Over 100 Israelis have died and more than 900 were injured after rockets were fired from Gaza by Hamas militants, Israeli officials said Saturday.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said 198 were killed in Gaza and at least 1,610 were injured Saturday in retaliatory attacks from Israel.
“We are at war. We will win,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday.
The Israeli Defense Forces earlier declared “a state of alert for war,” according to a statement issued by the IDF.
“Over the past hour, the Hamas terrorist organization launched massive barrages of rockets from Gaza into Israel, and its terrorist operatives have infiltrated into Israel in a number of different locations in the south,” the IDF said early Saturday.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
This is an armed conflict, both sides use violence. One side is a state with a military, and the other an armed rebel group. Calling one side terrorists is a stupid reduction of the situation.
What you’re doing here is a stupid reduction. Hamas is not a rebel group, they’re a terrorist organization no different than ISIS or Al Qaeda. Hamas invafrd towns, then went from house to house murdering families and kidnapping random people on the streets, then stripped the corpses naked (even of the elderly and little kids), then dragged the corpses around in trucks to celebrate the murders in front of civilians. We’ve seen plenty of armed rebel groups before, but they don’t look like this. Hamas is a terrorist group. Stop trying to justify their vile actions
This feels way too convenient for Netanyahu.
Nor really. A large part of Natenyahu’s platform is security. “Keep me in power and I will protect you”. He has failed in this spectacularly, and Mossads reputation will take a very significant hit. Hamas has made them look incompetent. Of course he will use this to demand more authority, but overall it is bad for him.
based on many of these threads here and on reddit, im starting to think that there is much more anti-semitism in the world than I thought there was. And the veil is getting much thinner.