Hamas Attack October 7,2023 Israel/U.S. Narrative
Updated 2024-03-28
2023 Hamas attack on Israel – Wikipedia [MEK Note: Cororate A series of coordinated attacks, conducted by the Palestinian Islamist militant group[b] Hamas, from the Gaza Strip onto bordering areas in Israel, commenced on Saturday, 7 October 2023, a Sabbath day and date of several Jewish holidays. Hamas meticulously planned for a massacre of Israeli civilians with the goal of provoking Israel to invade Gaza.[20] The attacks initiated the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, almost exactly fifty years after the Yom Kippur War began on 6 October 1973. Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups named the attacks Operation Al-Aqsa Flood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hamas_attack_on_Israel
2024-03-17 Van Hollen Says Netanyahu Spreading ‘Flat Out Lies’ About UNRWA U.S. Senator for Maryland Chris Van Hollen continued his defense of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and its work in Gaza in an appearance on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
“The claim that Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu and others are making that somehow UNRWA is a proxy for Hamas are just flat out lies, that’s a flat out lie,” he told journalist Margaret Brennan.
The U.S. was one of many Western countries that paused funding for UNRWA after the agency announced in January that it had fired 12 staffers over Israeli allegations that they had been involved in Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel. However, some countries including Canada, Sweden, the European Union, and Australia have since restored funding. A report has also emerged that Israel tortured UNRWA staffers into falsely confessing to involvement in the Hamas attack. https://www.commondreams.org/news/van-hollen-netanyahu-lies-unrwa
2023-4-01-08 Rome Jews slam ‘unacceptable double standards on Israel’ [MEK Note: This Jewish Community is disgusting in their support of Israel’s Genocide of Palestinians and lack of knowledge about what really happened on October 7, 2023 where it has become clear that many if not most of the Israel citizen were killed by indiscriminate IDF tank and helicopter fire]
The Jewish Community of Rome said Monday it is “appalled” at the “complicit silence and double standards that continue to pollute public statements on the war in Israel and Gaza” sparked by the Hamas attacks of October 7. “We would have expected unequivocal statements on the horrors committed by the terrorist organisation Hamas, which is still holding over 100 Jewish hostages,” read a statement. “It is scandalous to put the defensive war of a country and a people that suffered a mass anti-Semitic attack on October 7 on the same level as the meticulous Jew-hunt involving the deliberate killing of 1,400 people including children one by one,” the statement continued. “It is double standards to demand that Israel stop and not to demand that the hostages be freed and those responsible prosecuted. The application of double standards is part of the universal definition of anti-Semitism. We will not remain silent and will continue to denounce the unacceptable cultural complicity with terrorism,” concluded the statement from the Jewish Community of Rome. Photo: Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Rome Riccardo Di Segni during a demonstration on November 7 in memory of the Israeli victims and hostages of the October 7 Hamas attack. (ANSA). https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/rome-jews-slam-unacceptable-double-standards-on-israel/ar-AA1mDuWR
2023-12-14 Hamas Wrought Destruction, But at What Price? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hamas-wrought-destruction-but-at-what-price/ar-AA1lvnIl
2023-11-20 Israel shares video of Hamas gunman executing woman on Oct. 7 JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel on Monday released security camera footage from Oct. 7, which shows Hamas gunmen who crossed into Israel chase people from an outdoor music festival, with one seen executing a woman at point-blank range. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-shares-video-of-hamas-gunman-executing-woman-on-oct-7/ar-AA1kg9WF
2023-11-10 Israel revises Hamas attack death toll to ‘around 1,200’ “Around 1,200 is the official number of victims of the October 7 massacre,” spokesperson Lior Haiat said in a written statement. Haiat said the figure had been updated on Thursday. He did not provide a reason for the revision. The death count, which includes foreigners, “is not a final number. It (is) an updated estimate. It might change when (they) identify all the bodies,” Haiat said. https://web.archive.org/web/20231111012813/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-revises-death-toll-oct-7-hamas-attack-around-1200-2023-11-10/
2023-11-01 IDF estimates 3,000 Hamas terrorists invaded Israel in Oct. 7 onslaught A new IDF assessment of Hamas’s October 7 massacre suggests that around 3,000 terrorists invaded southern Israel to carry out the murderous rampage through Gaza border towns, The Times of Israel has learned. Previously, the military had estimated that some 2,500 terror operatives took part in the unprecedented assault, which claimed the lives of some 1,400 people in Israel, mostly civilians butchered in their homes or at a music festival. The terrorists also seized at least 245 hostages of all ages, under the cover of a deluge of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities. The 3,000 figure in the latest assessment only includes armed terror operatives and not the waves of Gazan citizens who took advantage of the enormous gaps in the fence to also make their way inside later in the day.
The Israel Defense Forces has said that during the first two days of fighting, its forces killed around 1,000 terrorists in Israeli territory and captured another 200, and that there are many bodies of terrorists still scattered around the border area, and it intends to collect and tally them when it’s possible to do so without endangering soldiers’ lives.
One of the apprehended terrorists has provided a grim description of himself and others gunning down children and families in Kfar Aza on October 7, in a new clip from his interrogation published Wednesday by the Shin Bet security agency. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-estimates-3000-hamas-terrorists-invaded-israel-in-oct-7-onslaught/
2023-11-01 Gaurav Sawant Describes The Bodycam Footage Of October 7 Hamas Horror This is the first-hand account of Gaurav Sawant, who reported from Israel and West Bank amdist the ongoing war. Gaurav was one of the few journalists who saw the complete, un-edited footage of the October 7 attack that rocked Israel. The Hamas horror, Gaurav says, was horrifying. We can’t show you those videos, but you can hear what they contained here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxwAnKymPmE
2023-10-31 In Kibbutz Be’eri, a broken promise to keep Israelis safe Kibbutz Be’eri – three miles from Gaza – never felt like the frontline of a conflict. It looks like one now. Its empty streets are a canvas of rage. In the house where seven members of Gilad Korngold’s family were taken hostage by Hamas, it’s hard to find any sign or scrap of family life. Machine-gun fire has gouged holes across the walls; rooms are collapsed and gutted by fire; bullets have made lacework of the metal doors. The safe-room door held fast against the bullets, but the steel shutters outside were blown open, and his family has gone. Among them are his son Tal, daughter-in-law Adi, his eight-year-old grandson Naveh and three-year-old granddaughter Yahel. It’s the first time he’s seen the house, which belongs to Adi’s parents, since the attack.
“It’ll take generations to rebuild [the kibbutz], if they build a new one,” he told me. “I think a lot of people will not return.” What was broken here was not just the houses, but the promise Israel made to its people that it could keep them safe, even three miles from a territory run by a group committed to Israel’s destruction. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67281022
2023-10-26-Israel Hamas War: Israel Releases Unedited CCTV Footages Of Hamas Attack [MEK Note: Actually none of the video is shown here only commentary. Israel has only publicly released 90 seconds of this 43 minute video.] This is the first-hand account of India Today TV journalist Shiv Aroor, currently reporting from Israel on the ongoing war with Hamas. Shiv was among the foreign journalists who witnessed the 43-minute raw footage that the Israeli military released, showing atrocities by Hamas terrorists during the October 7 attack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYW1m9P16-U
2023-10-23 Israeli army releases footage of Hamas October 7 attack • FRANCE 24 English Israeli forces on Monday showed journalists a video showing scenes of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7. The 45-minute video was reportedly put together with footage gathered from mobile phones and body cameras of Israeli first responders as well as Hamas militants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-veyJYInUA&t=24s
2023-10-18 Young dad of 6 absorbed blast to protect family in attack on Kerem Shalom Amichai Shindler, whose older brother was killed in 2010 terror shooting, was severely injured as Hamas terrorists blasted open saferoom door as he held it closed. Kerem Shalom’s 10-person civil defense team killed at least 20 Hamas terrorists as they protected the community. Two members of the team died. https://www.timesofisrael.com/young-dad-of-6-absorbed-blast-to-protect-family-in-attack-on-kibbutz-kerem-shalom/
2023-10-17 The First Hours of the Israel-Hamas War: What Actually Happened? Even 11 days after Hamas launched its murderous attack on Israeli families, not all the details of how events unfolded are yet available. This is what we know so far. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-17/ty-article-magazine/.premium/the-first-hours-of-the-israel-hamas-war-what-actually-took-place/0000018b-38bc-d0ac-a39f-b9be58df0000
2023-10-13 Children found ‘butcher ed’ in Israeli kibbutz, IDF says, as horror of Hamas’ attacks near border begins to emerge Bodies of Israeli residents and Hamas attackers lay outside burned-out homes in the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on Tuesday, days after the Palestinian militant group launched a large-scale surprise assault on Israel. Hamas sent waves of heavily armed fighters pouring across the border from Gaza and rampaging through rural communities – Israel said it found 1,500 bodies of militants in the aftermath of the assault. Houses in Kfar Aza were ransacked and set ablaze. Overturned mattresses, destroyed furniture, broken trinkets and unexploded grenades lay strewn across the grounds, along with bodies – a window into the scale of devastation wrought by Hamas in this area. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my career, never in 40 years of service this something I never imagined,” Maj. Gen. Itai Veruv told CNN on Tuesday, just a few hours after Israeli troops secured the kibbutz from Hamas assailants.
In Kfar Aza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was going house to house, collecting the dead in body bags and loading them onto a truck. The IDF told CNN that women, children, toddlers and elderly were “brutally butchered in an ISIS way of action.” Hamas has denied that its militants beheaded children or attacked women. The militant group’s spokesman and senior official Izzat al-Risheq on Wednesday described the accusation as “fabricated and baseless allegations.” Kfar Aza is one of the several kibbutzim, small farming enclaves, that bore the brunt of Hamas’ ground assault on Saturday. A number of kibbutzim and towns were targeted, including Kfar Aza, Be’eri, Ofakim, Sderot, Yad Mordechai, Yated, Kissufim and Urim. Revelers at a music festival held in the desert outside of Be’eri were also gunned down and taken hostage. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/10/middleeast/israel-kibbutzim-kfar-aza-beeri-urim-hamas-attack-intl/index.html
2023-10-12 Hamas attack ‘deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust’, says Biden, as Israeli jets pound Gaza Joe Biden has condemned the attack by Hamas militants on Israel at the weekend as the “deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust”, as Israeli jets continued to strike Gaza, an enclave running desperately low on medical supplies, according to the World Health Organization. The US president told Jewish leaders gathered at the White House on Wednesday: “This attack was a campaign of pure cruelty – not just hate, but pure cruelty – against the Jewish people.” “Silence is complicity,” Biden said. “I refuse to be silent”. He said he had spoken again to Benjamin Netanyahu and that the US was “surging” additional military assistance to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). He added that the deployment of US military ships and aircraft closer to Israel should be seen as a signal to Iran, which backs Islamist groups Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. “We made it clear to the Iranians: Be careful,” Biden said. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/12/israel-hamas-war-biden-jews-holocaust-palestine-iran-warning
2023-10-11 Newly released footage shows moment Hamas stormed through border of Gaza into Israel CCTV footage shows heavily armed Hamas fighters entering a Kibbutz in Isreal. The video was captured on Saturday, amid the largest terror attack in Israeli history. Be’eri Kibbutz, where the video was taken, is just three miles from the Gaza border. Footage shows the men, wielding rocket launchers and AKs, approaching two cars. Both vehicles are shot out, and one – a blue Mazda – is filled with dead bodies. The Jihadists drag bodies from the car, steal it, and then drive away. In total, more than 100 bodies were found in Be’eri Kibbutz after the attack. As Hamas moved through southern Israel, massacring civilians as they went. In total, they killed more 1,200 people in the attack – most of them civilians. In another Kibbutz just five miles away, the bodies of 40 children have been found. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_U8PFXaFVU
2023-10-11 ‘Fighting will intensify,’ Israeli military warns Israel formed an emergency unity government Wednesday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Hamas “worse than ISIS” and the country’s defense minister vowed to destroy the militant group. Ground troops, artillery and other equipment is stationed outside of Gaza, which Hamas controls, the military said. Forces are “making preparations for the next stage of the war, which will come when the timing is opportune and fit for our purposes,”
Israel has been launching airstrikes in Gaza in response to the Hamas attacks. At least 1,200 people in Israel have been killed, according to the Israeli military, and in Gaza the Palestinian Health Ministry has said 1,100 people have been killed. Twenty-two Americans are known dead and 17 are known to be unaccounted for, officials in the U.S. said. Some Americans are believed to be held hostage, but a number has not been released. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-news-live-updates-scale-atrocities-emerges-gaza-bombardment-goe-rcna119855#
2023-10-11 Heroes of Israel: Armed members of several kibbutzim managed to fight off terrorists Inbal Lieberman, head of security at Nir-Am, anticipated that the attackers were coming and together with 12 neighbors, managed to kill 25 of the 30 terrorists who tried to enter the complex. The terrorist attack carried out by Hamas against innocent and unprotected civilians struck a kibbutzim that happened to have armed guards as well as several residents with weapons. They joined together to prepare for the imminent attack. One young woman’s actions stand out. Inbal Lieberman, a young security coordinator at Kibbutz Nir-Am managed to fight off 25 assailants and save the lives of her neighbors. She has been recognized as a hero by the State of Israel.Youtube https://voz.us/heroes-of-israel-armed-members-of-several-kibbutzim-managed-to-fight-off-terrorists/?lang=en
2023-10-11 Israel killed at least 1,000 Gaza infiltrators, reinforcing nationwide, military says Israeli troops have killed at least 1,000 Palestinian gunmen who infiltrated from Gaza in incursions that began at the weekend, and have reinforced all communities in Israel as hostilities spread to other fronts, the military said on Wednesday. In quotes carried by Israel Hayom newspaper online, chief military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari also said that among Hamas targets destroyed in a Gaza counter-offensive was an advanced system for tracking aircraft.https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-killed-least-1000-gaza-infiltrators-reinforcing-nationwide-military-2023-10-11/
2023-10-10 The Hamas Attacks and Israeli Response: An Explainer https://jewishcurrents.org/the-hamas-attacks-and-israeli-response-an-explainer
2023-10-10 Israel recovers bodies of more than 1,500 Hamas fighters as airstrikes continue The Israeli military said it had recovered the bodies of more than 1,500 Hamas fighters inside Israel and mostly secured its border with Gaza after a night of intensified airstrikes across the enclave that destroyed infrastructure and displaced thousands.
An Israeli military spokesperson said its forces were installing “an iron wall” of tanks and helicopters along the Gaza border, ahead of an expected large-scale ground invasion of the besieged enclave. A spokesperson for the Israeli forces, Lt-Col Richard Hecht, advised Palestinians to “get out” of Gaza through the Rafah crossing with Egypt on its southern border, before clarifying that the crossing remained closed. Images online showed damage from an airstrike to the crossing on Monday.
Barakeh’s comments followed statements by another senior Hamas official, Moussa Abu Marzouk, who told Al Jazeera that the group was open to discussions of a possible truce with Israel after having “achieved its targets”. In a telephone interview, Abu Marzouk said Hamas was open to “something of that sort” and “all political dialogues” regarding the group’s willingness to discuss a potential ceasefire. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/10/hamas-prepared-for-a-long-war-with-israel-as-concerns-for-hostages-in-gaza-grow
2023-10-08 Hamas’ attack on Israel was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust As the death toll from Saturday’s attack on Israel has mounted, Israelis and Jews around the world have reached for analogies to explain the magnitude of the tragedy, calling the invasion “Israel’s 9/11” or “Israel’s Pearl Harbor.” Others have tried to put the death toll — now at 700 soldiers and civilians — in perspective by setting it against a far deadlier tragedy: the Holocaust. “Not since the Holocaust has this large a number of Jews been killed in a single day. Let that sink in,” By contrast, while the figures are still being tallied, it’s clear that at least several hundred Israeli civilians were killed on Saturday in addition to soldiers. https://www.jta.org/2023/10/08/israel/was-hamas-attack-the-bloodiest-day-for-jews- since-the-holocaust
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