🚨 The US told Israel to focus on Gaza and not risk opening a new front with Hezbullah no matter what.

The US officials stressed that if Hezbullah attacks, the US will interfere itself to assist Israel in defending.

- Alon Ben David, senior Israeli military report

Israeli army Chief of Staff in his first public statement since the war in Gaza started, vows to resume the war until Hamas's leadership is killed and the organization dismantled.

🚨 Palestinian death toll reaches 1,417 martyrs, including 447 children and 248 women. 6,263 wounded.

Many more are still uncounted and under rubble. This is an increase of more than 250 dead since this morning's update.

Today's casualties in Gaza involve 40 dead from Shehab family, including 16 children between the age of 2 and 14 y/o.

US defence minister Austin will arrive tomorrow in Israel.

🚨 A Patriot air defence missile was fired in Northern Israel.

Additional photo. As of now, there is no reports of what it attempted to intercept.

A patriot is a US air defence system that covers a variety of threats different than that of the Iron Dome.

Update on the northern situation: Again, it was a false alarm in northern Israel.

No threat existed and the expensive Patriot air defence missile was fired for nothing.

🚨 An explosion was reported in the Khiyam-Marjayoun area in Lebanon. Alleged photo from the scene.
(Update: Patriot AD impact)

⋯ According to journalist Ali Shoeib, the explosion witnessed in south Lebanon was the impact of the Israeli Patriot air defense missile.

Deputy leader of Hamas Saleh Al-Arouri is on TV to reject any claims that Hamas raped, burned or beheaded any civilian.

This is true as no evidence (regarding rape and burning) was provided by the Israeli army nor is this the moral code of Hamas.

The only documented case of beheading was of two Israeli soldiers, through a campaign which involved dozens of factions and hundreds of people.

Remarkably, most if not all photos of burnt bodies in cars being distributed as Israeli civilians are infact Hamas members and Palestinian civilians who crossed into Israel.

⋯ Al-Arouri: “When the Israeli Gaza division collapsed, civilians from Gaza entered and clashed with the settlers, and civilians fell.”

He added: “The leadership’s instructions to the fighters were clear not to kill children and women.

“It was not Al-Qassam’s plan to harm or kill civilians nor kidnap them.”

“You can't blame us for killing foreigners, when we go kill a soldier in uniform and he/she ends up having a US or French citizenship.”