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The death toll in the Israel-Hamas conflict rose Monday to over 1,500 killed on both sides, officials said, after a stunning attack by Hamas on the country and airstrikes on Gaza in response by Israel.
At least 900 Israelis have been killed, according to the Israel Defense Forces. The Palestinian Health Ministry said that 687 people in Gaza and the West Bank have been killed.
Israel ordered a “full siege” of Gaza. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said no food, no gas and no power would be allowed into the densely populated area.
Israel has called up 300,000 reservists. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that the offensive against Hamas was “just getting started.”
Hamas has threatened to execute hostages if Israel bombs civilians in Gaza in their homes without warning.
No Americans have confirmed to be hostages, but U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that a number of Americans are unaccounted for, and there is a concern that they could be among the hostages.
Eleven Americans have been killed in the conflict, President Joe Biden said.
White House lights send message of solidarity to Israel
People photograph the White House from Pennsylvania Avenue, lit in blue and white to underscore U.S. solidarity with Israel, in Washington on Monday.
Minor injuries reported after person faints at vigil for Israel on University of Florida campus
An unconfirmed number of people were injured, some needing stitches, after what witnesses called a “stampede” at a vigil for Israel after someone fainted, University of Florida police said.
There were calls in the crowd to call 911 after the person fainted at the candlelight vigil in Turlington Plaza at the Lubavitch Chabad Jewish Student & Community Center on the campus in Gainesville.
“That call was misunderstood by the crowd, which dispersed in a panic,” university police said in a statement.
Five people were treated on the scene and about 15 others were treated at area hospitals, a spokesperson for university police said.
“Everyone is safe with the exception of minor injuries,” the Chabad Center said in a statement on Facebook.
Rabbi Berl Goldman of the Chabad Center said the call may have partly been due to how scared some students are after the Hamas attacks in Israel. Goldman said there was a large turnout, with around 1,000 people.
How some Palestinian émigré communities in the U.S. reacted to the Israel-Hamas war
DEARBORN, Mich. — While the U.S. is lining up behind its ally Israel in the wake of the deadly Hamas attack, there was also a surge of support for the Palestinian cause on the streets of some of the country’s biggest cities.
In New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, small but passionate groups of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered Sunday and demanded that Israel end its decadeslong blockade of the Gaza Strip, saying the Palestinian story was being drowned out by the unfolding tragedy in Israel.
But amid the cries of “Free Palestine,” some also condemned Hamas’ deliberate attacks on Israeli civilians.
“We are against killing civilians,” said Najeh Zahghlol, a Palestinian American in Chicago. “We’re against that.”
Israel's ambassador to the U.S. says Americans were at tragic festival
Michael Herzog, Israel's ambassador to the U.S., said today that Americans were among those at a tragic music festival near Gaza over the weekend.
An Israeli nongovernmental rescue organization, ZAKA, has estimated that 260 people were killed at the two-day Supernova festival as Hamas began its incursion and targeted festivalgoers trying to flee.
"There was a big party there, and they shot the revelers," he said on CNN tonight. "They shot MPGs on their cars. People are burning alive."
"Yes," he added, "there were Americans there."
Whether U.S. citizens were among the dead wasn't clear. Earlier today, President Joe Biden said that so far 11 Americans are known to have been killed in the Hamas attack on Israel.
Yesterday, Herzog indicated Americans are among hostages militants took in Israel.
Israel Defense Forces gearing up for potential all-out invasion of Gaza
Kirby: Some Americans are unaccounted-for
Some Americans in Israel are unaccounted-for, and their statuses are unknown, spokesman for the National Security Council said tonight.
Eleven Americans have been killed in the conflict, President Joe Biden has said.
“And we have some Americans that are unaccounted-for, and we are concerned that they could be among the hostages that Hamas is holding,” the NSC’s coordinator for strategic communications, John Kirby, said on MSNBC.
Kirby did not disclose a number of the Americans unaccounted-for. "We don't know if they're just lost or missing or even hurt. We certainly don't know if they're being held hostage, but that is a concern right now," he said.
The U.S. has been working "feverishly" with Israeli officials on the issue, Kirby said.
Israel's military said it killed militants entering from Lebanon. Kirby said the administration is concerned about the group Hezbollah. "Certainly, we don't want to see it expand or escalate at all," he said.
WhatsApp says claims of cyberattack on Jewish people are false
WhatsApp told NBC News in a statement that viral claims of a cyberattack targeting Jewish people on the app are false.
In a copied-and-pasted message that has quickly spread on social media and on messaging apps, users would be targeted by being asked to download a file named "Seismic Waves CARD,” which would enable phone hacking. The message claims the file will be disguised as "fighting in Jewish settlements."
The same claim was made weeks ago in relation to earthquakes in Morocco.
WhatsApp says there's no indication that is actually occurring.
The viral claim is the latest piece of misinformation pertaining to Israel that has flourished in a sea of content related to the quickly escalating war.
Ground attack into Gaza likely to have high casualties, retired U.S. military official says
If Israel launches a ground attack into Gaza in retaliation for Hamas' attacks that have killed hundreds, they could be facing a prepared enemy, a retired U.S. military official and think tank fellow said.
Hamas most likely “had a pretty good idea what Israel was going to do in response” because of past fighting, retired Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, a senior fellow at Defense Priorities, said on NBC News Now.
Preparations for urban combat could involve traps, defensive positions, bunkers and tunnels, he said.
“All of those kinds of things is going to make it extraordinarily difficult for Israel to get in there and probably will make the casualties very high,” he said.
It is not clear whether Israel would attack from the ground into Gaza. Israel’s military has gone into Gaza in the past. In 2014, military ground forces advanced a few kilometers inside Gaza after rocket attacks before they withdrew, according to a Rand Corp. report of the conflict.