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Israel continues bombing the Gaza Strip, vowing to continue its offensive to crush the Islamist movement Hamas as the war approaches 100 days. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would not be deterred by genocide charges filed at the International Court of Justice.
More than three months after the October 7 attack on Israel that sparked the war, more than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed and Gaza has been reduced to a wasteland of rubble. The Israeli army, which says it has killed more than 8,000 fighters, has announced a new phase of fighting, withdrawing some forces from northern Gaza while continuing operations in the south, where senior Hamas leaders, including the movement's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, believed to be in hiding.
On Saturday, Israel said military forces had killed many militants in the southern Khan Younis area and the central Gaza Strip. In the central Gaza Strip, residents reported intense gun battles and Israeli tank bombardment and airstrikes in Al-Bureij, Al-Nusseirat and Al-Maghazi, areas housing refugees and descendants of the 1948 war.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra said Israeli attacks killed 135 Palestinians and wounded 312 in the past 24 hours. In total, he said, 23,843 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed since October 7. Israel says it is targeting militants and doing everything it can to minimize harm to civilians.
But the scale of the killing in Gaza and the dire humanitarian situation has shocked world opinion and prompted growing calls for a ceasefire, with South Africa launching a case before the ICJ accusing Israel of genocide.
Israel has denied the accusation, saying its actions in Gaza were taken in self-defense after Hamas gunmen attacked people in southern Israel on October 7, killing more than 1,200 Israelis and foreigners and taking about 240 hostages. .
He says the attack, which Hamas leaders have said they will carry out again, showed its existence as a state was under threat if the movement is not destroyed.
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