Israel - Palestinian militants launch massive attack, 7 Oct 2023 #2

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PommyMommy said:
Live updates: Israel-Hamas war (cnn.com)
23 min ago

Festival survivor says he covered himself with corpses in a bunker to stay alive​

Rafael Zimerman says he hid out in a bunker near the music festival that was attacked by Hamas in southern Israel on Saturday.

On the day of the attack, he recalled running with his friends from "a lot of rockets." He said a car then took him and others to a nearby bunker, where 40-50 people eventually were hiding from the attack. He was near the back of the bunker as he was one of the first to get there, he told CNN's Anderson Cooper Tuesday night.

Zimerman heard police fighting the attackers and said that at one point gas was thrown into the bunker, which he said reminded him of the gas used by Nazis to kill Jews during the Holocaust.

"With the gas, you cannot breathe," he said. "It's impossible to breathe after 30 seconds."
Following the gas, the attackers entered the bunker and began shooting and throwing flash-bang grenades.



Zimerman, who has shrapnel wounds from the attack, said he did not move while covered by dead people in the bunker. Eventually, six people escaped, he said.

"I'm a miracle. I'm a survivor and I have to be glad," Zimerman added.

Israeli officials counted at least 260 bodies near the site of the Nova festival, outside Re’im, after the slaughter by Hamas Saturday morning.

"We were partying, you know, just partying and the life, young people, just living," he recalled. "A lot of people from all the world. It doesn't matter their religion. It doesn't matter from where you are," he said.
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Aw, that is so sad.
They weren't judging anyone, only celebrating the music together.

He'll most likely have some form of ptsd or survivor's guilt -- but I hope he heals and thrives.
 

'This is collective punishment': Gaza humanitarian worker​

Civilians in Gaza are being subject to "collective punishment", humanitarian worker Hozayfa Yazji told the BBC's Newshour programme.

"I do not accept targeting civilians from both sides by any means. To this retaliation in Gaza... In my mind, it's a collective punishment.

"I'm looking out of my window and people just running in the streets of Gaza and they don't know where to go. There is no hope," says Hozayfa, who is the Gaza area manager for the Norwegian Refugee Council.

While Gaza residents have experienced many rounds of attacks in the last 14 years, Hozayfa says they have never been on this scale.

"The situation is very bad, it's beyond even words. In Gaza there is no safe place at the moment," he said.

 
2m ago

Israel defence minister: 'We will also come from the ground'​

Reuters reports that Israeli Defence Minister Yoavv Gallant, speaking on Tuesday to soldiers near the Gaza fence, said, “Hamas wanted a change and it will get one. What was in Gaza will no longer be. We started the offensive from the air, later on we will also come from the ground.”

The statement is another clear sign that a ground offensive into Gaza is imminent.

[…] On Monday night […] Israelis were told by the Home Front to prepare a safe place to shelter and enough food, water and other supplies to last 72 hours.

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Gaza hospitals in crisis, says WHO – as it happened

This blog is now closed. Follow live news at the blog below: Israel-Hamas war live
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'We have to think about what happens after': Top EU diplomat​

Josep Borrell, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, has said in a statement that Israel's response in Gaza may have already breached international law.

"Israel has the right to defend [itself], but it has to be done according to the right of international law, humanitarian law," he said. "Some decisions are against this international law."

He also expressed the need to continue funding the Palestinian Authority in the wake of the Hamas attacks on Israel.

"We consider Hamas a terrorist organisation and what they have done shows – certainly – that they behave like this," Borrell said. "But the Palestinian Authority is another thing. The Palestinian Authority is our partner."

Borrell added that: "We have to think also about what happens after," and that it is time to think about a solution that will bring long-term peace to the region.

 
PommyMommy said:
Live updates: Israel-Hamas war (cnn.com)
18 min ago

Israeli solider finds mother's body "full of bullets" after Hamas attack​

Israeli solider Betzalel Taljah went back to the kibbutz where his 63-year-old mother lived after it was attacked by Hamas over the weekend. When he arrived, he found that she had been killed, her body was “full of bullets.”

Taljah said when he found her body, he saw that she was shot from “head to toe.” He said she had a bag of snacks to give kids to help ease their fears of the attack.

Ultimately, she was not able to get to a safe place in time, Taljah said. The spelling of Taljah’s mothers name was not immediately available.

“My mom was a very good person,” he said. “I would want every body to remember her.”
Talijah said Hamas militants saw the attack “like a game.”

When he arrived at his mother’s kibbutz, he said it seemed like Hamas came “just to kill and destroy.”
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Red bolding mine.
Disgusting.
In fps games, the enemy is nearly always armed and shooting back at you.

This was a massacre of innocents.
Omo.
 
JennieM said:

'This is collective punishment': Gaza humanitarian worker​

Civilians in Gaza are being subject to "collective punishment", humanitarian worker Hozayfa Yazji told the BBC's Newshour programme.

"I do not accept targeting civilians from both sides by any means. To this retaliation in Gaza... In my mind, it's a collective punishment.

"I'm looking out of my window and people just running in the streets of Gaza and they don't know where to go. There is no hope," says Hozayfa, who is the Gaza area manager for the Norwegian Refugee Council.

While Gaza residents have experienced many rounds of attacks in the last 14 years, Hozayfa says they have never been on this scale.

"The situation is very bad, it's beyond even words. In Gaza there is no safe place at the moment," he said.

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Does this guy want to pretend that what happened in Israel wasn’t “collective?”

If it were not collective, we would be reading about one dead Israeli, instead of 1200+ and counting.

IMO
 
Live updates: Israel-Hamas war (cnn.com)
16 min ago

At least 4 UN relief workers were killed in air strikes in Gaza​

Officials with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said Tuesday four of its employees have died as a result of air strikes on Gaza.

At least 14 of their facilities in Gaza have been damaged directly or indirectly, UNRWA Director of Communications Juliette Touma told United Nations news.

The agency has been unable to bring any aid into the Gaza Strip since Saturday, Touma said.

The UNRWA hosts 170,000 people in more than 80 schools and other facilities throughout Gaza. As schools reach their capacity, people have been forced to seek shelter in health care facilities, Touma said.

UNRWA headquarters were subjected to collateral damage on Tuesday morning due to airstrikes in the surrounding neighborhoods, she said. Some of UNRWA’s employees were taking shelter in the same compound in a nearby building during the strikes, she said.
 
What does the European Union want Israel to do - fire just enough rockets at Gaza to even the number of Israeli citizens killed and then go back home and wait for the next Hamas attack ? Actually, regardless of how much damage Israel does to Gaza, Israel will be attacked again. If they stop any where short of destroying Hamas in Gaza then Hamas will attack again and the other terrorists groups in the Middle East will be emboldened to attack Israel. If Israel flattens Gaza there will still be revenge attack by other terrosists groups. I wonder if Israel authorities believe that mass destruction in Gaza will keep Iran from attacking Israel ? Perhaps they believe they can better protect their country and citizens from the terrorists than they can an attack by a country like Iran. IMO
 
www.timesofisrael.com

Corpses and kid’s bikes, burned homes and death in kibbutz where Hamas butchered 100

Foreign media shown grim aftermath of Palestinian terrorists' massacre in Kfar Aza community where whole families were slaughtered, victims mutilated
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Six body bags lay next to three children’s bicycles in the kibbutz of Kfar Aza Tuesday where Hamas terrorists massacred more than 100 civilians during the weekend’s devastating assault that killed over 1,000 people in the south of the country.

Foreign media personnel were given a tour of Kfar Aza and reported that the Palestinian attackers in some cases decapitated their victims.

When the Palestinian gunmen stormed the kibbutz, they “set fire” to several homes in what had been a bustling community “to force their occupants to come out,” said Omar Barak, a 24-year-old Israeli army officer.

“But many preferred to die in the fires … than be killed by the terrorists,” he said of the wave of Hamas terrorists who infiltrated southern Israeli communities from the Gaza Strip in a pre-dawn attack on Saturday.

[...]
 
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How US Jewish day schools are talking about the horrors in Israel with their students

Educators are wrestling with how to discuss Hamas' massive terror offensive while also using their institutions as gathering places for community mourning and support
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“Like everyone in the Jewish world, the entire community of Jewish day schools is profoundly and personally affected by the attack on Israel,” Paul Bernstein, CEO of Prizmah, a nonprofit that supports Jewish day schools and yeshivas, told JTA.

“Leaders and teachers in our schools are taking the steps that they need initially to support students, faculty, staff and families, including handling the trauma, leading prayers and conversations in support of Israel, taking appropriate steps to ensure security is in place, and participating in local community efforts to stand with Israel.”

[...]

Hillel Day School in Farmington Hills, Michigan, which serves early childhood through 8th grade, has a large number of Israelis on staff. Head of school Darin Katz said his first priority on Monday was supporting them, which he hoped “would then translate to the students.”

When the time came to discuss the matter with students, Katz recalled, they were the ones who wound up comforting the staff. “They showed incredible kindness and compassion and grace to their Israeli teachers,” he said.

[...]
 
Israel-Hamas war live: US, Israel and Egypt discussing safe passage from Gaza for civilians; Israeli deaths pass 1,200 (theguardian.com)
8m ago04.48 BST

IDF spokesperson: increased death toll is 'not because there is ongoing fighting'​

Israel Defence Forces spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Conricus has just given an update in which he confirms the death toll of 1,200 Israelis killed. They are “overwhelmingly civilians,” he said.

More than 2,700 are wounded.

The jump in the death toll is “not because there is ongoing fighting,” but rather because, “now as the time has gone by we are discovering bodies of dead Israelis in the various communities that Hamas infiltrated and where they conducted their massacres,” Conricus said.

3m ago04.54 BST

Israel's military aim to destroy Hamas's military capabilities, says spokesperson​

Israel Defence Forces spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Conricus has said in that update, that the Israeli military’s mission is, “to make sure that Hamas, at the end of this war, won’t have any military capabilities by which they can threaten or kill Israeli civilians.”
 
PommyMommy said:
Israel-Hamas war live: US, Israel and Egypt discussing safe passage from Gaza for civilians; Israeli deaths pass 1,200 (theguardian.com)
8m ago04.48 BST

IDF spokesperson: increased death toll is 'not because there is ongoing fighting'​

Israel Defence Forces spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Conricus has just given an update in which he confirms the death toll of 1,200 Israelis killed. They are “overwhelmingly civilians,” he said.

More than 2,700 are wounded.

The jump in the death toll is “not because there is ongoing fighting,” but rather because, “now as the time has gone by we are discovering bodies of dead Israelis in the various communities that Hamas infiltrated and where they conducted their massacres,” Conricus said.

3m ago04.54 BST

Israel's military aim to destroy Hamas's military capabilities, says spokesperson​

Israel Defence Forces spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Conricus has said in that update, that the Israeli military’s mission is, “to make sure that Hamas, at the end of this war, won’t have any military capabilities by which they can threaten or kill Israeli civilians.”
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As well as identifying and censuring those that are supplying Hamas' Military Capabilities.

JMO
 

Electric power company in Gaza ‘running out of fuel’: Authorities​

The company supplying electricity to Gaza could shut down “within hours” as “it is running out of fuel”, authorities in the besieged Palestinian enclave which is home to more than two million people said in a statement.

‘No active combat events’ on Israel’s borders with Lebanon, Syria: Military​

The Israeli military has reported “quiet” on Israel’s border with Syria and said “there are no attacks and active combat events” on the frontier with Lebanon.
Jonathan Conricus, a spokesman for the military, added that Israel has deployed tens of thousands of additional units, including infantry, special forces and artillery corps to the border with Lebanon to counter any attacks from Lebanon’s Hezbollah group.
Conricus’s comments came after a salvo of rockets was fired from southern Lebanon towards Israel and more shells launched from Syrian territory landed in open areas in Israel on Tuesday.

www.aljazeera.com

Israel-Hamas war updates: Hamas claims release of woman and children

Here are the updates from the Israel-Hamas war on Wednesday October 11, 2023.
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We have a (relatively small) group of protesters who disrupted the changing of the sails to the colours of the Israeli flag on the Sydney Opera House last night.

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Now they are planning a rally for this weekend. They are apparently exercising their 'right to peaceful assembly'. The police chief says they wont be causing trouble again.


Acting Commissioner Hudson said he would "encourage people not to attend" as they would be met with a "strong police force".
Sydney pro-Palestinian protest organiser flags legal challenge after premier vows crackdown on weekend rally
 
Washington Post reported that Hamas began planning the attack on Israel at least a year ago, with training and logistical help and funding from Iran.


The Palestinian militants behind the surprise weekend attack on Israel began planning the assault at least a year ago, with key support from Iranian allies who provided military training and logistical help as well as tens of millions of dollars for weapons, current and former Western and Middle Eastern intelligence officials said Monday.
 
36min ago

IDF hits Hamas naval facilities, kills diver trying to infiltrate into Israel​

The Israel Defense Forces says it struck a number of Hamas naval targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as a Hamas diver attempting to infiltrate into Israel via the sea.

The IDF says the Khan Younis and Gaza City docks, used by Hamas “to carry out terror attacks on the Israeli coastline,” were hit by artillery fire from missile boats, combat helicopters and ground artillery.

“In addition, Israeli Navy forces killed a Hamas diver who attempted to infiltrate into Israel from the Gaza shores earlier today,” the IDF adds.

The military publishes footage of the strikes.

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Translated from Hebrew by Google
In the last day, naval targets of the terrorist organization Hamas were attacked, the anchorages of Khan Yunis and Gaza were attacked, which are used by the terrorist organization Hamas in an attempt to carry out attacks in the Israeli maritime space. The anchorages were attacked by artillery fire from missile ships, helicopter gunships and artillery batteries from land >>
https://twitter.com/x/status/1711951541135974855
 
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A former Mossad chief says Israel is enforcing an apartheid system in the West Bank

A former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency says that Israel is enforcing an apartheid system in the West Bank
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I think that some people in Israel knew that something was going to happen soon. It is interesting to look at things said prior to this, that basically predicted a revolt. What occurred was wrong, but maybe this was the only way Hamas felt they could be heard.

If you continue to beat a dog, you can't blame the dog for biting you.
 
Live updates: Israel-Hamas war (cnn.com)
31 min ago

"Butchered" children found in kibbutz as new details emerge of Hamas atrocities​

Bullet holes are seen on the walls of a house next to a broken door handle are seen in Kfar Aza on Tuesday.
Bullet holes are seen on the walls of a house next to a broken door handle are seen in Kfar Aza on Tuesday. Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Bodies of Israeli residents and Palestinian militants lay outside of burned-out homes in the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on Tuesday...

[...]

"Massacre": Hamas militants carried out a “massacre” in Kfar Aza during their attacks over the weekend, in which women, children, toddlers and elderly were “brutally butchered in an ISIS way of action,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told CNN on Tuesday.

The IDF said it cannot confirm the number of people killed there and would not go into details of how the people were killed.

Houses in Kfar Aza were ransacked and set ablaze. Overturned mattresses, destroyed furniture, broken trinkets and unexploded grenades lay strewn across the grounds, along with bodies — a window into the scale of devastation wrought by Hamas in this area.

“I’ve never seen anything like this in my career, never in 40 years of service this something I never imagined,” Maj. Gen. Itai Veruv told CNN on Tuesday, just a few hours after Israeli troops secured the Kfar Aza kibbutz from Hamas militants.
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Veruv said his soldiers spent “about 48 hours” fighting “waves and waves of terrorists” on roads and in neighboring communities. He said he had started fighting militants in the Yakhini moshav (community) on Saturday, moving then “from battle to battle,” on the road to Sderot, before reaaching the Be’eri kibbutz on Monday evening.

“I saw hundreds of terrorists in full armor, full gear, with all the equipment and all the ability to make a massacre, go from apartment to apartment, from room to room and kill babies, mothers, fathers in their bedrooms,” Veruv said.
 
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