2023-10-08 19:36:22
Israel and the Palestinian militias in Gaza are experiencing their second day of war today with intense fighting in Israeli areas near the Strip where there is still a presence of Hamas, while the firing of rockets and bombings continue, with more than 1,100 dead on both sides in an unprecedented conflict.
There are already more than 700 dead in Israel due to the attack by land, sea and air by the Islamist group Hamas that yesterday took the country by surprise. It represents a national tragedy for a State that has not suffered so many deaths in just over one day in its entire history, since its creation in 1948 and despite the many armed conflicts experienced.
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“There is an indisputable fact. The State of Israel is going to win this war too. We have no other alternative,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog said in a message of encouragement to citizens, although discouragement and shock reign among the population.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Photo by ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP)
The injured reach 2,245 and there are 365 seriously, while Israel suffers a harsh emotional impact from an offensive from Gaza that no one saw coming, which has disconcerted its Government and Defense apparatus and has made Hamas strong after humiliating Israel as a military power .
”This weekend, Hamas began a war against Israel with the worst massacre of innocent civilians in Israel’s history. Hamas was more barbaric and brutal than the Islamic State,” Israeli Army spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a statement.
The military spokesman vowed that “Israel will respond with determination and force to these unprovoked war crimes” and accused Hamas of “hiding among civilians” inside Gaza.
”The days ahead will be long and difficult. We have paid a high price; but we will restore security to the people of Israel,” Hagari stressed.
Relatives carry the bodies of children from the Abu Quta family who died in Israel’s attacks on the Palestinian city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip during their funeral on October 8, 2023. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP).
This afternoon, the Israeli Army was able to evacuate Israeli residents who were still trapped or captive in a dozen communities, and claims to have killed more than 400 Palestinian militiamen.
However, one of the hardest blows against Israel is the more than 100 people that the militants took as hostages to Gaza, which Hamas wants to exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, and which could condition Israel’s military action, which still He did not specify whether or not he will carry out a ground incursion operation.
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There are also an undetermined number of missing people. In the midst of the chaos that still exists, their families do not know their whereabouts and do not yet know if they are dead or kidnapped in the enclave.
On the other hand, Israel’s bombings on Gaza have left at least 413 dead and more than 2,300 injured. About fifty fighter planes attacked about 120 posts in the Gazan city of Beit Hanun this afternoon, among which there were points from where militants launched rockets, the Army said.
Israeli forces cross a main road in their armored personnel carrier (APC) as additional troops are deployed near the southern town of Sderot on October 8, 2023. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA/AFP).
Palestinian factions have launched more than 3,200 projectiles since yesterday, and Israeli forces have attacked some 800 outposts inside Gaza, while sirens continue to sound in southern Israel and most of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents take refuge in their houses.
More than 20,000 people are displaced and housed in schools in Gaza, and Israeli attacks resulted in the destruction of six towers and at least seven residential buildings.
People stand on a rooftop watch as a ball of fire and smoke rises over a building in Gaza City on October 7, 2023 during an Israeli airstrike that hit the Palestine Tower building. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP).
Given the situation, according to the major general in the Israel Riv reserve, the Jewish State now has “two challenges of equal importance: rescuing the hostages in Gaza and acting against Hamas”, so “the only way out is a massive operation of retaliation”, something that he believes “is on the table” of the Security apparatus.
“If Israel does not respond forcefully, it is an open invitation for other groups like Hezbollah to attack,” which could raise tensions in the occupied West Bank – where seven Palestinians died since yesterday in clashes with Israeli troops – or provoke attacks by the Shiite militia. Lebanese on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon.
An Israeli soldier takes a position in the northern Israeli town of Metula on the border with Lebanon on October 8, 2023. (Photo by JALAA MAREY / AFP)
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Israel bombed southern Lebanon today after Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a mortar attack against Israel this morning, which increased the alert in Israeli towns near the Arab country.
It is feared that the Shiite militia – allied with Iran and Hamas and which fought a war with Israel in 2006 – could open another front from the north, to which the Israeli Army is “aware” of its steps and “prepared for whatever comes.” ”, and warns him “not to make the mistake of joining this war.”
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