Netanyahu Vows To Demolish Hamas. Over 1 Million Displaced In Gaza, UN Says — Top Points

More than 1,400 people have been killed in Israel since the attack unleashed last week on Saturday by Hamas militants, the Israeli prime minister's office said Sunday.

The war between Israel and militant group Hamas raged for the ninth day on Sunday.

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New Delhi: As the war between Israel and militant group Hamas rages for the ninth day, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to "demolish Hamas" as his military prepared to move into the Gaza Strip in search of Islamist militants whose deadly rampage through Israeli border towns shocked the world.

More than 1,400 people have been killed in Israel since the attack unleashed last week on Saturday by Hamas militants, the Israeli prime minister's office said Sunday. While the authorities in Gaza said more than 2,450 people had been killed in Israel's retaliatory strikes so far. 

US President Joe Biden in a social media post said, "I spoke with Palestinian Authority President Abbas to condemn Hamas’ attack on Israel and reiterate that Hamas does not stand for the Palestinian people’s right to dignity and self-determination. I assured him that we're working with partners in the region to ensure humanitarian supplies reach civilians in Gaza and to prevent the conflict from widening."

I spoke with Palestinian Authority President Abbas to condemn Hamas’ attack on Israel and reiterate that Hamas does not stand for the Palestinian people’s right to dignity and self-determination.

I assured him that we're working with partners in the region to ensure…

— President Biden (@POTUS) October 15, 2023

Meanwhile, the United Nations agency today said that an estimated one million people have been displaced in the first seven days of the conflict in Gaza.

Here are the latest updates:

• Israel has told Gazans to evacuate south, which hundreds of thousands have already done in the enclave that is home to more than 2 million people, about half in Gaza City. However, Hamas, which runs Gaza, has told them to ignore Israel's message to move south.
  
  
• According to Reuters, conditions in Palestine are so atrocious that health workers are storing bodies in ice cream freezer trucks because moving them to hospitals is too risky and cemeteries are full.
  
  
• Reacting to Israel's retaliatory strikes, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said, "The reaction went beyond the right to self-defence, turning into collective punishment."

• Hamas' armed wing Al Qassam Brigades said it fired 20 rockets from Lebanon on two Israeli settlements while Lebanon's Iran-backed group Hezbollah said it targeted barracks in Israel's Hanita with missiles and had inflicted casualties. Israel said it was striking Lebanon in retaliation.
  
  
• Israel is resuming the water supply to southern Gaza, Energy Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday, as one million people have evacuated the north of the Strip to escape a massive air assault. "This will push the civilian population to the southern (part of the) Strip," Katz said in a statement, a week after Israel had stopped supplying water to the entire territory as part of a "complete siege" imposed on the Palestinian enclave.
  
  
• The Palestinian Health Ministry said 300 people had been killed and 800 more injured in Gaza during the last 24 hours.