Hamas has enlisted Iranian support to carry out an attack on Israel on Saturday. This was reported to the British public broadcaster BBC by a representative of the Palestinian Islamist group.

Ghazi Hamad, A Hamas spokesman told the BBC World Service News Hour that They had direct support from Tehran, who promised to “support Palestinian militants until the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem.”

Hamad also claimed that there were received help from other countries, which he did not name, as the BBC explains.

According to the British television channel, the spokesman also said that the violence occurred in response to attacks by Jewish settlers in Palestinian territory.

“Every day they build settlements, seize our lands, kill our people, They are entering our cities. Through intermediaries (Egyptians, Qatar or the UN) we told them to stop, but they did not listen to anyone,” he said.

More than 600 people have died in Israel’s war against Gaza militias which began yesterday with repeated and sudden attacks by Hamas; while in the Strip, the latest count shows the death toll has reached a record high. 313 Palestinians.

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In addition to the 600 deaths confirmed by emergency services and the Israeli Ministry of Health, As a result of the war, 2,048 people were injured in this country. 350 people are in serious condition due to a Hamas ground offensive that has targeted dozens of communities and thousands of rockets fired at Israeli soil.

In Gaza, where Israel carried out dozens of airstrikes against Hamas military infrastructure, the death toll reached 313. including 20 children and more than 2,000 wounded

However, Israeli army claims to have killed more than 400 Palestinian militiamen in the Gaza Strip and hundreds on Israeli soil since the start of a new war yesterday between Israel and Gaza militias, unprecedented in its scale.

(according to information from EFE and Europe Press)