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Jazz wrote about the attack on Israel by Hamas and Israel subsequent declaration of war this morning. Since then a lot has happened including, as Ed pointed out here, the usual knee-jerk anti-Israel response from some in the media.
I guess the best place to start is with this follow-up warning from Benjamin Netanyahu telling Gazans to “get out now” because the full force of the IDF is about to come down on all who remain.
“We will win this war, but the price will be unbearably heavy,” he says.
“Hamas wants to murder us all,” Netanyahu says, “murdering children and mothers in their homes, in their beds.
“It is an enemy that kidnaps elderly people, children, young girls,” an enemy “that massacres and slaughters our civilians, our children, who simply wanted to enjoy the festival.”
“What happened today has never been seen before in Israel and I will ensure it never happens again. The entire government supports this decision. The IDF will immediately use all its power to destroy Hamas’s capabilities,” he says. “We will fight them to the bitter end and avenge this black day they plotted for Israel and its people.”
Someone posted this video of a long line of tanks on flatbed carriers apparently moving toward Gaza.
A very long line of Israeli tanks is heading south.
The start of a ground invasion of Gaza is just a matter of time pic.twitter.com/Mj1DfDS2Vz
Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 7, 2023
Also this one showing the tremendous number of rockets being fired into Israel.
⚡️Video of the rockets being launched towards occupied territory from Gaza pic.twitter.com/UuGFJO3aJU
— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) October 7, 2023
Earlier, Hamas overran a police station in Sderot reportedly killing 20 Israelis.
⚡️ Hamas terrorists executed 20 Israeli police officers in a captured police station in Sderot – Israeli media
Now special forces are working in the city and clearing it of terrorists. pic.twitter.com/HohHzQMVEh
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) October 7, 2023
An estimate 200 people have been killed in Israel so far. Most of them don’t appear to be soldiers or even police, just civilians.
Bloodied bodies in the streets, gunmen raiding door-to-door and news of captives taken to Gaza left Israelis terrified and in shock after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack that was unprecedented in audacity and scale.
