The Israeli government has agreed to form a wartime Cabinet to oversee the fight against Hamas militants.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined with a top political rival on Wednesday to create a wartime Cabinet overseeing the fight to avenge a weekend attack by Hamas militants.
Militants in Gaza are holding an estimated 150 people taken hostage from Israel — soldiers, men, women, children and older adults – and have fired thousands of rockets into the country over the past five days. A ground offensive in Gaza, whose 2.3 million residents are densely packed into a tiny, coastal strip, would likely result in a surge of casualties for fighters on both sides.Militants in Gaza have fired thousands of rockets into Israel since Saturday and their barrages continued on Wednesday, aimed at the southern town of Ashkelon.Others sought the shrinking number of safe neighbourhoods in the strip of land only 40 kilometres long, wedged among Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea.
Convoys stood loaded with fuel and food on Wednesday on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing but were unable to enter Gaza, an Egyptian security official said. Israel has mobilised 360,000 reservists, massed additional forces near Gaza and evacuated tens of thousands of residents from nearby communities.
Past conflicts with Hamas included heavy bombardments of Gaza but ended with the group still in power.
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