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re: Its Like 9/11 & Pearl Harbour Wrapped Into One as Hamas Kill/Kidnap 260 at Festival
Hamas Blindsides Israel With Most Serious Attack in a Generation
Israel Faces Long Difficult War After Hamas Attack From Gaza
Israel Warns Gaza Residents Of Retaliatory Strikes
BBC 8 OCT 2023
Several rockets hit the southern city of Ashkelon. At least 40 Israelis have been killed
Israel launched a wave of air strikes on Gaza after Palestinian assault on its territory
The scale of what's been happening is unprecedented. Hamas breached the wire that separates Gaza from Israel in multiple places in the most serious cross-border attack Israel has faced in more than a generation.
It came a day after the 50th anniversary of the surprise attack by Egypt and Syria in 1973 that started a major Middle East war. The significance of the date will not have been lost on the Hamas leadership.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country is at war and will exact a heavy price from its enemies.
Videos and photos of dead Israelis, civilians as well as soldiers, are all over social media.
Other videos of armed men from Hamas hauling soldiers and civilians into captivity in Gaza have enraged and alarmed Israelis. The presence of Israeli hostages there means it will be even more complicated than previous incursions.
Within hours Israel was responding with air strikes into Gaza, killing many Palestinians. Its generals will be planning a ground operation next.
Israel Responds
Israel's military has warned that Hamas militants from Gaza are still fighting inside Israel after they infiltrated southern communities and left a reported 250 people dead.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told Israelis they are going into a "long and difficult war".
Hundreds of gunmen burst into southern Israel, killing soldiers and civilians, and taking into Gaza what the army said was a "significant number" of hostages.
Israel has responded with air strikes.
These have continued on Sunday morning, with the Israeli Air Force saying it was targeting "operational infrastructure" in Gaza.
Israel also carried out artillery strikes in Lebanon, following "shooting carried out a few minutes ago into Israeli territory", Israel Defense Forces said.
More than 200 people have been killed since Palestinian militants infiltrated the Israel border from Gaza on Saturday morning, according to Palestinian health officials.
Gazans received Israeli text messages overnight telling them to leave their homes and move to city centres or take refuge in shelters.
The Israeli prime minister said in an overnight message that the war had been "forced on us by a murderous attack by Hamas", and the first stage would end in the coming hours when most of the militants on Israeli territory had been wiped out. Israel would restore security to its citizens and win, he added.
The Israeli government also said it would cut off electricity, fuel and goods supplies to Gaza.
Israel's nightmare scenario - armed Palestinian militants at large in the south of the country - began early on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath and festival of Simchat Torah.
Gunmen cut through the Gaza perimeter fence, storming into Israel on motorbikes, paragliders and by sea. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) spokesman said the militants numbered in the high hundreds, while more than 3,000 rockets were fired across Israel across the the day.
"They attacked dozens of Israeli communities and IDF bases and went door to door, house to house," said Lt Col Jonathan Conricus.
"They executed Israeli civilians in cold blood in their homes and then continued to drag into Gaza Israeli civilians and military personnel. I'm talking women, children, elderly, disabled."
Latest Violence Between Palestinian Militants and Israel in Pictures
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