Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Israeli troops in Gaza and declares that the war will continue until the end, dismissing speculation of a ceasefire. Palestinian mourners attend a funeral for those killed in Israeli airstrikes.
Mr Netanyahu visited Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip just hours after one of the besieged enclave's deadliest nights in the 11-week-old battle between Israel and Hamas. But Mr Netanyahu told lawmakers from his Likud party that the war was far from over and dismissed what he cast as media speculation his government might call a halt to the fighting. He said Israel would not succeed in freeing its remaining hostages without applying military pressure. "We are not stopping.
The war will continue until the end, until we finish it, no less," Mr Netanyahu, who has defied international calls for a ceasefire, said during the Gaza visit. At a funeral in Gaza, a line of Palestinian mourners touched the white shrouds wrapped around the bodies of at least 70 people who Palestinian health officials said were killed in Israeli airstrikes. One man, Mr Ibrahim Youssef, said his wife and four children, including a 4-month-old baby, were trapped under the rubble of the house where they were staying in Maghazi. The strikes that began hours before midnight persisted into Monday
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