Israel - Palestinian militants launch massive attack, 7 Oct 2023 #9

[margarita25]

Yesterday:

ETA: This is infuriating to watch, imo.

“We are human beings, we want them to go home…”

BARF

 

[Cryptic]

Why would Israel add them when most people who live in the areas would know where the nearest bomb shelter is?

I am thinking..... Because Israelis and visitors not familiar with a particular local area would not know where the nearest bomb / rocket shelters are.

 

[Cryptic]

Oh how I wish we could send these hamas supporters to Gaza.

One can be Jewish, or.... even an Israeli and not affirm all past, present, and future Israeli land claims and population control measures on the West Bank.

Thinking it might be possible to support the Palestinians with out supporting HAMAS.

For example, this Israeli is the former head of Mossad (probably not a starry eyed peace activist). Yet, he states there needs to be fundamental changes in the way Israel conducts business on the West Bank.

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.

apnews.com

Or.... is he also a "Hamas Supporter?"

 

[Friday Fan]

Oh how I wish we could send these hamas supporters to Gaza. Let them hang out with those they support. See how long that support lasts.
We don’t need those supporting terrorists in our country!

Some of the protesters in Seattle are Jewish Voice for Peace. They probably were also in Oakland because their home base is SF.

NOW: Jewish Voice For Peace and allies are blocking the doors this morning at the Federal Building, demanding that Sen Patty Murray stop funding the genocide of Palestinians:

Police/security are not happy, pushing an elder JVP organizers to the ground for peacefully protesting
An organizer brought a ladder to drop a banner. Cops did not want them up there:

https://x.com/hannahkrieg/status/1720456844332937440?s=20.

 

[Brightchaser47]

Yesterday:

ETA: This is infuriating to watch, imo.

“We are human beings, we want them to go home…”

BARF

I sincerely don't think these guys (Hamas leaders) are playing with a full deck of cards. I'm wondering if his tone has changed a bit since IDF has been destroying their infrastructure.

 

[Momoffourboys]

I don't know if it's been mentioned, but someone has marked all (?) the bomb shelters in Israel on Google maps. I'm pretty sure they weren't there before when I was studying biblical archaeology and I used to spend a lot of time "walking around" on there.
Seems a bit sinister to me after what happened and knowing they are mainly to protect people from attacks from above (or so I read), but I may be over-thinking.

Wonder if there's a way to see when they were added and by who?
Why would Israel add them when most people who live in the areas would know where the nearest bomb shelter is?

eta: example. Some shelters are written in Hebrew but seems unnecessary and also highly unsafe to mark them on a map for everyone to see no? jmo.

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Municipalities in Israel added it. With many displaced and many that arrived in Israel since 10/7 to volunteer and support, it was important for everyone to know where the nearest shelter is.

 

[Sundog]

‘An existential threat’: Antisemitic attacks soar across Europe amid Israel-Hamas war | CNN

“This takes us back to the darkest times,” Chief Rabbi Jaron Engelmayer told CNN, as he surveyed piles of destroyed holy books in a blackened and burnt out ceremonial hall.

amp.cnn.com

"The last time the cemetery was set alight was 85 years ago, almost to the day, on Kristallnacht – a Nazi pogrom against Jewish businesses, homes and synagogues. “It’s unbelievable that 80 years after Nazi times, we go back to such times and have antisemitic acts here, in the center of Europe,” Engelmayer told CNN."

 

[Chimera]

Again, like I said early on, get ready for MAJOR CYBER WAR, the likes of which we have not seen. JMO. And like I said, I think THIS is part of what Iran is going to do as far as its threats. This has been escalating for a while and they are good at what they do and have Russian backing.

Iran, Russia, and NK…US is now Middle East Public Enemy Number 1 for strongly supporting Israel.

This is just the beginning of widespread
cybersecurity hell, JMO. Get ready for actions by many groups <names removed for certain reasons>.

Ita. ^^^

In a Worldwide War of Words, Russia, China and Iran Back Hamas

The conflict between Israel and Hamas is fast becoming a world war online. Iran, Russia and, to a lesser degree, China have used state media and the world’s major social networking platforms to support Hamas and undercut Israel, while denigrating Israel’s principal ally, the United States...

www.yahoo.com

Iran, Russia and, to a lesser degree, China have used state media and the world’s major social networking platforms to support Hamas and undercut Israel, while denigrating Israel’s principal ally, the United States.
Emphasis mine.
Not in total agreement regarding China supporting Hamas, "...to a lesser degree..." !!
What is the end goal of these nations ?
My .02.

Oh how I wish we could send these hamas supporters to Gaza. Let them hang out with those they support. See how long that support lasts.
We don’t need those supporting terrorists in our country!

Bbm.
Agreed.
Wouldn't that be something !
Watch them change their minds in a nanosecond.
Omo.

 

[Dotta]

"Met police make first arrests on pro-Palestinian​

'Day of Action' ​

as thousands of demonstrators pour into London and join 40 marches across the country while fighting continues in Gaza."​

Pro-Palestine protesters hold up banner of Hamas bulldozer

A protester at a pro-Palestine demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London has held a placard appearing to celebrate Hamas bulldozing into Israeli territory.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[PommyMommy]

6hr ago

Pentagon says Hezbollah appears deterred from widening conflict​

Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Patrick Ryder says he does not think Hezbollah will escalate fighting with Israel, telling the BBC that “a broader regional conflict has been deterred.”

“Right now, we see this conflict as contained between Israel and Hamas,” he says.

6hr ago

Blinken meeting Arab leaders in Jordan​

Blinken met first with Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, whose economically and politically ravaged country is home to Hezbollah — an Iranian-backed terror group hostile to Israel.

Neither Blinken nor Mikati speak to reporters at the top of their meeting in an Amman hotel. Nor did Blinken speak publicly as he posed for pictures with Qatar’s foreign minister, whose country has emerged as the most influential interlocutor with Hamas and has been key to negotiating the limited release of hostages held by the group as well as convincing it to allow foreign citizens to leave Gaza and cross into Egypt.

Blinken was then to meet with the head of the United Nations agency in charge of assisting Palestinian refugees.

Later, Blinken is to hold group talks with foreign ministers of Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and the chair of the PLO executive committee. All parties have denounced Israel’s tactics against Hamas, which they say constitutes unlawful collective punishment of the Palestinian people.

Blinken will also see King Abdullah II of Jordan, whose country this week recalled its ambassador to Israel and told Israel’s envoy not to return to the country until the Gaza crisis was over.

 

[PommyMommy]

4hr ago

Families of hostages sleep outside IDF headquarters: We won’t go home until they come home​

Families of the more than 240 hostages held by terror groups in Gaza sleep outside the military headquarters in Tel Aviv.

The move is part of stepped-up protests demanding the government and military do more to secure the return of the captives. The families are demanding that Israel refuse any ceasefire that doesn’t include the release of their loved ones.

“We won’t go home until they return home,” Meirav Leshem Gore, whose daughter Romi is a hostage, tells the Ynet news site.

“We invite everyone to come and be with us here, to be together,” she says.

Large protests are expected in Tel Aviv this evening.

4hr ago

Blinken thanks Lebanese leader for work to prevent country being ‘pulled into a war’​

US Secretary of State Anton Blinken thanks Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati for efforts to keep his country out of a war with Israel.

The powerful Lebanese-based Hezbollah terror group has been threatening to open a second front against Israel.

Blinken thanks Mikati for his leadership “in preventing Lebanon from being pulled into a war that the Lebanese people do not want,” says State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. Blinken also discusses US efforts to secure humanitarian assistance for civilians in Gaza, Miller says.

Neither Blinken nor Mikati spoke to reporters at the top of their meeting in an Amman hotel.

 

[PommyMommy]

4hr ago

Evacuated Be’eri residents find soldiers broke into their nursery — to water the plants​

The owners of a small plant nursery in Kibbutz Be’eri, one of the worst devastated communities in the October 7 Hamas onslaught, thought they had lost their business when they were forced to evacuate.

“Be’eri had a thriving nursery for household plants. A little blossoming paradise that made everyone happy,” owner Avivit John writes on social media.

“When we were forced to evacuate, it was clear that all the plants would dry up. Rain does not get inside and the watering was done manually. After two days without water, the plants start to wither,” she says.

“Now we found a small miracle in Be’eri,” she writes, posting a video of the thriving nursery they found when they returned several weeks later and a sign explaining it.

“Sorry we broke into the nursery, we had to water the plants. With love, the soldiers,” the sign said.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1720716477068620236

 

[PommyMommy]

4hr ago

Hamas says Haniyeh’s house, hit in apparent strike, was being used by his sons​

The family home of exiled Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, which was destroyed earlier in an apparent Israeli strike, was being used by two of his sons, senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad tells The Associated Press.

Hamas had no immediate details on damage or casualties.

The home was located in a narrow alley in al-Shathi neighborhood of Gaza City. Haniyeh, a former aide to Hamas’ founder, Ahmed Yassin, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2004, has been in exile since 2019.

3hr ago

Iranians mark anniversary of 1979 US embassy takeover, vow victory in Palestine​

People assemble outside the former US embassy in Tehran, with some burning American and Israeli flags.

Protesters stomp on images of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden. Others carried banners calling the US the “Great Satan.” The banner on the main podium read: “We trample America under our feet.”

Parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, addresses the crowds while criticizing US support of Israel. “We consider the criminal US a principal culprit in all these crimes,” in Gaza and against Palestinians, he says.

Qalibaf claims that the Hamas attack on Israel has caused “irreparable” intelligence and security damage to the Israeli state.

In a statement published on behalf of the protesters at the end of the commemoration, they call for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza and warn the US, Britain and France that the crisis might expand in the region.

 

[Momoffourboys]

Mixed Israeli-Arab school in Jerusalem wins World’s Best School prize​

The Max Rayne Hand in Hand Jerusalem School won the Overcoming Adversity prize for its integration of Jewish and Arab students.​

Five schools, including a bilingual, integrated Jewish-Arab one in Jerusalem, triumphed at the World’s Best School prizes on Saturday for feats including fostering unity, helping the local community and supporting mental health.

The winners, also in Brazil, Colombia, India and South Africa, shared a $250,000 prize at the awards, launched last year by T4 Education, a global network for educators.

Mixed Israeli-Arab school in Jerusalem wins World’s Best School prize

The Max Rayne Hand in Hand Jerusalem School won the Overcoming Adversity prize for its integration of Jewish and Arab students.

www.jpost.com

 

[PommyMommy]

47min ago

Gallant warns ‘mistake’ by Hezbollah chief ‘will seal the fate of Lebanon’​

[...]

“We are on the defensive in the north and attacking with full force in the Gaza Strip, this is our priority,” Gallant says, in remarks provided by his office.

“We are not interested in getting into a war in the north, but we are ready for any task. The Air Force maintains most of its strength for the Lebanese arena, against Hezbollah,” he says.

Gallant says Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar “made a mistake and sealed the fate of Hamas and the fate of Gaza.”

“If Nasrallah makes a mistake, he will seal the fate of Lebanon,” he adds.

23min ago

Hamas claims its fighters clashing with Israeli troops in Gaza City neighborhood​

[...]

The claims cannot be verified, and the terror group has been accused of fabricating reports in the past.

Still, the claims may indicate IDF troops are pushing deeper into Gaza City.

Israel has been intentionally vague about its operations in Gaza, in order to not reveal information on troops’ locations and tactics.

 

[Momoffourboys]

Four weeks on, horror lingers in Israel’s silent kibbutzim
Daily funerals bring little solace to a traumatised nation grieving for communities such as Kfar Aza, Ofakim and Sderot that took the brunt of the 7 October attack
The stench of death still pervades Kfar Aza, an Israeli kibbutz on the periphery of the blockaded Gaza Strip. The street closest to the barbed wire border fence, just 50m away from the three-mile (5km) buffer zone that separates the territories, previously housed the kibbutz’s volunteers. These young adults lived in around 40 small homes designed for single occupancy, staying for a few months at a time to explore the socialist and environmental principles typical of a kibbutz lifestyle.

Four weeks on, horror lingers in Israel’s silent kibbutzim

Daily funerals bring little solace to a traumatised nation grieving for communities such as Kfar Aza, Ofakim and Sderot that took the brunt of the 7 October attack

www.theguardian.com

 

[PommyMommy]

18min ago

Israel thwarted planned attacks on Israelis in several countries — report​

Israel has thwarted a number of attacks on Israelis in countries across the globe amid the war against Hamas, the Kan public broadcaster reports.

Citing a security source, the report says threats against Israeli and Jewish targets worldwide are growing, describing them as “very exceptional and extraordinary” in scope.

The source adds that some of the attacks are spontaneous, while others are planned by jihadist groups.

4:57 pm

Qatar: Continued strikes in Gaza ‘complicate’ efforts to secure release of hostages​

Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani called for an immediate ceasefire and the entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza during his meeting today with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, according to the Gulf emirate.

A statement from the Qatari foreign ministry says Al-Thani “also affirmed the continued efforts of the State of Qatar to mediate the release of the prisoners, pointing that the continued bombing doubles the humanitarian catastrophe in the Strip and complicates securing their release.”

 

[Elley Mae]

Turkey said Saturday it was recalling its ambassador to Israel and breaking off contacts with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in protest at the bloodshed in Gaza.

Turkey recalls envoy to Israel, 'writes off' Netanyahu

Turkey said Saturday it was recalling its ambassador to Israel and breaking off contacts with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in protest at the bloodshed in Gaza. Erdogan said Saturday that Turkey could not afford to entirely break off diplomatic contacts between the sides.

news.yahoo.com

 

[Sundog]

47min ago

Gallant warns ‘mistake’ by Hezbollah chief ‘will seal the fate of Lebanon’​

[...]

“We are on the defensive in the north and attacking with full force in the Gaza Strip, this is our priority,” Gallant says, in remarks provided by his office.

“We are not interested in getting into a war in the north, but we are ready for any task. The Air Force maintains most of its strength for the Lebanese arena, against Hezbollah,” he says.

Gallant says Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar “made a mistake and sealed the fate of Hamas and the fate of Gaza.”

“If Nasrallah makes a mistake, he will seal the fate of Lebanon,” he adds.

23min ago

Hamas claims its fighters clashing with Israeli troops in Gaza City neighborhood​

[...]

The claims cannot be verified, and the terror group has been accused of fabricating reports in the past.

Still, the claims may indicate IDF troops are pushing deeper into Gaza City.

Israel has been intentionally vague about its operations in Gaza, in order to not reveal information on troops’ locations and tactics.

From the above -

Gallant says Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar “made a mistake and sealed the fate of Hamas and the fate of Gaza.”

“If Nasrallah makes a mistake, he will seal the fate of Lebanon,” he adds.

 

[PommyMommy]

2 hours ago

Israeli Artillery and Aircraft have been Striking a number of Hezbollah Positions in Southern Lebanon throughout this morning due to an Attack earlier today on the IDF’s Al-Abad Military Site along the Border which can still be seen Burning.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1720779623607197933

Hezbollah launched a Significant Escalation earlier today when it attempted to Target multiple Israeli Bases on the Border with Southern Lebanon using “Burkan” Rockets which reportedly have a Range of 500 Meters and can carry a 100-500kg Warhead; the Rockets appear to have Missed the Base but still likely caused Damage to the Surrounding Area.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1720782769612112116