Israel-Gaza updates: Netanyahu says war to continue 'on all fronts'
Netanyahu said Israel will "continue the war on all fronts and in all sectors."
More than 100 days since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli military continues its bombardment of the neighboring Gaza Strip.
The conflict, now the deadliest between Israel and Hamas since Israel's founding in 1948, shows no signs of letting up soon and the brief cease-fire that allowed for over 100 hostages to be freed from Gaza remains a distant memory.
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Latest headlines:
- Netanyahu says war to continue 'on all fronts,' rejects Hamas' 'terms of surrender'
- More than 25,000 killed in Gaza, health ministry says
- Biden speaks with Netanyahu in 1st known call in 27 days
- Teen boy shares story of being held hostage by Palestine Islamic Jihad
- Netanyahu voices opposition to Palestinian state in post-war Gaza
What we know about the conflict
The latest outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that governs the Gaza Strip, has passed the four-month mark.
In the Gaza Strip, at least 30,228 people have been killed and 71,377 others have been wounded by Israeli forces since Oct. 7, according to Gaza's Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health.
In Israel, at least 1,200 people have been killed and 6,900 others have been injured by Hamas and other Palestinian militants since Oct. 7, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
There has also been a surge in violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israeli forces have killed at least 395 people in the territory since Oct. 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The ongoing war began after Hamas-led militants launched an unprecedented incursion into southern Israel from neighboring Gaza via land, sea and air. Scores of people were killed while more than 200 others were taken hostage, according to Israeli authorities. The Israeli military subsequently launched retaliatory airstrikes followed by a ground invasion of Gaza, a 140-square-mile territory where more than 2 million Palestinians have lived under a blockade imposed by Israel and supported by Egypt since Hamas came to power in 2007. Gaza, unlike Israel, has no air raid sirens or bomb shelters.
IDF confirms death of kidnapped soldier
The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday announced that Sgt. Shay Levinson, who until now had been identified as a hostage, was killed in battle on Oct. 7 and his body is being held in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli officials say 532 IDF soldiers have been killed, including 195 since the ground operations in Gaza began.
-ABC News' Anna Burd
Inside Hamas tunnel where IDF says hostages were kept
ABC News' Matt Gutman got a close-up look at a vast Hamas tunnel complex where hostages were reportedly held captive.
Netanyahu says war to continue 'on all fronts,' rejects Hamas' 'terms of surrender'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will "continue the war on all fronts and in all sectors."
"We do not give immunity to any terrorist -- not in Gaza, not in Lebanon, not in Syria and not anywhere," Netanyahu said in the statement Sunday, written in Hebrew.
The prime minster added, "Whoever tries to hurt us -- we hurt him."
Netanyahu said he's working to secure the return of all the hostages "around the clock," and added: "But to be clear: I reject outright the terms of surrender of the monsters of Hamas."
Netanyahu also said he had a conversation with President Joe Biden over the weekend, in which he emphasized "determination to complete all war objectives, and to ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel," according to the prime minister's statement.
"That is why I insist that after we achieve complete victory, after we eliminate Hamas -- there will be no factor in Gaza that finances terrorism, educator of terrorism or courier of terrorism," Netanyahu said.
"Gaza must be demilitarized, under full security control of the State of Israel," he said. "I will not compromise on full Israeli security control over all the territory west of Jordan."
Netanyahu added he will continue to "firmly" stand by his insistence to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state for as long as he is prime minister.
-ABC News' Jordana Miller
More than 25,000 killed in Gaza, health ministry says
More than 25,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, the Gaza Ministry of Health said Sunday.
At least 62,681 people have been injured since the war began, said the ministry, which operates under the Hamas Authority.
A ministry spokesperson said at least 178 bodies were brought to hospitals in the last day.
-ABC News’ Nasser Atta and Edward Szekeres
What life is like for displaced Palestinians in Rafah's tent city
Ahmad Ismael said his "whole world turned upside down" after Oct. 7.
The Palestinian father of four now lives with his family in a tent in Rafah, the southernmost region of the Gaza Strip. They are among the almost 1.9 million people -- 85% of Gaza's population -- who are displaced from their homes, nearly half of whom are crammed inside Rafah.
"We want the tragic situation we are living in to end," Ismael told ABC News in an interview Sunday. "We hope from God that the war will stop."
Ismael said Israel's intense bombardment forced him and his family to flee their home in northern Gaza. They have been living in Rafah's tent city for the past 70 days, he said.
"We fled with only our souls," he told ABC News. "We didn't bring anything with us."
Ismael showed ABC News around his family's makeshift shelter and explained what life is like there amid the latest outbreak of war between Israel and Gaza's militant rulers, Hamas.
"People wake up at 5 or 6 in the morning," he told ABC News. "You wake up to think about the situation of the tent. Is there water flowing or not? Because of the rain, how will we provide wood for the fire? How will we provide today's food for the children?"
Ismael said they receive some canned food from a U.N. agency's warehouse every two or three days. But it's not enough to feed his family, so they must try to buy other food and cook it over an open fire.
"Everything is expensive and scarce," he told ABC News. "We used to buy this oil for 7 or 6 shekels. Today, I buy this for 20 shekels. One day you find it and the next day you don't."
"Firewood is also very expensive, not cheap, and even I can no longer afford it," he continued.
"What I'm telling you is not just about my life," he added, "but the lives of all of us here."
-ABC News' Rashid Haddou-Riffi, Morgan Winsor and Sami Zayara