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Gaza Strip, after telling Palestinians living in the densely populated territory to flee south towards a closed border with Egypt. The Israeli national security adviser meanwhile warned Lebanese militant group Hezbollah not to start a war on a second front to Israel's north, threatening the «destruction of Lebanon» it if did. Israel has vowed to annihilate the Hamas militant group that controls Gaza in retaliation for a rampage by its fighters, who stormed through Israeli towns a week ago, gunning down civilians and making off with scores of hostages in the worst attack on civilians in Israel's history. Some 1,300 people were killed in a brutal onslaught that left Israel in profound shock, both at the scale of the killing and at horrifying mobile phone footage and reports from medical and emergency services of atrocities in the towns and kibbutzes that were overrun. In response, Israeli jets and artillery have subjected Gaza to the most intense bombardment it has ever seen, putting the enclave, home to 2.3 million Palestinians, under total siege. Gaza authorities say more than 2,200 people have been killed, a quarter of them children, and nearly 10,000 wounded. Rescue workers searched desperately for survivors of nighttime air raids. Thousands of Palestinians fled the north of the Gaza Strip on Saturday from the path of the expected Israeli ground assault, while Israel pounded the area with more air strikes and said it kept two roads open to let people escape.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to “crush and destroy” the militant group Hamas in response to its surprise weekend attack that has shaken the Middle East and the world.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Saturday accused Israel of engaging in actions that he considers to be war crimes and of obstructing the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip. This statement was conveyed in a letter he penned to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, which was published on the website of the Palestinian group. «Israeli atrocities amount to war crimes,» he said in a letter addressed to United Nations Secretary-General Guterres that was posted on the Palestinian group's website. Antony Blinken previously mentioned that the efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza have faced challenges due to the actions of the terrorist organization Hamas.

Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza, warning that the war might expand to other parts of the Middle East if Hezbollah joins the battle, and that would make Israel suffer «a huge earthquake.» Hossein Amirabdollahian told reporters in Beirut that Lebanon's Hezbollah group has taken all the scenarios of a war into consideration and Israel should stop its attacks on Gaza as soon as possible. Israel considers Hezbollah its most serious immediate threat, estimating it has some 150,000 rockets and missiles, including precision-guided missiles that can hit anywhere in Israel.

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vowed to ‘crush’ Hamas this week after militants launched a surprise attack on October 7. Retaliatory air strikes have killed nearly 2,000 Palestinians over the past week and the death toll appears likely to rise in light of water and power cuts across the Gaza Strip. Speculative reports suggest that Israel will soon launch a ground assault across the 40 km long stretch – prompting alarm about the fate of blockaded civilians in one of the world's most densely populated regions.

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Gaza is of ‘life and death’, even as Palestinians in the densely populated Gaza strip struggle holding onto survival. “It has become a matter of life and death.

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“wipe off Hamas" in the besieged Gaza Strip. Air India, the erstwhile national carrier, operated five flights per week for Tel Aviv.

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA CITY (Reuters) — The Palestinian Red Crescent Society received an order from Israeli forces on Saturday with a new deadline to evacuate its Al-Quds hospital in Gaza City by 1300 GMT (16:00 pm local), according to a statement.

Antony Blinken called on Saturday for protection for civilians in both the Gaza Strip and Israel as the Israeli military ordered half of the Palestinian territory's population to evacuate in advance of an expected ground assault. Blinken met his Saudi Arabian counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, in Riyadh as he began a third day of intense Middle East diplomacy aimed at preventing the Israel-Hamas war from expanding into a regional conflict and fuelling a humanitarian crisis.

By Sharon Bernstein

JERUSALEM (Reuters) — The Israeli army said on Saturday it was aware of the incident in southern Lebanon in which a Reuters journalist was killed and that it was being investigated.

Qantas says a flight scheduled to leave Tel Aviv on Sunday transporting Australians fleeing the war was cancelled because it is too unsafe to fly, after Israel warned of an imminent ground invasion of Gaza.

(Reuters) -A Reuters video journalist was killed and six other journalists injured in southern Lebanon on Friday when missiles fired from the direction of Israel struck them, according to a Reuters videographer who was at the scene.

AFP report, Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem said, "We, as Hezbollah, are contributing to the confrontation and will (continue) to contribute to it within our vision and plan," Qassem told a pro-Palestinian rally in Beirut's southern suburbs. "We are fully prepared, and when the time comes for action, we will take it," he said.