The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, confirmed this Saturday the state of war in his first public intervention after the surprise attack by land, sea and air by Palestinian militiamen against Israel from the Gaza Strip, which has left at least three dead and hundreds of injuries on both sides of the border.

“Citizens of Israel, we are at war. Not in an operation, they are not rounds of combat, it is a war,” Netanyahu said in a video broadcast on his social networks.

“We are at war and we will win it,” he stressed, hours after the start of the attack by Hamas, considered a terrorist group by Israel, the United States and the European Union.

“I ordered, first of all, that the communities in which terrorists had infiltrated be evacuated. This is currently being carried out. At the same time, I have ordered a broad mobilization of reserves and a return fire of a magnitude the enemy has never known.. “The enemy will pay an unprecedented price,” he added.

Israel bombed several Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip from the air as the beginning of its operation “Iron Swords”, in response to the surprise attack that the Islamist group launched this morning towards Israeli territory under the name of operation “Al Aqsa Storm” , and which has included the launching of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed militiamen by land, sea and air into Israeli territory.

At the moment, the death of an Israeli woman and dozens of injuries on the Israeli side have been confirmed; while in Gaza two Palestinians have died and several wounded are reported.

The Gaza militias are still firing rockets at this time and the air raid sirens have not stopped sounding all morning in the cities of southern and central Israel, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

In Jerusalem, the streets are deserted by civilians, many of them sheltered in armored shelters, while numerous police troops patrol and thoroughly inspect the streets, parks and parking lots of shopping centers.