By Austin Ogwuda with Agency
Fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas Palestinian militants is ongoing this Monday morning in seven to eight locations around the Gaza Strip inside Israel, the Army said.
“We’re still fighting. There are between seven to eight open places around Gaza (where) we have still warriors fighting terrorists,” military spokesman Richard Hecht told reporters, two days after the Palestinian Islamist group launched a surprise attack on Israel.
“We thought by yesterday we would have full control. I hope we will by the end of the day”.
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World leaders have already condemned Israel-Palestine war.
Report from the war torn zone said in the night Israel carried out more than 500 air and artillery strikes targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad militant groups in the coastal enclave.
Twelve Thais have been killed in the conflict between Israel and Hamas militants, the kingdom’s government said Monday as it prepared a plan to evacuate its citizens.
Foreign ministry spokeswoman Kanchana Patarachoke said the Thai embassy in Israel learned of the deaths from the victims’ employers.
She said a further eight Thais had been wounded and 11 taken captive since the war erupted when Hamas launched a large-scale attack on Saturday.
There are around 30,000 Thai workers in Israel, according to Bangkok’s labour ministry, many of them working in agriculture.Labour minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said Israeli forces had begun to move workers away from danger zones.
Courtesy: AFP
