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Israel - Palestinian militants launch massive attack, 7 Oct 2023
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BREAKING: Death toll in Israel rises to 200
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Israel-Palestine escalation updates: Gaza under bombardment
These are the updates for the escalation between Palestinian fighters and Israel military on Saturday, October 7, 2023.
Gaza hospital reeling from Israeli power outage
Mohamed Abu Silmiya, director of Al-Shifa Hospital, has said that Israel cutting off power to the Gaza Strip leaves hospitals and medical facilities in a tight spot as they struggle to treat the flow of casualties from Israel’s ongoing air assault.Al-Shifa Hospital is the largest in the besieged enclave, and is receiving the highest number of casualties.
“We are doing what we can with whatever we have, but we are facing a real threat, especially that power has been cut, and generators here consume 48,000 litres of fuel per day. We cannot afford to continue operating this way,” Abu Silmiya told Al Jazeera.
He said that 200 Palestinians have been killed and more than 1,600 injured, the majority of whom are in critical condition and require ICU treatment, and others who need surgery.
“The Strip has been under tight siege for 17 years. The medical sector has been paying the heaviest price to this siege. We have shortages of medical supplies and equipment, namely those badly needed in the emergency rooms and intensive care units,” Abu Silmiya said.
“The numbers are huge, which cannot be handled by the already-suffering sector. Even before today’s events, we have been warning that medical supplies are in sharp shortage, especially for cancer and dialysis. Patients with chronic diseases are dying due to the absence of medicine,” Abu Silmiya told Al Jazeera.
He added that many cannot be treated in the West Bank or abroad because they are being denied access by Israel and because authorities are preventing medical supplies from entering Gaza.
I said a prayer for their protection. I hope the US embassy is providing input for our citizens who are in the country right now. If this continues I wonder if the Us would offer emergency visas (not sure what this is called exactly) for relatives of US citizens like your neighbors grandparents? If they wished to leave, I hope there are at least other countries in the area that are allowing those that need to flea to safety to do so.
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Israel-Palestine escalation updates: Gaza under bombardment
These are the updates for the escalation between Palestinian fighters and Israel military on Saturday, October 7, 2023.
Hamas says fired 150 rockets at Tel Aviv
The latest barrage of rockets came at 8pm local (17:00 GMT). The military wing of Hamas has said the rockets are a response to Israel’s attack on a high-rise building in the heart of Gaza City.A spokesperson for Israel’s national emergency medical service, Magen David Adom, said it was searching areas with reports of injuries, including in Yavne, Givatayim, Bat Yam, Beit Dagan, Tel Aviv and Rishon Letzion.
Videos on social media showed a barrage of rockets over Tel Aviv. It was not immediately clear how many had been intercepted.
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Israelis that were wounded or killed are being evacuated from the Gaza border. This has been ongoing for hours. Mothers crying next to their injured children, soldiers trying to revive their friends. Horrific scenes.
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During the meetings that Prime Minister Netanyahu initiated today with opposition leader Yair Lapid and the chairman of the state camp MK Benny Gantz, Netanyahu offered both of them entry into a broad emergency government, Israeli media reported.
This is in the same format according to which the late opposition leader Menachem Begin joined the Eshkol government on the eve of the Six-Day War.
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This is going to be ugly. Jmo
This is in the same format according to which the late opposition leader Menachem Begin joined the Eshkol government on the eve of the Six-Day War.
Netanyahu offered Lapid and Gantz entry into a broad emergency gov.
During the meetings that Prime Minister Netanyahu initiated today with opposition leader Yair Lapid and the ch
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This is going to be ugly. Jmo
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President Biden to deliver an address.
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Abu Obeida, spokesman for the group’s military wing, said the soldiers, including some officers, were captured during a surprise infiltration into southern Israel on Saturday.
He said the captives were being held in “safe places” and militant tunnels.
If true, the claim could set the stage for complicated negotiations on a prisoner swap with Israel, which is holding thousands of Palestinians in its prisons.
Israel in the past has agreed to lopsided exchanges in order to bring captive soldiers home.
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TEL AVIV—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country was at war with Hamas after the militant group’s forces poured across the border from Gaza on Saturday, clashing with Israeli forces and pushing into a swath of territory in the south of the country
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He said the captives were being held in “safe places” and militant tunnels.
If true, the claim could set the stage for complicated negotiations on a prisoner swap with Israel, which is holding thousands of Palestinians in its prisons.
Israel in the past has agreed to lopsided exchanges in order to bring captive soldiers home.
Hamas surprise attack out of Gaza stuns Israel and leaves hundreds dead in fighting, retaliation
Hamas militants have fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of fighters into Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip in an unprecedented surprise early morning attack during a major Jewish holiday.
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TEL AVIV—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country was at war with Hamas after the militant group’s forces poured across the border from Gaza on Saturday, clashing with Israeli forces and pushing into a swath of territory in the south of the country
Israel Declares War on Hamas After Surprise Assault From Gaza
Hamas fired thousands of rockets as far north as Tel Aviv and sent fighters into southern cities near the border.
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Israel Gaza live updates: Israel citizens taken hostage in militant assault from Gaza - BBC News
Posted at 11:1711:17
The presence of Israeli hostages held at gunpoint in at least two locations close to the Gaza-Israel border presents Israel with a delicate dilemma where there are no easy options.
A rescue operation by Special Forces is an obvious choice and the IDF - Israel Defence Forces - have said they are already deployed in more than one location.
The risk here is that the captors kill the captives before the rescuers can reach them.
Negotiation is the other option but it’s hard to see this happening in such a febrile atmosphere where the death toll on both sides is still mounting by the hour.
It’s also worth noting that when the Israeli serviceman Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid in 2006 it took five years of tortuous negotiations.
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A delicate dilemma - how to get the hostages back
This is an exceptionally difficult tactical situation for Israel.The presence of Israeli hostages held at gunpoint in at least two locations close to the Gaza-Israel border presents Israel with a delicate dilemma where there are no easy options.
A rescue operation by Special Forces is an obvious choice and the IDF - Israel Defence Forces - have said they are already deployed in more than one location.
The risk here is that the captors kill the captives before the rescuers can reach them.
Negotiation is the other option but it’s hard to see this happening in such a febrile atmosphere where the death toll on both sides is still mounting by the hour.
It’s also worth noting that when the Israeli serviceman Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid in 2006 it took five years of tortuous negotiations.
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"Our enemy will pay a price the type of which it has never known," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. "We are in a war and we will win it".
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said the assault that had begun in Gaza would spread to the West Bank and Jerusalem.
"This was the morning of defeat and humiliation upon our enemy, its soldiers and its settlers," he said. "What happened reveals the greatness of our preparation. What happened today reveals the weakness of the enemy."
In southern Israel near Gaza, bodies of Israeli civilians lay strewn across a highway in Sderot, surrounded by broken glass. A woman and a man were sprawled out dead across the front seats of a car. A military vehicle drove past the bodies of another woman and a man in a pool of blood behind another car.
"This is the day of the greatest battle to end the last occupation on earth," Hamas military commander Mohammad Deif said, announcing the start of the operation in a broadcast on Hamas media and calling on Palestinians everywhere to fight.
Hamas, which seized control of Gaza in 2007, has since fought four wars against Israel. But the scenes of violence inside Israel itself were unlike anything seen since the suicide bombings of the Palestinian Intafada uprising two decades ago.
That the attack came as a surprise to Israel's security forces makes it one of the worst intelligence failures in the country's history, a shock in a nation proud of its intensive infiltration and monitoring of militant groups
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*How in the hell did they pull this off? Not much shocks me anymore but this? I’m truly shocked.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said the assault that had begun in Gaza would spread to the West Bank and Jerusalem.
"This was the morning of defeat and humiliation upon our enemy, its soldiers and its settlers," he said. "What happened reveals the greatness of our preparation. What happened today reveals the weakness of the enemy."
In southern Israel near Gaza, bodies of Israeli civilians lay strewn across a highway in Sderot, surrounded by broken glass. A woman and a man were sprawled out dead across the front seats of a car. A military vehicle drove past the bodies of another woman and a man in a pool of blood behind another car.
"This is the day of the greatest battle to end the last occupation on earth," Hamas military commander Mohammad Deif said, announcing the start of the operation in a broadcast on Hamas media and calling on Palestinians everywhere to fight.
Hamas, which seized control of Gaza in 2007, has since fought four wars against Israel. But the scenes of violence inside Israel itself were unlike anything seen since the suicide bombings of the Palestinian Intafada uprising two decades ago.
That the attack came as a surprise to Israel's security forces makes it one of the worst intelligence failures in the country's history, a shock in a nation proud of its intensive infiltration and monitoring of militant groups
Scores dead in Israel and Gaza after Hamas shock attack on Israeli towns
Some 232 Israelis have been killed and 1,100 wounded, according to health officials. Gaza health officials say nearly 200 Palestinians have been killed with more than 1,600 wounded.
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Local media in Israel says at least 250 people have been killed and 1,452 injured following attacks by Hamas
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The US president, Joe Biden, said he told Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that his country was ready to offer “all appropriate means of support “after Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched an attack on Israel.
“I made clear to prime minister Netanyahu that we stand ready to offer all appropriate means of support to the government and people of Israel,” Biden said in a statement.
“Israel has a right to defend itself and its people. The United States warns against any other party hostile to Israel seeking advantage in this situation,” he added.
The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said on Saturday morning that he was “closely monitoring” the attack in Israel after Hamas gunmen infiltrated into Israeli towns and villages and launched a large aerial operation from the blockaded Gaza Strip.
“Over the coming days the Department of Defense will work to ensure that Israelhas what it needs to defend itself and protect civilians from indiscriminate violence and terrorism,” Austin said in a statement.
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“I made clear to prime minister Netanyahu that we stand ready to offer all appropriate means of support to the government and people of Israel,” Biden said in a statement.
“Israel has a right to defend itself and its people. The United States warns against any other party hostile to Israel seeking advantage in this situation,” he added.
The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said on Saturday morning that he was “closely monitoring” the attack in Israel after Hamas gunmen infiltrated into Israeli towns and villages and launched a large aerial operation from the blockaded Gaza Strip.
“Over the coming days the Department of Defense will work to ensure that Israelhas what it needs to defend itself and protect civilians from indiscriminate violence and terrorism,” Austin said in a statement.
Civilians and soldiers held hostage in Gaza, says Israel – as it happened
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Fifty years ago this week, Egypt attacked Israeli forces in the Israeli-occupied Sinai, with a simultaneous Syrian attack in the occupied Golan Heights, to begin what became known as the Yom Kippur War. The war and its diplomatic aftermath both exhibited and cemented some ways of viewing the U.S. role in the Middle East that are reflected in policy issues today.
President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger viewed the Arab-Israeli conflict, as they viewed most of their foreign policy, primarily through a Cold War lens. At the level of great power relations, such a view could yield successes such as the opening to China, which counted as a success partly as a way of outflanking the Soviet Union. But imposing the Cold War template on local conflicts could lead to unhelpful misinterpretations of what such a conflict was largely about.
What if the US didn't help Israel in the Yom Kippur War?
As it is now, everything the Middle East country does is underwritten by unconditional American aid and protection.
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Tons of missiles on this live stream
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Israel-Palestine escalation updates: Gaza under bombardment
These are the updates for the escalation between Palestinian fighters and Israel military on Saturday, October 7, 2023.
Hamas ‘psyops’ seeks to ‘demoralize’ the enemy
Jad Melki, director of media research at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, said Hamas’ preparedness with quickly relayed video of the attack highlights a new direction in its fight against Israeli forces.“The synchronization of the media and military machines, you can tell images were shot and cut in a professional way, they were even branded. The operation was from the sea, air, and land but also on the airwaves and cyber-sphere. The troops moving in were carrying cameras that are equally important to machine guns. Everything appears to have been prepared in advance. That’s a major strategic shift.
“This time the narrative has focused on the operation, showing a lot of calm and professional conduct. This just creates a tone of legitimacy and leadership for the Palestinian resistance. Psyops [psychological operations] have two major goals: first demoralizing the enemy and inducing confusion and fear. The second goal is lifting the moral of your own troops and people. This is what psyops is about,” Melki told Al Jazeera.
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This video is beyond scary
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has convened the Cabinet this evening, at the Kirya in Tel Aviv. (2 hours ago)
Hamas = ISIS Noa is held hostage by Hamas. She could be your daughter, sister, friend. #BringBackOurFamily
Noa was partying in the south of Israel in a peace music festival when Hams terrorists kidnapped her and dragged her from Israel into Gaza. Noa is held hostage by Hamas. She could be your daughter, sister, friend. #BringBackOurFamily
Hamas = ISIS Noa is held hostage by Hamas. She could be your daughter, sister, friend. #BringBackOurFamily
Noa was partying in the south of Israel in a peace music festival when Hams terrorists kidnapped her and dragged her from Israel into Gaza. Noa is held hostage by Hamas. She could be your daughter, sister, friend. #BringBackOurFamily
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