'Rising voices of criticism: Hamas dealt a severe blow to the Palestinian cause'

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to "demolish Hamas" as his troops prepared to move into the Gaza Strip in pursuit of Islamist militants whose deadly rampage through Israeli border towns shocked the world. Israel has told Gazans to evacuate south, which hundreds of thousands have already done in the enclave that is home to more than 2 million people. Inside besieged Gaza, where conditions are deteriorating and deaths from Israeli air strikes rising, civilians said they were not safe anywhere. Militant group Hamas, which runs Gaza, has told them to ignore Israel's message to move south. The Hamas attack on Israel left more than 1,400 people dead on the Israeli side, most of them civilians. On the Gazan side, at least 2,670 have died in the relentless bombing, the majority of them ordinary Palestinians. For more on the Hamas' unprecedented attack on Israel and the war that broke out immediately afterwards, FRANCE 24's William Hilderbrandt is joined by Dr. Arik Rudnitzky, Professor, Researcher and Project Manager of Tel Aviv University's Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation, at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. Dr. Rudnitzky also holds a research position at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem.