Posted on 10/07/2023 12:50:44 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
JERUSALEM/GAZA/SDEROT Oct 7 (Reuters) - Gunmen from the Palestinian group Hamas rampaged through Israeli towns on Saturday killing and capturing scores of civilians and soldiers in a surprise assault, met by Israel with massive retaliatory air strikes that killed scores in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said the assault that had begun in Gaza would spread to the West Bank and Jerusalem.
“This was the morning of defeat and humiliation upon our enemy, its soldiers and its settlers," he said in a speech. "What happened reveals the greatness of our preparation. What happened today reveals the weakness of the enemy."
In Sderot, in southern Israel near Gaza, bodies of Israeli civilians lay strewn across a highway, surrounded by broken glass. A woman and a man were sprawled out dead across the front seats of a car. A military vehicle drove past the bodies of another woman and a man in a pool of blood behind another car.
"I went out, I saw loads of bodies of terrorists, civilians, cars shot up. A sea of bodies, inside Sderot along the road, other places, loads of bodies," said Shlomi from Sderot.
Terrified Israelis, barricaded into safe rooms, recounted their plight by phone on live TV.
"They just came in again, please send help," a woman identified as Dorin told Israel's N12 News from Nir Oz, a kibbutz near Gaza. "My husband is holding the door closed ... They are firing rounds of bullets."
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Gaza delenda est.
Hopefully the Israelis will PUT AN END to this problem, regardless of what the NeverTrumpers want.
“What happened today reveals the weakness of the (United States of America’)
I will hold my breath and wait for the UN comdemnation.
Netanyahu is due to speak soon.
I think right now a lot of people are ready to see Gaza and the West Bank reduced to rubble and sown with salt.
After 50 some years of this idiocy, it is past time the barbarians among the Palestinians stop being indulged. They have had every chance to behave like civilized humans. Since they choose not to, they have forfeited the protection of International Law.
Why can’t Turkey or Iran take them?
Financed by Joseph Stalin Biden with $6 billion to Iran.
Vaporize Gaza.
First Joe ordered Israel not to defend herself then he got permission from Iran to pretend and so call ‘condemn’ the murderous attacks ...
political expediency...
How does an allegedly 1st world military, one with top shelf intelligence, get invaded by people on dirt bikes and Toyota pickup trucks while taking away Israeli hostages in golf carts!
Record peace deals in the middle east to this. Yep, Pres. Joey is just so much better than that guy who tweeted too much. What next? Are the nukes going to start flying? From Jan. 20th 2021 it’s been a vertical line straight down
Amen to that.
Active gunfire in 22 villages, main activity seems to be taking hostages, which isn’t a sign of strength.
I don’t understand modern war. I’ve wondered about this at least since the 1990s and Iraq.
WWII was different. WWI was different. Hell, our Civil War was different. War is hell, and the worse it is, the sooner the other side will decide that it prefers peace.
If I were Israel, my goal would be: “How can we kill 100,000 of those guys in the next 24 hours? What’s our plan for that?”
Who the hell cares what the world thinks? Massive death and destruction is the only — the only — sensible way to engage in war.
They got caught napping. Isral8 Deep State was busy opposing Netenyahu.
What in the world are you talking about? Who you call NeverTrumpers are often good, Christian conservatives, that are definitely on the side of Israel.
nuke the philistines
I was just watching a video of them dragging a girl out of the car, blood all over her. Freakin’ faggots going after girls, yeah real tough guys
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