(Bloomberg) -- Israel is “at war,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, after militants from the Gaza Strip fired over 3,000 missiles and infiltrated...
-- Israel is “at war,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, after militants from the Gaza Strip fired over 3,000 missiles and infiltrated southern parts of the country early Saturday. The surprise attack — not yet under control as of early Sunday — killed at least 200 Israelis, while at least 230 Palestinians died in fighting and reprisal strikes by the Israeli military.
There was limited mortar fire this morning in the Har Dov area and near the Astra outpost on the northern border with Lebanon, Hecht said. Israeli forces rescued at least 48 people who were held hostage in a dining hall in Kibbutz Be’eri, the paper said.Dozens of bodies were reported to have been removed from the site of a music festival held in the Negev Desert in southern Israel, the New York Times said, citing local media.
The Israeli prime minister said children and elderly civilians are among the dead and among the hostages taken to Gaza.President Joe Biden condemned the deadly surprise attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas as an assault by a “terrorist organization” and pledged “rock solid” US support for Israel.
Yair Lapid, Netanyahu’s predecessor as prime minister and now opposition leader, warned there “is a serious risk that this becomes a multi-front war.”He said he told Netanyahu he was “willing to put aside our differences and form an emergency, narrow professional government.”A spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry praised the attacks, saying they “opened a new page in resistance and armed operations against the usurpers of occupied territories.
Dozens of Israeli fighter jets struck 17 military compounds and four operational command centers belonging to Hamas in the past few hours, Israel’s defense forces said.Israel is “at war. Not an operation, not a round — war,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video statement in Hebrew after what he termed a “lethal, surprise offensive” by Hamas early Saturday.
Videos show Hamas fighters attacking Israel using motorized paragliders amid a wave of surprise attacksIran’s Islamic revolutionary government will derive great satisfaction from yesterday’s surprise attack launched by Hamas militants against Israel. Since the Iranian revolution back in 1979, the sine qua non for Iran’s Islamic rulers has been the complete destruction of the Jewish state.
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