(Dan Tri) – Dozens of Israeli warplanes have attacked targets in the Gaza Strip, while the country’s parliamentarians have called for the use of `apocalyptic` missiles for raids.
Smoke rises after an Israeli raid on the port area in Gazasa on October 10 (Photo: Reuters).
`Not long ago, dozens of fighter jets attacked more than 70 targets in the Daraj Tuffah area,` the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Telegram on the evening of October 10, and described this as a
`Furthermore, infrastructure used by Islamic Jihad was also attacked,` the IDF added.
At dawn this morning, October 11, the IDF announced that Israeli warplanes carried out another airstrike against Gaza, attacking `more than 200 targets throughout the Al Furkan area`.
In recent days, Israel has continuously attacked the Gaza Strip with air strikes, attacking hundreds of targets and turning residential areas into rubble.
Israeli lawmaker Revital Gotliv called on the country’s military to use Jericho missiles to `flatten` targets in Gaza after Hamas attacks last weekend.
`Jericho missile! Strategic warning before considering sending in forces. Doomsday weapon! This is my opinion,` congressman Gotliv wrote on social network X (formerly Twitter).
Jericho is an Israeli intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which is believed to be capable of striking almost any region in the world.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on October 10 accused the Israel Defense Forces of using white phosphorus bullets in attacks on Gaza.
`Israeli forces are using internationally banned white phosphorus bombs against Palestinians in the Karama district of northern Gaza,` the video caption states.
White phosphorus bullets are not banned under international law, but their use is strictly regulated.
Israel is said to have used white phosphorus bullets on multiple occasions.
In 2009, Israel admitted to using `bullets containing white phosphorus` in its attack in Gaza from December 2008 to January 2009.
According to Kan television station, the death toll in Israel has reached at least 1,200 people after the conflict broke out on October 7.
Meanwhile, at least 830 Palestinians were killed and 4,250 injured in Israeli retaliatory attacks.