Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged no respite in attacks on Hamas and thus the Israeli Air Force and ground forces have mounted attacks on Hamas infrastructure in Gaza. Israel has said that it is determined to pursue its goal of destroying Hamas. The Israeli military said that its air force carried out a strike against 100 Hamas targets including tunnel shafts. Since the October 7 deadliest terror attack on Israel by Hamas, Netanyahu has responded with an all-out assault on Hamas-ruled Gaza. The hospitals in Gaza continue to receive injured and dead bodies following strikes. So far, over 1,500 Israelis including soldiers and around 20,700 Gazans including Hamas militants have been killed in the war.
On the other hand, Israel has said that it’s considering increasing defence spending by 8.3 billion dollars next year. Israel’s finance ministry said an additional 2.7 billion dollars will be needed to cover the evacuation of one lakh 20 thousand people from Israel’s northern and southern border areas. The Ministry also said that it needs higher budgets for police and the reconstruction of settlements destroyed during Hamas’s attack.