THE Middle East could be on the brink of an all-out war as Israel has come under fire from Lebanon and Syria.
Fears bloodshed could engulf the entire region comes as more than 2,000 people have been killed since Hamas terrorists staged a surprise attack on Israel on Saturday.
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Overnight, dozens of Israeli fighter jets hammered more than 200 targets in Gaza as buildings were reduced to rubble and residents scrambled to find safety.
Gaza’s health ministry said at least 950 people have been killed and 5,000 injured in the crowded coastal enclave.
In Israel, the death toll reached 1,200 and more than 2,700 people were wounded.
It’s feared it could trigger war in the whole of the Middle East as fresh exchanges of fire over Israel’s northern borders with militants in Lebanon and Syria erupted on Tuesday.
Israel has stopped entry of food, fuel and medicines into Gaza in response to Hamas’ bloody incursion into Israel – which Iran is understood to have helped plot.
The under-fire nation has now stepped up its offensive, expanding the mobilisation of reservists to 360,000.
In one town, Hamas terrorists are claimed to have massacred at least 40 babies and kids in a sickening rampage.
Israeli soldiers discovered scenes of unimaginable horror in Kfar Aza – a village close to the Gaza border that was captured for two days by the Hamas militants.
The Israeli army took back control of the besieged village on Tuesday and its soldiers were faced with the gut-wrenching task of recovering the bodies of dozens of victims.
Armed with guns, grenades and knives, Hamas terrorists beheaded men, women, children and babies in their beds early on Saturday morning after storming over the border.
In a new tactic, Israel is warning civilians to evacuate neighborhood after neighborhood, and then inflicting devastation, in what could be a prelude to a ground offensive.
On Tuesday, the military told residents of the nearby al-Daraj neighborhood to evacuate.
New explosions soon rocked it and other areas, continuing into the night.
Fighter jets returned multiple times to another neighborhood, al-Furqan, striking 450 targets in 24 hours, the Israeli military said.
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