Scale of atrocities emerges as Gaza bombardment goes on

Anti-tank missiles fired from Lebanon, IDF says

The IDF said on X earlier today that an anti-tank missile was fired from Lebanon towards a military site.

Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group, has been sporadically exchanging fire with Israel in the days since Hamas launched its attack on Saturday. The last time Israel and Hezbollah were at war was in 2006, which lasted roughly 34 days.

Israeli officials warn residents not to be alarmed by gunfire at military funerals

TEL AVIV — Officials in the Israeli municipality of Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv, are warning residents not to be alarmed by sounds of gunfire at military funerals today for soldiers slain by Hamas militants.

“Today the funerals of the martyrs of the IDF will be held,” a message sent out to residents of Herzliya, about 8 miles north of Tel Aviv said. “During a military funeral, gunshots are heard as part of honor volleys,” it warned.

Dorit Basman, spokeswoman for the municipality, said the warning was issued to avoid any panic when gunshots sound. “They will scare people, but it’s part of the ceremony in Israel,” she said.

Israeli military says it ‘remains committed to the law of armed conflict’ in the war with Hamas

Palestinian militants are still inside Israel but no ‘significant’ fighting ongoing, IDF says

There are still Hamas militants inside Israeli territory, but there is no significant fighting happening inside the country at the moment, a spokesman for Israel’s Defense Forces told NBC News this morning.

Hospitals in Gaza ‘overwhelmed’ as authorities plead for international aid

The humanitarian situation in Gaza is “catastrophic” and hospitals are overwhelmed, aid organization Médecins Sans Frontières said this morning, as Gazan authorities plead for humanitarian help.

Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders, said late Tuesday the number of wounded in Gaza was extremely high, with a constant influx of patients leaving medical teams exhausted.

The organization said the Israeli bombing of the enclave did not spare medical facilities — one of the hospitals it supports was hit by an airstrike and damaged. Another airstrike destroyed an ambulance carrying the wounded, it said.

It comes as government officials in Gaza said they were putting out a “very urgent distress call” to the international community and aid organizations, saying a “definite humanitarian catastrophe” is threatening the lives of more than 2 million people.

Bullet holes and devastation at Israeli kibbutz on the Gaza border

Israeli soldiers inspect burned houses at a kibbutz near the Gaza border in Kfar Aza, Israel, on Wednesday.

Gaza power plant could out of fuel on Wednesday

Gaza’s power authority said its sole power plant will run out of fuel within hours, leaving the territory without electricity after Israel cut off supplies. Palestinians in Gaza have long relied on generators to power homes, offices and hospitals, but have no way of importing fuel for those either.

Gaza streets destroyed beyond recognition by Israeli airstrikes

Nowar Diab, 20, was sleeping with her mother and younger siblings when she first heard the loud thud of Israeli airstrikes pounding near her home in northern Gaza.

“It was really loud in seconds,” Diab recalled in a phone interview to NBC News from her grandparents’ home. She rushed over there, along with her nine year old sister and teenage brother, as the bombardment began. 

“My mom is a reporter so she had to go to work,” Diab said, and she hasn’t seen her since the bombings started. While she has gotten sporadic updates from her mother over the last few days, with power cuts, the internet connection is extremely unstable.

For Diab the extent of destruction has rendered her hometown unrecognizable. While she says no one dares to go outside, she has a sense of what is going on through videos.

“I really can’t recognize the most popular streets here. And Gaza is very small so you know, all the streets.”

1,200 Israelis killed, IDF says

The death toll from the bloody Hamas incursion into Israel has grown again, reaching 1,200 Wednesday morning, according to the country’s defense forces. This includes more than 150 soldiers.

IDF Spokesperson Jonathan Conricus said the overwhelming majority of the victims are civilians. More than 2,700 people have been injured.

“Sadly, something tells me that these numbers are not the final numbers,” Conricus said.

Tanks line up along Israeli border with Lebanon

Israeli tanks form a column in upper Galilee, northern Israel near the border with Lebanon on Wednesday.

450 targets in Gaza struck in the last 24 hours by Israel

Israeli fighter jets have struck 450 targets in Gaza in the last 24 hours, its defense forces said.

More than 200 targets were hit in the northern Gaza neighborhood of Al-Furqan alone, which the IDF said was being used by Hamas as “a terror hub.”

Earlier, IDF said it hit dozens of targets in Daraj Tuffah and Beit Hanoun areas of the Gaza Strip.

The IDF says it’s only targeting military compounds and “terror infrastructure” used by Hamas, but the United Nations said Tuesday residential structures have been hit in the densely populated enclave, resulting in civilian causalities.

Pence : Biden should be ready to mobilize Special Forces to help rescue U.S. hostages

Former Vice President Mike Pence called on President Joe Biden to demand Hamas immediately release hostages and be prepared to mobilize U.S. Special Forces to work with the IDF to rescue kidnapped Americans.

Death toll in Gaza climbs to 950

Gaza’s health ministry said Wednesday 950 people have been killed since the Hamas incursion into Israel and consequent retaliatory air strikes of the Gaza Strip by Israel.

It said 5,000 others were injured as the enclave, home to more than 2 million people, is struggling to handle mass casualties amid a full blockade by Israel.

Children receive aid in Khan Younis, Gaza, after Israeli strikes

A wounded Palestinian boy sits in an ambulance after air strikes in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.

American woman seeks answers about missing family in Israel

Israeli military warns ‘fighting will intensify’ and Gaza scenes will be ‘more difficult’

Fighting is set to intensify inside the Gaza Strip, creating scenes that will be difficult to understand and cope with, the Israeli military has said.

In a daily update, spokesman Jonathan Conricus said in a broadcast on X early Wednesday that he hoped international support for Israel would continue, ahead of an expected ground offensive into Gaza Strip, which is run by Hamas.

“We hope that remains that way even when the fighting will intensify and the scenes coming out of the Gaza Strip will be more difficult to understand and cope with,” he said.