Posted on 10/09/2023 6:02:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Backed by the largest activation of reservists in its history, Israel on Monday battled to regain control of areas invaded by Hamas terrorists over the weekend while ordering a complete siege of the Palestinian-held Gaza territory.
"There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed," Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told a news conference.
"We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly,” he added.
Israel conducted an aerial bombardment of Gaza Sunday night, leveling buildings and forcing Palestinian residents to flee. More than 300,000 reservists were ordered to active duty, the largest such activation in Israel’s history.
The military said it had regained control of many areas invaded by Hamas but the process was going slower than it anticipated.
“We are still fighting,” Israeli Defense Forces Lt. Col. Richard Hecht told a briefing Monday morning. “We thought by this morning we’d be in a better place.”
The effort is being complicated by the fact that Hamas militants captured Israeli civilians, Americans and other foreigners in an effort to use them as shields from the counterattack.
Meanwhile, the horror of the initial Hamas attacks Saturday became more clear: at least 260 concert goers were mowed down by guns in one venue, and there were reports of women being raped and soldiers being tortured.
Israeli media reported Monday that at least 800 Israeli citizens have been killed. Palestinians said more than 400 on their side also have been killed. Thousands on both sides have been reported injured.
Still, two large questions linger over the tragedy: how much was Iran involved, and how could Israel’s vaunted intelligent services missed signals of the attack?
Israel needs to sweep in with 1 million troops and go house to house clearing the entire gaza strip of every single one of these scum. Then after rounding up all of them, use facial recognition from all the video to ID every terrorist amount them and immediately execute them and then expel the rest from Israel.
many articles by the msmwhores note that gaza is/has been blockaded by Israel. Yet the Israelis have been providing electricity, food and fuel for years.
Ignorance? Or propaganda?
undoubtedly a generous helping of both....
biden had better not accept to receive any of these animals as refugees.
I think their numbers are not that large.
And they have to be ready to also respond to attacks from other countries and directions. A lot of evil planning went into this to make it hard to respond to without leaving other parts of Israel vulnerable. I read they have liberal wokeness issues within their armed forces too.
then they need to start a draft
House to house is too dangerous, they are going to level it.
I am ok, with that, level it then sweep through whats left from east to west, removing them all
Well. What would the Russians do in this situation? They would probably capture all the fighting men in Gaza and then put them in a gulag in the Negev desert in Israel. Then women and children can flee to Egypt by themselves.
Put them down. But the root cause is Islam. Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated.
We can only hope.
All age-relevant Israelis are mandated to serve in the military already. Male a female alike.
They just don't have a large-enough population to begin with.
That is my biggest fear. Hamas refugees in the US thanks to Biden and the democrats.
“”There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told a news conference.”
This statement alone would be enough to ignite a full-scale Middle East war due to its effect on civilians, but I think the Palestinians overplayed their hand by sending out all the videos of civilians, so they’ll be on their own to fight Israel, with the only hope for them now being Iran joining the fight, but Putin has likely told them to keep out.
In any case, we’ll see I end up being proven right (which is usually the case, by the way).
If I am ever taken as a human shield, God forbid, don’t give the enemy any quarter. I’d be as good as dead anyway. Please give them hell.
I see, I didn’t realize they were so small
I’d rather die as a martyr than live as a coward...............
Naturally, Israel will bill the US taxpayers for their mobilization and war. Now, Zelensky and his crowd will have to compete for US cash.
Nah, too expensive in Israeli lives.
Carpet bomb Gaza. Make Gaza Dresden.
Bomb until the Koranimals release the hostages they haven’t tortured and murdered.
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