Israel - Palestinian militants launch massive attack, 7 Oct 2023 #11

[MassGuy]

GazaCNN —
Multiple militants from Gaza have entered Israeli territory, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Saturday, shortly after a barrage of rockets left one person dead and at least three injured.

Palestinian militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the rocket attack.

Hamas military commander Muhammad Al-Deif released a recorded message, announcing operation “Al-Aqsa Storm” and saying the Palestinian militant group “targeted the enemy positions, airports and military positions with 5,000 rockets.”

The IDF has warned Israelis who live near Gaza to stay in their homes.

The rockets, which were witnessed by a CNN producer in Gaza, prompted sirens as far north as the Tel Aviv area, east to Beer Sheva, and many other locations in between.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/07/middleeast/sirens-israel-rocket-attack-gaza-intl-hnk/index.html

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[Sillybilly]

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[MadMcGoo]

Continue the discussion here.

 

[JennieM]

5m ago

The government of Belize suspended diplomatic ties with Israel on Tuesday, citing what it described in a statement as “unceasing indiscriminate bombing in Gaza”.

IDF says it has entered Gaza’s largest hospital – as it happened

IDF forces say they are targeting Hamas ‘in a certain part of the Shifa hospital’ after Gaza’s health ministry said it was warned by Israel that it would raid the facility ‘within minutes’

www.theguardian.com

 

[JennieM]

As winter approaches and Gaza's health system is collapses under the weight of Israel's war on Hamas, a United Nations children's aid organization said Tuesday there is a "massive concern" that waterborne and respiratory diseases will run rampant through the besieged enclave's underage population.

November 14, 2023 Israel-Hamas war

Israel says its forces are carrying out a "precise and targeted operation" at the Al-Shifa Hospital. Israel has claimed the hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, includes a Hamas command center, an allegation denied by hospital officials and Hamas.

edition.cnn.com

 

[margarita25]

12 hours ago:

 

[JennieM]

Heavy rain compounds misery of displaced Gazans​

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A young boy stands in the rain as the downpour continues in southern Gaza



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Children take shelter from the rain under a tent at a school sheltering the displaced near Rafah



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Palestinian children take shelter in a UNRWA school as strong winds and flooding sweep across the Strip

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490

 

[JennieM]

54s ago

Gaza health ministry says IDF will raid al-Shifa in coming minutes - report​

Al Jazeera is reporting, citing the Gaza Health Ministry, that the IDF has informed officials it will raid al-Shifa hospital in the coming minutes.

IDF says it has entered Gaza’s largest hospital – as it happened

IDF forces say they are targeting Hamas ‘in a certain part of the Shifa hospital’ after Gaza’s health ministry said it was warned by Israel that it would raid the facility ‘within minutes’

www.theguardian.com

 

[JennieM]

1m ago

A Gaza health ministry spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qudra, told Al Jazeera, that Israel told a Palestinian health official, “they will raid the hospital in the coming minutes”.

“And they told us to inform everybody not to be near the windows,” al-Qudra said.

IDF says it has entered Gaza’s largest hospital – as it happened

IDF forces say they are targeting Hamas ‘in a certain part of the Shifa hospital’ after Gaza’s health ministry said it was warned by Israel that it would raid the facility ‘within minutes’

www.theguardian.com

 

[JennieM]

Well, here we go then. I hope they catch any Hamas.

Prayers for all the innocents trapped inside.

 

[JennieM]

1m ago

Channel 4 correspondent Secunder Kermani has just said in X that when he last spoke to a doctor at the hospital, there were 600 patients there.

Thousands more are reportedly sheltering at the hospital.

The Health Ministry said on Tuesday that 40 patients, including three babies, have died since Shifa’s emergency generator ran out of fuel Saturday. Another 36 babies are at risk of dying because there is no power for incubators, according to the ministry.

IDF says it has entered Gaza’s largest hospital – as it happened

IDF forces say they are targeting Hamas ‘in a certain part of the Shifa hospital’ after Gaza’s health ministry said it was warned by Israel that it would raid the facility ‘within minutes’

www.theguardian.com

 

[JennieM]

I hope they got the babies out!

 

[Chimera]

Israel approves some fuel for UN trucks in Gaza, source says

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Israel has given approval for 24,000 litres (6,340 gallons) of diesel fuel to be used by trucks for United Nations operations in the Gaza Strip, a humanitarian source said on Tuesday. Aid agencies in the enclave say a chronic lack of fuel has hampered efforts to deliver food...

www.yahoo.com

Colonel Moshe Terto, who heads an Israeli defence ministry body that handles civil affairs in Gaza, said Israel is monitoring the fuel situation "on a daily basis".
"(We) will coordinate and facilitate the entrance of fuel when it (is) needed," Terto said.
Bolding mine.
Hoping this is the case.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/10/politics/hostage-pause-israel-and-hamas/index.html?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo

Netanyahu has said there would be “no ceasefire” without the release of hostages.
If it means all of the hostages, then ok.
If it only means 50-70, and a five day (?) 'pause'; then Hamas will have those days to regroup.
What if Hamas says 70 hostages and meets at the border and only 20 are actually released ?
What if they can't produce a fraction of the original because the captives are deceased ?
A three or five day pause is too costly.

Also from the CNN link :
To this point, more than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah, drawing from sources in the Hamas-controlled territory.
Red emphasis mine.
These are numbers taken from only one side.
Hamas-controlled sources.
And most likely wildly inflated.
Omo.

 

[dotr]

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'LIVE: Israel-Gaza border'​

IDF says it has entered Gaza’s largest hospital – as it happened

IDF forces say they are targeting Hamas ‘in a certain part of the Shifa hospital’ after Gaza’s health ministry said it was warned by Israel that it would raid the facility ‘within minutes’

www.theguardian.com

''hospital to run military operations​

The White House has said it had its own intelligence supporting Israel claims that Hamas was using al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City to run its military operations, and probably to store weapons.

“We have information that confirms that Hamas is using that particular hospital for a command and control node”, the White House’s national security spokesperson, John Kirby, told reporters aboard Air Force One:

They have stored weapons there and they’re prepared to respond to an Israeli military operation against that facility.

He added:

That is a war crime.

He said those actions by Hamas did not lessen Israel’s responsibility to protect civilians in the course of its military operations.''

 

[JennieM]

1m ago
Palestine’s Hamas-affiliated news agency Shehab says that Government media has responded to the warning, saying, “We hold the occupation and the United States responsible for the safety of medical personnel, the wounded, and the displaced.”


2m ago
Health ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra has informed the International Committee of the Red Cross of the Israel’s intention to raid al-Shifa hospital “in minutes”, and that the organisation has not yet responded, he told Al Jazeera.

“The ICRC must take a stance to ensure the safety of all the patients inside the al-Shifa medical centre,” Al-Qudra said.

Israel did not inform him of why or how it would enter the hospital complex, he told Al Jazeera. He also said, “The bombardment has not stopped for a moment. There’s shelling and heavy firing in the vicinity of the centre.

IDF says it has entered Gaza’s largest hospital – as it happened

IDF forces say they are targeting Hamas ‘in a certain part of the Shifa hospital’ after Gaza’s health ministry said it was warned by Israel that it would raid the facility ‘within minutes’

www.theguardian.com

 

[JennieM]

1m ago

[…]

Gaza’s health ministry spokesperson warned on Wednesday of a potential Israeli raid on the al-Shifa hospital complex, saying Israel informed Gaza health officials that its forces would raid the facility, Reuters reports.

The Israeli military, asked for comment, said it was looking into the matter.

The Gaza health ministry spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qidra, told Al Jazeera that Israel “informed us that it will raid Al Shifa hospital complex in the coming minutes.”

But he added: “The occupation did not specify whether (its forces) would enter the complex. But it said that within a few minutes it would raid the complex. We do not know how it will raid it or what mechanism will be used, nor do we know (Israel’s) intentions with the raid.”

Neither Reuters nor the Guardian have been able to independently confirm the situation at al-Shifa.

[…]

IDF says it has entered Gaza’s largest hospital – as it happened

IDF forces say they are targeting Hamas ‘in a certain part of the Shifa hospital’ after Gaza’s health ministry said it was warned by Israel that it would raid the facility ‘within minutes’

www.theguardian.com

 

[JennieM]

JERUSALEM — Several hundred protesters gathered outside the Israeli parliament on Tuesday night to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he is unfit for office.

Live updates | Israel says it has launched an operation inside Gaza hospital

Fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in northern Gaza caused another 200,000 people to flee south in the past 10 days.

apnews.com

 

[fred&edna]

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1724577326212542936?s=20

 

[JennieM]

2m ago
The Hamas-run news agency says Shehab says that the director-general of Gaza’s health ministry, Dr Munir Al-Bursh, has also said, “The occupation army told us that it would carry out operations inside Al-Shifa Hospital shortly.”

The agency posted this to X four minutes ago.

IDF says it has entered Gaza’s largest hospital – as it happened

IDF forces say they are targeting Hamas ‘in a certain part of the Shifa hospital’ after Gaza’s health ministry said it was warned by Israel that it would raid the facility ‘within minutes’

www.theguardian.com

 

[fred&edna]

https://x.com/JoeTruzman/status/1724579531108098080?s=20