Israel - Palestinian militants launch massive attack, 7 Oct 2023 #6

[Mo Thuairim]

Holocaust survivor visiting Israel safely escapes as war breaks out​

Charlotte Hauptman, 84, was in Israel when the country's war with Hamas broke out. She is now safely back home in Southern California.

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A trip to reunite with a family who saved them​

Charlotte Hauptman was in Israel this fall on a side-trip. The main event of her travels was a wedding in Italy. The bride, Myriam Lanternari, is the great-granddaughter of an Italian couple, Virgilio and Daria Virgili, who Hauptman credits with saving her life and the lives of her parents more than 80 years ago, sheltering them from the Nazis in a little village called Secchiano.

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A mother-daughter trip to Israel turns into fleeing for safety​

After the Virgili family wedding in Italy, Hauptman and her daughter, Michele Goldman, flew straight to Israel.

“She and I had talked about it years ago. We should do this mother and daughter trip,” Hauptman said. “We thought it would be a good bonding experience.” And it was, until the terror began, and she once again had to flee for her life.

Hamas terrorists crossed the border from Gaza into Israel, where they slaughtered 1,400 Israelis and took between 100 and 200 people back to Gaza as hostages. The IDF is now hitting Hamas hard in Gaza, and more than 4,000 Palestinians have now also been killed.

“We were sitting having breakfast in the hotel. We had made reservations for a tour to Bethlehem and Jerusalem,” said Hauptman. “Suddenly the alarms went off and I just looked at the faces of the locals and I read their faces. Panic.”

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Old family photos are seen at Charlotte Hauptman's home. She escaped the Holocaust as a child.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/22/us/holocaust-survivor-israel/index.html

 

[Charlot123]

10/22/23 -- Thousands of anti-Israel protesters clash with police in Brooklyn

• Thousands of anti-Israel protesters have clashed with police in Bay Ridge after they refused to vacate the Brooklyn suburb which they flooded on Saturday
• Chaos erupted at the 'Flood Brooklyn for Palestine' demonstration as night fell with protesters shutting down traffic, screaming at police and lighting small fires

When days are full of sad news, a little bit of humor won’t hurt.

In the Indian state of Kerala people, too, demonstrated in support of Palestine. Only the flags they waved were not Palestinian but Italian. Perhaps the news about the First Jewish-Roman war have finally reached Kerala.

India: they demonstrate for Palestine, but the flag is of Italy - video

 

[Mo Thuairim]

Posters went up online overnight calling for religious Jewish settlers to go to pray at the sacred enclosure around al-Aqsa mosque, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, a provocative act that has the potential for triggering unrest in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

About 100 people turned up at the Mugrabi Gate at the western wall, but they were only allowed in by the police 20 at a time, and they were then escorted across the esplanade to the eastern wall to pray out of sight – a compromise with the religious right that has become routine.

The police locked down the Old City checking all bags, and there were no sign of any Palestinian demonstrations, but it is a potential flashpoint in the coming days.

On the Jenin airstrike, the IDF spokesperson Lt Col Richard Hecht said: “Last night, there was an aerial strike on an underground terror compound in the al-Ansar mosque in Jenin. We were focusing on terrorists, an imminent threat, a ticking timebomb.”

Asked to specify whether the strike was carried out by a drone or a jet fighter, which would be the first time a warplane had been used against the West Bank since the second Intifada, nearly 20 years ago, Hecht said only that it was an “aerial attack”.

Israel-Hamas war: second convoy of as 14 aid trucks enters Gaza – as it happened

This blog has closed. You can follow the latest news on the Israel-Hamas conflict on our new blog.

www.theguardian.com

 

[Mo Thuairim]

The Palestinian ambassador to the UK has criticised those attending pro-Palestinian demonstrations in order to intimidate the Jewish community, saying they should “shut up”.

On Sky News, Husam Zomlot was asked about people attending rallies carrying Hamas flags or glorifying the attacks on 7 October, and said:

This is abhorrent, unacceptable. Those people hijack our cause for their own twisted logic.
The Jewish people have nothing to do with it. This is not a religious conflict. Many of those who demonstrated for Palestine yesterday were Jews. Many of those strong voices are the Jewish people defending us.
Those who have hate in their hearts for Jews would have hate in their hearts for Muslims and Christians, we have nothing to do with them and they should shut up.

Israel-Hamas war: second convoy of as 14 aid trucks enters Gaza – as it happened

This blog has closed. You can follow the latest news on the Israel-Hamas conflict on our new blog.

www.theguardian.com

 

[Momoffourboys]

Barefoot terrorists? WTH?

If you open the links that @Vern shared from South First Responders, you see barefoot terrorists. Terrorists in t-shirts and shorts.

 

[Momoffourboys]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1716062294658978273

 

[Momoffourboys]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1716056156357947482

 

[Momoffourboys]

Hamas fugitive living the high life in UK-funded London home -Sunday Times​

The two-story property comes with a garden and a garage, and is located only a 10 minute drive from the nearest synagogue.​

Hamas fugitive living the high life in UK-funded London home - report

The two-story property comes with a garden and a garage, and is located only a 10 minute drive from the nearest synagogue.

www.jpost.com

 

[Momoffourboys]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1716047814428336538

 

[Momoffourboys]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1716066623176458513

 

[Momoffourboys]

2 weeks after onslaught, Hamas commando captured trying to return to Gaza​

2 weeks after onslaught, Hamas commando captured trying to return to Gaza

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www.timesofisrael.com

 

[Momoffourboys]

IDF says senior Hamas commander killed in overnight Gaza strike​

IDF says senior Hamas commander killed in overnight Gaza strike

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www.timesofisrael.com

 

[Momoffourboys]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1715991325462450626

 

[Momoffourboys]

DBM
(not today’s news)

 

[mickey2942]

wish we could run a poll like we used to be able to

Just to see how many members think that this conflict is going to escalate beyond the Gaza strip.
Am feeling pessimistic on that question r n

Considering how quickly this has escalated, with news filtered to inflame both sides in the conflict, it is almost as if this was planned, for a specific objective, to involve Isreal, and indirectly, the United States, in a war.

How will Isreal accomplish "winning" this war? By eradicating the world of Hamas terrorists? Does that mean indiscriminately killing every able body young Palestinian man between the ages of 12 and 60? So that Isreal will be "secure"?

 

[Momoffourboys]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1716070286955782345

 

[PommyMommy]

2hr ago

IDF carries out airstrike on Hezbollah target after anti-tank missile attacks​

The Israel Defense Forces says it carried out an airstrike against a Hezbollah position in southern Lebanon in response to anti-tank guided missile attacks on northern Israel earlier today.

The IDF adds that two more missiles were launched in the last hour at northern Israel.

The military says it is responding with artillery shelling against the source of the missile fire.

48min ago

Netanyahu to troops: ‘If Hezbollah enters the war, it’s making the mistake of its life’​

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with soldiers on the northern border and issues words of warning to the Hezbollah terror group amid repeated clashes on the border with Lebanon.

“If Hezbollah decides to enter the war, it will long for the Second Lebanon War,” Netanyahu says, according to his office, referencing Israel’s 2006 war with Lebanon. “It will be making the mistake of its life. We will strike it with strength that it cannot even imagine and the significance to it and to the country of Lebanon will be devastating.”

Netanyahu tells the soldiers that “I know that you lost friends, and it’s a very difficult thing, but we are in the fight of our life, a fight for our home. That’s not an exaggeration, it’s not an overstatement, that’s this war. It is kill or be killed, and they need to be killed.”

 

[fred&edna]

Considering how quickly this has escalated, with news filtered to inflame both sides in the conflict, it is almost as if this was planned, for a specific objective, to involve Isreal, and indirectly, the United States, in a war.

RSBM I wondered the same... It is very suspect. imo

 

[Momoffourboys]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1716003102720225504

 

[dotr]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1716066623176458513

Thank you for all the twitter links, although i cannot read any tweets except sometimes only those posted by you and Vern, but not these more recently posted ones.