Israel-Palestine war kills nearly 1,000, flights canceled, US sends military aid | 10 things we know so far
Reuters reported. 4) Iran helped Hamas plot the rocket attack on Israel and approved of the assault during a meeting in Beirut last week, according to The Wall Street Journal report. 5) US President Joe Biden ordered “additional support" for Israel.
"The President directed additional support for Israel in the face of this unprecedented terrorist assault by Hamas," the White House said in a statement. "President Biden reiterated his unreserved support for the State of Israel," tweeted the Israeli PMO on Sunday. 6) A military official of the United States Sunday said the US Navy is moving its warships and aircraft to the Eastern Mediterranean to support Israel amid an unprecedented assault on the country from Hamas killing.
7) IDF International Spokesperson Lt. Col. Richard Hecht called the attack by Palestinian millitants as barberic and compared it with the 9/11 terror attack of the USA.
He also said how militants attacked “on the ground, in the air & also through the sea," and “did not go for military targets. Instead "they went for civilians." 8) Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah admitted that it fired large numbers of artillery shells and guided missiles at Israeli positions in a contested border area. 9) Hamas claimed of firing 5,000 rockets in an offensive under the attack it named as "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood" against Israel.
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