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Israeli Defense Minister instructs preparation for evacuations from north Paz Grace, i24NEWS Web Journalist
October 08, 2023 at 11:15 AM – Amid an escalating situation with Palestinian terrorists in the southern region, Yoav Gallant says the IDF will arm citizens and halts evacuation efforts
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant instructed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to begin preparations for evacuating the north, as a state of war was officially passed by the government cabinet.
The IDF were earlier instructed to evacuate residents living in the south, within two and a half miles from the Gaza Strip, following the war that erupted on Saturday when the Hamas terrorist group attacked, but had to halt the efforts on Sunday.
As such, Gallant instructed the IDF to start arming residents in the area with weapons and ammunition. In addition, there would now be an army officer responsible for communicating all the mayors and regional councils in the area bordering the Gaza Strip, “to assist in the management of the situation on the home front.”
UPDATE: Death Toll from Hamas Terrorist Attack Rises to Over 700 – At Least 260 Young People Were Slaughtered at Dance Party in Desert By Jim Hoft
Oct. 8, 2023 4:40 pm – The death toll from Saturday’s Hamas terror attack rose to over 700 dead. At least 2,000 were injured.
At least 260 young people were slaughtered at the Dance Party near Kibbutz Urim (Kibbutz Reim) in southern Israel.
From Jewish Breaking News (JBN) Whatsapp group:
[8:41 PM, 10/8/2023] Rina K: Publication permitted: 180 captured. A long list of senior officers in the Golani and Nahal units were killed this morning. 24 intelligence soldiers from the Re’im Camp (all female) were killed; the one who survived was taken captive. Golani’s 13th Battalion, Platoons B and C, were almost wiped out. Golani’s 51st Battalion, Platoon C, was also nearly wiped out, with casualties in Platoon A as well. Golani’s 12th Battalion, stationed in Shechem (Nablus), was deployed to replace them, along with Golani Reconnaissance Unit and special forces from the IDF, Sayeret Golani, and Maglan Unit, already there. The cursed terrorists who slaughtered our dear Golani soldiers in Karm Shalom and Erez are reported to have fallen in the battles of the Southern Command, Southern Brigade, Southern Engineering Officer, Southern AG Commander, Southern Sergeant Major Karkel, Gaza Liaison Officer, Southern Sergeant Major 13, Southern Sergeant Major 51, Platoon Leader 931, and the Maglan Reconnaissance Platoon Leader.
May their memory be blessed. A colossal tragedy.
Some names were given already
Each one counts like a precious gem
A son/ a daughter. a brother/ a sister, a father/ a mother
🇮🇱🔯🕎A Ben / Bat YISRAEL 🇮🇱🔯🕎
🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
Yonathan Schteinberg, 42 ans
Adir Avoudi, 23 ans
Yotam Ben Basat, 24 ans
Ofir Tsioni, 21 ans
Adar Ben Simon, 20 ans
Or Asto, 21 ans
Sahar Machlouf, 36 ans
Afik Rozenthal, 20 ans
Yanai Kaminka, 20 ans
Or Moses, 22 ans
Omri Fairenshtein, 20 ans
Dvir Lisha, 21 ans
Eden Alon Levi, 19 ans
Yuval Ben Yaakov, 21 ans
Guy Bazak, 19 ans
Neria Aharon Negri, 18 ans
Naama Boni, 19 ans
Iftar Yabetz, 23 ans
Ido Harush, 21 ans
Yoav Maliev, 19 ans
Netanel Yang, 20 ans
Hen Boukris, 26 ans
Or Yossef Ran, 29 ans
Adi Groman, 19 ans
Amie Fisher, 22 ans
Ido Edri, 24 ans
👆These are the names of 26 tzahal soldiers that were murdered yesterday
Voici les noms de 26 soldats de Tsahal assassinés hier par le Hamas.
May their Neshamah rest in peace ☮️
Que leurs âme repose en paix 🙏🏻
ISRANEWS🇮🇱
[8:44 PM, 10/8/2023] Rina K: The IDF Spokesman said earlier in a news conference that at 5.45 this afternoon, the airforce used 50 planes to bomb Beit Hanun (it is a very elite area of Gaza and many Hamas leaders live there). In this mission, those planes destroyed 125 targets, mostly homes. One can say that the place was flattened.
I am still hearing plane right now, taking off for more bombing missions.
The flying has not stopped since early this evening…
Hamas Attack On Israel: Death Toll Rises To 700 And 100 Confirmed Hostages, Americans Included OAN’s Brooke Mallory
11:47 AM – Sunday, October 8, 2023 –
After Hamas committed the worst attack on the Jewish state in fifty years, Israel’s cabinet officially declared war on the terrorist organization by invoking Article 40 Aleph.
Since the start of the conflict, with the death toll anticipated to grow after Hamas terrorists fired hundreds of missiles and dispatched dozens of militants into Israeli communities, at least 700 Israelis have died, around 2,150 have been injured, and 100 have been verified as being held hostage by the Islamic terrorist organization.
On social media, horrifying videos of Hamas militants kidnapping festival goers and parading a woman’s bruised, naked body around the streets have gone viral.
Additionally, the group of abducted people includes Americans.
Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, confirmed this in a statement where he declared that “dozens” of Americans are being held as hostages in Gaza by Hamas.
“I know that there are dozens—dozens, ok? of Israelis holding American citizenship who are being held hostage in Gaza. Dozens. There are many Israelis who have American citizenship, we don’t have all the names yet. We’re still working to get the names of all the missing people. But dozens are Americans,” Erdan told the American press.
In another report, a daughter and son-in-law of a professor at Massachusetts-based Brandeis University were slain while defending their adolescent son from Hamas gunfire.
RECAP– 2005: More than 30 years after capturing the region from Egypt in the Six-Day War, Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip.
2006: Hamas wins a parliamentary election in Palestine.
2007: Gaza is taken over by Hamas in a civil war in 2007.
2008: Following a missile attack by Palestinian militants on the town of Sderot, Israel conducts a military incursion against Gaza.
2023: The largest attack on Israel in fifty years is launched by Hamas.
A Ground Invasion of Gaza is Coming: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Issues Stark Warning to Hamas – Tells Gaza Civilians to “Leave Now Because We Will Operate Forcefully Everywhere” (VIDEO) By Jim Hᴏft
Oct. 7, 2023 10:20 pm – In a somber and urgent address to the nation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stark warning to the Hamas terrorists and vowed to use “all the strength” of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to “destroy Hamas’s capabilities.” The Prime Minister’s announcement comes in the wake of a devastating attack by Hamas militants on Israeli territory earlier today, which resulted in the loss of innocent lives, including children and the elderly.
“This morning, on Shabbat and a holiday, Hamas invaded Israeli territory and murdered innocent citizens including children and the elderly. Hamas has started a brutal and evil war,” said Netanyahu.
“We will be victorious in this war despite an unbearable price. This is a very difficult day for all of us,” he continued.
The Prime Minister emphasized that the scale and brutality of the attack were “unprecedented in Israel,” and pledged to ensure that such an event “does not happen again.”
“Hamas wants to murder us all. This is an enemy that murders children and mothers in their homes, in their beds, an enemy that abducts the elderly, children, and young women, that slaughters and massacres our citizens, including children, who simply went out to enjoy the holiday,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu assured the Israeli public that the “entire government is behind this decision,” signaling a unified stance among Israel’s political leadership. He also indicated that the IDF would “immediately use all its strength to destroy Hamas’s capabilities.”
“We will destroy them and will forcefully avenge this dark day that they have forced on Israel and its citizens,” he declared.
Quoting the famous Hebrew poet Hayim Nahman Bialik, Netanyahu said, “‘Revenge for the blood of a little child has yet been devised by Satan.’ All of the places which Hamas is deployed, hiding and operating in, that wicked city, we will turn them into rubble.”
In a direct message to the residents of Gaza, the Prime Minister said, “Leave now because we will operate forcefully everywhere.” He revealed that the IDF is already “clearing the terrorists out of the last communities,” going “community by community, house by house,” to restore Israeli control.
“We are all praying for the well-being of the wounded and all those who are being held hostage,” he said, before issuing a final warning to Hamas: “You are responsible for their well-being. Israel will settle accounts with anyone who harms one hair on their heads.”
WATCH:
Hamas Brags and Posts Photo of the Paragliders They Used to Breach Israeli Border and Murder and Kidnap Innocent Kids at Rave Party By Jim Hoft
Oct. 8, 2023 8:00 am – Hamas terrorists launched a massive surprise attack on Israel on Saturday, killing dozens of soldiers and innocent families inside Israel.
Hamas reportedly launched over 5,000 missiles into southern and central Israel. Over 250 Israelis are dead, and over 1,000 were hospitalized following the massive assault inside Israel.
Hundreds of Israelis were attending a nature party, also described as a peace party, in the desert near the border on Saturday when Hamas launched its attack.
Chaos erupted after Hamas reportedly opened fire on the gathering. Hundreds of Israelis ran into the desert to hide.
YNet News reported on the partygoers running for their lives as Hamas terrorists attacked the dance party or rave.
Israel Releases Names and Photos of the Dozens of Beautiful Young Women Who Are Missing Following Saturday’s Hamas Attack By Jim Hoft
Oct. 8, 2023 8:15 am – Israel released photos of dozens of young beautiful women who went missing following Saturday’s historic Hamas attack on Israel.
Hamas terrorists launched a massive surprise attack on Israel on Saturday, killing dozens of soldiers and innocent families inside Israel.
Hamas reportedly launched over 5,000 missiles into southern and central Israel. Over 250 Israelis are dead, and over 1,000 were hospitalized following the massive assault inside Israel.
Hundreds of Israelis were attending a nature party, also described as a peace party, in the desert near the border on Saturday when Hamas launched its attack.
Chaos erupted after Hamas reportedly opened fire on the gathering. Hundreds of Israelis ran into the desert to hide.
Several of the women who attended the party are still missing and may have been brought back to Gaza.
40 young women are pictured as missing.
Code Pink Endorses Hamas Attacks on Israel; “Anti-War” Groups Announce Pro-Hamas Rallies in US By Kristinn Taylor
Oct. 8, 2023 7:00 am – The masks are finally completely off of the communist front groups that have led the “anti-war” movement the past two decades. The communist group Code Pink, founded in 2002 to oppose the U.S. liberation of Iraq from the regime of the mass-murdering, genocidal, war-mongering tyrant Saddam Hussein, posted the group’s endorsement of the Hamas attacks on Israel Saturday as other “anti-war” groups announced plans for pro-Hamas rallies to be held across the U.S. over the long Columbus Day holiday weekend.
Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans was a fundraising bundler for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. The two shared a hatred of Israel and support for the Islamist regime in Iran that sponsors Hamas.
Code Pink posted support for Hamas in a statement on X Twitter on Saturday well after reports of Hamas atrocities against Israeli civilians had been widely reported, “The US-backed Israeli apartheid regime inflicts daily settler violence and terror on Palestinians. Israel is an occupying force. Palestinians have every right to resist it.”
Woman Whose Lifeless Body Was Seen in Back of Truck Identified as German Citizen Shani Louk – She Was Attending Peace Concert Near Gaza Border When Murdered by Hamas (GRAPHIC VIDEO) By Jim Hoft
Oct. 7, 2023 7:40 pm – The woman whose body was seen on video in the back of a truck earlier today driven by Palestinian terrorists to Gaza has been identified.
30-year-old Shani Louk was a German citizen visiting Israel. She was attending a music festival for peace held near the Gaza border fence when she was murdered today by Hamas terrorists..
Shani Houk’s body lay lifeless in the back of a truck after Hamas raided southern Israel on Saturday. Palestinians were filmed chanting “Allahu Akbar!” (God is good) as they drove down the streets of Gaza.
WATCH: (Warning on violent content)
Her name is Shani Louk. Only 30 years old. She was German, not even Israeli. She was near Gaza to attend a music ‘Festival for Peace’ when Hamas terrorists did this to her. She’s likely dead. Peace with terrorists isn’t possible. They must be crushed. pic.twitter.com/o4aCITmTMp
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 7, 2023
HORROR! New Video Shows SHOCKING HAMAS ATTACK on Peace Concert at Kibbutz Urim — Partygoers Run for Their Lives As Hamas Flies in on Paragliders, Opens Fire – Several Hostages Taken (VIDEOS) By Jim Hoft
Oct. 8, 2023 7:30 am – Hamas terrorists launched a massive surprise attack on Israel on Saturday, killing dozens of soldiers and innocent families inside Israel.
Hamas reportedly launched over 5,000 missiles into southern and central Israel. Over 250 Israelis are dead, and over 1,000 were hospitalized following the massive assault inside Israel.
Hundreds of Israelis were attending a nature party, also described as a peace party, in the desert near the border on Saturday when Hamas launched its attack.
Chaos erupted after Hamas reportedly opened fire on the gathering. Hundreds of Israelis ran into the desert to hide.
YNet News reported on the partygoers running for their lives as Hamas terrorists attacked the dance party or rave.
LIVEBLOG: Israeli toll from Hamas attacks at over 300 dead, 1,600 wounded; Israelis killed in Egypt [25:58]
Israel has retaken most of its southern villages that Hamas took control of yesterday in a surprise attack, IDF confirms Israelis kidnapped to Gaza Strip
More than 300 Israelis have lost their lives in a surprise large-scale attack by the Palestinian terror group Hamas on Saturday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to the attack by vowing to reduce the group’s Gaza hideouts to “rubble.”
Over 1,600 people were reported wounded as a result of Hamas’s massive rocket barrage, ground, air, and sea offensive, marking one of the bloodiest escalations of the conflict in decades.
Throughout the night, intense gun battles ensued between Israeli forces and hundreds of Hamas fighters in at least 22 locations across Israel, with at least two incidents involving gunmen holding hostages, as confirmed by the army.
What Went Wrong? How Hamas Managed to Stagger Israel BY ROBERT SPENCER
OCT 7, 2023 7:00 PM – How did Hamas, the bloodthirsty jihad terror group in Gaza, perpetrate mayhem and destruction inside Israel on a scale never before seen?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Saturday that “since this morning, the State of Israel is at war.” This was as Hamas fired over two thousand rockets into Israel, and over a hundred Israelis were murdered as jihad terrorists entered Israel and began killing people indiscriminately.
There has never been a Hamas jihad offensive from Gaza of this magnitude. In fact, throughout the history of modern Israel, there has never been anything like this, even when the Jewish state faced jihad coalitions of the neighboring Arab states in major wars in 1948, 1967, and 1973. So how was Hamas able to do it?
For one thing, it was Shabbat in Israel, and the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. In that, this latest jihad resembles the 1973 war, which was launched on Yom Kippur. The idea in both cases was to catch the Israelis napping and at minimal preparedness, with large numbers of military personnel off for the holiday.
But that was by no means all. There were widespread reports that as Hamas’ relentless rocket barrage began, Israel’s vaunted Iron Dome missile defense system was down. Reports on this so far are sketchy, but if the Islamic Republic of Iran, which as the chief financier of Hamas is clearly behind these attacks, has managed to breach Israeli security and interfere with the functioning of the Iron Dome, the ominous implications cannot be overstated. If Israel cannot manage to get the Iron Dome up and running on a secure basis, the Hamas attacks on Saturday could turn into a larger war that engulfs the entire region, as the Islamic Republic of Iran finally attempts to make good on decades of genocidal rhetoric directed at Israel.
Hamas also took advantage of vulnerabilities in Israel’s defenses. As jihadis screamed “Allahu akbar,” a bulldozer destroyed Israel’s fence at the Gaza border, allowing jihadis to pour into Israel in large numbers. Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, issued a triumphant communique on Telegram:
‘Palestinians’ celebrate massacres of innocent Israeli civilians BY ROBERT SPENCER
OCT 7, 2023 3:00 PM – West Bank: Palestinians are celebrating the attack on Israel and massacre of innocent civilians, by Hamas-led armed groups. pic.twitter.com/7RRFaZgi6y
— Megh Updates ™ (@MeghUpdates) October 7, 2023
Palestinian terrorists backed by the Islamic Republic of Iran fill a truck with bodies of murdered Israelis and drives through the streets of Gaza in celebration while hundreds of Palestinians cheer. pic.twitter.com/bfhlngtFBC
— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) October 7, 2023
Iran-Backed Hamas’ Bloody Against Israel is the Handiwork of Joe Biden By Robert Spencer
October 7, 2023 – The jihad terror group Hamas is dedicated to the complete destruction of Israel, and so has launched many attacks against the world’s sole Jewish state, but none have been so large-scale and bloodthirsty as the one that began Saturday. The nation was blanketed with hundreds of rockets fired from Gaza, and numerous jihadis entered Israel, firing indiscriminately at civilians and murdering at least twenty-two people. For the sheer terror and bloodlust that was seen in numerous videos coming from Israel, we have one man to thank: Old Joe Biden.
Why is a major attack on Israel the fault of Old Joe? He is the jihad terrorists’ ATM. After the left’s Emmanuel Goldstein, Donald Trump, cut off funding to the Palestinians because of their ongoing practice of paying salaries to imprisoned jihad killers and their families, the Biden regime resumes that funding. What’s more, the primary source of funding for Hamas is none other than the Islamic Republic of Iran, which just happens to have received six billion dollars recently in Old Joe’s appalling hostage swap.
In exchange for all that money, Americans are going to see more of their fellow citizens taken hostage, as Iran now sees that taking hostages is a good way to get the idiots in Washington to pony up the dough. And Israel is going to see more jihad such as what it watched with horror on Saturday morning: videos showed civilian buildings on fire after being hit by rockets; Palestinian jihadis wandering around in Israeli cities, murdering every person they saw; Palestinian jihadis screaming “Allahu akbar” as they desecrated the bodies of Israelis they had killed; and more. Thanks, Joe!
“ALLAHU AKBAR”! Jihad Biden Tells Israel Not to Respond to All Out War on Its Citizens By Pamela Geller
October 7, 2023 – Biden is a Nazi.
This is a war.Multiple coordinated attacks across Israel in house to house mass slaughter.
WAR ESCALATES AGAINST ISRAEL: Tel Aviv Under Attack By Pamela Geller
October 7, 2023 – This is a multi pronged, coordinated attacks on Israel. This is all out of war. There is only one response: disproportionate force.
Iran-Backed Hezb’Allah (Party of Allah) Attacks Israel in the North By Pamela Geller
October 7, 2023 – Biden gave Iran billions for war. Hezbollah jihadis move in on Israeli border in the north. This is all out war. Day of unimaginable horrors.
- WAR ESCALATES AGAINST ISRAEL: TEL AVIV UNDER ATTACK
- BIDEN-FUNDED IRAN PARLIAMENT CHANTING “DEATH TO ISRAEL”
- “ALLAHU AKBAR”! JIHAD BIDEN TELLS ISRAEL NOT TO RESPOND TO ALL OUT WAR ON ITS CITIZENS
- IRAN-BACKED HAMAS’ BLOODY AGAINST ISRAEL IS THE HANDIWORK OF JOE BIDEN
- BLOODY HORROR: IRAN BACKED ISLAMIC TERRORISTS DECLARE WAR ON ISRAEL, FIRE THOUSANDS OF ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL, ENTIRE FAMILIES SLAUGHTERED, HUNDREDS OF CIVILIANS HAVE BEEN ATTACKED, KILLED, JIHADIS INFILTRATE TOWNS
- THE DEPTH OF THE IRANIAN REGIME’S HATRED FOR ISRAEL
Israel: Muslim Savages Roam Israeli Streets Slaughtering Any Elderly, Children, Women, and Men They See By Pamela Geller
October 7, 2023 – Muslim terrorists targeted and slaughtered elderly Jews at bus stops.
Here’s why we own assault rifles https://t.co/0d4ZWZ9iD1
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) October 7, 2023
Horrific videos of what’s going on. Hamas is targeting women and the elderly specifically. While journos are trying to run cover for the terrorists. It’s like the left is completely divorced from reality now. — Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) October 7, 2023
Today Palestinians committed one of the most savage terrorist attacks in history.
They are roaming the streets in Southern Israel, indiscriminately killing men, women, children and elderly at point-blank.
This is Israel’s 9/11. Israel should wipe them off the face of the earth. — Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) October 7, 2023
Biden-Equipped Taliban Ask Iran for Passage to Israel to Join The Jihad War Against Israel By Pamela Geller
October 7, 2023 – So not only is Biden’s billions to Iran funding this genocidal war, but Biden’s unimaginable militarila left to the Taliban. Billions of dollars in operational US military equipment left behind by the Biden mis-administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Biden gave them enough militaria to arm and aid a world army.
Taliban has reportedly asked Iran for passage to Israel to help Hamas continue it’s terror against the Jewish state.
VDH: A 50th Anniversary War? By Pamela Geller
October 7, 2023 – Victor David Hanson on today’s savage war on Israel (X)
Why did Hamas stage a long-planned, carefully executed and multifaceted attack on Israeli towns, soldiers, and civilians—one designed to instill terror by executing noncombatants, taking hostages, and desecrating the bodies of the dead?
And how were the killers able to enter Israeli proper in enough numbers to kill what could be hundreds and perhaps eventually wound what could be thousands?
BREAKING: Israeli Muslims Riot in Northern Israel, Attack Israeli Civilians, Infrastructure, Set Fires By Pamela Geller
October 7, 2023 – Riots are being reported in Northern Israel as local Israeli Arabs start to attack infrastructure with unconfirmed reports that they are attacking Israeli civilians and setting fires. Areas with mixed populations are becoming increasingly tense.
Of course they are.
Islam is Islam. It’s in the Quran.
The hour will not be established until you fight the Jews, and the stone and the tree behind which a Jew will be hiding will say: “O Muslim! O Servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding behind me, so come and kill him.”[49]
See Antisemitic Hadith: ‘The Prophecy Of The Rock And The Tree’
“Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews…” (5:82).
Over 100 People Dead And At Least 500 Injured In Afghanistan After Two 6.3 Magnitude Earthquakes
3:15 PM – Saturday, October 7, 2023 – Two 6.3 magnitude earthquakes hit Afghanistan causing the death of dozens of people and injuring hundreds more.
An Afghanistan national disaster authority announced that two earthquakes hit the country on Saturday.
BREAKING: The Taliban Asks Iran for Passage Across Country to Assist Hamas in Annihilation of Israel – After Joe Biden Armed Taliban with $80 Billion in US Weapons and Supplies By Jim Hoft
Oct. 7, 2023 2:00 pm – Earlier today Hamas terrorists launched a major surprise attack on Israel. The Islamist group fired over 5,000 missiles inside Israel, crossed into southern Israel, captured innocent citizens and Israeli soldiers as prisoners, and launched numerous attacks across southern Israel.
This assault comes just weeks after Joe Biden sent $6 billion to Iran in September.
The last time the US gave stacks of money to Iran, during the Obama years, Iran launched a massive military build-up.
This time it took four weeks before Iran’s proxy army in Gaza launched a historic military assault on Israel on the Sabbath.
Earlier this morning Joe Biden’s US Office of Palestinian Affairs urged Israel not to defend itself from the 5,000 missile attack and mass kidnappings and killings by Hamas.
Rep. Claudia Tenney reported:
Taliban Releases Statement Following the Israel-Hamas War — Urges Islamic Nations and International Community to Act Against Israel By Jim Hᴏft
Oct. 7, 2023 9:20 pm – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) has released an official statement in the wake of the recent Israel-Hamas war. The statement outlines the Taliban’s stance on the issue and calls upon Islamic countries and international organizations to take action against Israel.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (MoFA) is the cabinet ministry responsible for managing Afghanistan’s foreign relations. The current acting foreign minister is Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi. Muttaqi is a prominent Afghan politician and a leading member of the Taliban Islamic Movement.
According to the statement, the Ministry has been closely monitoring the events unfolding in the Gaza Strip and has attributed the conflict to “the violation of the rights of the oppressed Palestinian people by the Israeli Zionists and repeated insults and disrespect to the holy places of Muslims.”
The statement goes on to say that the Taliban considers “any type of defense and resistance of the Palestinian people for the freedom of their land and their sanctuaries as their legitimate right.”
The group urges the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the second largest intergovernmental organization in the world after the United Nations, and other influential countries in the region, to intervene in the conflict. The statement explicitly calls for these entities to “prevent the violence of the Israeli occupying forces against the innocent people of Palestine” and to resolve the issue “on the basis of granting the legitimate rights of the Palestinians.”
Read the full statement: (Translated)
A Ground Invasion of Gaza is Coming: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Issues Stark Warning to Hamas – Tells Gaza Civilians to “Leave Now Because We Will Operate Forcefully Everywhere” (VIDEO) By Jim Hᴏft
Oct. 7, 2023 10:20 pm – In a somber and urgent address to the nation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stark warning to the Hamas terrorists and vowed to use “all the strength” of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to “destroy Hamas’s capabilities.” The Prime Minister’s announcement comes in the wake of a devastating attack by Hamas militants on Israeli territory earlier today, which resulted in the loss of innocent lives, including children and the elderly.
“This morning, on Shabbat and a holiday, Hamas invaded Israeli territory and murdered innocent citizens including children and the elderly. Hamas has started a brutal and evil war,” said Netanyahu.
“We will be victorious in this war despite an unbearable price. This is a very difficult day for all of us,” he continued.
The Prime Minister emphasized that the scale and brutality of the attack were “unprecedented in Israel,” and pledged to ensure that such an event “does not happen again.”
WAR: GAZA ARABS INVADE ISRAEL by Micha Gefen
October 7, 2023 – Hamas and Islamic Jihad surprised Israel on Shabbat and the holiday of Simchat Torah with a barrage of 2,000 missiles. From within the cover of the missile attack, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel proper – entering more than 20 communities where they killed 100s of people as well as kidnaping more than 100 civilians – bringing them back to Gaza.
This attack is now being called Yom Kippur 2.0 for its intelligence failure, but more than that it involves the inability for the IDF and IAF to respond in time.
Prime Minister Netanyahu has declared war and has called up reservists across the country.
The first task of the IDF is been to retake villages that Hamas as captured. Then it appears likely that a ground attack into Gaza to locate the hostages and dismantle the terror state that has been built there is in the offing.
An estimated 200 Hamas terrorists broke through the border fence and drove into Israel on Toyota pickup trucks armed with machine guns, and on motorcycles with one terrorist riding and another shooting bursts of automatic fire.
Many kibbutzim were left without security and despite calls for help – no IDF showed up to defend for at least 4 hours.
Gaza terrorists launch surprise attack on Israel with rocket barrages and infiltrations By EMANUEL FABIAN
2,200 rockets fired, including at Tel Aviv, Dimona, Jerusalem; gunmen infiltrate Sderot; at least 22 killed, 300 wounded; IDF declares ‘state of war,’ calls up reserves
October 7, 2023, 6:46 am – Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip launched massive rocket barrages at southern and central Israel on Saturday morning, combined with an assault by dozens of gunmen who infiltrated the border town of Sderot and other communities, clashing with Israel Defense Force troops. At least 22 people were killed and nearly 300 wounded, according to medical officials.
The unprecedented surprise attack by terrorists in the Gaza Strip started at around 6:30 a.m. and Israelis celebrated the last day of the weeklong Sukkot festival with hundreds of rockets fired at Israel. It came a day after Israel and the Arab world marked the 50th anniversary of the surprise attack by Egypt and Syria that launched the Yom Kippur War.
[Ed.: Surprise, surprise, surprise!!]
Hamas claims to have captured soldiers, civilians in massive assault; at least 22 killed
PM: ‘Israel is at war’; hundreds wounded, at least 70 seriously, in infiltration and rocket attacks from Gaza; many gunmen attacking homes in south; large call-up of reservists
- 8min ago
Paramedic among those killed; Hamas has control of 2 Israeli ambulances – Magen David Adom
- 12min ago
Health Ministry: 545 hospitalized since start of Hamas attack
- October 7, 2023 – The Times of Israel is liveblogging Saturday’s events as they unfold.