The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that the country was ‘at war,’ hours after the Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise assault with gunmen crossing into several Israeli towns and a heavy barrage of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip.
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Netanyahu said the evacuation of some areas was being carried out and he had ordered the mobilisation of reservists. He said the ‘enemy’ would pay ‘an unprecedented price’.
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