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Intensifying Israel-Hamas conflict raises concerns as death toll soars
Major escalations in the war in Israel Monday, as the Israeli prime minister is promising his nation’s retaliation against Hamas has just begun.
While the armed wing of Hamas is promising to begin executing Israeli civilians held captive, if Israel fails to provide notice of further strikes in residential areas.
These new developments came as a Canadian killed in the initial Hamas attack on Saturday has been identified.
The death toll has climbed to more than 900 in Israel and almost 700 in Gaza.
Israeli air strikes have hit more than 1,000 targets in Gaza, as Hamas militants continue firing barrages of rockets.
Closer to home, some of the victims of this war are being mourned Monday night, including in Montreal, where a Canadian is being remembered as a hero.
Devorah Shanowitz speaks warmly of Alex Look, the young traveller from Montreal killed Saturday during a massacre of 260 people at a music festival in Israel by Hamas militants.
Shanowitz says survivors told his mother he died saving the lives of several young women hiding in a shelter.
The death has shocked the Chabad of Westmount Community in Montreal, which his parents Alain and Raquel are a part of.
Tonight the violence that left look dead, persists as the deafening sound of explosions ring out across Gaza.
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The Israeli Defense Force has hit back with massive air strikes since Saturday’s surprise attack by Hamas militants, Hamas firing thousands of rockets into Israel as commandos stormed across the border.
Netanyahu was warning Gaza Monday afternoon, air strikes are only the start promising to do everything for dozens of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas.
A refugee camp in Gaza is one of the many targets hit by Israel on Monday, Palestinians are pulling the dead and injured from the rubble and the chaos of war in every direction.
Israel has announced a complete siege of Gaza saying there will be no electricity, food or fuel.
The United Nations says 120,000 people in Gaza have been internally displaced with airstrikes damaging infrastructure like water and sanitation.
It says only a few days of fuel remain at Gaza’s only power plant.
“The humanitarian situation in Gaza was extremely dire before these hostilities, now it will only deteriorate exponentially,” said UN chief, Antonio Guterres.
The UN secretary general condemned the Palestinian attack and Israeli retaliation, calling on both sides to stop.
United States President Joe Biden says at least 11 Americans have been killed in the bloodshed.
The European Commission has reversed an earlier announcement that the bloc would suspend aid for Palestinian authorities, saying it will review such assistance in the wake of the Hamas attacks.
