing what you were experiencing our response would be swift, decisive and overwhelming.'

President Biden said he will ask congress to take urgent action to help Israel.

American citizens are amongst those being held by Hamas, with 14 being killed in the attacks.

At least 1,000 people have been killed following attacks by Hamas since Saturday, Israel's Army Radio, run by the Israel Defence Forces, has said tonight.

Meanwhile the Israeli Public Broadcasting service said that more than 2,900 people have been wounded so far.

Rockets being fired over to Israel from Gaza City have been intercepted by its defence missile system, the Iron Dome.

President Joe Biden has said he discussed support for Israel in his call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday after meeting with U.S. national security teams 'to direct next steps'

'We connected with Prime Minister Netanyahu to discuss coordination to support Israel, deter hostile actors, and protect innocent people,' Biden said in a social media post before making public remarks on the situation in Israel.

Joe Biden's speech condeming Hamas and stressing his support for Israel has been delayed.

The US President's meeting with the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, went on for longer than expected, Sky News has reported.

The European Union will continue its support to the Palestinian Authority, its foreign policy chief has said.

Josep Borrell told reporters on Tuesday that it would be a mistake to stop aid.

He said: 'The overwhelming majority of the member states considered that we have to continue our support to the Palestinian Authority and the payments due should not be delayed.'

The chief added that Israel would need to adhere to international law.

He said: 'Israel has the right to defend (itself) but it has to be done accordingly with international law, humanitarian law, and some decisions are contrary to international law.

'Some of the actions - and the United Nations has already said that - (such) as cutting water, cutting electricity, cutting food to a mass of civilian people is against international law.'

Mr Borrell's comments follow a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs ministers this afternoon.

Photographs taken from Ashkelon show Israel's Iron Dome intecepting rockets launched from the Gaza Strip tonight.

The Iron Dome is anti-missile system is an air defence system used to protect Israel from airstrikes.

The British Transport Police is carrying out 'highly visible patrols' in response to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

It said it will carry out the patrol to ensure communities across the UK feel safe in wake of the war.

'Everyone has the right to travel safely, and no one should be targeted because of who they are,' it said, according to Sky.

A young Israeli woman who saw her grandmother being murdered by a Hamas terrorist online broke down today as she described the bloody scene she witnessed after the killer posted the footage to the elderly victim's own Facebook page.

Mor Bayder said she only found out about the tragedy when going on the social media platform to see the horrific post at 7am on Sunday - calling the video the 'nightmare of my life'.

She said it was her aunt that initially alerted her and her mother to the horrific live stream that showed her grandmother's final moments - in a pool of blood on the floor of her home in Israel.

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Joe Biden is set to make a speech in the next hour condeming Hamas and stressing his support for Israel.

The US President is expected to express concerns that Americans might be held hostage by Hamas, a senior White House official said.

The plans to send military assistance from the US to Israel will also be included, Sky reported.

The head of the United Nations humanitarian relief agency this evening called for the immediate release of all people who have been taken hostage in the war between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants.

'My message to all sides is unequivocal: The laws of war must be upheld,' U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths said in a statement.

The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has said it is taking action on a flood of posts sharing graphic images and videos, violent speech and hateful conduct in the wake of the war between Israel and Hamas.

X said tonight it is treating the crisis with its highest level of response after outside watchgroups warned of misinformation being spread on the platform that was bought by billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk last year.

A post late Monday from X's safety team said: 'In the past couple of days, we've seen an increase in daily active users on @X in the conflict area, plus there have been more than 50 million posts globally focusing on the weekend's attack on Israel by Hamas.

'As the events continue to unfold rapidly, a cross-company leadership group has assessed this moment as a crisis requiring the highest level of response.'

An increasing number of calls have been made since the attack began on the weekend, with many strugglign to identify reliable new sources.

Mr Musk had shared the names of two accounts who he claimed were 'good' for 'follwoing the war in real-time' but expert analyst Emerson Brooking from the Atlantic Council slammed one of the accounts as 'absolutely poisonous'.

Israeli soldiers have been seen lying on teh ground to protect themselves from rockets being fired by Palestinains into the city of Ashkelon.

Smoke was seen billiowing from a boat in the port of Gaza this evening following a strike by Israel.

It comes as the death toll from the war, which only started four days ago, rose to 3,000.

Hamas terrorists massacred at least 40 babies and young children before beheading some of them and gunning down their families in a small kibbutz in Israel, horrified Israeli soldiers have revealed.

Some 70 Hamas terrorists wielding guns and grenades stormed the usually quiet Kfar Aza kibbutz in southern Israel, killing anyone - men, women and children - they saw.

The bullet-riddled bodies of Israeli residents now lay in the grounds of the kibbutz among burned out houses, strewn furniture and torched cars. Solemn Israeli soldiers today went from house to house to take away the scores of people massacred there.

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Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah said it has targeted an Israeli tank with a guided missile, two security sources in Lebanon said.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army said a helicopter struck an observation post belonging to the Hezbollah, in response to the anti-tank missile that was launched from Lebanese territory toward a military vehicle in the area of Avivim.

'No injuries were reported,' the Israeli army added.

Israeli soldiers have been retrieving bodies from homes in Kfar Aza kibbutz.

The community is one of the hardest hit areas from attacks by Hamas militants.

Israeli Major General Itai Veruv told Reuters agency at the scene: 'You see the babies, the mothers, the fathers, in their bedrooms, in their protection rooms and how the terrorist kills them.

'It's not a war, it's not a battlefield. It's a massacre.

'It's something we used to imagine from our grandfathers, grandmothers in the pogrom in Europe and other places.'

Palestinians on the Gaza Strip have said the Israeli bombardment has been so heavy they feel like they are living their own 'Nakba'.

Nakba is the Arabic word for catastrophe refering to the 1948 war of Israel's creation that led to Palestinian's dispossesion.

Today Israael pounded the Gaza Strip with the fiercest air strikes in its 75-year conflict with the Palestinians, leaving Gazans like Plestia Alaqad, 22, running for their lives.

'The situation is crazy - literally no place is safe. I've personally evacuated three times since yesterday,' said Alaqad, who has been filming personal accounts of life under bombardment and posting them on her Instagram page.

After her apartment block was hit, she took refuge in a friend's home but then got a call it would be targeted too. After a brief stay in a hospital, where she charged her phone, she headed to another home to take shelter with journalists.

'Only yesterday I understood what my grandpa, may he rest in peace, told me about 1948 and the Nakba. When I used to hear the stories about it, I didn't understand," she said via videocall from a home in Gaza where she and others were seeking refuge from bombardment after the surprise Hamas attack on Israel.

'I'm 22 years old - and yesterday I understood the Nakba completely.'

The mother of German tattoo artist Shani Louk, who was believed to have been murdered by Hamas gunmen during Saturday's brutal attack on an Israeli music festival, has claimed she received word from Palestine her daughter is still alive.

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President Joe Biden on Tuesday will stress US support for Israel as it reels from the killing of more than 1,000 people, including at least 11 Americans, from a surprise attack launched by Palestinian Hamas militants on Saturday.

Biden is set to speak at 1pm ET (1700 GMT) from the White House. He will express concern about the potential that some Americans are being held hostage by Hamas, an Iranian-backed Islamist group, a senior White House official said.

Israel pounded the Gaza Strip on Tuesday with the fiercest air strikes in its 75-year-old conflict with the Palestinians, razing whole districts to dust despite a threat from Hamas militants to execute a captive for each home hit.

Biden will speak after holding his third phone call in four days with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He will outline in his remarks the U.S. military assistance being sent to help Israel in its fight, the official said.

The White House on Monday said it expected to fulfill additional security requests from Israel as quickly as possible.

The United States does not plan to put American military forces on the ground, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters.

Hamas today launched a barrage of rockets at the port city of Ashkelon - hours after the terrorists warned Israeli civilians living there to leave before 5pm or die in response to the airstrikes relentlessly pounding the Gaza strip.

Video shows a series of rockets being fired at the city in southern Israel just after 5pm local time (3pm UK time), with residents there being urged to shelter from the onslaught.

Air raid sirens were heard across the city, with footage showing frantic parents picking up their young children before sprinting into an airport to take cover from the rocket attack.

Panicked civilians, many of whom were desperately trying to flee the carnage on flights, were seen cowering as the sound of shells exploding resounded around them. One woman cried: 'They've closed the doors. Oh my god, I am so scared, we heard a boom and now we wait and see, oh God.'

Hamas's armed wing had warned residents of the city to leave before 5pm Israeli time (3pm UK time) or face death in response to the Israeli airstrikes that have destroyed thousands of Hamas targets and killed 770 Palestinians.

It comes after Israel warned Hamas they had 'nowhere to hide' and that its air force was launching 'extensive attacks' on the Palestinian terrorist group every four hours in revenge for its deadly surprise incursion that saw more than 1,000 Israelis slaughtered.

Hamas militants indiscriminately gunned down civilians and took control of a police station in a small Israeli city in Saturday's surprise offensive.

Sderot, home to 30,000 people, was one of the first settlements to come under attack by the Hamas militants, who moved through the city shortly after dawn.

Harrowing footage of the assault captured by survivors has since emerged, showing how the heavily armed assailants rode into the city on the back of pick-up trucks, killing dozens of civilians before besieging and ultimately seizing its police station.

In response, the Israeli military rolled in and began an over-night stand-off with the militants barricaded inside, turning the city into a war zone.

Israeli troops are gathering in the port city of Ashkelon after Hamas warned civilians living there to get out now or face death 'in response to the airstrikes' that are relentlessly pounding the Gaza strip.

The terrorists also refused to hand over Israeli hostages until the fighting ends - a day after they threatened to execute Israeli civilian captives if the airstrikes continued.

It comes after Israel warned Hamas they had 'nowhere to hide' and that its air force was launching 'extensive attacks' on the Palestinian terrorist group in revenge for its deadly surprise incursion that saw hundreds of Israelis slaughtered.

Israeli forces have already used its strike force of 600 plans and 300 rocket launchers to relentlessly pound the Gaza strip, with airstrikes and artillery destroying thousands of Hamas targets and killing 770 Palestinians.

But Israel today issued a fresh warning to Hamas, with the military saying the terrorists have 'nowhere to hide' in Gaza and that its air force was carrying out 'extensive' airstrikes in waves of every four hours.

'We will reach them everywhere,' military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said, hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to obliterate Hamas.

Netanyahu, who first came to power in Israel in 1996 and has served three separate terms, compared Hamas to the Islamic State group and said Israel planned to deploy 'unprecedented force' that would 'reverberate for generations'.

But in response to the airstrikes, Hamas's armed wing warned the residents of Ashkelon to leave before 5pm Israeli time (3pm UK time) or face death. A spokesman for the militant group’s armed unit Al Qassam announced that it would attack the southern city of Askelon with rockets.

The Israeli embassy in the US has claimed that more than 1,000 Israelis have been killed since Hamas launched their attack on Saturday.

Hamas today warned Israeli civilians to get out of the port city of Ashkelon now 'in response to the airstrikes' that are relentlessly pounding the Gaza strip, suggesting that more bloodshed is imminent.

The terrorists also warned it will not hand over hostages until the fighting ends - a day after they warned they would execute Israeli civilian captives if the airstrikes continued.

It comes after Israel warned Hamas they had 'nowhere to hide' and that its air force was launching 'extensive attacks' on the Palestinian terrorist group in revenge for its deadly surprise incursion that saw hundreds of Israeli's slaughtered.

Israeli forces have already used its strike force of 600 plans and 300 rocket launchers to relentlessly pound the Gaza strip, with airstrikes and artillery destroying thousands of Hamas targets and killing 770 Palestinians.

But Israel today issued a fresh warning to Hamas, with the military saying the terrorists have 'nowhere to hide' in Gaza and that its air force was carrying out 'extensive' airstrikes in waves of every four hours.

'We will reach them everywhere,' military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said, hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to obliterate Hamas.

Netanyahu, who first came to power in Israel in 1996 and has served three separate terms, compared Hamas to the Islamic State group and said Israel planned to deploy 'unprecedented force' that would 'reverberate for generations'.

But in response to the airstrikes, Hamas's armed wing warned the residents of Ashkelon to leave before 5pm Israeli time (3pm UK time).

Hamas armed wing spokesman Abu Ubaida told residents of Israel's port of Ashkelon to leave the area by 5 p.m. (3pm UK time) on Tuesday, without giving any further details.

Netflix star Lior Raz said in a video posted to X that he has joined his 'brothers in arms' on Israel's frontline in order to rescue stricken families in the isolated town of Sderot.

Raz, 51, the star of the Israeli hit Fauda, can be seen in the video alongside the show's creator, Avi Issacharoff, ducking behind a wall as Hamas' rockets are fired overhead.

'Acompanied by Yohanan Plesner and Avi Issacharoff, I headed down south to join hundreds of brave 'brothers in arms' volunteers who worked tirelessly to assist the population in the south of Israel. We were sent to the bombarded town of Sderot to extract 2 families,' Faz wrote in the caption.

Faz's role in the rescue operation has not been confirmed by Israeli officials. It's thought at as many as 100 people have been taken hostage by Hamas in the wake of Saturday's shocking attacks.

Fauda is based upon Issacharoff's real experiences in the Israeli Defense Forces. It began in 2015 and is set for a fifth season. The name translates from Hebrew into English as 'Chaos.'

Israel today warned Hamas they had 'nowhere to hide' and that its air force was launching 'extensive attacks' on the Palestinian terrorist group in revenge for its deadly surprise incursion that saw hundreds of Israeli's slaughtered.

Israeli forces have already used its strike force of 600 plans and 300 rocket launchers to relentlessly pound the Gaza strip, with airstrikes and artillery destroying thousands of Hamas targets and killing 770 Palestinians.

But Israel today issued a fresh warning to Hamas, with the military saying the terrorists have 'nowhere to hide' in Gaza and that its air force was carrying out 'extensive' airstrikes in waves of every four hours.

'We will reach them everywhere,' military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said, hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to obliterate Hamas.

Netanyahu, who first came to power in Israel in 1996 and has served three separate terms, compared Hamas to the Islamic State group and said Israel planned to deploy 'unprecedented force' that would 'reverberate for generations'.

In response to the aerial bombardment of Gaza, Hamas warned today it will not hand over hostages until the fighting ends - a day after they warned they would execute Israeli civilian captives if the airstrikes continued.

Israel's airports authority said on Tuesday El Al and Israir Airlines have added more flights to bring reservists back to the country.

The flights come after Israel said on Monday it had called up an unprecedented 300,000 reservists and warned residents of the Gaza Strip to evacuate in a sign it could be planning a ground assault in response.

The airports authority added it had limited flights to Ben Gurion Airport's Terminal 3 due to security concerns.

Iran's Supreme leader today said 'we kiss the hands on those who planned the attack' on Israel amid fears the Islamic nation provided Hamas terrorists with weapons and training for their surprise incursion.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hailed what he called Israel's 'irreparable' military and intelligence defeat after the gunmen rampaged through the towns and slaughtered families and young festivalgoers.

'We kiss the hands of those who planned the attack on the Zionist regime,' Khamenei said during his first televised speech since the incursion.

Khamenei, wearing a Palestinian scarf and speaking from a military academy, added: 'This destructive earthquake (Hamas's attack) has destroyed some critical structures (in Israel) which will not be repaired easily. The Zionist regime's own actions are to blame for this disaster.'

But Khamenei insisted Iran, a key long-term ally of Hamas, was not involved in the attack on Israel, which has left 900 Israelis dead and hundreds more injured.

Sickening footage has emerged of the moment murderous Hamas gunmen shot dead an Israeli family's dog before storming their home, raiding their fridge and setting their home alight amid a campaign of civilian slaughter.

The deplorable attack was just one of dozens which unfolded in the kibbutz of Be'eri, a tiny farming community where Israeli security forces and rescue workers later found 108 bodies - around 10 per cent of its population - after a long hostage standoff with gunmen.

The clip, obtained from the GoPro camera attached to the helmet of one Hamas fighter, showed how the dog came bounding out of the house towards the attackers and was immediately mowed down with several bullets.

Hamas terrorists promptly invaded one house and began rifling through the family's belongings, drinking orange juice from their fridge and gorging themselves on its contents.

Then one militant withdrew a lighter from his pocket and took it to the wall, sparking house plants and hanging ornaments that quickly set ablaze before they made their exit.

Another harrowing scene from the same kibbutz showed how a second group of Hamas militants gained access to the gated compound by slaughtering civilians at near point blank range as they sat in a car.

At least 770 Palestinians have been killed and 4,000 wounded in Israeli air strikes on the blockaded enclave since Saturday, Gaza's Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

At least another 18 people were killed and 100 injured in the West Bank since Saturday, the ministry added.

The World Health Organization called on Tuesday for a humanitarian corridor to be established into and out of the Gaza Strip, which has been placed under total siege by Israel.

'WHO is calling for an end to the violence... A humanitarian corridor is needed to reach people with critical medical supplies,' WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told a press briefing in Geneva.

Israel's total siege of the Gaza Strip, depriving civilians of goods essential for survival, is banned under international law, the United Nations human rights chief said on Tuesday.

Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said people's dignity and lives had to be respected as he called for all sides to defuse the "explosive powder-keg situation".

Palestinian militant group Hamas, which abducted about 150 people in its surprise weekend assault on Israel, threatened to execute the hostages if Israeli air strikes continue "targeting" Gaza residents without warning.

The threat came after Israel on Monday imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip, cutting off food, water and electricity supplies, and sparking fears of an increasingly desperate humanitarian situation.

"International humanitarian law is clear: the obligation to take constant care to spare the civilian population and civilian objects remains applicable throughout the attacks," Turk said in a statement.

The siege risk seriously compounding the already dire human rights and humanitarian situation in Gaza, including the capacity of medical facilities to operate, especially in light of increasing numbers of injured, the statement said.

"The imposition of sieges that endanger the lives of civilians by depriving them of goods essential for their survival is prohibited under international humanitarian law," Turk said.

Any restrictions on the movement of people and goods to implement a siege must be justified by military necessity or may otherwise amount to collective punishment, the statement added.

This is the shocking moment Hamas militants opened fire on an Israeli civilian vehicle as its driver tried to flee the unprecedented assault by the terror group.

The footage was captured on a dashboard camera with a timestamp of 7.39am on Saturday morning, less than two hours after the surprise attack was launched.

By Tuesday, Israeli TV channels said the death toll from the Hamas attack had climbed to 900 Israelis, with at least 2,600 injured, and dozens taken captive.

Among the Israeli dead were 270 mostly young people gunned down at a desert music festival, where some of the hostages were abducted.

It is understood the driver was one of the festival-goers attempting to flee, but was shot as they approached a Hamas roadblock.

The video opens with the car speeding down an otherwise abandoned road in southern Israel. One car is seen pulled over, while another is seen tipped on its side.

As the vehicle rounds a bend in the road, dark-clad figures are seen in the distance, prompting the driver to slow the car down. As the car decelerates, one of these figures walks out into the middle of the road and another appears from the bushes down the left-hand-side of the tarmac.

It quickly becomes clear that the two men are armed, and as the car steers to go around the first man, he raises a rifle and opens fire on the vehicle.

Somehow, the driver manages initially to avoid the first two Hamas militants, but as the car steers around them, more fighters appear further down the road.

Suddenly, the windscreen shatters as bullets slam into the car. It continues to roll down the road towards what is now in the footage clearly a Hamas roadblock.

At least four more militants can be seen firing on the car, which veers slowly to the left and eventually comes to a halt when it crashes into the back of another vehicle that is pulled over to the side of the road - suggesting the driver has been shot dead.

Israel would on Tuesday begin distributing thousands of assault rifles to volunteer first-response teams in border communities and mixed Jewish-Arab towns, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said in a social media post.

He said 4,000 Israeli-made rifles would be given out in the first round, with at least another 6,000 to follow. Volunteers would also eventually be equipped with helmets and flak jackets, he added.

Ben-Gvir's announcement came as Israel reeled from armed cross-border infiltrations by Palestinians from Gaza and eyed possible internal friction between Israel's majority Jews and 20% Arab minority, many of whom identify with the Palestinians.

Hamas today called for a 'mobilization' of the Arab and Islamic world on Friday 'in support of Gaza', describing it as a day of 'heroism and sacrifice'.

Thousands of Hamas targets have been obliterated by an Israeli aerial bombardment that has relentlessly pounded the Gaza Strip after the terrorists launched a surprise assault that has so far killed at least 900 Israelis.

But now, the terrorist leaders have called for those in the Arab and Islamic world to 'mobilise' and show their support for Hamas and the Palestinian people on Friday.

They also called on the 'revolutionary youth' throughout the West Bank and those in Jerusalem to clash with 'cowardly' Israeli soldiers.

It comes after thousands of Palestinian supporters descended on the Israeli embassy in London, waving flags, singing and setting off flares. Hundreds more clashed with Israeli supporters at a London Underground station as police desperately tried to keep the peace.

Military experts have revealed that Israel's army faces an uphill battle in finding and safely evacuating the dozens of hostages taken by Hamas in the region's bloodiest conflict in decades.

The terror group has kidnapped at least 100 civilians since war broke out on Saturday, after its terrorists first attacked a music festival just a mile from Israel's border with Gaza.

Harrowing footage showed women being marched into vehicles, bloodied and bruised, often with their hands bound behind their backs. One video showed Noa Argamani, a 25-year-old student who was filmed screaming 'don't kill me' as she was dragged away on a motorcyle by Hamas thugs.

The IDF is under immense pressure to get the hostages as quickly as possible, as Hamas said on Monday that it would begin executing an Israeli captive every time Israel bombs a civilian home without warning.

'We have decided to put an end to this and as of now, we declare that any targeting of our people in their homes without prior warning will be regrettably faced with the execution of one the hostages of civilians we are holding,' Abu Obaida, spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, said in a recording released to Al Jazeera.

A British family whose son went missing after Hamas gunmen stormed a music festival in Israel has revealed his fiancée was tragically found murdered.

Miryam Shafir, 55, yesterday held back tears as she urged the UK and Irish governments to apply pressure on the Palestinian terror group that rules the Gaza Strip.

Her son, Dor Shafir, and his fiancée, Savion Hen Kiper, both 30, were attending the music festival near Nirim, a kibbutz in the south of Israel close to the Gaza border when Hamas militants soared over the fence using paragliders.

They landed and began shooting indiscriminately into the crowd, forcing the hundreds of attendees to scatter in terror.

At around 7am on Saturday - roughly half an hour after the attack began - Dor sent a text to say he and Savion had managed to escape the initial slaughter and found shelter.

But the Shafir family this morning told Good Morning Britain that Savion was later found dead, murdered by the ruthless militants who later captured hostages and fled back to Gaza.

Harrowing photos taken this morning shows the abandoned site of the weekend attack of the Supernova desert music Festival by Hamas militants.

Gunmen killed around 270 revellers who were attending an outdoor rave music festival in an Israeli community near Gaza at the weekend.

The images show belongings strewn across the desert floor and abandoned after thousands were force to run for their lives and hundreds were killed.

James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, has said the government is 'standing ready' to support any British citizens who need to flee Israel.

Figures for the number of of Brits stuck in the conflict has not been confirme by the government.

'If needed, we are standing ready to support. We are working with the air industry and Israeli air traffic control to ensure that there are still commercial flights leaving Israel for those Brits who want to leave, and of course there are land borders from Israel into both Egypt and Jordan,' Mr Cleverly told ITV’s Good Morning Britain.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared intentions to obliterate Hamas as he metes out revenge for the deadly surprise attacks by the Palestinian militant group this weekend that saw hundreds of Israelis killed.

Netanyahu, who first came to power in Israel in 1996 and has served three separate terms, compared Hamas to the Islamic State group and said Israel planned to deploy 'unprecedented force' that would 'reverberate for generations'.

'We have only started striking Hamas,' Netanyahu, 73, said in a nationally televised address late last night.

'What we will do to our enemies in the coming days will reverberate with them for generations.

'Hamas terrorists bound, burned and executed children. They are savages. Hamas is ISIS,' Netanyahu concluded.

Thousands of Hamas targets have been wiped out in brutal aerial bombing campaigns, Israeli defence officials claimed, but harrowing clips circulating social media showed how the rockets and bombs also obliterated Palestinian residential blocks, killing hundreds of civilians.

Air raid sirens can again be heard in several cities and towns in the south of Israel, the Israeli military has said.

Thousands of rockets have been fired at Israel from Gaza since the attacks began on Saturday.

A mother who was slaughtered by terrorists in Israel alongside her husband and three children sent a final WhatsApp message to her Australian friends to say her family was safe.

Tamar Kedem-Siman Tov texted her Sydney friends, Yishai and Mor Lacob, from the concrete bunker of her home in Nir Oz kibbutz, in southern Israel, at about 2.45pm on Saturday.

The message read: 'Hi guys, we got into the shelter in our house, we're all going okay.'

The Lacobs started to panic and tried contacting everyone they knew in the village to find out what was going on, before they received the heartbreaking news that the Tov's safe room had been raided by militants.

Tamar, her husband Johnny, their six-year-old daughters Shachar and Arbel, and their two-year-old son Omer had been murdered by Hamas-linked terrorists.

More than 187,000 people have been displaced across the Gaza Strip - with the number expected to increase, an update from the United Nations agency has shown.

There are now 137,500 people sheltering in 83 UN schools, according to BBC news.

The UNRWA field office in Gaza has 'suffered collateral damage due to airstrikes'.

Meanwhile nearly half a million people in Gaza have been unable to get UN food rations this week as distribution centres have been shut down.

A senior Hamas commander has warned that his terrorist group sees domination of Israel as only the beginning - as Israel took its revenge on Hamas for the death of 900 of its citizens in this weekend's attacks.

The dead included 11 Americans, Joe Biden confirmed on Monday.

Deborah and Shlomi Matias were murdered by Hamas gunmen who stormed their home on Saturday: their 16-year-old son survived when his mother threw herself on top of him.

A mother who was slaughtered by terrorists in Israel alongside her husband and three children sent a final WhatsApp message to her Australian friends to say her family was safe.

Tamar Kedem-Siman Tov texted her Sydney friends, Yishai and Mor Lacob, from the concrete bunker of her home in Nir Oz kibbutz, in southern Israel, at about 2.45pm on Saturday.

The message read: 'Hi guys, we got into the shelter in our house, we're all going okay.'

An hour later, she stopped responding to calls and texts.

About 1,500 bodies of Hamas militants have been found in Israeli territory,

military officials have said.

It was supposed to be a festival filled with merriment and music as thousands of care-free revellers danced in the desert under the stars.

Scheduled to coincide with the Jewish festival of Simchat Torah, Supernova was billed as a celebration of 'friends, love and infinite freedom'.

Instead, the weekend-long outdoor rave in southern Israel turned into the site of an unimaginable bloodbath.

Horrifying video shows the moment an Israeli mother and her two young sons are dragged screaming from their home near the Gaza border by Hamas terrorists before disappearing.

Shiri Silberman-Bibas, 30, was hiding in a safe room with her husband Yarden, their nine-month-old Kfir and three-year-old Ariel when Israel was invaded by the militants on Saturday.

Armed with just a small pistol, Yarden hoped to defend his family and their home in in Kibbutz Nir Oz as villages were raided - in an attack which saw hundreds of Israelis killed and over 100 taken hostage.

Israeli warplanes pounded downtown Gaza City, home to Hamas' centers of government, with relentless bombardments into early Tuesday, after Israel's prime minister vowed retaliation against the Islamic militant group that would "reverberate for generations."

The four-day-old war has already claimed 1,600 lives, as Israel saw gun battles in the streets of its own towns for the first time in decades and neighborhoods in Gaza were reduced to rubble. Hamas also escalated the conflict, pledging to kill captured Israelis if strikes targeted civilians without warning.

Israel said that Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza are holding more than 150 soldiers and civilians snatched from inside Israel after the attack caught its vaunted military and intelligence apparatus completely off guard.