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Israel resumed airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and cut off food, fuel, and other supplies Monday in retribution for a violent Hamas incursion, raising the war's death toll to nearly 1,600 on both sides. Hamas intensified the situation by threatening to kill captured Israelis if civilians were attacked without warning.

Israel was still recovering bodies from Hamas' ​devastating​ weekend raid on southern Israeli towns on the third day of battle. After a long hostage crisis with militants, rescuers uncovered 100 bodies in an agricultural town called Be'eri, 10% of its population. Tens of thousands left Gaza as airstrikes devastated buildings.

The Israeli military said it had largely taken control of the south after the onslaught caught its renowned military and intelligence infrastructure off guard and caused heated street clashes for the first time in decades. Hamas and other Gaza militants claim to hold around 130 Israeli soldiers and civilians.

Israel sent tanks and drones to guard Gaza border fence breaches to prevent ​additional infiltration​. The military quickly mobilized 300,000 reservists to evacuate thousands of Israelis from over a dozen villages near Gaza.

Israel's formal declaration of war on Sunday and the steps indicated a shift toward the offensive against Hamas, promising further destruction in the densely populated, impoverished Gaza Strip.

Netanyahu declared, “We have only started striking Hamas,” in a nationally televised address. “What we do to our enemies in the coming days will reverberate for generations.”

As Israeli forces approached the border, the question was whether they would launch a ground attack into the little Mediterranean coastal region. 2014 saw the last ground assault.

The Israeli military reported almost 900 deaths. Israel claims hundreds of Hamas fighters were among the 680 dead in Gaza. Thousands were wounded on both sides.

After Israel's aerial attacks, Hamas' armed wing spokesman Abu Obeida threatened Monday night that the group will kill one Israeli civilian captive if Israel hits Gazan residents in their houses “without prior warning.”

“This war crime will not be forgiven,” Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen cautioned Hamas against killing hostages. Netanyahu picked a veteran military commander to handle hostages and missing individuals.

Past hostilities between Israel and Hamas have typically been prompted by Jerusalem holy site concerns. Now, the context could be more explosive. Both sides talk of violently ending the Israeli-Palestinian peace process's yearslong deadlock.

On the weekend, Hamas launched a surprise strike that killed more people than in 1973. That incited calls to crush Hamas at all costs rather than contain it in Gaza. The most hard-right Israeli administration ever is led by ministers who deny Palestinian statehood.

Hamas says it is ready for a lengthy fight to end the Israeli occupation it finds intolerable. Palestinians are increasingly desperate due to Israeli domination, settlement depredations in the West Bank, the Gaza barrier, and global apathy.

Israeli reaction for Hamas assaults is fierce.

Both sides' attacks caused more harm Monday. After a rocket blew out the front of a house in Ashkelon, a crutch-wielding guy and an elder boy were shepherded from a street.

Palestinians passed dead bodies past dense groups of men at Jebaliya refugee camp debris in Gaza.

A rocket barrage from Gaza damaged two Jerusalem neighborhoods early Monday evening, demonstrating Hamas's reach. Israeli media reported seven injuries.

Israeli airplanes bombarded Rimal, a residential and commercial sector of central Gaza City, after warning inhabitants to evacuate. Explosions destroyed the Palestinian Telecommunications Company headquarters.

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have destroyed 790 homes and badly damaged 5,330, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported early Tuesday. 400,000 people are without water and sanitation due to damage to three sites.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant ordered a “complete siege” on Gaza, cutting electricity and food and fuel imports.

Gazans would face “utter disaster” under Israel's siege, according to Norwegian Refugee Council secretary general Jan Egeland.

“There is no doubt that collective punishment is in violation of international law,” he told AP. “If it led to wounded children dying in hospitals due to lack of energy, electricity, and supplies, it could amount to war crimes.”

The Israeli siege will leave Gaza almost totally dependent on Rafah, Egypt, which has lower freight capabilities than other Israeli crossings.

On condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press, an Egyptian military officer said the Egyptian Red Crescent dispatched more than 2 tons of medical supplies to Gaza and was organizing food and other deliveries.

Gaza inhabitants fled by the tens of thousands. The UN reported Tuesday that over 187,000 of Gaza's 2.3 million residents have fled, the largest since Israel's 2014 air and ground offensive uprooted 400,000.

UNRWA is housing around 137,000 Palestinian refugees in schools across the region. Families housed 41,000 others.

Talat Barhoum, a doctor at Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, said an Israeli airstrike early Monday killed 19 people, including women and children.

Israeli Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said hundreds of Hamas members were buried under Israeli-destroyed structures in the past 48 hours. It was impossible to verify his statements.

New exchanges on Israel's northern border Monday sparked concerns about a new front.

Islamic Jihad fighters snuck into Israel from Lebanon, provoking Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon. Five Hezbollah members were killed, and the group reacted by firing rockets and mortars at two Israeli army sites across the border.

After smashing past Israeli barriers with explosives at sunrise Saturday, an estimated 1,000 Hamas terrorists killed civilians and kidnapped individuals in cities, highways, and a desert techno music festival attended by thousands. The IDF estimates Palestinian militants fired 4,400 rockets towards Israel.

Hamas spokesperson Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua told the AP that the group was fighting beyond Gaza and had abducted more Israelis Monday morning.

His group wants to free all Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel, which has in the past made disproportionate exchanges of huge numbers of inmates for individual captives or even army remains.

Soldiers and civilians—women, children, and older adults—mostly Israelis but also others are hostages.

Since pushing out PA soldiers in 2007, Hamas has dominated Gaza without resistance despite the blockade and four wars with Israel.

Palestinians in the West Bank faced a fourth day of heavy movement restrictions. Israeli authorities have blocked city-to-town transit by closing borders to the occupied region and checkpoints. The U.N. reports 15 Palestinian deaths in clashes between rock-throwing Palestinians and Israeli police since the incursion.

Adwan reported from Gaza's Rafah. AP writers Isabel DeBre and Julia Frankel in Jerusalem, Wafaa Shurafa in Gaza City, Tia Goldenberg in Tel Aviv, Bassem Mroue and Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut, Samy Magdy in Cairo, and Amir Vahdat in Tehran contributed to this report.