October 12, 2023 07:20 am | Updated October 13, 2023 07:27 pm IST
Palestinians look for survivors after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. As Israel escalates its war on Hamas, it will confront many of the same dilemmas it has grappled with over decades of conflict with the Palestinians. It will want to punish Hamas like never before, but without killing so many Palestinian civilians that it loses international support. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali) | Photo Credit: Hatem Ali
An Air India flight carrying around 200 people from Tel Aviv is expected to arrive in the national capital early morning on Friday, according to sources.
India has launched Operation Ajay to facilitate the return of those Indians who wish to come back home as a series of brazen attacks on Israeli towns by Hamas militants over the weekend has triggered fresh tensions in the region.
The U.S. will never falter from its support for Israel, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday while speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv. He underlined the importance of taking “every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians” as the Israeli military prepares for a “next stage” of the war against Hamas militants in Gaza.
The war has claimed at least 2,800 lives on both sides.
Over the last five days, Israeli warplanes have pummeled the blockaded Gaza strip with an intensity that its war-weary residents had never experienced. The airstrikes have killed over 1,354 Palestinians, according to Hamas ministry.
As Palestinians lined up outside bakeries on October 12 after spending the night in pitch darkness surrounded by the ruins of pulverised neighbourhoods, as Israel launched new airstrikes and said it was preparing for a possible ground invasion. Israeli Energy Minister Israel Katz vowed his country won’t allow basic humanitarian aid or resources into Gaza until Hamas released all the hostages.
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