A captured Israeli tank in the Gaza strip
Press TV – Oct 7, 2023
Palestinians have launched their biggest operation against Israel in years in a surprise offensive that combined fighters crossing the fence into Israeli occupied cities with a heavy barrage of rockets from the Gaza Strip.
Videos purportedly showed resistance fighters inside a military base on Saturday, as bodies of dead soldiers lied on the ground.
At least 40 Israelis have been killed and over 700 injured, Israel’s N12 News reported, citing the Israeli ambulance service.
The Times of Israeli said Palestinian fighters infiltrated the town of Sderot and other settlements.
Hamas released a video showing its fighters had captured three Israelis.
“Scenes of Al-Qassam Brigades capturing a number of enemy soldiers in the battle of Al-Aqsa Flood,” said a sentence appearing on a black background at the start of the video.
Signs in Hebrew in the background suggested the footage was filmed on the Israeli side of the Erez crossing to the Gaza Strip. Other videos circulating on social media showed bodies of a number of people in military fatigues.
The unprecedented offensive started a few minutes before 7 a.m. as Israelis celebrated the last day of the weeklong Sukkot festival, with hundreds of rockets fired at Israel.
Videos showed young Israelis fleeing in panic when Palestinian fighters raided a music festival in the desert.
Red alert warning sirens were activated in Tel Aviv, Sde Boker, Arad, and Dimona in the south as explosions were heard by residents on Saturday. In al-Quds, rocket sirens sounded followed by the sound of explosions.
Cars were seen on fire after a rocket landed in Ashkelon, southern Israel.
Hamas’ armed wing said more than 7,000 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Saturday, declaring it had started “Operation al-Aqsa Storm”.
“We decided to put an end to all the crimes of the occupation, their time for rampaging without being held accountable is over,” Hamas said.
Gaza-based Islamic Jihad said its fighters have joined the operation as Hamas called on Palestinians everywhere to fight and on resistance groups in Lebanon also to join the fighting against Israel.
“We are part of this battle, our fighters are side-by-side with their brothers in the Qassam Brigades until victory is achieved,” said Islamic Jihad armed wing spokesman Abu Hamza on a post on Telegram.
#BREAKING | Deputy Head of Hamas Political Bureau of Hamas, Saleh al-Arouri: Operation #AlAqsa Storm is a battle to attack the Zionist enemy and respond to its crimes.#Gaza #Palestine pic.twitter.com/YyVQpgQivM
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) October 7, 2023
“This storm which started from Gaza will spread to the West Bank and outside the country and all the places where our people and nation are present,” Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh said.
Haniyeh called the operation historic and epic, saying the main reason for its start was the “criminal aggression of the Zionists in al-Aqsa Mosque, which had reached its peak in recent days”.
Videos showed a bomb dropped from a quadcopter on a Merkava tank and later Palestinians pulling out an Islamic soldier from the vehicle.
A witness reporting from the scene is heard saying that the operators of the tank had been captured and taken to Gaza. One video purportedly shows an Israeli soldier being ridden pillion on a motorbike in the custody of two Palestinians and taken to Gaza.
Another video circulating on social media showed large black plumes of smoke and fires from a suspected impact site in Ashkelon.
In Gaza the roar of rocket launches could be heard and residents reported armed clashes along the separation fence with Israel, near the southern town of Khan Younis, and said they had seen significant movement of armed fighters.
Israel’s ambulance service said teams had been dispatched to areas in southern Israel near Gaza and residents were warned to stay inside.
Palestinians in Gaza expressed disbelief at the infiltration into the territories occupied by Israel. “It is like a dream. I still can’t believe it, fighters inside our occupied land?” said one Gaza shopkeeper, quoted by Reuters.
Senior Hamas military commander Mohammad Deif said, “This is the day of the greatest battle end the last occupation on earth.”
He said Palestinian resistance fighters struck numerous Israeli targets, including airports and military facilities.
“Today, the wrath of our nation and righteous fighters is boiling over. This is your day to make the enemy understand that its time has come to an end,” the top commander stated.
The operation came a day after Israel marked the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war that brought the entity to the verge of catastrophic defeat following a surprise attack by Syria and Egypt.
“This attack too appeared to catch Israel completely by surprise,” the Times of Israel wrote.
Minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant rushed to Tel Aviv to consult with security chiefs. Hardline prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was also to take part. The military said it was moving to a “state of war readiness” and Gallant authorized a widespread call-up of reserves.
Gallant also declared an emergency situation within a range of 80 kilometers from the Gaza Strip. The area includes the major cities Tel Aviv and Beersheba.
The military said it carried out at least two airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian journalist, hospital worker killed in Gaza
In the besieged Gaza, a Palestinian journalist was killed in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, official news agency WAFA reported.
Mohammad Salhi was fatally shot while covering the events east of Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, it added.
تغطية صحفية: ارتقاء الصحفي محمد الصالحي خلال تغطيته داخل أراضينا المحتلة شرق قطاع غزة. pic.twitter.com/jfQfSTS4Hp
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) October 7, 2023
A Palestinian hospital worker was also killed in an Israeli shelling of a hospital in Beit Lahyia, north of the Gaza Strip.
Informed sources said at least one Israeli missile hit the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya, killing a worker and injuring others while causing damage to vital hospital equipment.
الصحة بغزة تدين استهداف قوات الاحتلال المستشفى الاندونيسي
تفاصيل من هنا👇 https://t.co/cOAKi5L5Qx
🇵🇸وكالة خبر🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/kmq79KNiXt— وكالة خبر الفلسطينية (@khbrpressps) October 7, 2023
On Friday, Israeli military forces attacked hundreds of Palestinians attending the funeral procession of a young Palestinian man in the West Bank, injuring more than 50 people.
According to Palestinian media outlets, the crowd was mourning the 19-year-old Labib Dumaidi, who in the early hours of Friday succumbed to injuries sustained in a raid by Israeli settlers on the town of Huwara, south of Nablus.
Local sources said the Israeli forces attacked Palestinians with live bullets, rubber-coated metal bullets, stun grenades and tear gas to prevent them from continuing the procession.
The reports said 51 citizens were injured, including 19 citizens who were hit with rubber bullets, two of them in the head, and three who were hit with live bullets in the foot.
wonderful news
rememeber Hamas is fighting the war for us here in the west against the jew
thank god for them
Black gangs terrorise london
Waitrose Next Boots Wilco Coop
and two jewelry chains
are closing stores in london
as black gangs riot loot and steal
unhindered
Last year the Zio government closed 600 police stations
and shut many over night when crime happens
The government knew the riots were coming as black gang leader Wayne Dobbs said on radio it would happen
Wayne was quote clear that the government is importing in Eastern European gangs, whch are now in competion with them
They claim the Government want anarchy and riots
so then can clamp down and everyone will have to have ID passports
to even buy food
Rothschild predicted this and is making it happen
this is the time for us in the UK to join the fight
we must do all we can to stop the making us slaves
we are sick of the Zio government and how it treats us
we must help our brothers in palestine and the time is now
Israelis dressing up as Palestinians & ‘attacking’ their own base. 10 to 1 nobody died. Similar to how the CIA-Mossad imploded the WTC on 9/11 & blamed it on fictitious muslim ‘terrorists’.
Arab balls never cease to amaze us.
Resistance Leader Seyed Ali Khamenai in response to Saudis flirting with Zion said:
“Don’t bet on a losing horse! Zion is dying and it will be uprooted.”
Saudis now have to think more after seeing what is happening. Hezbullah also showed that it is ready to invade Zion should they act or escalate. US and Zion have being extremely active to create the Abraham Accord and normalize with Zion. Zion has never been this weak, so they will have to activate their plan B. Events will now be unfolding even with greater acceleration!
Zion loved to create a situation north-west of Iran, but they were not fast enough, and failed to coordinate their plans based on their strategy of “death by a thousand cuts” due to vigilance of Iran and the Resistance; Zion is now faced with a surprise!
I have never seen anywhere where it claims that Hamas has invaded anywhere other their own occupied territories, has anyone seen otherwise?
@ Goebbels
You beat me to the punch .Another False Flag with Israelis posing as Arabs to justify continued slaughter of defenseless Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank Bombing of King David Hotel , USS Liberty , 911 — other operations similar in nature.
Merkavas are shit. One little bomblet from a quadcopter in the front (where the idiot designers put the engine) and the whole things goes boom! No wonder they can’t sell the things.
Collective West is being destroyed by zionists’ plot while in the East zionists’ ass is being kicked. guess what the collective west is going to run to save its master. what a pity!
ZERO FUCKS GIVEN FOR ISRAEL
MAY ALL JEWS DIE HORRIBLE DEATHS FOR ALL OF THEIR CRIMES AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS AND THE REST OF HUMANITY
NEVER FORGET ISRAEL DID 911 AND WAS THE FORCE BEHIND THE GULF WARS WHICH KILLED 20 MILLION
NEVER FORGET OUR WHORE POLITICIANS SUPPORT ISRAEL
NEVER FORGET THESE GOD DAMNED PREACHERS LOVE ISRAEL
MAY THE GODS SHOW NO MERCY ON ANY JEW OR ANY CHRISTIAN ZIONIST
KILL THEM ALL
THE WORLD WILL NEVER KNOW PEACE UNTIL EVERY GOD DAMNED JEW IS DEAD
WAKE UP!
Yahwey is going to come soon. Can’t you feel the changing of the times? All the Jew’s evil plans will come to nothing in one day!
Caution is required here.
Hamas were founded in 1987, during the first Intifada, as a military adjunct of the Muslim Brotherhood, to provide support for the Palestinian Uprising.
Lyndon Larouche, Dr. John Coleman and Stephen Dorril have all brought documentary evidence; insider information and their own intelligence expertise to bear, to show that the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Cairo in 1929, was a creation of MI6.
It’s first leader, Hasan al-Banna was a British Intelligence agent and a Sufi Freemason.
The Muslim Brotherhood advocates for Islamism, a credo ostensibly dedicated to the purging of western political values from Muslim Nations. It was, at the time, therefore, a novel expression of political Islam.
Dr. John Coleman stated that MI6’s ambition in organising the Muslim Brotherhood was
“to keep the Middle East backward, so that its natural resource, oil, could continue to be looted.”
Its remit has widened since then, however. Little wonder because it was counter-infiltrated by both the CIA and Mossad decades ago. What a stew of spooks, it is!
The Muslim Brotherhood, to preserve its own legal status, began working through affiliated organisations, that they themselves had created. Thus, although Hamas is classed as a terrorist organization, both in the UK and the EU, the Muslim Brotherhood is not and indeed, has a substantial presence among Britain’s Muslim communities.
A further, contemporary corroboration, of the Muslim Brotherhood being a Freemasonic/ Intelligence Agency front was evidenced in a report, authored by two venerable French academics, into the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities in Europe, (published in 2021,) that led to the report’s findings being raised in the European Parliament and questions being addressed to the European Commission.
Among the questions raised, was why, under the auspices of “promoting tolerance and combatting radicalization” had the European Commission approved funding for likes of; Islamic Relief, The Forum For Muslim Youth And Students and the Lokahi Foundation among others, when all were known to be branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, a dubious legal entity at best, a terrorist organization at worst. Remonstrably, the European Parliament is the lowest rung of the EU hierachy and the Commissioners are not obliged to answer to members of the gallery.
Why do you think that it is, that Hamas, for decades, has been wrecklessly provoking outlandishly disproprtionate retaliations from Israel against Gaza, by launching dud rockets without warheads, that fizzle into Israeli settlements, without even going bang? It’s deep state theatre.
So, to understand this unlikely Palestinian offensive, it shouldn’t be contextualized as part of the historical struggle of Palestinians for statehood, nor a facet of age-old religious animosities but as an action firmly rooted in recent geopolitical events and part of an unfolding strategic contingency.
It could be the media-assuaging pretext allowing for the jewish capture of Gaza.
Any escalation of this contretemps would be a world disaster but escalation may be the point. Western nations, already fleeced by the Ukrainian jews, will risk economic collapse and civil unrest in their urgency to assist Israel with trillions of dollars and job lots of free weaponry.
Look also to the current turmoil in Syria and Lebanon. The purchasing power of their currencies has collapsed so badly against the dollar, that they have no exchange of reciprocal value to purchase vital imports. There is rampant inflation, civil unrest and multiplying strikes in both countries. It couldn’t be a worse time for the Lebanese Hezbollah militias or for the two remaining divisions of the Palestinian army, long now, under the command of Syrian chiefs-of-staff, to go to Palestine’s assistance. It all stinks with a capital yuck!
For further reading, go to
https://www.larouchepub.com/other/2013/4031mb_hms.html
markie–
Excellent
No Army can stop an idea who’s time has come.
@Goebbels, Yes of course, Palestinians have neither the brains nor the guts to carry out such an operation, it had to be those extremely cleaver Jooz again, doesn’t it?
All planned to make Ukraine “Israel 2” and establish Khazarian rule but it won’t work. The Jews are done. The world has sided against them (especially after “covid” and the lethal “vaccine”).
when will USA+ european sheeple awake start killing their
judaized + zionist goyim traitors in politics, medias + judges ?
I love blood in the parliaments !
The stink coming out of western churches today will be unbearable.
Of course MSM doesn’t mention the attacks on the funeral, hospital and Al Asqa mosque. Patheticism rages on throughout the west today. Dave Byrne from talking heads calls it the whistling wind because that’s the last you know before the dust disintegrates your body from an explosion. One can only hope the Jew gets to meet his whistling wind.
yukon jack hits the mark yet again
Yukon Jack, well said as usual, couldn’t have put it better and waiting for Carls input. As for you C..ts that want to ban Carl jones, F..k off you Fripperts. Chesterton is doing a good job to.