Israel Works to Expel Hamas Intruders and Secure Border – WSJ

TEL AVIV Israeli troops engaged in fierce fighting into the early hours of Monday morning to regain control of swaths of the country s south after Hamas militants flooded in from Gaza, with the military struggling to reseal the border to further incursions.

The last infiltrators from Gaza were being hunted down with the task expected to take at least a few more hours, military spokesman Jonathan Conricus said in a livestream on X, formerly known as Twitter, around 2 a.m. local time Monday.

Throughout Sunday, the Israeli government was still working to evacuate civilians from towns and villages near Gaza, densely populated Palestinian enclaves, and authorities worked to treat hundreds of wounded civilians, recover the bodies of the dead and try to determine how many Israelis were being held hostage.

The Israeli cabinet approved a declaration of war after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Saturday a call-up for hundreds of thousands of military reservists, saying in a televised address: We are at war and we will win it.

Iran-backed Hamas said it had been able to send additional men and weapons into Israel on Sunday and it launched a fresh barrage of missiles from Gaza.

via www.wsj.com

How Israel can avoid a war with Iran now I don’t know. But surely she cannot permit Iran to get nuclear weapons, which they will have soon.