Israel - Palestinian militants launch massive attack, 7 Oct 2023 #5

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1hr ago

Iran pushing for oil embargo on Israel​

Iran’s top diplomat has called on Muslim nations to expel their Israeli ambassadors and launch an oil embargo on Israel after an explosion at a hospital in the Gaza Strip.

The comments by Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian mark the first time an oil embargo has been discussed as Israel wages war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip after the terror group slaughtered some 1,300 Israelis, most of them civilians, on October 7.

1hr ago

El Al to comp Israelis evacuating Turkey after warning​

El Al will run reduced cost evacuation flights for Israelis leaving Turkey, in light of the Israeli government’s Tuesday night travel advisory.

Israelis will only need to pay for airport taxes, and El Al’s portion of the ticket – flown under its Sun D’Or brand – will be free, according to a statement from Transportation Minister Miri Regev.

1hr ago

Rocket alarms blare in Beersheba​

Sirens are sounding in Beersheba and communities closer to Gaza, as terrorists appear to step up rocket fire after mostly keeping a leash on launches for the last several hours.
 
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  • #283
57min ago

No reports of injuries after rocket attack​

Rocket sirens have sounded again in Kissufim, which has been among the few targets of heavy Gazan shelling today as other places have seen relative quiet

42min ago

Meeting between Biden and Netanyahu war cabinet wraps up​

The meeting between US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s war cabinet in Tel Aviv has ended, says Netanyahu’s spokesman.

37min ago

Herzog begins meeting with Biden after US president wraps up sit-down with war cabinet​

President Isaac Herzog begins his meeting with US President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv, after the American leader finishes his meeting with Israel’s war cabinet.

Herzog was forced to wait for about an hour, as the prior meetings ran overtime.
 
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27min ago

IDF responding to gunfire targeting its Lebanon border military posts​

The Israel Defense Forces says a number of its military posts on the Lebanon border were attacked with gunfire.

The IDF adds that it is responding with artillery shelling toward the sources of the fire in southern Lebanon.

The attacks come following a string of missile, rocket, and shooting attacks on Israeli towns and military posts on the northern border in recent days, most of them claimed by the Hezbollah terror group.

4:18 pm

Anti-tank guided missile launched from Lebanon targets IDF military post​

The Israel Defense Forces says a military post on the Lebanon border has also been attacked by an anti-tank guided missile launched from Lebanon.

The IDF does not immediately report casualties in the attack.

It says troops are responding with artillery fire at the sources of the missile fire in southern Lebanon.
 
  • #286
16min ago

Blinken reiterates in call to Abbas that Hamas doesn’t represent Palestinians​

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke on the phone with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas earlier today and expressed his condolences over the deadly blast near a Gaza City hospital, which Israel has blamed on a failed Islamic Jihad rocket.

Blinken “expressed continuing US support for the Palestinian people, stressing that Hamas terrorists do not represent Palestinians or their legitimate aspirations for self-determination and equal measures of dignity, freedom, security, and justice,” according to the State Department readout.

Blinken “emphasized that the United States unequivocally condemns all terrorism and stressed the United States’ firm commitment to upholding the law of war, to include important protections for civilians.”

Blinken and Abbas also “discussed continuing US efforts to coordinate the provision of urgent, life-saving humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza, in tandem with partners, and efforts to prevent the conflict from spreading,” the State Department says.
 
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1min ago

‘None of your hearts have turned to stone’: Biden lauds first responders to Hamas onslaught​

US President Joe Biden meets with first responders to the Hamas onslaught on October 18, 2023. (Screen capture/Channel 12)
US President Joe Biden meets with first responders to the Hamas onslaught on October 18, 2023. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

US President Joe Biden, along with charge d’affaires Stephanie Hallett and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, meet first responders and doctors, including United Hatzalah founder Eli Beer, who treated victims of the Hamas onslaught.

Paramedics tell him about treating victims of the attacks in the field.

Biden responds by quoting an old poem that states, “too long a sacrifice makes a stone of the heart,” though he appears to replace sacrifice with the word “suffering” to more aptly apply to the current moment.

The US president notes that “none of your hearts have turned to stone” and expresses his admiration for how the medical professionals expressed pride in having treated victims regardless of whether they were Jewish or Muslim.

Biden says he is “convinced” that the more people know of these stories about the conduct of the medical professionals, “the more they’ll embrace Israel.”

Biden repeats the story that Golda Meir told him that Israel’s secret weapon is that the Jews have nowhere else to go. He also stresses that “you don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.”

Hallett tells Biden that the assembled Israelis are representative of the unity in the country.
 
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I think President Biden speaking of the hospital bombing being caused by the "other team" is just one of those comments probably sound find, but come out wrong. I don't agree with him on many things, but I can respect that he is in Israel right now attempting to help be part of the solution to this very complex and horrific situation that could erupt into a much bigger problem. No doubt he's taking a risk being there, but it's possible the risk of him not being there is even higher.

When he says "other team" it's possible he didn't want to name which enemy since maybe that part isn't clear.. was it HAMAS, was it the other terrorist group.. who knows, but I do think he's reference was an innocent comment mean to signal not the good guys. I know words matter and I'm thinking a statement might be released to clarify. I didn't take it as him equating this situation to a game.
 
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Islamic Jihad struck a Hospital in Gaza—the IDF did not.

Listen to the terrorists as they realize this themselves:
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Hamas constantly terrorizes not just Israelis, but Gazan civilians too.
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Don't fall for it.

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www.cnn.com

Live updates: Israel-Hamas war rages as President Biden arrives in Tel Aviv

US President Joe Biden has arrived in Israel on an extraordinary high-stakes trip as the region is gripped by violence in the aftermath of Hamas' attacks and Israel's subsequent response. Follow here for live updates.
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26 min ago

US Treasury Department imposes sanctions on 10 Hamas "members, operatives, and financial facilitators"​

The US Treasury Department said it took action Wednesday to try to stem revenue flow to Hamas by imposing sanctions on 10 people connected to Hamas.

“We will continue to take all steps necessary to deny Hamas terrorists the ability to raise and use funds to carry out atrocities and terrorize the people of Israel. That includes by imposing sanctions and coordinating with allies and partners to track, freeze, and seize any Hamas-related assets in their jurisdictions,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a news release Wednesday.
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The new sanctions target “six individuals associated with Hamas’s secret investment portfolio, two senior Hamas officials, and a Gaza-based virtual currency exchange and its operator,” according to the Treasury Department.

“What we're doing today is we're cutting them off from access to their money,” a senior Treasury official said. “War costs money, and fundamentally by making sure that these networks and financiers don't have the ability to give that money to Hamas, it will mean that they have fewer resources to pay their fighters, to buy the weapons, to support their destabilizing activity.”

“As of today, they will be cut off from those assets into the US financial system,” the official said.
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In addition, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo announced the administration aims to “build a multinational coalition to go after terrorist financing,” and senior Treasury officials will travel to the region to continue to coordinate.

Read more about the sanctions here.
 
  • #292
justtrish said:
I think President Biden speaking of the hospital bombing being caused by the "other team" is just one of those comments probably sound find, but come out wrong. I don't agree with him on many things, but I can respect that he is in Israel right now attempting to help be part of the solution to this very complex and horrific situation that could erupt into a much bigger problem. No doubt he's taking a risk being there, but it's possible the risk of him not being there is even higher.

When he says "other team" it's possible he didn't want to name which enemy since maybe that part isn't clear.. was it HAMAS, was it the other terrorist group.. who knows, but I do think he's reference was an innocent comment mean to signal not the good guys. I know words matter and I'm thinking a statement might be released to clarify. I didn't take it as him equating this situation to a game.
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Exactly.

Military conflict does share vocabulary with sports whether people think that is appropriate or not. There are winners and losers, opponents, rules, training, tactics, game-plans, strategies, positions, boundaries, etc. etc.

In fact, sports are a way to alleviate conflict and tension. Unfortunately, this conflict won't be solved with healthy competition.

The President of the United States did not travel into a war zone to make light of it. Please, people.

jmo
 
  • #293
8min ago

Protesters attempt to storm Israeli embassy in Amman for second time in 24 hours​


Jordanian security forces disperse the crowd of thousands of protesters trying to storm the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan in protest of the war in Gaza on October 18, 2023. (Screen capture/X)
Jordanian security forces disperse the crowd of thousands of protesters trying to storm the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan in protest of the war in Gaza on October 18, 2023. (Screen capture/X)

Jordanian security forces are working to disperse a crowd of thousands of protesters trying to storm the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan, in protest of the war in Gaza.

Israel reportedly evacuated the embassy several days ago.

Demonstrators had already attempted to break into the embassy last night and were dispersed by the Jordanian police.

Mass rallies took place in the West Bank, Jordan and Lebanon last night in the wake of a hospital blast in Gaza that Hamas claims resulted from an Israeli airstrike. Israel says a misfired Gazan rocket caused the blast.
 
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So called ''rag'' newspapers (reach the right people first) need to have headlines that state Hamas caused the hospital explosion, the words should be tailored so that the truth is more palatable for the supporters. imo.

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Israel military steps up denial it hit Gaza hospital, says building undamaged

Israel's military published on Wednesday what it described as evidence that a misfired Palestinian rocket, rather than one of its own munitions, caused an overnight explosion at a Gaza hospital in which hundreds of people died.
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October 18, 20233

'JERUSALEM, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Israel's military published on Wednesday what it described as evidence that a misfired Palestinian rocket, rather than one of its own munitions, caused an overnight explosion at a Gaza hospital in which hundreds of people died.
Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls Gaza, has blamed the blast on Israel. Israel says it was a result of a failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another militant group in the enclave.'

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'Israel Releases Audio & Visual 'Proof' Claiming Islamic Jihad Role In Gaza Hospital Blast'​

 
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4:51 pm

IDF releases drone footage showing that parking lot took most of blast damage, hospital fully standing​


IDF footage of the Gaza City hospital whose parking lot it says was struck by a PIJ rocket, on October 18, 2023. (Screen capture/X)
IDF footage of the Gaza City hospital whose parking lot it says was struck by a PIJ rocket, on October 18, 2023. (Screen capture/X)

The IDF releases drone footage of the Gaza City hospital this morning that shows very limited damage to the hospital itself and no crater in the parking lot that was hit. The lack of a crater indicates that the source of the blast was not an IDF strike.

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justtrish said:
I think President Biden speaking of the hospital bombing being caused by the "other team" is just one of those comments probably sound find, but come out wrong. I don't agree with him on many things, but I can respect that he is in Israel right now attempting to help be part of the solution to this very complex and horrific situation that could erupt into a much bigger problem. No doubt he's taking a risk being there, but it's possible the risk of him not being there is even higher.

When he says "other team" it's possible he didn't want to name which enemy since maybe that part isn't clear.. was it HAMAS, was it the other terrorist group.. who knows, but I do think he's reference was an innocent comment mean to signal not the good guys. I know words matter and I'm thinking a statement might be released to clarify. I didn't take it as him equating this situation to a game.
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I agree. The most important thing is that he agrees with Israel that IDF is not responsible.

This is going to fan the flames of the terrorists and possibly upset innocent Palestinians who are swept up by Hamas' propaganda. There is no need get them more antagonized.
 
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