The Israel Protection Forces launched recent strikes on Gaza early Sunday native time as violence within the area continued in a single day, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning of an extended and tough battle forward. The Hamas intelligence headquarters, two banks and a weapons manufacturing facility in Gaza have been amongst 10 targets struck, the IDF stated on Telegram. The land, air and sea assaults by Hamas — which caught Israel’s vaunted safety companies unawares — got here after months of rising tensions over Israeli occupation and violence on the al-Aqsa Mosque, a disputed holy website in Jerusalem. A minimum of 250 individuals have been killed in Israel, whereas the variety of deaths in Gaza stood at 232 late Sunday, in accordance with native authorities. Netanyahu advised Gazans to “go away now” as he vowed to show “the entire locations which Hamas is deployed, hiding and working” into “rubble.”