Netanyahu warns Iran and Hezbollah: ‘Don’t test us’
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Truckloads of aid idled at Egypt’s border with Gaza as residents and humanitarian groups pleaded Monday for water, food and fuel for dying generators, saying the tiny Palestinian territory sealed off by Israel after last week’s rampage by Hamas was near total collapse.
Speaking to the Israeli Knesset, Netanyahu warned Iran and Hezbollah, “Don’t test us in the north. Don’t make the mistake of the past. Today, the price you will pay will be far heavier,” referring to Israel’s 2006 war with Hezbollah, which operates out of Lebanon. Meanwhile, Hamas’ military wing released a hostage video showing a dazed woman who identified herself as Mia Schem, 21, having her arm wrapped with bandages. In her statement, Schem rocked slightly as the sound of explosions reverberated in the background. She said was taken from Sderot, a small Israeli city near the Gaza border where she attended a party. Hamas said she had undergone a three-hour operation.
The head of Israel’s Shin Bet security service, in charge of monitoring militant groups, took responsibility for failing to avert Hamas’ surprise attack. As agency head, “the responsibility for that is on me,” Ronen Bar said. Those fleeing northern Gaza still faced airstrikes in the south. Before dawn Monday, a strike in the town of Rafah collapsed a building sheltering three families who had evacuated from Gaza City. At least 12 people were killed and nine others remained buried under rubble, survivors from the families said. The strike reduced the house to a vast crater blanketed with wreckage.
“Gaza is running out of water, and Gaza is running out of life,” said UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini, calling for a lifting of the siege. “We need this now.” The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders said many of its personnel decided to stay in the north to treat wounded. They ran out of painkillers, and staff reported “wounded screaming in pain,” it said.
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