<p><strong>New Delhi:</strong> As Israel and Gaza continue to battle, Israel's Finance Minister has confirmed that the casualty count from Hamas’ incursion into Israel has risen to 600, reported news agency Associated Press.</p> <p>Earlier, several Israeli media outlets, including Kan public broadcaster, Channel 12, the Haaretz, and Times of Israel newspapers, had reported that the toll climbed to 600 on Sunday, AP said in its report.</p> <div class="css-1dbjc4n"> <div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1s2bzr4"> <div id="id__r530uvqwa6" class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-135wba7 r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" lang="en" data-testid="tweetText"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">In a post on platform X, Israel's Finance Minister said, "We are devastated to report that the death toll in Israel has risen to 600. We are doing everything we can to treat the injured and prevent additional casualties. The Hamas terrorists responsible for this atrocity will pay a heavy price."</span></div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">We are devastated to report that the death toll in Israel has risen to 600. We are doing everything we can to treat the injured and prevent additional casualties. The Hamas terrorists responsible for this atrocity will pay a heavy price: Israel FM <a href="https://t.co/35LaTex6Sc">pic.twitter.com/35LaTex6Sc</a></p> — ANI (@ANI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1711060272528678956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2023</a></blockquote> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </div> </div> <p>Though there has been no official confirmation of the number of deaths on the Israeli side since the fighting erupted early Saturday, Palestinian officials reported that more than 300 people have been killed in Gaza.</p> <p>Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said his Security Cabinet has declared the country at war following a deadly Hamas assault in southern Israel.</p> <p>The decision, announced on Sunday, formally authorizes “the taking of significant military steps,” it said in a statement. “The war that was forced on the State of Israel in a murderous terrorist assault from the Gaza Strip began at 06:00 yesterday,” it said.</p> <p>Israel's military, which faces questions over its failure to prevent the attack, said it had regained control of most infiltration points, killed hundreds of attackers, and taken dozens more prisoner but was still fighting in some places.</p> <p>It said it had deployed tens of thousands of soldiers in the area surrounding Gaza, a narrow strip that is home to 2.3 million Palestinians, and planned to evacuate all Israelis living around the frontier of the territory.</p> <p class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-6">"We're going to be attacking Hamas severely and this is going to be a long, long haul," a military spokesman told a briefing with reporters.</p> <p class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-7">In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua said the attack had been "in defence of our people", adding the group's fighters continued rocket strikes and were still conducting operations behind the lines.</p> <div class="article-data _thumbBrk uk-text-break"> <p>Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country is at war and Hamas will pay an unprecedented price. “Citizens of Israel, we are at war. This is not an operation, not an escalation – this is war. And we will win. Hamas will pay an unprecedented price,” he said in a video message.</p> </div>
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