On the night of October 7, Israel's Ynet website reported that Prime Minister Netanyahu invited opposition leaders Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz to join an expanded government.
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During the 1967 Six-Day War, opposition leader Menachem Begin was also invited to join Prime Minister Levi Eshkol's government to lead the country through the situation.
It is known that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's expanded government is similar to the model of the late Prime Minister Eshkol.
On the night of October 7, the Israeli cabinet concluded an emergency meeting in Kiriya, Tel Aviv but did not release any information to the press. The meeting was interrupted twice by missile sirens.
Israeli air force has carried out an airstrike on the home of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip, media reported.
Minutes earlier, Israel's Energy Minister Israel Katz signed an order directing the Israel National Electric Corporation to cut off the power supply to the Gaza Strip, an area that has only a few small-scale oil-fired power plants and depends on electricity supplies from Israel.
At 8:00 p.m. local time, or 12:00 a.m. Hanoi time, sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and surrounding areas after Hamas threatened to fire on the city. Initial reports said a rocket had fallen on a residential area in Florentin, but casualties or damage were not yet known.
Regarding the situation, on October 7, Türkiye strongly criticized the loss of civilian lives in the Israel-Palestine conflict and expressed its readiness to help ease tensions before the situation spreads to the region.
A statement from the Turkish Foreign Ministry affirmed that the country is in close contact with relevant parties, while repeating President Tayyip Erdogan's previous call for restraint.
The ministry advised Turkish citizens in the area to stay safe and limit going out.
On the same day, a source from the Turkish Foreign Ministry revealed that Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan had phone calls with his counterparts from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Palestine and Iran to discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Earlier, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said the Palestinian armed group was “close to victory” after launching a surprise attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip.
“We are approaching a great victory and a clear conquest on the Gaza front,” Haniyeh said in a speech on Hamas’ Al-Aqsa television.
Regarding the situation, Reuters news agency on October 7 quoted diplomatic sources as saying that the United Nations Security Council will convene an emergency meeting on the situation in Israel on October 8 after the Hamas movement launched an attack on the Jewish state.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the same day condemned Hamas' attack and called for "all diplomatic efforts to avoid a wider conflict."
“The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about the situation and calls for maximum restraint. Civilians must always be respected and protected in accordance with international humanitarian law,” the statement said.
According to the latest updated data, a series of rockets fired at Tel Aviv and neighboring cities last night (October 7) injured 9 people and damaged several residential areas.
As of midnight on October 7 (Hanoi time), the death toll in Israel has reached more than 200 and shows no signs of stopping. Meanwhile, the number of injured people hospitalized has reached more than 1,100 and the number of casualties is expected to continue to rise.
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