Around 1,500 bodies of Hamas militants found in Israel
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00:00 An iron ring around the border. This phalanx of Israeli armoured vehicles and tanks is
00:06 part of the 35 battalions that are being deployed to surround Gaza.
00:12 The military says the frontier is almost completely under Israeli control. Soldiers are planting
00:18 mines where the border was breached on Saturday. The army says it's found the bodies of around
00:23 1,500 Hamas fighters in Israel but there have been no new infiltrations from Gaza since
00:29 Monday. The enclave is under siege, locked off even from food, water and fuel. The Israeli
00:36 government doesn't expect it to be over soon.
00:40 On Monday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stark warning for Hamas. It's just
00:45 the beginning.
00:48 It will take time. But I promise you, dear Israeli citizens, that at the end of this
00:54 campaign all of our enemies will know that it was a grave mistake to attack Israel. What
01:00 we will do to our enemies in the coming days will reverberate with them for generations.
01:07 Netanyahu's statement came as Hamas militants threaten to start killing civilian hostages
01:12 if Israel's bombing of civilian areas in the enclave continues without warning.
01:18 Under threat of relentless bombardment, the Israeli army has told civilians in Gaza to
01:22 flee to Egypt while they can through the Rafah crossing, the only border point not controlled
01:28 by Israel.
01:29 full of knowledge.