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

[Gypsy Road]

More info about how Hamas has influence on Palestinian education. Very informative.

https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/21204/

“16. The educational policies which foster hostility towards Israel, and are reflected in the Palestinian textbooks, are manifested more strongly in the Gaza Strip. In Gazan schools the policies are accompanied by informal education led by principals and teachers who are affiliated with Hamas. They inculcate the school children with Hamas' radical Islamist ideology, not necessarily based on textbooks. Schools not run by UNRWA allow semi-military training to be held on their premises (the al-Futuwwa, "youth, heroism," program), to prepare the younger generation to join the ranks of Hamas in the future.”

 

[PommyMommy]

7:16 am

Hezbollah ‘dragging Lebanon into a war,’ IDF says​

Escalating attacks by Hezbollah risk “dragging Lebanon into a war,” the IDF says, as renewed cross-border attacks on Israel by the Iran-backed terror group raise fears of a wider conflict.

“Hezbollah… is dragging Lebanon into a war that it will gain nothing from, but stands to lose a lot,” warns Israel Defense Forces spokesman Jonathan Conricus.

“They’re escalating the situation,” he says.

The past two weeks have seen repeated clashes between the Israeli military and the Hezbollah terror group and allied Palestinian factions in southern Lebanon, amid fears a new front could be opened as Israel continues its war with Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

 

[SkyBoomer]

7:16 am

Hezbollah ‘dragging Lebanon into a war,’ IDF says​

Escalating attacks by Hezbollah risk “dragging Lebanon into a war,” the IDF says, as renewed cross-border attacks on Israel by the Iran-backed terror group raise fears of a wider conflict.

“Hezbollah… is dragging Lebanon into a war that it will gain nothing from, but stands to lose a lot,” warns Israel Defense Forces spokesman Jonathan Conricus.

“They’re escalating the situation,” he says.

The past two weeks have seen repeated clashes between the Israeli military and the Hezbollah terror group and allied Palestinian factions in southern Lebanon, amid fears a new front could be opened as Israel continues its war with Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

So now what? We blame all Lebanese for Hezbollah? Wash, rinse, repeat.

Seems like where this is going….(not you, @PommyMommy )

 

[Momoffourboys]

David Saranga



@DavidSaranga

WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTO
Imagine receiving on your phone this photo of one of your family members. This became a reality for hundreds of Israelis on October 7. Hamas terrorists stole the phones of the people they slaughtered and sent photos of their dead bodies to their families. Hamas = ISIS

https://x.com/DavidSaranga/status/1715948107001696614?s=20

 

[PommyMommy]

Syrian state-run news agency SANA says Israel targeted the Aleppo and Damascus airports, damaging the runways and putting them both out of service. One killed in the Damascus strike, it says.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1715952675890569284

Residents of another 14 communities in northern Israel, close to the Lebanon border, will be evacuated to state-subsidized guest houses, amid repeated Hezbollah attacks.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1715953201810137401

 

[Momoffourboys]

An additional 14 communities in northern Israel were added to the state-funded evacuation plan by the IDF and the National Emergency Authority, according to N12.

14 northern Israel communities to be evacuated

An additional 14 communities in northern Israel were added to the state-funded evacuation plan by the IDF and

www.jpost.com

 

[PommyMommy]

11min ago

Syria says Israel hit Aleppo and Damascus airports, putting them out of service​

[...]

Aleppo International Airport was allegedly targeted by Israel on October 14 and October 12, while Damascus International Airport was allegedly hit only on the 12th.

Both airports have been struck numerous times over the past year, as Israel is believed to be stepping up efforts to prevent the shipment of advanced weapons from Iran to its various Middle East proxies, chief among them Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group.

8min ago

Israel to evacuate another 14 communities close to Lebanon border​

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Last week, NEMA began to evacuate 28 communities that are within 2 kilometers of the border, as well as the city of Kiryat Shmona.

According to the IDF and Defense Ministry, the 14 communities being added to the plan are: Snir, Dan, Beit Hillel, She’ar Yashuv, Hagoshrim, Liman, Matzuva, Eylon, Goren, Gornot HaGalil, Even Menachem, Sasa, Tziv’on and Ramot Naftali.

 

[Momoffourboys]

Tension rises in Jordan with threat of new wave of Palestinian refugees​

Tension rises in Jordan with threat of new wave of Palestinian refugees

Following the tragedy at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza, King Abdullah II makes a bold move to cancel an Amman-based summit with US and Egyptian presidents

www.jpost.com

 

[Sundog]

19min ago

Hezbollah deputy chief says terror group ‘is in the heart’ of Israel-Hamas war​

BEIRUT — A top official with Hezbollah vows that Israel will pay a high price whenever it starts a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip and says that his terror group based in Lebanon already is “in the heart of the battle.”

The comments by Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Qassem, came as Israel shelled and carried out drone strikes in southern Lebanon and Hezbollah fired rockets and missiles toward Israel. Hezbollah said six of its fighters were killed today, the highest daily toll since the violence began two weeks ago.

For Hezbollah, heating up the Lebanon-Israel border has a clear purpose, Qassem says: “We are trying to weaken the Israeli enemy and let them know that we are ready.” Hamas officials have said that if Israel starts a ground offensive in Gaza, Hezbollah will join the fighting.

Qassem says his Iran-backed group, which is allied with Hamas, already is affecting the course of the conflict by heating up the Lebanon-Israel border and keeping three Israeli army divisions tied up in the north instead of preparing to fight in Gaza.

“Do you believe that if you try to crush the Palestinian resistance, other resistance fighters in the region will not act?” Qassem says in a speech during the funeral of a Hezbollah fighter. “We are in the heart of the battle today. We are making achievements through this battle.”

[...]

Speaking about an expected Israeli ground invasion of Gaza, Qassem, says: “Our information are that the preparedness in Gaza by Hamas and resistance fighters will make (the) Israeli ground invasion their graveyard.”

I guess he hasn't noticed the two U.S. Navy carriers nearby.

 

[Friday Fan]

11min ago

Syria says Israel hit Aleppo and Damascus airports, putting them out of service​

[...]

Aleppo International Airport was allegedly targeted by Israel on October 14 and October 12, while Damascus International Airport was allegedly hit only on the 12th.

Both airports have been struck numerous times over the past year, as Israel is believed to be stepping up efforts to prevent the shipment of advanced weapons from Iran to its various Middle East proxies, chief among them Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group.

8min ago

Israel to evacuate another 14 communities close to Lebanon border​

[...]

Last week, NEMA began to evacuate 28 communities that are within 2 kilometers of the border, as well as the city of Kiryat Shmona.

According to the IDF and Defense Ministry, the 14 communities being added to the plan are: Snir, Dan, Beit Hillel, She’ar Yashuv, Hagoshrim, Liman, Matzuva, Eylon, Goren, Gornot HaGalil, Even Menachem, Sasa, Tziv’on and Ramot Naftali.

Day-yam.......
Well, I better scratch Syria off my vacation list for awhile
(Not that I had plans, but you never know )

It's beginning to sound like that 1965 song, "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire

 

[margarita25]

15 hours ago:

 

[Momoffourboys]

Day-yam.......
Well, I better scratch Syria off my vacation list for awhile
(Not that I had plans, but you never know )

It's beginning to sound like that 1965 song, "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire

By next summer, hopefully…

 

[Momoffourboys]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1715961942299250847

 

[Friday Fan]

Oh brother! Really? Ugh..........ugh......why???

Why a wave of anti-Semitism is sweeping across China​

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Sitting in front of a map of the world, Chinese influencer Su Lin has been live-streaming rants in support of Hamas and against Israel since the war broke out. Coming almost every day, they are rife with anti-Semitism.

“Hamas is still being too soft, going way too easy,” says Ms Su, who has nearly one million followers online, in one video, adding that the Israelis are “lackeys of colonialism”.

“Shouldn’t they be captured?” she shouts into a microphone, referring to Israeli citizens taken hostage. “Israel is now just a Jewish version of the Nazis and militarism.”

Ms Su’s videos are part of a wave of anti-Semitism that has emerged online in China since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct 7.

MSN

 

[PommyMommy]

11min ago

IDF says it hit Lebanon terror cell planning missile attack on Israeli town​

View of the border fence with Lebanon, near Avivim, June 13, 2023 (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

The Israel Defense Forces says it has struck a terror cell in southern Lebanon that was planning to carry out an anti-tank guided missile attack against the northern community of Avivim.

The IDF publishes a video of the strike.

The Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group has been carrying out daily missile attacks from Lebanon against IDF positions and towns in northern Israel since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1715960919681896791

 

[Momoffourboys]

'It was a massacre, we felt like ducks in the range and pretended to be dead' | A chilling testimony​

Adi and her husband survived the mass murder at the party in Ra'im: 'I saw how they killed dozens and burned people inside the vehicle. A boy with a gun shot at anyone who tried to escape. I worried about who would take care of my three children, and I prayed'​

'It was a massacre, we felt like ducks in the range and pretended to be dead' | A chilling testimony

Adi and her husband survived the mass murder at the party in Ra'im: 'I saw how they killed dozens and burned people inside the vehicle. A boy with a gun shot at anyone who tried to escape. I worried about who would take care of my three children, and I prayed'

www.ynetnews.com

 

[margarita25]

6 hours ago:

 

[PommyMommy]

Israel-Hamas war live: Gaza strikes to intensify, Israeli military says; West Bank mosque hit (theguardian.com)
2m ago01.38 EDT
The news that Israel is planning to evacuate 14 additional communities in northern Israel comes as its military says escalating attacks by Hezbollah risk “dragging Lebanon into a war”.

Agence France-Presse reports Israel Defence Forces spokesman Jonathan Conricus said: “Hezbollah ... is dragging Lebanon into a war that it will gain nothing from, but stands to lose a lot.”

Israel has been exchanging fire with Hezbollah across its northern border.

Conricus said:

Hezbollah is playing a very, very dangerous game. They’re escalating the situation. We see more and more attacks every day.

Is the Lebanese state really willing to jeopardise what is left of Lebanese prosperity and Lebanese sovereignty for the sake of terrorists in Gaza?

Recent exchanges of fire have killed four Hezbollah fighters and a member of Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in Lebanon, while three Israeli troops were injured, one seriously, in Hezbollah anti-tank fire, and two Thai farm workers also wounded.

Israel has ordered dozens of northern communities to evacuate, and several thousand Lebanese have also fled border regions for the southern city of Tyre.

Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem has warned the group could step up its involvement in the conflict.

 

[Charlot123]

She lives in Nazarath. She didn't grow up with the Hamas government. She is a neuroscientist, her husband is a physician. She supports the Palestinian Authority not Hamas. It even states on her Linked In. One of her research articles is on the US based National Institutes of Health website. Spatiotemporal distribution of cortical processing of first and second languages in bilinguals. II. Effects of phonologic and semantic priming - PubMed

It just illustrates the tragic “distribution of guilt and blame” that happens in all conflicts. To remind, even in 1932 when Hitler’s party, NSDAP, was legally elected into the parliament, less than 37% of Germans voted for him. It would have been less in the next election, no doubt, yet the German people had to carry the guilt and blame of “supporting Hitler” for a long, long time. The ones who protested ended up in camps and gestapo. So, using this analogy, by all means, not every Palestinian is supportive of Hamas, and I tend to believe that an educated woman probably wants to have a normal, peaceful life. I think in all societies like this, there is a bimodal distribution, where elderly rich leaders instigate and young unemployed men are more easily brainwashed. However, the majority of the people want exactly the same, to live well and in peace.
Even in a very religious society, there is probably a certain (not that small) percent of people who are secretly secular. Even in the society with harsh Islamic laws there is the same percentage of people who might secretly be in the closet and live in fear. Etc, etc. And, Islam is just one of the “big three”, and what each person extracts from a tiny green book is up to him. I know that most people living in autocratic societies secretly can correctly decide what is nonsense and what is not, but know that to survive, they have to keep quiet, to work hard and to do their best to avoid getting on the anvil.
The biggest problem is that no one predict how a person would behave in a critical situation. I spoke to victims of Armenian pogrom in Baku of 1990, and they said that the most difficult phenomenon to process later was the unpredictability. One’s good neighbors might suddenly turn into a looter or a savage, and at the same time, a barely known woman across the street would hide them, or a grouchy guy would offer shelter. There is the phenomenon of crowd mentality, too, and I am sure it happens on both sides of the Gaza border, and there is nothing good to imagine.

 

[PommyMommy]

8:42 am

Health Ministry says 299 people currently hospitalized as result of Israel-Hamas war​

The Health Ministry reports that as of 8:30 a.m., 299 people injured in the October 7 massacre by Hamas terrorists and ensuing war are in hospitals across the country.

Of them, 47 are in serious condition, 178 are in moderate condition, and 78 are in mild condition.

A total of 5,132 wounded individuals have been treated at hospitals since October 7.

The Health Ministry has a hotline for locating hospitalized war victims. Call *5400 ext. 3