Genocide Not War
Updated 2024-08-25
2024-08-05 Investigation Exposes Big Tech Ties to Israeli Genocide in Gaza “It’s more than complicity: It’s direct participation and collaboration with the Israeli military on the tools they’re using to kill Palestinians,” said one policy expert.
The Israeli military is using cloud storage and artificial intelligence services provided by U.S. tech titans for “direct participation and collaboration” in what many critics around the world call Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, according to an investigation published this week.
Two Israeli publications—+972 Magazine and Local Call—on Sunday published a joint investigation revealing that the Israeli military is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to store data gleaned from the mass surveillance in Gaza, where nearly 10 months of bombings and ground invasion have left more than 140,000 Palestinians dead, maimed, or missing, according to local and international estimates.
Multiple sources told the outlets that pressure on the IDF since the October 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel has “led to a dramatic increase in the purchase of services from Google Cloud, Amazon’s AWS, and Microsoft Azure.” The report states that cooperation between the IDF and AWS “is particularly close” and “even helped on rare occasions to confirm aerial assassination strikes in Gaza—strikes that would have also killed and harmed Palestinian civilians.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/idf-aws
2024-07-31 Report From Gaza Aid Agencies Shows ‘Catastrophe on an Entirely New Level’ Israeli attacks on relief workers and designated “humanitarian zones” in Gaza, as well its tight control over borders and repeated evacuation orders, have devastated the ability to deliver much-needed aid to residents of the beleaguered strip, 20 non-governmental organizations warned in a report released Tuesday.
Israel has now issued “evacuation orders” that cover 86% of the Gaza Strip’s land area, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). This means that Gaza’s 2.1 million people are now expected to squeeze into only 14% of Gaza’s 141 square miles.
“We are doing everything we can to save children’s lives in Gaza, but our job becomes more and more challenging by the day,” said Jeremy Stoner, the Middle East regional director of Save the Children, one of the organizations behind the report. “Forcibly displacing civilians into areas that cannot accommodate them is causing a humanitarian catastrophe on an entirely new level.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/aid-agencies-gaza-catastrophe
2024-07-25 US Health Workers Back From Gaza Calculate Death Toll at 92,000 — at a Minimum ozens of U.S. doctors and nurses who have returned from volunteer trips to Gaza say in a scathing new letter that Israel’s assault, along with the famine and epidemics raging across Gaza, have killed a conservative estimate of at least 92,000 Palestinians so far — over double the widely-cited official death count by health officials.
In their message sent to President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and the first lady on Thursday, the group of 45 health care workers say that the things they saw in Gaza are beyond anything they have seen in other conflicts, and will forever be seared in their minds.
“President and Dr. Biden, we wish you could see the nightmares that plague so many of us since we have returned: dreams of children maimed and mutilated by our weapons, and their inconsolable mothers begging us to save them,” they wrote. “We wish you could hear the cries and screams our consciences will not let us forget. We cannot believe that anyone would continue arming the country that is deliberately killing these children after seeing what we have seen.” https://truthout.org/articles/us-health-workers-back-from-gaza-calculate-death-toll-at-92000-at-a-minimum/
2024-07-16 Israel Ramps Up Massacres in Gaza as Media Focuses on Presidential Horse Race Israeli forces have massacred nearly 60 people in the Gaza Strip over just the past 24 hours, and the past week has been one of the deadliest since the war began more than nine months ago.
But you’d hardly know it by looking at the front pages of major newspapers in the United States, despite U.S. President Joe Biden fueling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assault with diplomatic support and billions of dollars worth of weaponry.
While outlets such as Al Jazeera and Reuters have kept Israel’s onslaught at or near the top of their pages, coverage of the relentless war on the Palestinian enclave has largely been supplanted in the U.S. by presidential politics, particularly in the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday — the same day Israeli forces killed around 100 people in an attack on a southern Gaza town that was previously designated a “safe zone,” as Common Dreams reported. https://truthout.org/articles/israel-ramps-up-massacres-in-gaza-as-media-focuses-on-presidential-horse-race/
2024-06-10 “Massacre”: Analyst Slams Israeli Military Raid That Frees 4 Hostages, Kills 270+ Palestinians Israel’s weekend attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp that freed four Israeli hostages and killed at least 274 Palestinians and wounded nearly 700 was reportedly supported by the Biden administration, which provided intelligence to Israel ahead of the raid. “There’s no question that what unfolded in that operation was a massacre,” says Palestinian American political analyst Omar Baddar. “To look at a death toll of this scale and then to celebrate this kind of operation as some sort of success, you would basically have to openly say that the lives of Israelis are more valuable than the lives of Palestinians.” Baddar discusses the political and humanitarian impact of the raid and his outlook on ceasefire negotiations. “When push comes to shove, the Biden administration is unwilling to apply any meaningful pressure on Israel,” he says. “That dynamic is not going to lead to anything positive.” Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCE5CggVzAk
2024-06-08 ‘Horrific Massacre’: IDF Kills 200+ Palestinians Rescuing 4 Hostages Palestinian officials said at least 210 people were killed and more than 400 injured as the Israel Defense Forces conducted an operation in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday to rescue four of over 240 hostages taken by Hamas militants last year.
Israeli forces rescued Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv—all attendees or security guards at a music festival that Palestinian militants attacked on October 7—from two locations in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, according to the IDF. There are 116 hostages still being held in the Hamas-governed enclave, and at least 41 are believed to be dead.
Abu Obaida, a spokesperson for Hamas’ military wing, said Saturday that “the enemy succeeded in releasing some of its hostages by committing horrific massacres, but at the same time, killed some of them during the operation.”https://www.commondreams.org/news/israeli-hostages-gaza
2024-05-02 A War Against Humanity Itself Amidst the ongoing, unfathomable slaughter, hunger, maiming, razing in Gaza at the hands of Israel’s “voracious death machine,” its leaders now openly vow “total and utter destruction” by what they still grotesquely call “one of the most moral militaries in the world,” murdered newborns and all. But the hypocrisies and protests mount. “One of this genocide’s aims is to drown us in our own sorrow,” says one of Balfour’s “savages.” Part of their resistance, in turn, “is to talk about tomorrow in Gaza.”
The litany from Israel’s mass killing, “monstrous and largely indiscriminate,” to date: Almost 35,000 dead Palestinians, including well over 14,000 “ungrievable” children; more than 77,000 wounded, half children; at least 17,000 orphans, 5,000 children whose limbs have been amputated, thousands more buried under rubble, a child killed or injured every 10 minutes; hundreds of dead journalists, doctors, teachers, poets, aid workers, academics; most homes leveled, along with 400 schools, 12 universities, over 30 hospitals; starvation levels “the highest ever recorded.”
Thanks in part to $26 billion more the U.S. just awarded Israel, its “most decisive vote of confidence in genocide since the Indian Removal Act of 1830,” the hellfire still rains down. Each day the count grows: Air strikes kill 22, mostly children, kill 20, mostly children, kill 13, nine of them children, kill eight children and two women from one family, kill three women and six children. Fathers sob over small bodies, mourning “a world devoid of all human values.” A strike killed a man, his very pregnant wife, their three-year-old; doctors saved the baby. A sniper killed a West Bank man for going up on his roof; days later, his wife named their new son for him as their toddler played in sand strewn on his father’s blood. https://www.commondreams.org/further/a-war-against-humanity-itself-2668123134
2024-02-27 Ralph Nader at 90 on the “Genocidal War” in Gaza & Why Congress Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction On his 90th birthday, the legendary consumer advocate, corporate critic and four-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader joins _Democracy Now! for an in-depth conversation about U.S. democracy and why “Congress is a weapon of mass destruction.” He says lawmakers have shredded the country’s social safety net, refused to rein in the U.S. war machine, allowed white-collar crime to go unpunished, failed to enforce tax fairness and more. “All of these are very unpopular with the American people,” Nader says. He also discusses the 2024 presidential race and encourages people to “vote their conscience” and “find some way out of this two-party duopoly gulag.” Nader, who publishes the monthly print-only newspaper the Capitol Hill Citizen, was recently profiled in The Washington Post for his ongoing advocacy. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09SPBEqFniI
2024-02-14 The Killing Fields of Gaza Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed tirelessly to be acting in the name of the Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust with Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. In truth, the actions of his regime and military these past few months has placed them much closer to the guards than the inmates at Hitler’s death camps during this dark period in human affairs. In other words, and put more simply, when your response to genocide is more genocide, you become precisely that which you claim to be against. This is precisely where we are now after four months of the IDF’s murderous and wholly indiscriminate military campaign against the people of Gaza.
The result is 13,000 Palestinian children being thus far sent to their deaths under the missiles and bombs of a 21st century military machine in the hands of a government comprised of men with 14th century minds. Netanyahu and his supporters will not be happy until the history, culture and entire existence of the Palestinians are relegated to the museum. This is both evident and implicit in the mad slaughter they have and are currently engaged in. A twisted conception of the world as being fashioned on the basis of might is right and racial hierarchy has throughout human history produced monsters. And in this respect, Benjamin Netanyahu is merely the latest in a long line.
In this respect, too, he has inflicted a moral injury on every one of us still in possession of a beating heart and a conscience, not to mention consciousness. https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/14/the-killing-fields-of-gaza/
2024-02-03 Grim Milestone: Over 100,000 Killed, Wounded, Missing in Gaza This follows more than three months of intense Israeli bombardment of the enclave, with Gaza’s Ministry of Health confirming a total of 27,131 Palestinians killed, and 66,287 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7. At the same time, “the risk of famine is high and increasing each day,” the WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Thursday.
Ghebreyesus said the agency’s teams on the ground report “increasing food shortages for medical staff and patients with only one meal per day.” The WHO chief stressed, “We continue to call for safe access for humanitarian personnel and supplies.” He said the organization has faced “great difficulty” in trying to reach hospitals in southern Gaza, with heavy fighting reported near hospitals in Khan Yunis, “severely impairing access to health facilities, for patients, health workers and supplies.” During a UN mission on Monday, the WHO delivered medical supplies to Nasser Medical Complex. https://www.palestinechronicle.com/grim-milestone-over-100000-killed-wounded-missing-in-gaza/
2024-01-06 Krystal BREAKS DOWN: Israel Genocide Charge Krystal breaks down the latest ICJ genocide charges against Israel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRKIYqjbpVY
2024-01-03 Debunking Israel’s Gross Response to Genocide Case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSXSGLGAzwo
2024-01-00 Meme 1.9 Million Palestinians displaced, homeless and without livelihood. https://www.facebook.com/MichaelKerrMEKorganic/posts/pfbid02BcuV62gjk9aYdAkGi2r4h9ZPgiBCrkrHwcRADfAREMfzzSRYgfWztebiiZ3F8CXPl?
2023-12-20 ‘TERRORISM!’: Pope Francis Directly Calls Out Israeli War Crimes | The Kyle Kulinski Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ookF3F0eCsc
2023-12-20 A Conversation on the Horrors in Gaza with Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Abdel Kouddous Everything we know about Joe Biden’s 50-year history of supporting and facilitating Israel’s worst crimes leads to one conclusion: He wants Israel’s destruction of Gaza — with more than 7,000 children dead — to unfold as it has. When will it stop? Intercept co-founder Jeremy Scahill and journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous discuss the U.S. role in Israel’s scorched-earth campaign to annihilate Gaza. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeeLEJTZHNk
2023-12-20 “This Is a Colonial War”: Historian Rashid Khalidi on Israel, Gaza & the Future of Palestine Historian Rashid Khalidi discusses the pending United Nations Security Council vote on suspending fighting in Gaza to allow the entry of humanitarian aid, and the future of Palestine. The Biden administration reportedly delayed the U.N. vote and pushed other countries to water down the language. This comes as Israel and Hamas leaders have signaled they are open to another truce and hostage exchange. Israel’s relentless assault on Gaza has now killed nearly 20,000 Palestinians and displaced over 90% of the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million people. “The situation in Gaza is unspeakable,” says Khalidi, the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University. “We are talking about traumatic events that are going to scar generations to come.” He also discusses how the Gaza war risks sparking a regional conflict, ways to pressure Israel, and how U.S. leaders are prompting anger from “whole generations” in the Arab world and beyond. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSug7Vgz48U
2023-12-19 They Deem Us Weeds: This Is What It Means To Be Unspeakable “There is nowhere for flesh to hide in Gaza; nothing with a pulse is spared,” writes one appalled observer. “Explosions merge into one another, and vibrant lives are burned, mangled and turned into unidentifiable carnage.” In this “war against defenseless civilians” whose death toll now creeps up to 20,000 – now 19,667, 70% women and children – it was perhaps foreseeable Israeli soldiers would eventually kill three captives “mistakenly identified as a threat.” What made it shocking was the revelation that Yotam Haim, Samar Al Talalka and Alon Shamriz, men in their 20s from Kibbutz Kfar Azza and Hura, were deliberately shirtless to show they were unarmed, shouting “Help us” in Hebrew, and holding a makeshift white flag. They had even scrawled “SOS” and “Help, Three Hostages” in Hebrew on a nearby wall; ever-discriminating Israeli soldiers thought it was a Hamas trap.
The UK’s former defense secretary argued that Israel’s “original legal authority of self-defense is being undermined by its own actions,” and in the wake of Netanyahu’s many failures, if he thinks a killing rage will rectify matters, then he is very wrong.” Instead, he suggested, His tactics will fuel the conflict for another 50 years.”
Hamas itself seemed to confirm that. After their armed wing posted a video on Telegram of three elderly Israeli hostages pleading they be spared death amidst Israeli air strikes – “We do not understand why we have been abandoned here” – a Hamas official held a news conference in Beirut following one by Israel’s and America’s defense chiefs vowing solidarity. “These are the invaders the sands of Gaza will swallow,” he said, pondering what “experience” the US is sharing with Israel. “Are we talking about the victories in Vietnam? Or their victory in Afghanistan after 20 years? The only experience to be shared is killing women and children, and destroying hospitals, houses and schools.” They could have added Israel’s genocidal rhetoric on Gaza: “Just like mowing your front lawn, this is constant hard work. If you fail to do so, weeds grow wild and snakes begin to slither around in the brush.”https://www.commondreams.org/further/they-deem-us-weeds-this-is-what-it-means-to-be-unspeakable
2023-1-18 Israel Is Starving Gaza Civilians as ‘Method of Warfare’: Human Rights Watch From bombing food production hubs and systematically razing crop fields to halting aid deliveries, Israel is waging a multi-pronged effort to starve the people of Gaza amid the Israel Defense Forces’ bombardment of the enclave, Human Rights Watch said in a report Monday—with evidence drawn from the Israeli government’s own statements as well as survivors’ accounts. The group demanded that countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and others that have provided Israel with military aid and other support since the country began its latest escalation against Gaza in October speak out against the use of starvation as a weapon of warfare—a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
“For over two months, Israel has been depriving Gaza’s population of food and water, a policy spurred on or endorsed by high-ranking Israeli officials and reflecting an intent to starve civilians as a method of warfare,” said Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch (HRW). “World leaders should be speaking out against this abhorrent war crime, which has devastating effects on Gaza’s population.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-starvation
2023-12-13 Why is the UN genocide office silent about Gaza? Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the UN secretary-general’s special adviser on genocide prevention, is violating her mandate by remaining silent about Gaza.(U.S. Institute of Peace) Alice Wairimu Nderitu has one job that’s spelled out in her official title: She’s the UN secretary-general’s special adviser on the prevention of genocide.
Yet while human rights groups, independent UN experts and genocide scholars are ringing the alarm bells over Israel’s extermination campaign in Gaza, Nderitu has remained silent. On 15 October, Nderitu did issue a statement strongly condemning – no less than three times – Hamas for attacking Israel on 7 October. She apparently accepts as fact all of Israel’s unverified and quickly unraveling claims about that day. Nderitu even suggests that Palestinians attack Israel not because they are under a brutal, decades-long occupation, but rather “on the basis of identity” – echoing Israel’s absurd and reprehensible propaganda that it is anti-Semitism that motivates Palestinian resistance. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/why-un-genocide-office-silent-about-gaza
2023-12-11 Displacement, Disease and Death Plague Gazans as Israel Continues Its Genocidal Assault Israel’s unrelenting assault on the Gaza Strip continues as the death toll has reached 18,000 Palestinians killed in just over two months. Airstrikes rocked the Nuseirat and Maghazi refugee camps in central Gaza overnight. At least 23 people were killed in Maghazi. Airstrikes also struck at least two residential homes in Rafah. Meanwhile, the ground battle is pushing ahead in Khan Younis, which is under heavy bombardment.
Gazan women say Israeli soldiers forced them to leave their husbands and sons behind and flee their Gaza City homes. They spoke from the Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Deir al-Balah where they were taking refuge.
The mass displacement and war on the besieged territory has led to a public health disaster. The U.N.’s World Food Programme warns half of Gaza’s population of over 2 million people is starving and that nine out of 10 people are not able to eat every day. As clean water becomes more scarce, diarrhea, skin infections, acute viral hepatitis, scabies and measles are multiplying. Earlier today, the World Health Organization passed a resolution calling for immediate humanitarian aid access and an end to fighting in Gaza. In the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, usually busy streets and commercial areas are empty today in observance of a general strike for Gaza. Global actions are also taking place today, including marches and calls to refrain from buying anything.
Meanwhile, a U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon is warning the likelihood of a “wider conflict” is increasing amid escalating cross-border violence between Israel and Hezbollah. https://www.democracynow.org/2023/12/11/headlines/displacement_disease_and_death_plague_gazans_as_israel_continues_its_genocidal_assault
2023-12-13 World’s leading legal EXPERT on GENOCIDE gives his opinion on ISRAEL’S WAR in GAZA William A. Schabas is a Professor of International Law at Middlesex University, London. He is also a Professor Emeritus at Leiden University and the University of Galway, and an invited visiting scholar at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po. Recognized as a leading expert on international human rights law, international criminal law, genocide and capital punishment, he is the author of more than 20 books and 400 journal articles on these issues. He is also Editor Emeritus of Criminal Law Forum, the quarterly journal of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law.
Professor Schabas was a member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He also worked as a consultant on capital punishment for the UN Office of Drugs and Crime and drafted the 2010, 2015 and 202 reports of the UN Secretary-General on the status of the death penalty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=380yhSE8ThM
2023-12-08 The World Has Failed Gaza in its Darkest Hour We feel abandoned, with no one standing by our side. For more than 60 excruciating days, we have been forced to bear witness to the tragic loss of life, counting each precious soul that has been taken away. And yet, despite the mounting tragedy, nothing seems to have changed. Entire families are being annihilated, leaving us questioning whether we are to have any hope for the future.
This predictable pattern of Arab leaders and U.N. envoys issuing condemnatory statements without taking decisive action is what allows the Israeli occupation to persist in its crimes and to expand those crimes’ scope with impunity. It is evident that there is no effective deterrence, even though Arab nations could tap into their strengths and shift the power dynamics in the region. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/world-has-failed-gaza
2023-11-13 THE PLAN TO WIPE OUT HAMAS As refugees crowd the border with Egypt, Israel prepares to hit Gaza City with US-supplied bunker busters. Over the past week Israeli jets have conducted around-the-clock bombing of non-military targets in Gaza City. Apartment buildings, hospitals, and mosques were torn apart, with no prior warning and no effort to minimize civilian casualties.
By the end of the week Israeli jets were also dropping leaflets telling the citizens of Gaza City and its surrounding areas in the north that those who wished to survive had better start going south—walking if necessary—25 miles or more—to the Rafah border crossing leading to Egypt. As of this writing, it was not clear whether financially stricken Egypt will allow a million immigrants, many of them committed to the Hamas cause, to cross. In the short term, I have been told by an Israeli insider that Israel has been trying to convince Qatar, which at the urging of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a long-time financial supporter of Hamas, to join with Egypt in funding a tent city for the million or more refugees awaiting across the border. “It’s not a done deal,” the Israeli insider told me. Israeli officials have warned Egypt and Qatar that without a landing site, the refugees will have to “go back to Gaza.”
The major issue for the Israeli war planners is a reluctance, despite the mobilization of more than 300,000 reservists, to engage in a door-to-door street battle with Hamas in Gaza City. One veteran of the IDF, who served in a high post, told me that half of the Israeli Army has been engaged for the past decade or more in the protection of the increasing number of small settlements scattered in the West Bank where they are bitterly resented by the Palestinian population. “The Israeli planners don’t trust their infantry,” the insider said, not their willingness to go to war but what could be a disastrous lack of combat experience. https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-plan-to-wipe-out-hamas
2023-11-07 Palestine Talks | Dr. Omar Suleiman on Israel’s war on Gaza and the media’s role Dr. Omar Suleiman is an influential American Muslim imam, theologian, human rights activist and president of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research. In an interview with TRT World’s Baba Umar, Suleiman talks about Israel’s war on Gaza, its usage of biblical scriptures and dehumanising language to undermine Palestinian resistance, media coverage of the conflict, and the role of American politicians and civil society vis-a-vis the war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5AieAG6sxo&list=PLUW304lJeu3Vg_nM0WQfWDZTDyu6h6PlD&index=16
2023-11-01 “We Need To DESTROY Gaza” – Fmr Israeli Ambassador To Italy That Israel is knowingly and intentionally committing war crimes in Gaza is becoming increasingly clear to pretty much everyone. Especially when individuals like former Israeli ambassador to Italy Dror Eydar go on television and say “We need to destroy Gaza.” Which is precisely what Eydar did. Watch for yourself! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD6wGuADhCM&t=12s
2023-10-16 Origins of Colonial, Racist, Zionist, Apartheid Israel: Mobilize to Stop Israeli’s Palestine Genocide! Today, the world is witness to the colonial Zionist Israeli state saturation bombing of Gaza; to the Israeli decree that 1.1 million Gazans must evacuate their homes in Northern Gaza within 24 hours; to the simultaneous Israeli bombing of mass car caravans of departing Palestinians; to the Zionist murderers dropping white phosphorous bombs on those fleeing the horror; to the Israeli declaration that Palestinians will be resettled in the Sinai desert, in the open, permanently, in tents, to be supposedly supplied by Israel’s allies in the US-backed Qatar monarchy and Egyptian dictatorship. Southern Gaza may also be slated for leveling. An Israeli security official opined that when the Israeli military is through, no buildings would be left standing. Gaza in its entirety “will eventually turn into a city of tents.”
Genocide, pure and simple! No different from the genocide of Native Americans and indigenous people the world over: no different from Leopold’s Congo, and, once again, with US complicity, praise, and military support! https://socialistaction.org/2023/10/16/free-free-palestine-for-emergency-united-front-mass-action-mobilizations-to-stop-the-genocide-of-the-palestinian-people/
2023-10-07 Israel PM Says ‘We Are at War’ After Hamas Attacks By ‘Land, Air, and Sea’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, “We are at war, this is not an operation,” after Hamas launched thousands of missiles and seized villages near Gaza. Reports say Hamas has fired between 2,000 and 5,000 munitions. Israeli officials say at least 40 have been killed and hundreds wounded. The Palestinian Health Ministry reports 160 Palestinians have been killed and an estimated 1,000 wounded. Reports say between 13 and 21 Israeli villages were ‘infiltrated’ by Hamas.
An Israeli official said the Palestinian forces were able to capture the headquarters of an Israeli military unit near Gaza. “The headquarters of the Gaza division in camp Ra’im is under the control of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam brigades,” the official explained.
Photos and videos on Twitter show Hamas returning to Gaza with captured Israeli military equipment. Additional images show Israeli Brigadier General Nimrod Aloni was captured by Hamas, although this has not been confirmed by either side. https://www.activistpost.com/2023/10/israel-pm-says-we-are-at-war-after-hamas-attacks-by-land-air-and-sea.html
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