Important Takeaways:

• IDF Says Territory Back Under its Control After Battling Hamas Invaders, Long Fight Still Ahead
• The IDF deployed four divisions to the south to expel Hamas operatives from Israeli soil. Israeli warplanes are carrying out widespread strikes on Hamas targets and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday ordered a “complete closure” of the Gaza Strip.
• “No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel” will be allowed into the coastal enclave, Gallant said. “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”
• Meanwhile, Hamas continues to rain down rockets on communities in south and central Israel.
• The numbers reported since the war began are staggering. More than 4,000 rockets fired into Israel, as many as 700 Israelis murdered, almost three thousand injured, many seriously— and about 100 kidnapped and taken into captivity in Gaza.
• Israel is now on a war footing with up to 300,000 reservists called up to action. Many anticipate a ground incursion into Gaza soon with the likely goal of the destruction of the Iranian-backed terror group, and they’re evacuating some communities near Gaza.

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