06:42
Summary
- Some 1,000 people have been killed in Israel and Gaza following a large-scale assault by the militant group Hamas that started early Saturday
- The death toll is expected to rise with many people critically wounded
- Israeli airstrikes against Gaza have displaced 123,000 Palestinians, says the UN
- Hezbollah has struck Israel from southern Lebanon
- Fears of a ground invasion of Gaza are growing after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to turn the besieged Palestinian enclave into a “deserted island”.
- The violence is the biggest escalation between the two sides for decades, with some analysts claiming Israel was caught off guard
- Hamas’s operation came after widespread Israeli settler attacks, increased tensions at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem and a record number of Palestinians killed.
06:44
Good morning, this is the Euronews live blog on the Israel-Hamas war.
