The deaths of the four Israeli soldiers in Beit Hanoon on Saturday have taken the death toll to 10 in the past week, according to The Times of Israel.
Three other soldiers were killed in the northern Gaza town last Wednesday, while three more were killed in the previous two days, said the media outlet.
The death toll from Israel’s three-month-long operation and siege of north Gaza has now risen to 48, it said.
The parents of Israeli troops fighting in Gaza have meanwhile criticised Netanyahu’s handling of the war. In an open letter addressing the Israeli PM on Thursday, the 800 parents wrote: “We cannot allow you to sacrifice our children as cannon fodder.”
The military “has no reason to stay in Gaza, besides fulfilling messianic wishes of settling there”, the letter said, adding that the fighting in the Palestinian enclave was “a war without a horizon, unlike anything in our history, solely in the interest of your own political survival”.
Source: Al Jazeera.
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