The Israeli Army bombed heavily during the night 500 targets of Palestinian militias in Gaza, while fighting continues inside Israel in at least seven points where there are still militants.

“Overnight, fighter jets, helicopters, airplanes and artillery of the Defense Forces attacked more than 500 Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip,” a military spokesman said.

Inside Israel, There are still “seven or eight” places adjacent to the enclave, among them Be’eri, Kfar Aza, Nirim or Alumim, where fighting is still taking place and there are some families hostage by the militiamen.

The Israeli Security Council, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, officially approved the state of war in the country this Sundayor, which enables the Army to carry out “outstanding military activities” within the framework of the war with Hamas declared this past Saturday, Israeli media report.

Experts from the ‘Times of Israel’ explain that this statement will be submitted to final activation today before the Defense and Foreign Committee of the Israeli Parliamenteli, the Knesset. The next step will consist of the official announcement before the plenary session of the chamber, which will come directly from the prime minister.

These same sources specify that the official declaration of war would enable the Israeli Army to begin what would be for all purposes a ground invasion of the Gaz Stripa, epicenter of attacks by Palestinian militias.

Netanyahu already warned on Saturday that their country has embarked “in a long and difficult war” and that they will continue “without respite until the objectives are achieved.”“We entered a war imposed by a murderous attack by Hamas,” the president wrote in a publication on his social network account X, formerly Twitter.

“At the same time, we began the offensive formation and this will continue without reservation and without respite until we achieve the objectives. We will restore security to the citizens of Israel and we will win,” he announced.

Iran would have helped Hamas in the attack on Israel

Iran would have helped prepare Hamas’ attack on Israel, unleashing a new war with Gaza, according to information published this Sunday by ‘The Wall Street Journal’.

Members of the Revolutionary Guard Iran would have helped plan the attack since last August and they would even have given the green light for its start, according to Hamas and Hezbollah sources cited by the New York newspaper.

The details would have been worked out in meetings held in Beirut between Iranian officials, Hamas members (group that controls the Gaza Strip) and representatives of Hezbollah (group present in Lebanon).

Days before the attack, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, posted on social media that “The Zionist regime is a cancer that is about to be exterminated by the Palestinian people“.

However, the Government of The United States has stated that there is no evidence of Iran’s alleged involvement in Saturday’s unprecedented attack.

“We have not yet seen evidence that Iran directed or was behind this particular attack,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said this Sunday in an interview with CNN.

The head of American diplomacy pointed out, however, that Iran has “a long-standing relationship” with Islamist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

The US State Department denied on Saturday that the Iranian funds that The US unlocked last month as part of a prisoner exchange with Iran have been used to attack Israel.

US diplomacy recalled that the 6 billion dollars (5,683 million euros at today’s exchange rate) released are only available to Iran for humanitarian issues, such as the purchase of food and medicine.