In addition to 600 dead, Israeli media outlets report another 2,000 are wounded. Palestinian officials said 300 were killed in Gaza.
Israeli media outlets report that the death toll from Hamas' incursion into Israel reached 600 on Sunday, according to The Associated Press.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has since declared war against the Palestinian militant group, as he called for a mass army mobilization.This comes as fighting between the two sides continued into a second day. "Responsibility for everything that's happening for the dead, for the butchered men, women and children and soldiers in Israel — and for the Palestinian civilians — lies squarely with Hamas," said international spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces Jonathan Conricus."They started, they are the aggressors, we are responding to their aggression and we are defending ourselves against their aggression.
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