Posted on 10/09/2023 1:13:32 PM PDT by Red Badger
More than 1,500 people have been killed since the Hamas militant group launched a surprise assault on Israel from Gaza early Saturday, leading Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare "we are at war."
An Israeli embassy spokesperson said Monday the death toll has risen to at least 900 Israelis, most of them civilians. Another 2,150 were reported wounded. More than 250 of the dead were Israelis who came under attack at the Supernova music festival near the border with Gaza when militants opened fire on the crowd.
Israeli officials also say Hamas fighters captured more than 100 hostages, including women, children and elderly people, who were apparently taken into Gaza as captives.
At least nine U.S. citizens are among the dead, a spokesperson for the U.S. National Security Council confirmed to CBS News on Monday, while an unknown number of Americans remain missing.
Meanwhile, at least 687 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's retaliatory airstrikes, and more than 3,700 people were wounded, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The coordinated, multi-front attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian territory controlled by Hamas, came almost 50 years to the day since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and marked a dramatic escalation in the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I suspect that number could rise.
IDF video
Israel releases a lengthy footage of its airstrikes targeting Gaza 10-9-23
https://rumble.com/v3o2ktv-israel-releases-a-lengthy-footage-of-its-airstrikes-targeting-gaza.html
Why are they only taking out onsie and twosies on buildings? They need to make that place a parking lot before the left start to cry unfair.
Who thought it was a good idea to have a huge music festival next to the Gaza Strip?
Drone footage over Gaza City October 9, 2023
https://rumble.com/v3o51en-drone-footage-over-gaza-city-october-9-2023.html
Yeah. Why not somewhere near Tel Aviv?
I guess they thought 5 miles was safe...............
I know, that was my first thought. They said Hamas infiltrated the festival as well. Of all the places to have a festival you have it right next to the enemy border.
I also suspect that number is made up.
687? Not 688?
Exactly. What a clueless bunch of people.
What happened to them is deplorable and I sympathize with their relatives but believing in unicorns and love doesn’t stop violence. In many ways situational blindness due to leftist belief systems does nothing to turn away violence and in fact often invites aggression.
Hopefully they’ve learned a valuable lesson.
Naivete is still no excuse to do what those monsters did to them.
There is no excuse and no justice. It’s just that their naiveté put them at risk.
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