Israel - Palestinian militants launch massive attack, 7 Oct 2023

[Momoffourboys]

IDF announces massive strikes on Gaza ‘terror nest,’ says it killed 2 top Hamas men

Coalition backs unity government; 2 killed by rocket; forces kill terrorists near border town; over 900 Israeli deaths since Hamas onslaught; IDF toll at 123

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IDF says it killed Hamas economy minister and 2nd senior official in strikes​

The Israel Defense Forces says it killed Hamas’s minister of economy and another senior member of Hamas’s politburo in drone strikes in the Gaza Strip last night.
The military says the first, Jawad Abu Shamala, managed the terror group’s funds, “and earmarked funds for financing and directing terror in and and outside the Gaza Strip.”
The second, Zakariya Abu Moammar, was the head of the terror group’s internal relations, the IDF says.
“He was a senior Hamas decision-maker and coordinator between terror groups in the Gaza Strip.”
The IDF says he was a confidant to Hamas’s Gaza chief, Yahya Sinwar, and part of the terror group’s “senior forum, involved in the organization’s decision-making and the planning of numerous terror activities against the State of Israel.”

 

[Gardenista]

Hamas cutting off the heads of babies

https://twitter.com/x/status/1711697093151056355

 

[JennieM]

Hamas cutting off the heads of babies

https://twitter.com/x/status/1711697093151056355

I can’t watch this video but have they really?

 

[Inthedetails]

Since the Hamas attack seemed planned and organized, they should have also planned and organized what to do with their own civilians given the obvious assumption Israel would retaliate with vengeance. What to do about water, power, food, housing in Gaza? Surely responsible leaders would consider their own people, right? And not purposely put them in danger, right?

The difference between the two attacks is one came completely without warning and targeted innocent, vulnerable civilians who were simply living life. It was not a war act against ready military, but war act fought against babies, the young, the elderly, all unexpecting. With Israel's response, there is warning in advance and time given to move the civilians, which doesn't seem to be heeded anyway.

jmo

 

[Gardenista]

I can’t watch this video but have they really?

Yes

 

[JennieM]

Since the Hamas attack seemed planned and organized, they should have also planned and organized what to do with their own civilians given the obvious assumption Israel would retaliate with vengeance. What to do about water, power, food, housing in Gaza? Surely responsible leaders would consider their own people, right? And not purposely put them in danger, right?

The difference between the two attacks is one came completely without warning and targeted innocent, vulnerable civilians who were simply living life. It was not a war act against ready military, but war act fought against babies, the young, the elderly, all unexpecting. With Israel's response, there is warning in advance and time given to move the civilians, which doesn't seem to be heeded anyway.

jmo

It’s heartbreaking all the same though when children and vulnerable civilians are involved.

 

[Inthedetails]

I can’t watch this video but have they really?

I won't watch. It's one thing to stand as witness and face reality, but it's another to endanger our own mental health. Seriously.

jmo

 

[Inthedetails]

It’s heartbreaking all the same though when children and vulnerable civilians are involved.

Of course. I hope it goes without saying that nobody wants children and vulnerable people hurt. And true leaders do what is in their power to avoid it, not to court it.

jmo

 

[DS2021]

Biden says Israel ‘has a duty to respond’ to attacks – as it happened

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Hamas warns Israeli civilians to leave Ashkelon city by 5pm

Hamas’s armed wing spokesperson, Abu Ubaida, has told residents of Israel’s port of Ashkelon to leave the area by 5pm local time (about 90 minutes from now), without giving any further details. Ashkelon is nine miles north of Gaza.

5 minutes till 5pm

 

[Gardenista]

Biden says Israel ‘has a duty to respond’ to attacks – as it happened

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5 minutes till 5pm

Wonder why they've started warning people.

 

[Elley Mae]

Don’t put me in charge of IDF cause i would be dropping same bunker busters, moabs.

Jmo

 

[PommyMommy]

2hr ago

‘It’s not a war, it’s not a battlefield, it’s a massacre’: Senior IDF officer at scene of kibbutz slaughter​

The Israel Defense Forces takes international journalists to Kfar Azza, a kibbutz close to the border where around 70 residents were slaughtered during the devastating attack by Hamas terrorists.

“It’s not a war, it’s not a battlefield, it’s a massacre,” IDF Major General Itai Veruv says. “You see the babies, their mothers and their fathers, in their bedrooms, and in their protected rooms, and how the terrorists killed them — it’s not a war.”

“It’s something that I never saw in my life,” he says. “We used to imagine our grandmothers and grandfathers during the pogroms in Europe. It’s not something that we have seen in recent history.”

2hr ago

30 people missing since start of Hamas’s murderous attack are found after 3 days​

Israeli forces located 30 missing people in the southern kibbutz of Ein Hashlosha last night, three days into Hamas’s lethal invasion into southern Israel.

Authorities say they received a report at around 9 p.m. last night of a group of 16 Israelis and 14 Thais who were missing.

A joint situation room of the military, police, Shin Bet, and various ministries looked into the details, and at 9:52 p.m., IDF teams were sent to the kibbutz to rescue them.

The group was found alive and well, authorities say in a joint statement.

 

[Momoffourboys]

Rocket alert
Sirens in Tel Aviv
News channels off air

 

[PommyMommy]

2hr ago

Hamas threatens Ashkelon with major rocket barrage, warns residents to leave home by 5 p.m.​

The spokesperson for Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Obeida, threatens the southern coastal city of Ashkelon with a major rocket attack in the coming hours.

“In response to the enemy’s crime of displacing our people and forcing them to flee their homes in several areas of the Gaza Strip, we give the residents of the occupied city of Ashkelon a deadline to leave before 5 p.m.,” Abu Obeida says on his Telegram channel.

1hr ago

Haifa hospital told to prepare in case of war on northern border​

The Health Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command orders Rambam Healthcare Campus in Haifa to be prepared for the event of an outbreak of war in the north of Israel.

Rambam is the designated care provider for most of the country’s north and all soldiers and civilians injured in wartime in the region.

The hospital is home to the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital, a three-level, 2,000-bed facility designed for safe patient care under wartime conditions.

 

[PommyMommy]

54min ago

COGAT chief addresses Gazans: ‘You wanted hell, you will get hell’​

The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, known by its acronym COGAT, addresses a message to Gazan residents and Hamas leadership, lambasting Palestinian popular support for the terror group.

In a video statement, Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, head of COGAT, says: “Kidnapping, abusing and murdering children, women and elderly people is not human. There is no justification for that. Hamas has turned into ISIS, and the residents of Gaza, instead of being appalled, are celebrating.

“Human animals must be treated as such. There will be no electricity and no water [in Gaza], there will only be destruction. You wanted hell, you will get hell.”

54min ago

IDF says it launched massive strikes on ‘nest of terror’ in Gaza City​

The Israel Defense Forces says it launched massive airstrikes against a neighborhood of Gaza City, targeting more than 100 sites.

The IDF says the neighborhood, dubbed by the army al-Furqan after a mosque in the area, is a “nest of terror” used by Hamas to launch attacks against Israel.

Dozens of fighter jets participated in the strikes, the IDF adds.

Separately, the IDF says it hit an underground tunnel for smuggling weapons and equipment in the Rafah area, on the Egypt-Gaza border.

 

[BayouBelle_LA]

I can’t watch this video but have they really?

You won’t see anything in the video. The reporter is talking about what the Israeli soldiers saw in the aftermath in private homes in the neighborhood a short distance from the border.

 

[PommyMommy]

49min ago

Ra’am’s Mansour Abbas urges Hamas to release women, children, elderly​

Ra’am’s Mansour Abbas urges Hamas to release women, children, and elderly hostages.

Mansour Abbas, leader of Israel’s Islamist Ra’am party, calls on Hamas leaders to release some of the Israeli hostages.

In a message on the X platform (formerly Twitter), the politician writes: “Islamic values command us not to imprison women, children and elderly people. This is a humanitarian action that must be implemented immediately.”

The tweet is only in Hebrew. It is unknown if Abbas conveyed his message in Arabic through other channels.

21min ago

IDF says it killed Hamas economy minister and 2nd senior official in strikes​

The Israel Defense Forces says it killed Hamas’s minister of economy and another senior member of Hamas’s politburo in drone strikes in the Gaza Strip last night.

The military says the first, Jawad Abu Shamala, managed the terror group’s funds, “and earmarked funds for financing and directing terror in and and outside the Gaza Strip.”

The second, Zakariya Abu Moammar, was the head of the terror group’s internal relations, the IDF says.

4:58 pm

Egyptian trucks bringing fuel, food to Gaza make U-turn after Rafah crossing bombed​

Following the IAF’s afternoon strike at the Rafah crossing, the only active land crossing out of Gaza with the border to Israel sealed, Egyptian trucks that were on the way to the Strip with fuel and goods are forced to turn back.

The bombing came in spite of the fact that an Israeli military official this morning advised Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip for Egypt through Rafah amid the ongoing war with the Hamas terror group. The IDF has since walked back that statement.

Channel 12 claims the crossing was hit to prevent Egypt from providing a lifeline to the besieged Strip.

 

[sds71]

New details about Shani​

The family received news of their hospitalization from the Gaza Strip. Shani's mother said: "We now have evidence that Shani is alive but has a serious head injury and is in critical condition. Every minute is critical.”

It's a glimmer of hope for the family of missing German Shani Nicole Louk: The 22-year-old is said to be seriously injured in a Hamas hospital!

Her mother Ricarda Louk addresses BILD with a video message. In it she begs the federal government for help: “You have to act quickly and get Shani out of the Gaza Strip!

Israel: Deutsche Shani Louk im Gaza-Krankenhaus? Mutter: „Jede Minute ist kritisch“

Palästinensische Quellen sagen, dass die vermisste Shani Nicole Louk (22) schwer verletzt in einem Krankenhaus im Gazastreifen ist. Ihre Mutter fleht die Bundesregierung um Hilfe an.

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[Ontario Mom]

I won't watch. It's one thing to stand as witness and face reality, but it's another to endanger our own mental health. Seriously.

jmo

I did watch and they don't show anything graphic at all, just the reporter re-telling what soldiers encountered - very brief details.

 

[Leve]

I took the “they hate America too” comment to mean Hamas. The Hamas hate the Jews and Americans. Not that the Jews hate Americans. The word used as They, not Jews.

Go back and read what was quoted by the "They hate Americans too". It was a post about how anyone could hate Jewish people.