[UPDATE-Day 28-Nov 3-21:00Z] Israel-Hamas War: Real Time Reaction and Analysis

Israeli government severs all ties with Gaza, prohibits its residents to work in Israel

Israel is severing all ties with the Gaza Strip and prohibits all of Palestinian residents of the enclave from working in Israel, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

“Israel cuts off all contact with Gaza. There will be no more Palestinian workers from Gaza and the workers who were in Israel on the day the war broke out will be returned to Gaza,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement. “The political and security cabinet decided to deduct from the funds of the Palestinian Authority all the funds intended for the Gaza Strip, in addition to the offset carried out according to law of funds paid to terrorists and their families,” the statement says.

Meanwhile, The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) delivered air and artillery strikes on positions held by militants in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Friday, the IDF said in a statement.

“In tandem, the forces on the ground directed aircraft and artillery airstrikes. The terrorists were killed and the danger to the troops was removed,” the statement says.

According to the IDF, soldiers from the 13th Battalion of the Golani Brigade and armored troops from the 53rd Battalion, clashed with militants inside the Gaza Strip. “The terrorists fired Anti-Tank missiles at them and activated a number of IEDs [improvised explosive devises],” the statement says.

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⚡[UPDATE-Day 28-Nov 3-21:00Z] U.S. suggests Israel take steps to minimize deaths among Palestinian civilians, says Blinken

⚔️ IDF ground incursion in Gaza ⚔️