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| Netanyahu tells Israel 'We are at war' after Hamas militants launch surprise attack, at least 22 people dead |
| 2023-10-07 |
| [NY Post] The ruling Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land and sea and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday, killing at least 22 people. Six hours after the invasion began, Hamas militants were still fighting gunbattles inside several Israeli communities in a surprising show of strength that shook the country.
Social media was replete with videos of Hamas fighters parading what appeared to be stolen Israeli military vehicles through the streets and at least one dead Israeli soldier within Gaza being dragged and trampled by an angry crowd of Palestinians shouting "God is Great." The military declined to give details about casualties or kidnappings as it continued to battle the infiltrators. "We are at war," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address, declaring a mass mobilization of the country’s army reserves. "Not an ’operation,’ not a ’round,’ but at war." "The enemy will pay an unprecedented price," he added, promising that Israel would "return fire of a magnitude that the enemy has not known." Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip infiltrated Saturday into southern Israel and fired thousands of rockets into the country while Israel began striking targets in Gaza in response. The serious invasion on Simchat Torah, a normally joyous day when Jews complete the annual cycle of reading the Torah scroll, revived painful memories of the 1973 Mideast war practically 50 years to the day, in which Israel’s enemies launched a surprise attack on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Comparisons to one of the most traumatic moments in Israeli history sharpened criticism of Netanyahu and his far-right allies, who had campaigned on more aggressive action against threats from Gaza. Political commentators lambasted the government over its failure to anticipate what appeared to be a Hamas attack unseen in its level of planning and coordination. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #56 From the Rantburg archives: |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-10-07 23:01 |
| #55 Just copied from CTH/Twitter: Copied verbatim: " See new posts Conversation Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer REMINDER 🚨: If you're wondering why Joe Biden's administration took forever to say something about the Iranian-funded Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel today, look no further than who Joe Biden appointed as the Senior Director for Intelligence at the National Security Council in 2021, within two weeks of being inaugurated. Biden appointed Maher Bitar as Senior Director for Intelligence at the National Security Council. As I reported in 2021, Bitar has a long history of terror associations, dating back to his time in college at Georgetown where he was on the executive board of the school's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, which has documented ties to Islamic terrorist organizations including Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)." Of course, Islamic terrorists feel empowered to attack Israel. Joe Biden just gave Iran 6 billion dollars, and his administration is full of jihadis like Bitar. Our entire national security is at risk because Hamas and Hezbollah sympathizers like Bitar are currently directing our intelligence within our National Security apparatus. " |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-10-07 22:58 |
#54 — Matt Couch (@RealMattCouch) October 7, 2023 |
| Posted by: badanov 2023-10-07 20:05 |
| #53 Nike: "Just Do It" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-10-07 19:45 |
| #52 Tet 2023 |
| Posted by: badanov 2023-10-07 19:43 |
| #51 All you need is enough high explosive, delivered by cannon, mortar, howitzer, and rocket. Make a grid, destroy a block, shoot anyone crawling out of the rubble. Start on one side, work your way to the other. And every night, execute your Hamas prisoners with pig grease and flamethrowers, broadcast live to Gaza. Assassinate people who donate to Hamas. They know what to do, the Romans showed them the way. Just ask Carthage what motivation can do. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2023-10-07 18:58 |
| #50 Thinking of what I'd call a bunch of internationalists gathering to bind my legs and pick my bones. This would be polite, and let the fighters fight. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-10-07 18:24 |
| #49 #44-47. Spot on. Any Joooo vs "Gentile" (NB: I'm Catholic) arguments are for another time. Let Israel defend themselves. Vigorously. Not just in Gaza, either. Cyberfuck Iran. Now. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-10-07 16:57 |
| #48 Israel don't have power and resources for that. They need to be intelligent how to fight and how to target. |
| Posted by: Spomonter Speaking for Boskone8031 2023-10-07 16:54 |
| #47 ^^^ well said |
| Posted by: Chris 2023-10-07 16:48 |
| #46 Time to bounce the rubble and cull every one who is a member of Hamas. Also declare the end of gaza anything but newly annexed Israeli land. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2023-10-07 15:15 |
| #45 I mean if 'Yahu can, good. Cool. Swell. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2023-10-07 15:06 |
| #44 Jews don't like to upset gentiles? Really? Or is it just that every modern establishment is trying to outdo each other in limpdick humanist socialist cuckoldry, no matter what their dire imperatives? Israel is no exception. I mean can you slay 'from morning to evening and the evening of the next day, ten thousand enemy' like David today? |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2023-10-07 15:04 |
| #43 If you assume Gentiles all think the same like you did then you can't now say i am different...did you made allowance in your speech for me? You did not. And by your this last topic you still do not understand. It is not the Gentiles it is the Marxist left that hates western world. And that includes some Jews too as you very well know. If you are dilettante and lazy with your discourse and start attacking people that support you, you end up with no friends. Use chirurgic precision in speech. |
| Posted by: Spomonter Speaking for Boskone8031 2023-10-07 14:50 |
| #42 Oh, you speak for all Gentiles? Anyways, what I ment Jews are genetically programed not to upset gentiles. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-07 14:44 |
| #41 If you talk to Gentiles you are talking to me. |
| Posted by: Spomonter Speaking for Boskone8031 2023-10-07 14:35 |
| #40 ^Was I talking to you, Albert? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-07 14:29 |
| #39 You being a cretin Grom , are you a Marxist btw? I am a gentile and for me Gaza should neve been evacuated and my strategy will be always every day and every night a bomb explode in Gaza continuously. At least. |
| Posted by: Spomonter Speaking for Boskone8031 2023-10-07 14:20 |
| #38 ^No, it's just being afraid of what the Gentiles will say - "humanitarian disaster", "innocent Gaza civilians", etc... |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-07 14:13 |
| #37 #34 It only took them 14 hours. There may be intelligence and targeting info to be gained from the grid. |
| Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert 2023-10-07 14:04 |
| #36 Watch: Former PM Naftali Bennett reports for reserve duty during |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-07 13:48 |
| #35 "Hundreds of terrorists eliminated in various areas around Gaza Strip" You really believe that? |
| Posted by: Spomonter Speaking for Boskone8031 2023-10-07 13:47 |
| #34 Energy Minister orders the Electric Company to stop supplying Gaza with power It only took them 14 hours. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-07 13:40 |
| #33 Hundreds of terrorists eliminated in various areas around Gaza Strip |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-07 13:38 |
| #32 “US President Joe Biden called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and emphasized that the US stands by Israel and fully supports Israel's right to defend itself.” Hurry up Israel. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2023-10-07 12:09 |
| #31 "The main effort is to eliminate all terrorists on the border and anyone attempting to return to the Gaza Strip. We first engage with aerial fire, followed by heavy ground assets," the army said. The most important thing is not to let them take the hostages into Gaza. The second to remind USA (if there anybody half-way sane left at the top) that with Afghanistan & Ukraine, American allies confidence is shaken. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-07 12:00 |
| #30 I worry which side the Biden admin will take. Oh wait, never mind. We probably helped Hamas. |
| Posted by: Angstrom 2023-10-07 11:58 |
| #29 I forgot. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2023-10-07 11:54 |
| #28 ^Israel can ignore UNSC, but not Washington DC. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-07 11:50 |
| #27 If Russia can ignore the UN Security Council, so can Israel. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2023-10-07 11:48 |
| #26 And now, a well oiled machine swings into action: The United Nations Security Council is due to meet on Sunday after Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched the biggest attack on Israel in years on Saturday, diplomats said. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the attack by Hamas and urged "all diplomatic efforts to avoid a wider conflagration, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement. And we all know that it means. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-07 11:42 |
| #25 ^On the positive side, maybe it'll remind the "peace camp" in Israel what world we're living in. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-07 11:37 |
| #24 Obviously, the "judicial reform" protests didn't do the job of ousting Netanyahu again, so this attack is designed to trigger a response, which even if it was limited to a strongly worded protest to the UN would be considered a "disproportionate response," to wit, a "war crime." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-10-07 11:31 |
| #23 A monstrous failure of Israeli intelligence. |
| Posted by: Jerens Black9355 2023-10-07 11:22 |
| #22 ^You don't understand - ceasefire will be imposed on Israel. We lost, and we lost big. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-07 11:15 |
| #21 /\ Still on the peg. Not likely to move any time soon. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-10-07 11:12 |
| #20 And here it begins: Nurse, ambulance driver killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza -Medecins Sans Frontieres |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-07 11:08 |
| #19 Yes, but overwhelmed is not the same as down. Down implies it was unplugged somehow. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-10-07 10:57 |
| #18 Yes, curious indeed. Weeks, possibly months in planning, I cannot accept the possibility that IDF, US Intelligence, other nation's intelligence services (satellite imagery, signals, human intelligence) missed this one. I'm simply not buying it. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-10-07 10:45 |
| #17 ^Iron dome can't stop 2200 rockets. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-07 10:43 |
| #16 Looks nasty; and Iron Dome down? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-10-07 10:38 |
| #15 Emergency alerts can be silenced in Android. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-10-07 10:16 |
| #14 Amish men shunned following emergency alert test that outed them for having cell phones DM doing one of their othering point and laugh articles. My article would go something like, Quality of Life proven better by those who pretend they don't have cell phones for 23 hours of the day. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-10-07 09:55 |
| #13 Re #11. So, Ukraine was not about just laundering money... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-10-07 09:39 |
| #12 Advocates of the "Two State Solution", will we be hearing from them again soon ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-10-07 09:37 |
| #11 I wonder how many of Hamas weapons came from the battlefields in the Ukraine? Likely the ATGMs / UAS in common use in the Ukraine (ours and RU) will be used by Hamas when Israel responds. And this attack is meant to elicit a heavy response by Israel... |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2023-10-07 09:33 |
| #10 Hamas is holding captive 17 Nepali citizens and seven others have been injured in the terror attacks of October 7, the government of Nepal confirmed. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-10-07 09:08 |
| #9 Time to read up on Alexander the Great's handling of Gaza. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2023-10-07 08:41 |
| #8 Curious the national alert occurred immediately before the attacks. Amish men shunned following emergency alert test that outed them for having cell phones |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-10-07 08:41 |
| #6 Gaza needs to go. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2023-10-07 08:28 |
| #5 as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border /sarc Couldn't happen here /nosarc |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-10-07 08:27 |
| #4 That's one way to avoid a recall election. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-10-07 08:25 |
| #3 and more |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2023-10-07 07:06 |
| #2 More video |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2023-10-07 07:05 |
| #1 Reports of Hamas on the ground in Southern Israel |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2023-10-07 07:03 |