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Strikes pound Gaza on Day 100 of Israel-Hamas war

File photo: Smoke and flames billow after Israeli forces struck a high-rise tower in Gaza City on October 7, 2023.

AFP :
Israeli strikes pounded Gaza on Sunday, the 100th day of the war sparked by the Hamas attack which has claimed a surging civilian death toll and ravaged the besieged Palestinian territory.
The conflict has created a dire humanitarian crisis for the 2.4 million people in Hamas-ruled Gaza, the United Nations and aid groups warn, and reduced much of the coastal strip to rubble.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose government has faced growing international pressure over civilian casualties in Gaza, vowed that “no one will stop us” from destroying Hamas. Gaza’s Hamas government media office said Sunday that “more than 100 people were martyred in the attacks last night until 6:00 am in all areas of the Gaza Strip.”
Fears that the conflict could spread across the wider region grew when new strikes hit Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen on Saturday, after the rebels warned of more attacks on what they deem Israeli-linked Red Sea shipping.
US and British forces have hit scores of targets in Yemen to stop the drone and missile attacks on the key maritime route launched by the Houthis, who say they are acting in solidarity with Gaza.
On the Israel-Lebanon border, which has seen regular exchanges of fire with Hamas ally Hezbollah, the Israeli army said it killed four gunmen who had crossed the frontier and “fired at the forces.”