2023-10-08 01:37:00
The emblematic New York Empire State building replicated the colors of the Israeli flag tonight, in support of Netanyahu’s nation, after the Hamas offensive that has already left at least 300 dead and more than a thousand injured.
Also in Germany, the Brandenburg Gate illuminated with the Israeli flag, in Berlin, and hundreds of people gathered in solidarity with the attack.
In Germany, the Brandenburg Gate was illuminated in the colors of the Israeli flag
In the city of Buenos Aires, the main buildings and monuments were dyed light blue and white. Tonight you could see the Obelisk, the Women’s Bridge and the Art Plant, among others, with the colors of the Israeli flag.
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The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, He said that the country is “embarking on a long and difficult war” and that the first stage will end in the next few hours, in what would be a possible reference to the approximately 200 or 300 militants who entered Israel.
As reported The GuardianNetanyahu’s office has approved measures to destroy the military and government capabilities of Hamas and Islamic Jihad “for many years,” including cutting off electricity and fuel supplies and the entry of goods into Gaza.
At least 300 Israelis died this Saturday and 1,590 were injured after the offensive by the Hamas militia against Israeli territory launched today from Gaza, according to sources from the Israeli Ministry of Health cited by the Hebrew press. Israeli media have reported this latest balance from the Israeli Ministry of Health and have highlighted that the final figure is expected to be even higher.
The Israeli Ministry of Health has stopped providing data on deaths, but it does update the number of injured: there are 1,590 injured as of 11:30 p.m. on Saturday.
This figure includes 19 people in critical condition, 293 in serious condition and 315 with a moderate prognosis. Up to 636 have a good prognosis and 20 are being treated for anxiety attacks. Another 1,181 are being evaluated.
A senior White House official said Saturday that it is “too early to say” whether Iran, Israel’s archenemy, is “directly involved” in the attack by the Palestinian group Hamas.
However, “there is no doubt that Hamas is financed, equipped and armed by Iran and others,” the source added, as the conflict escalated to its bloodiest point in decades.
After more than 18 hours, hostages held in a dining room at Kibbutz Be’eri, in southern Israel, were released, according to the BBC following a report by Israeli public broadcaster Kan News.
Airlines canceled more than 80 flights to and from Tel Aviv on Saturday night – about 14% of all scheduled flights – due to the unprecedented attack on Israel by the Hamas militant group, according to FlightAware.
Delta Airlines and American Airlines canceled flights Saturday night and Sunday night from New York’s JFK Airport to Tel Aviv, although a return Delta flight was able to leave Tel Aviv on Saturday night. United Airlines also canceled a Saturday flight from San Francisco. An earlier United flight turned over Greenland and returned to San Francisco.
German airline Lufthansa canceled several flights between Frankfurt and Tel Aviv.
The fierce assault by Hamas against Israel this Saturday left at least 250 dead in Israeli territory, among whom there is an Argentine, Rodolfo Fabián Skariszewski, as confirmed by the Government.
“We regret to inform you of the death of Rodolfo Fabián Skariszewski, compatriot who resided in Moshav Ohad, Israel, and we send our condolences to his family and friends,” reported the Argentine Embassy in Israel.
The vice president Cristina Kirchner condemned the violence unleashed in the Gaza Strip following the surprise assault led by Hamas from Gaza on Israel.
“This morning the television images showed us violence, death and desolation in Israeli territory. Our unconditional solidarity with all the victims and their families. We do not accept and condemn, as we have always done, all types of violence as a method to resolve conflicts between countries,” the former president expressed this afternoon on X (exTwitter).
“As has been the historical and traditional position of Argentina, we urge once again to comply with the United Nations Resolutions, the peace agreements and to recover the areas of negotiation on the conflict between Israel and Palestine. In particular, we uphold the need to fulfill the “concept of a region in which two States, Israel and Palestine, live side by side within secure and recognized borders,” included in UN Security Council resolution 1397 (2002). United Nations,” concluded the vice president.
Moments of maximum tension occurred this Saturday while a journalist from the Aljazeera agency broadcast live from Gaza. In the images that were spread on social networks, you can see the precise moment in which a missile hits a Palestinian tower, right behind a correspondent who was reporting on the conflict unleashed this Saturday after the surprise assault led by Hamas on Israel. .
After this, the presenter of the television program that was live asks the journalist, identified as Youmna El Sayed, to please protect herself. “If you are in a position to do it safely, can you explain to us what is happening? If you are not in a position to do it safely, get to safety,” they told the correspondent.
Visibly moved by what happened, the journalist responded: “No, it’s okay.” This is a missile attack against a tower Palestine , right in the center of Gaza City.” Quickly one of the program’s hosts interrupted the correspondent and asked her to take some time to breathe.
“We have just witnessed live what an Israeli attack looks like in a populated area of Gaza City: what we believe is a residential building,” the host said about the dramatic scene witnessed live.
The Israeli embassy in Argentina issued a statement this afternoon in which it referred to the surprise assault led by Hamas from Gaza to Israel and thanked “the numerous displays of solidarity and condemnations of terrorism” by the Government and opposition leaders.
“The terrorist organization Hamas began a broad attack against the citizens of Israel through the massive and indiscriminate firing of missiles and rockets towards the civilian population in the south of the country that reached the cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem,” the embassy noted. .
“Terrorists infiltrated the towns of the southern region of the State of Israel, attempting to murder families and individuals on their way to the synagogues during the Simchat Torah holiday, while taking dozens of people hostage,” they denounced. And after that they specified: “This is an attack initiated by terrorist organizations led by Hamas with the support of the Islamic Republic of Iran that has caused a tragic toll of 250 deaths and 1,452 injuries so far.”
“The Embassy of Israel in Argentina appreciates the numerous expressions of solidarity and condemnations of terrorism, such as those outlined by President Alberto Fernández in his communication with the President of Israel Isaac Herzog, as well as the expressions of the Argentine Foreign Ministry, the ministers of the national cabinet, governors, senators, deputies, mayors, civil society organizations, and the presidential candidates, Patricia Bullrich, Sergio Massa, Javier Milei and Juan Schiaretti,” they concluded.
After the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas’ surprise morning attack on Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Palestinians to leave Gaza and promised to use the full might of Israel to reduce Hamas hideouts to “ruins” and “avenge” the assault.
“All those places where Hamas hides (…) we will reduce them to ruins,” he said. “What I say to the people of Gaza is: ‘get out of there now, because we will act everywhere with all our force,’” Netanyahu warned in a brief television address.
The army “will use all its strength to destroy Hamas’s military capabilities,” Netanyahu declared at a press conference. “We will hit them until the end and we will decisively avenge this black day for Israel and its people,” he added.
“Hamas murdered innocent citizens, children and the elderly on Shabbat. Hamas started a cruel and evil war,” the prime minister said. And then he warned: “We will win this war, but the price is too high to bear.”
President Joe Biden said this Saturday that the United States’ support for Israel is “rock solid and unwavering,” following the surprise large-scale attack by Palestinian Hamas militias against the Jewish State. ”The United States supports Israel. We will never stop supporting them,” Biden said in a statement broadcast on television from the White House.
More of 200 Israelis were killed and 1,104 wounded in the offensive of the Hamas militia against Israeli territory launched from Gaza, according to sources from the Ministry of Health cited by the local press.
The Israeli Armed Forces also reported that There are 22 “active” zones in southern Israel with the presence of armed Palestinian individuals when thirteen hours had passed since the start of the attack.
The Palestinian authorities confirmed for their part at least 232 dead and 1,697 injured in the armed response of Israeli forces in Gaza.
A military advisor to Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, praised Hamas’ “proud” offensive.
“We support this proud operation ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ and we are sure that the resistance front also supports it,” declared Revolutionary Guards General Rahim Yahya Safavi, quoted by the Isna agency.
The “resistance front” is the term used in Iran to refer to the Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian and other movements, close to Iran and in confrontation with Israel.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic, Nasser Kanani, also praised the Hamas offensive in an interview with Isna. “The resistance has so far achieved spectacular victories during this operation,” he added, speaking of “a shining moment in the history of the struggle” of the Palestinians against Israel. This offensive “has opened a new page in the history of the resistance and of armed operations against the occupiers in the occupied lands.”
At least 150 Israelis died in the attacks, according to local Israeli media N12 cited by Archyde.com. Meanwhile, more than 1100 Israelis have been injured, said the Israeli Ministry of Health.
For its part, Hamas’s armed wing said it had fired 150 rockets at Tel Aviv.
“Given the events of public knowledge, Argentine citizens in Israel are recommended to be attentive to the development of the situation, “stay informed and follow the safety directives of local authorities, especially regarding the recommendations not to leave home, the obligation to remain inside a shelter or the need to be in the vicinity of a shelter,” he published this afternoon the presidential spokesperson, Gabriela Cerruti, y shared the link to the Israel Defense Forces site to stay updated.
The head of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, he said he glimpses “a great victory” in the offensive launched against Israel from the Gaza Strip.
“We are on the verge of achieving a great victory and a clear conquest on the Gaza front,” Haniyeh said in a speech broadcast on television. “Enough is enough, we must end the cycle of intifadas [levantamientos] and revolutions in the fight for the liberation of our land [palestina] and our prisoners,” he added.
At least 100 Israelis have died since the Palestinian militant assault began, said Zaki Heller, spokesman for the Magen David Adom emergency service. The number is expected to continue increasing in the coming hours and days.
The United Nations Security Council will meet on sunday to deal with the military crisis in the Middle East, according to diplomats.
Brazil, who holds the rotating presidency of the Council for the month of October, announced shortly before the call for a meeting in response to the crisis unleashed by the Hamas military operation in Israel.
The Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterrescondemned Hamas and called for “all diplomatic efforts to avoid a major conflagration.”
The former American president Donald Trump He partly blamed President Joe Biden for the Hamas attack on Israel. “Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks, which many reports say came from the Biden administration.”he said in a statement.
Trump did not explain what he meant. But other Republicans have pointed to the administration’s hostage deal with Iran, which freed up $6 billion in Iranian funds, but in which no US taxpayer dollars were involved.
Shortly before, the White House released a statement from Biden, where he indicated that he had spoken by phone with Prime Minister BBenjamin Netanyahu about the attacks.
“USA unequivocally condemns this heinous attack against Israel by Hamas terrorists from Gaza, and I have made it clear to Prime Minister Netanyahu that we are willing to offer all appropriate means of support to the government and people of Israel,” Biden said.
At least 70 Israelis have been killed since the attack began, according to Israel’s emergency service, Magen David Adom. Israel’s Health Ministry said that at least 908 Israelis have been injured.
The Israeli army confirms that Hamas militants in Gaza are holding Israeli civilians and soldiers captive in the Palestinian enclave, which marks a significant escalation in the fighting.
The military confirmed Hamas’ claims that its fighters had kidnapped several Israelis after they infiltrated Israel and stormed Israeli communities in the country’s south.
The army offered no further details and declined to comment on how many Israelis had been captured.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Hamas deputy head Saleh al-Arouri had said: “We managed to kill and capture many Israeli soldiers.”
“As for our prisoners, I say their freedom is coming. What we have at hand will set you free. The longer the fighting lasts, the greater the number of prisoners will be,” he said, with the intention of making a prisoner exchange with Israel.
“The DAILY, representation of the Argentine Jewish community, supports the State of Israel after the terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas that murdered and kidnapped Israeli citizens as well as the firing of thousands of rockets throughout the territory,” the entity said in a statement published in X (ex Twitter). The Argentine Zionist Organization He also condemned the attack in a message.
The president of United States, Joe Biden, was informed on Saturday about the “horrible terrorist attacks by Hamas in Israel”, the White House said in a statement, adding that the US president will remain in close contact with Israeli allies on the situation.
Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that The Israeli prime minister spoke with Biden by phone this Saturday and told him that “a forceful and continuous battle will be required, in which Israel will triumph.” Biden told Netanyahu that he fully supports Israel’s right to self-defense, the statement added.
“The United States unequivocally condemns the heinous attacks by Hamas terrorists against Israel, including civilians and civilian communities,” said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “There is never any justification for terrorism. We stand in solidarity with the government and people of Israel and express our condolences for the Israeli lives lost in these attacks. We will remain in close contact with our Israeli partners. The United States supports Israel’s right to defend itself”.
For his part, the United States Secretary of Defense, Lloyd J. Austin III, also released a statement: “I am closely following the events in Israel. Our commitment to Israel’s right to defend itself remains unwavering and I extend my deepest condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in this abhorrent attack against civilians. Over the next few days the Department of Defense will work to ensure Israel has what it needs to defend itself and protect civilians from indiscriminate violence and terrorism”.
“President Alberto Fernandez ordered today reinforce the security of all areas of the Jewish community and ordered the alert at the border of the Gendarmerie and the agencies dependent on Migration, the Federal Intelligence Agency and the PSA,” reported the presidential spokesperson, Gabriela Cerruti. “Likewise, he made immediate humanitarian aid available to the government of Israel.”
“The Argentine Foreign Ministry deplores the armed attacks coming from the Gaza Strip against the south of Israel,” a statement from the San Martín Palace had previously stated. And he adds: “The Argentine government condemns the terrorist actions of Hamas against Israeli territory and calls for that the violence be put to an end and the protection of the civilian population is guaranteed”.
“Argentina expresses its solidarity with the Israeli people and expresses its heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims,” finally maintains the statement from the ministry led by Santiago Cafiero. The main presidential candidates also reacted to the news.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza says that At least 198 people have been killed and at least 1,610 injured in the territory as Israel retaliates.
The death toll came as Israel carried out a series of airstrikes in Gaza and clashed with gunmen at the border fence around the coastal territory.
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