Israel battles Hamas militants and bombs Gaza as war enters 3rd day

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Israel's military said that it was battling armed Hamas fighters in southern towns and defending breaches in its border fence with Gaza more than two days after an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian militant group killed hundreds of Israelis.

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09 Oct 2023

Israel said it bombed more than 1,000 targets in Gaza overnight, deployed four military divisions in the south and took steps to secure its northern border with Lebanon, where militant group Hizbollah fired mortars at an Israeli military base in the occupied Golan Heights on Sunday.

“It’s an all out,” said Lt Col Richard Hecht, a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces, in a briefing on Monday morning. “Hundreds and hundreds of Hamas warriors came into Israel.”

The outbreak of the worst Israeli-Palestinian conflict in years sent oil prices higher on Monday, after Hamas breached Israel’s high-tech border barrier early hours of Saturday, when some Israeli soldiers had gone home to celebrate the Jewish Simchat Torah holiday.

Hecht said that the military was still focusing on the “first