As Israel discovered new evidence of mass killings by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Israel mobilized more than 300,000 reservists to prepare for a large-scale attack on Gaza.
The death toll in Israel had reached 1,200, with 2,700 injured, IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus said in a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter) early Wednesday.
He warned that the number would continue to rise as authorities found more civilians killed in an unprecedented incursion by Hamas militants who seized southern Israeli towns on Saturday.
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