Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to a “difficult morning,” after 14 Israeli soldiers were killed in recent days during fighting in the Gaza Strip.

Netanyahu said on Sunday: “Our hearts are with the families, and our sympathy is with the lives of the young people who were killed in the prime of their youth.” He added, according to the German News Agency: “Let us be very clear... this will be a long war.” The soldiers were killed during clashes with Hamas fighters on Friday and Saturday. Since the Hamas attacks on October 7, the Israeli army has lost at least 486 soldiers in total, nearly a third of them since the start of the Israeli ground attack on Gaza on October 27.

According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, a total of 20,258 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the conflict, and 53,688 others have been injured, most of them civilians.

Netanyahu reiterated, on Sunday, that “Israel will continue its fight until Hamas is destroyed and all hostages are released, and Israel can never be exposed to danger again from the Gaza Strip.”

The Israeli Prime Minister said that he made this point clear in a phone call yesterday, Saturday, with US President Joe Biden, and said that Biden expressed his understanding. Netanyahu also denied reports that the United States pressured Israel to take different actions in the war.

The Israeli army stated, in a statement, today, Sunday, that it had nothing to do with the bodies that were found in Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip.

A video clip was circulated on social media, showing a red bulldozer burying people underneath it in a hospital. However, this video dates back to 2013, and has nothing to do with the current deployment of Israeli soldiers in Jabalia, according to what the Israeli army said.

On Saturday, the American CNN network quoted patients and doctors as saying that Israeli soldiers used a bulldozer to uncover the bodies of the victims who had already been buried and pushed them together.

They also shot a number of doctors, even though they had already checked their identities; In search of their involvement in “terrorist” activities, they allowed an army dog ​​to bite a man in a wheelchair, according to a CNN report.

The army rejected the accusations and said it was doing everything in its power to avoid harming innocent bystanders. The army said that the hospital is used by Hamas to carry out “terrorist” activities, and is located near one of its headquarters.