Large barrage of rockets out of Gaza into south and central Israel. The size and scale indicates more than one terrorist group firing.
"The public in southern and central Israel are urged to stay near protected areas and follow the instructions of the Home Front Command."
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Hamas statement expected momentarily.
We have another statement from Hamas leadership...
Hamas has claimed an attack on Israel. Mohammed Deif, leader of the military branch of Hamas, speaks of a new military operation called Operation al-Aqsa storm.
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The videos appearing on Reddit should be avoided. They rolled through a senior citizen community killing everybody they found.
Israel Defense Ministry statement: In accordance with assessments by Israel’s defense establishment, Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant has announced a “special security situation” in Israel’s Homefront, within a 0-80 km radius from the Gaza Strip.
This status enables the IDF to provide civilians with safety instructions and close relevant sites.
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That's all of south and central Israel, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
IDF soldiers were reportedly killed in their barracks near the Gaza-Israeli border.
Squads of Palestinian gunmen still roaming the streets of Sderot, mowing down everybody they see.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad admits that its terrorists are also involved.
Possible Palestinian death squads reported in Ashkelon.
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The IDF is going to go biblical.
Israel Police report that "terrorists from the Gaza Strip are holding hostages in homes in Ofakim; armed militants have infiltrated into Netivot.
There are Palestinian reports of IDF soldiers and civilians taken hostage into Gaza.
Rockets still coming, 3hrs now. Initial Israeli reports are 5 Israeli's killed and 20 wounded just from the rocket attacks.
More than 80 wounded brought to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba as a result of the Hamas attacks on Israel, the hospital says. Several in serious condition.
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Judging from the pictures and videos that I've seen so far the Israeli death count will be in the hundreds, maybe more.
Some people in IDF and Mossad leadership will be fired, after the biblical part of the response is done.
IDF confirms that at least two Israeli towns are Hamas controlled.
One of the Israeli towns that Hamas overran was a retirement community, including at least some Holocaust survivors.
Hezbollah claims that they are in contact with Hamas leaders in Gaza and are "monitoring the situation". They also warn Israel to "choose wisely".
Whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean, I take it that Hezbollah isn't interested in today's adventure.
IDF is fighting Hamas terrorists in Kfar Aza, Sderot, Sufa, Nahal Oz, Magen, Be'eri, and the Re'im military base.
Israeli air strikes in Gaza are coming non-stop. IAF fighter-bombers can be seen lined up for miles deep into the Mediterranean, waiting their turn to roll in hot. Rocket fire should slow down soon.
Over 300 hundred wounded civilians reported at Israeli hospitals, so far.
The terrorists have at least one shoulder fired anti-aircraft launcher.
If you ever wanted to know how to get a 500lb JDAM dropped on your head, this is a sure fire way to make that happen...
"Israeli police recovering materiel from an al Qassam attack squad in southern #Israel, including a quantity of PG-7VR RPG projectiles and YM-2 AT mines, all of which appear to be Iranian made. Oh and locally made line charges?"
- Calibre Obscura
Two different vehicles in these images. Not sure if same location.
Israeli airstrikes are increasing in size and ferocity, dozens of Hamas and other terrorist group locations being repeatedly pounded with 2000lb JDAM's.
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Saw one unconfirmed report of IDF multiple rocket launchers moving to the Gaza border. The IDF does have them, a lot of them, but they've never used them on Gaza before. If true I would not call this an escalation, but a long over due retribution.
A note about the headbands of the Gaza terrorists.
Green is Hamas.
White is Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Red is National Resistance Brigades.
Those are the three largest terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip. The fourth largest is Harakat al-Sabireen, also Iranian backed and probably wearing either the green or white headbands.
@Render: I still do not understand the shouting of "God is great" when they do that, but then I don't really understand religion. I mean... I do, but I don't "get" it.
@thedisasterautist @Render They'll be screaming into the void when they pass - the nothingness that envelops them will freeze them, silencing all thought, enveloping them in the embrace of total annihilation...
Nothing's there to catch them. Their last fragments of consciousness will evaporate in the instant they start to realize everything they believed in was a lie, & their confidence becomes a silent soul-rending scream.
It's not fun. I've been close.
Serves the terrorist bastards right.
@IrelandTorin @Render: I died once, though for only just over 2mins. 30sec., on an O/R table. when I was 22. Circled the drain and almost went down it again seven years later, in 1999.
For my money, I figure some of them are so whacked-out on the religion that they'll be happy as clams until they stop existing. Others, however, are going to realize too late that this was real life, that they're gonna die horribly without escape, and that they'll pray it's quick.
@thedisasterautist @IrelandTorin
You're missing something important.
It's called Captagon and it's produced in Syria in massive amounts that are then smuggled all over the Middle East.
@Render @thedisasterautist @IrelandTorin Whats that?
@Render @IrelandTorin: I had to look it up. Fenethylline. Honestly, I didn't know it was still a think, but when I read about it and saw it's a big party drug in the Middle East... then I remembered how the kamikaze were drugged up, how a lot of Nazi soldiers were drugged up, and so on. Kinda like a Jonestown thing.
@thedisasterautist @Render @IrelandTorin
I was looking it up as well. Damn.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/9/what-is-captagon-the-addictive-drug-mass-produced-in-syria
@Render @thedisasterautist As someone who was once prescribed high doses of amphetamines (due to a sleep disorder) - while that might help them run right up to the edge of death, I don't think it'll do much for them once they cross over the precipice.
Based on the experiences of people I knew, it might make matters worse for em - amphetamine hallucinations have a distinctly paranoid, frightening bent. Dying w/ a brain full of shadowy, terrifying hallucinations'd probably feel like hell to them.
@Render: I reckon those Hamas folks are trying to feel strong, masculine, and consequential before they die.
@Render: Now I'm wondering where the CIA, MI, and other intelligence agencies have been and what they've been doing up to this happening. I imagine the same questions have been flying transatlantically and at the highest possible levels.
@thedisasterautist My guess for the moment is that they mimicked al Qaeda's old communications system.
Word of Mouth. Verbal couriers.
No electronic or wired communications.
Hamas leader tells flunky "Memorize these words and repeat them PIJ leader So-n-So."
@Render: I'd forgotten about that.
@Render: Are they wanting to trade eventually? Are they collecting hostages to threaten later?
@thedisasterautist Human shields first, trade later dead or alive.
@Render: Alas.
@Render there is absolutely no way someone with an IQ over their shoe size that can defend this
@elmaxx And yet, they are attempting to do exactly that on other sites.
@Render why am I not surprised?
*lights cigarette*
@Render 😲
@Render
💔
Thank you, as always.
@Render Oh my god Render, I woke to this. I am starring for moral support only, I don't like this at all. I'm so sorry. 💔
@Render I see it all as just sad. I have no love or respect for Hamas.
I'm just thinking of all the innocent people in both Israel and Gaza that have nothing to do with this that are becoming victims.
@Render They'd do well to remember that they're allowed to exist.
No amount of sportswashing absolves them of this.
Those f*ckers 🤬
there should be a clause somewhere that allows being punched in the mouth for stating that.
nice move there Bucko, hiding behind a screen, while your "youth" dies for your own fucking hubris
@Render I see this as potentially escalating to a war with Iran. It is my understanding they back the terrorists in Palestine.
My heart breaks for the innocents in Israel and Palestine that want nothing more than to live, while these monstrous ones take even that from them.
@Render They are no longer worth the effort, are they? Time to let SA stand on its own against its neighbors...
It is what they would condemn Israel to do... 😒
@Render Saudis can eat cake- this amounts to a declaration of war against the Israelis.
Remove Hamas from existence.
@Render 😲
@Render Fuckinell.
@Render holy shit
@Render This will end in a lot of suffering.
@Render
Hamas moved fast to get this footage out... Suppose you better get it out quickly when your days are numbered tho.
Hamas releases video showing four live IDF soldiers captured.
They also released a different video of them parading an elderly and very obviously senile Israeli woman around Gaza city.