GAZA-After nearly a week of deadly airstrikes on Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Friday: "It's only the beginning."
And Izzat al-Risheq, a senior Hamas official, said the militant group "will not surrender our legitimate fight for freedom and self-determination." "We will either live standing tall or we will die fighting," he said Friday.
The situation in Gaza, according to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, "has reached a dangerous new low" while Israeli forces mass near the enclave border ahead of a possible ground assault.
At least 1,900 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza following the Hamas terror attack, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
A total of 47 people have been killed, and hundreds of others injured, since Saturday in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, during clashes with Israeli forces and by settler gunfire, Palestinian officials said.
A Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah was killed near the Israeli border in southern Lebanon on Friday, according to a statement from the news agency.Israel's ambassador to the United Nations said the government is doing “all that we can to minimize civilian casualties." At least 1,300 people were killed by Hamas in Israel on Saturday, according to officials. (CNN)