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It is early on Monday morning in Palestine and in Israel, 48 hours since an attack by Hamas sparked the latest brutal conflagration of this conflict. What we know so far: The death toll has surpassed 1,100. The Israeli toll has risen to at least 700, including 44 soldiers, as the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel was embarking on a “long and difficult war”. In Gaza, which was pummelled by Israeli airstrikes, officials have reported at least 413 deaths.
A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces, Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus, said it was “by far the worst day in Israeli history”, saying, using an American analogy, it could be “a 9/11 and a Pearl Harbour wrapped into one”. The permanent observer mission of the state of Palestine to the UN said in a statement: “these developments did not occur in a vacuum”.
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