The violence has already killed hundreds of people between Israel and Gaza.
“We have reports that several Americans were killed. We’re working overtime to verify that,” Blinken said on CNN’s“At the same time, there are reports of missing Americans and there again, we’re working to verify those reports.”The violence in Israel and Gaza has left hundreds dead and thousands injured since Saturday, according towhen Hamas terrorists launched attacks by air, land, and sea on Israeli cities and took scores of soldiers and citizens hostage.
The secretary chose not to discuss the intelligence failures that led to the surprise assault on Israel, telling ABC’sthat “there will be time” to hold a postmortem. But the immediate focus needed to be on repelling Hamas militants, he said—despite the close relationship between U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies, both of which appeared not to foresee the ambush.
“The intensity of the fighting is real,” Blinken told George Stephanopoulos. “And we had about 1,000 Hamas militants who infiltrated Israel, most of them seem to have either been killed or have gone back into into Gaza. But as I said, intensifying remains. So that’s the focus and the focus is also on taking steps to make sure to the best of their ability for Israel, that this doesn’t repeat itself.
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