Israel-Hamas war death toll spirals over 1,100 as Gaza Strip is bombed and gun battles rage for a third day
CBSN
Tel Aviv — Air raid sirens blared in the Israeli capital again Monday morning, as a Palestinian militant faction said it had fired another barrage of missiles at the Jewish state. Explosions rang out as Israel's Iron Dome air defense system brought down some of the rockets, but there was no immediate information on how many might have slipped through.
The latest salvo of rockets, claimed by the Iranian-backed al-Qassam Brigades, came after Israel's military said it had struck hundreds of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip overnight. Four Israeli combat divisions were also being deployed to the country's south, where battles with Hamas militants continued.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said "fighter jets and helicopters, aircraft and artillery struck over 500 Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip" Sunday night and Monday morning, claiming to have destroyed tunnels and at least seven "Hamas command centers" in the blockaded Palestinian territory. The IDF said it also struck a command center used by Islamic Jihad, another Iran-backed terror group based in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
