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Sunday, October 8, 2023

10/08 Links Pt1: October 7th 2023 a day that will live in infamy, 700 Murdered, 2,000 Injured, 100+ Hostages

From Ian:

700 Israelis dead, 2,000 injured amid Hamas rockets and terror infiltrations
Hamas killed at least 600 Israelis on Saturday as it launched a massive offensive from the Gaza Strip, including firing more than 3,000 rockets and sending dozens of Palestinian terrorists to infiltrate the Jewish state.

Around 5:30 p.m., 11 hours into the terrorist attacks, there were still exchanges of fire at 22 locations inside Israel.

Just after 8 p.m., Hamas launched a massive barrage of rockets toward central Israel, with direct hits reported in Tel Aviv, Bat Yam and Givatayim.

Active combat continued between Israeli security forces and Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be’eri and Kibbutz Kfar Aza.

There were also reports of a hostage situation in Ofakim, located some 12 miles from the Gaza border.

Hamas claimed to be holding 163 Israelis hostage in Gaza.

More than 1,800 Israelis were evacuated to hospitals across the country, the largest number to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva and many to Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon.

People were asked to donate blood across Israel. Because of the overwhelming response, only those with type O universal donor blood were asked to come.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened the Security Cabinet at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv.

“Since this morning, the State of Israel has been at war. Our first objective is to clear out the hostile forces that infiltrated our territory and restore the security and quiet to the communities that have been attacked,” said Netanyahu at the start of the meeting.

“The second objective, at the same time, is to exact an immense price from the enemy, within the Gaza Strip as well. The third objective is to reinforce other fronts so that nobody should mistakenly join this war.

“We are at war. In war, one needs to be level-headed. I call on all citizens of Israel to unite in order to achieve our highest goal—victory in the war,” added the premier.

In response, the Israel Air Force launched “Operation Swords of Iron,” initially striking 17 Hamas “military” compounds and four operational headquarters in Gaza.

The IDF was ordered to a “state of war readiness” and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant authorized the call-up of reserve troops.

He also announced a “special security situation” within 80 kilometers of the Gaza Strip, enabling the IDF to close relevant sites and impose safety restrictions on the population.
More than 100 Israelis captive in Gaza
Hamas terrorists abducted more than 100 Israeli citizens to the Gaza Strip during Saturday’s terrorist assault, Israel’s Government Press Office said in a Facebook post on Sunday.

That assertion came hours after the Israeli embassy in the United States cited the same number in a post on X (formerly Twitter). The embassy’s post was later deleted.

Earlier on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces set up a situation room tasked with determining how many civilians and soldiers were kidnapped.

Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor, the head of the IDF Personnel Directorate, asked Maj. Gen. (res.) Lior Carmeli to lead the effort.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed Brig. Gen. (res.) Gal Hirsch to coordinate the government efforts to locate missing persons.

Hamas claimed on Saturday to have abducted 163 Israelis and taken them to the Gaza Strip after dispatching dozens of terrorists into the Jewish state as part of a major attack.

The Foreign Ministry of Thailand said Sunday that Hamas abducted 11 of its citizens during the previous day’s attack on Israel from Gaza.

Channel 13 reported late Saturday afternoon that Israel has confirmed that at least 11 people have been taken hostage in the Hamas-ruled enclave.

Unconfirmed footage circulating online showed alleged Hamas terrorists ushering numerous Israelis into Gaza. A father interviewed by Channel 12 said his two daughters, aged 3 and 5, were missing and feared kidnapped.

There were also unconfirmed reports that more than a dozen Nepalese nationals, working in Israel, were abducted and taken to Gaza.

The IDF says the situation room will work to compile a “situational picture” for locating the captives, noting that “some families have already received messages about their loved ones.”
Israel-Hamas war: At least 260 bodies found after attack on Israeli music festival
At least 260 bodies were found after Hamas targeted a music festival in Israel as part of its incursion, rescuers have said.

Those killed at the Supernova festival near Re'im, in the south of the country are among hundreds killed so far.

The number dead at the music event in the desert region of Negev was given by the Israeli rescue service Zika on Sunday.

Social media footage shows people dancing late into Friday, before the attack in the early hours of Saturday.

People are then seen running through an open field with gunshots firing in the background in a separate clip.

Another video shows a young woman being forced onto a motorbike as she pleads with the two men taking her: "Please don't kill me."






President Isaac Herzog addresses Israel



IDF chief: ‘It is time for war, not a round or operation’

IDF: Over 50 fighter jets operated in Gaza, 800 targets hit

Israel shifts to ‘offensive phase’ of Gaza op after 700 killed

IDF spokesperson: ‘Hamas was more barbaric and more brutal than ISIS’

‘SAVAGE TERRORISTS’: Attack on Israel is ‘our 9/11,’ says ambassador

Pentagon sends Israel weapons, redirects aircraft carrier to conflict area

IDF shells Lebanon after Hezbollah fires into Israel

IDF evacuating civilians from Gaza border region

Frantic families plead for help after loved ones kidnapped to Gaza

The Caroline Glick Show: Israel at War
In the wake of Hamas’s invasion of Israel on Saturday morning, Caroline Glick provides a rundown of what has happened to date, and shares some thoughts on the meaning of the war and the only way that it can end with Israel and its people safe.


‘United States stands with Israel,’ Biden says in short remarks on Hamas terrorist attacks

Biden Admin Deletes Tweet Instructing Israel to Stand Down Amid Hamas Terror

Disrupting Saudi-Israel Ties May Have Motivated Hamas Attack, Blinken Says

Hamas attack: The greatest intelligence failure in Israeli history?

Have you seen them? These are the people still missing

Operation Swords of Iron: These are the names of the fallen



Family of grandmother kidnapped by Hamas plead for help

Survivor testimony from music festival attack
Gili Yoskovich, a survivor of Saturday's festival that was attacked by Hamas terrorists shares her story.




Israel must make it clear: The era surgical strikes is over

It's not the 1973 war all over again; it's 9/11

John Podhoretz: First Thoughts on the War



A Wounded Israel Is a Fiercer One
It was a horror. Hour after hour, families sat huddled in their homes awaiting rescue from the Hamas fighters streaming through their towns and villages. Families were butchered in cold blood. In one home, a terrorist shot the parents dead, took a child's cellphone and started broadcasting it all in a livestream on their Facebook account.

Grandmothers were pulled in wheelchairs to waiting vehicles ready to carry them as hostages into Gaza. Then came the mothers carrying babies. Footage circulated on social media, put there by Hamas, of an Israeli child asking his mother if the gunmen that surrounded them were going to kill them.

A tectonic shift has occurred in Israel's psyche. Where Hamas had always seemed an implacable but ultimately containable enemy, it had now proven it could bring the danger into Israeli homes, could slaughter children and kidnap grandmothers. Hamas was once a tolerable threat. It just made itself an intolerable one.

Analyst Avi Issacharoff tweeted, Hamas "success may turn into a Pyrrhic victory. It seems to me there's now a consensus in the Israeli elite and among the public that what was won't be anymore."

As a result of the raw cruelty of the assault and the impossibility of ever satisfying the assailant's demands, Israelis are uniting, from left to right. None of the political problems have been resolved, but Hamas brought home to Israelis the intolerable weakness of a divided Israel.

Israelis believe they have been left no choice but to fight desperately to ensure Saturday's images never return. These heirs of a collective memory forged in the fires of the 20th century cannot handle the experience of defenselessness Hamas has imposed on them.

A safe Israel can spend much time and resources worrying about the humanitarian fallout from a Gaza ground war; a more vulnerable Israel cannot.
Daniel Gordis: From Joy to Terror: A Postcard from Jerusalem

Melanie Phillips: The Barbaric War Against Israel
Dozens of Israelis including elderly people, women and small children were abducted from their homes or dragged out of cars, forced into Hamas vehicles and are now being held as hostages in Gaza. This is unthinkable and unspeakable. It is wrong to call this terrorism. It is all-out war against Israel. This was a lethal and overwhelming onslaught aimed at Israeli civilians. Every one of those attacks was therefore a war crime.

Whenever Israel has launched military operations in Gaza - which it does only when attacks from there have become intolerable - some in the West complain that its response is "disproportionate." What they mean is that not enough Israelis have been killed.
Gil Troy: Israel Faces Its 9/11
Death, destruction and mayhem rained down on the Jewish state. But so did a moral clarity and resolve that characterizes democracies under attack - and that terrorists always underestimate.

A functional nation is most responsible for protecting its own citizens, especially when threatened by adversaries who respect no rules of war or simple decency. Israel needs to fight this latest battle with a clarity that its many previous conflicts with Gaza lacked and do what it takes to protect its citizens.

Israel may have brutal enemies and continuing political challenges. But Israelis rank as among the world's happiest people, because they share a sense of common destiny, a sense of community, and a sense of purpose that gives their lives meaning amid the danger.


Brendan O'Neill: A pogrom against Israel

Noah Rothman: Hamas Attack an Act of Medieval Barbarism
In the invasion of Israel by the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hamas, Israeli seniors were slaughtered while waiting for the bus. Concert-goers were fired upon. People were gunned down in their cars. Citizens were hunted down from house to house, murdered while trying to protect their families. Throats were slashed. Structures were torched. This was a massacre. The surprise attack was pared with a barrage of thousands of missiles originating in Gaza, which rained down on Israeli civilian targets across the country.

When the initial shock of Hamas' horrific attack has worn off, you're sure to hear false equivalences and fallacies designed to stay the hands of officials in Jerusalem. Acts of medieval barbarism like these are, if not excused, rationalized away by those who insist the occupation Israel dissolved painfully in 2005 persists insofar as Gaza is "besieged." Hamas, the terrorist group that ascended to power in the wake of Israel's withdrawal, transformed its stronghold into a fortress, the foremost purpose of which was to wage war on the Jewish state.

There will be calls for Israelis to observe proportionality. But what would that look like? What is a proportionate response to the deliberate slaughter of civilians and hostage-taking designed to free more terrorists who would soon be returned to the fight against Israel? There will be those who think there are shades of grey, sprawling trans-generational grievances to account for, and regional dynamics that complicate this situation. They are wrong.
Lt.-Col Peter Lerner: A Wakeup Call for Israel

Enough with proportionality: It's time to take radical steps

WSJ Ed. Hamas' Surprise Attack a Reminder of Israel's Existential Peril
The scenes of Israeli civilians gunned down in the streets, children and grandmothers taken hostage, and Palestinians cheering it all are awful to behold. Israel is on the front lines, but all of the democratic world is a target.

One myth busted is that Palestinians will live in peace with Israel if they get a state of their own. Not as long as Hamas and Islamic Jihad can terrorize and dominate Palestinians. Israel ceded Gaza to the Palestinians in 2005, but Hamas took over in 2007 and assassinates anyone in the territory who challenges its goal of expelling the Jews from all of Israel.

And please no more condemnation of Israel's "blockade" or "occupation." Israel has been allowing 17,000 Gazans to work in Israel each day and would like to allow more. No Israeli government can afford to give up control of more territory that could become a launching point for Hamas attacks.

The temptation at the White House will be to give Israel a week or so to respond with a free hand, and then lean on the Netanyahu government to stand down. That is always the U.S. pattern, but it shouldn't be this time.

The attacks on Israel, horrible as they are, at least provide some moral clarity about the stakes in the Middle East. One side seeks the destruction of Israel and the Jews. The other arms itself to protect its citizens and state from that destruction.


Jake Marlowe 'tried to help people in last moments' before vanishing

Egyptian media: Policeman kills 2 Israelis, Egyptian at tourist site

Israelis overwhelm blood donation centers as war begins



MEMRI: MEMRI's Early Warning About Today's Attack In Israel

"I Saw My Wife and Daughters in Terrorists' Videos"

2 Thai Workers Killed, 11 Captured by Hamas

9 Nepalese Injured in Hamas Attack in Israel

Hamas Plans to Use Israeli Civilian Hostages as Human Shields



PMW: Fatah calls to expand war to West Bank – “confrontation in all arenas”



Hamas massacre on Israel is “a morning of victory, joy and pride” says Fatah official, urging all Palestinians to join the terror – “this story of heroism”
Fatah Jenin branch member Abd Al-Rahman Abu Al-Rub: “We say to our people and to the members of the Palestinian people: A morning of victory, and morning of joy, a morning of pride (i.e., Hamas terror massacre). We ask Allah to send a blessing to our heroic Martyrs in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and wherever the Palestinian people is… We in the Fatah Movement in the Jenin district convey the message to all our brothers and to all our Palestinian people that they are compelled to take action and participate in this story of heroism with the Palestinian people that is realizing its natural right to fight the occupation and liberate the occupied lands.” [Official PA TV, Oct. 8, 2023]

Hamas war on Israel October 2023 - At least 600 Israelis were murdered and over 2,000 wounded, in addition to nearly 100 Israelis who were taken hostage, some of whom were abducted into the Gaza Strip, when approximately 200 Hamas terrorists broke through Israel's security fence at the Gaza Strip border and launched a surprise attack, taking control of several Israeli towns on the Jewish holiday of Shemini Atzeret (Simchat Torah), which fell on the Sabbath, Oct. 7, 2023. Hamas terrorists also fired at least 3,000 rockets at Israeli population centers. In response, Israel launched Operation Iron Swords to counter the Hamas terror threat.

Abu Al-Rub is also spokesman of Fatah’s military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades


MEMRI: In Statement, Qatar-Based And Funded International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) Statement Calls 'Al-Aqsa Storm' Operation An 'Effective' And 'Mandatory Development of Legitimate Resistance,' States: Muslims Must Support Their Brothers In Al-Aqsa, Jerusalem And Gaza

MEMRI: Newspapers And Editorials In Pakistani Dailies Express Support For Hamas Attack In Israel, Predict Halt In Saudi-Israel Normalization Process

MEMRI: Egypt's Al-Azhar Salutes Hamas Terror Attack In Which Over 600 Israelis Were Killed, Over 100 Were Kidnapped, And Over 2,000 Were Wounded

MEMRI: Saudi Journalist: The Hamas Attack Will Have Devastating Results; It Harms The Palestinians And Serves Only Iran

MEMRI: Leaders Of Iran-Backed Militias In Iraq Vow Support To Palestinian Factions In Hamas Attack, Threaten To Respond To Any Israeli Or American Attack Against Them

MEMRI: Political Leader Of Ansar Allah Houthi Movement Delivers Remarks At Rally In Sana'a, Yemen, In Support Of Hamas Attack, Addresses Israel: 'Today We Saw Your Trained Soldiers Kneel'

MEMRI: Iran-Backed Militias In Lebanon, Iraq, And Yemen Release Statements On Telegram In Support Of Hamas Attack – Lebanese Hizbullah: 'Rifle Of Resistance Is The Only Option In Confronting The Occupation'; Yemen's Ansar Allah Houthi Movement: 'Yemeni People Are Ready To Participate In Operation'

MEMRI: Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Lions' Den Threaten Lone Wolf Attacks, Claim Capture Of Israeli Soldiers, Call On Palestinians To Disable Surveillance Systems As Part Of Ongoing Operation Against Israel



Lindsey Graham: ‘Israel should do whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to destroy this threat’



On Israel’s 9/11, Jewish State Must Settle For Nothing Less Than Total Victory

Israel’s Distracted Deep State

Israel’s 9/11

A Brief Education in What Just Happened in Israel

America’s Betrayal of Israel

Lee Smith: Death Cult for Cuties

Us and Them

Israel’s Intelligence Failure

Bernard-Henri Lévy: Eyeless in Gaza



Abbas stresses Palestinian right to self-defense, as int’l community condemns Hamas



Col Kemp: Hands that pushed Hamas attack forward are in Moscow

Dozens of Harvard student groups blame Israel for being attacked

Generation Jihad Ep. 101 — Israel: “This is not a conflict. This is a war.”

This is Israel's 9/11 - comment

Complacency meets the ghosts of history

Israeli options with Gaza: From toppling Hamas to limited ground op

Jerusalem Post correspondent on the frontlines of Gaza border

A massive, unprovoked attack on Israel - analysis

'It was utter chaos’: Families and survivors describe the horrors of Hamas’ invasion







Hamas terror commander Deif calls for all out war on Israel

New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta fails to condemn Hamas attacks on Israel, accused of acting to 'minimise terror'

Terrorists fire on attendees at outdoor party in Southern Israel

Hostage crisis in Kibbutz Be'eri continues

Netanyahu offered Lapid and Gantz entry into a 'broad emergency government'

Hamas claims to have captured Israeli commander

Hamas terror attack: Militants post videos of Israeli hostages including mother and baby

Hamas 'controls several Israeli population centres' as residents beg for help

UN Security Council to meet Sunday on Gaza War; Erdan says body must condemn Hamas

Abbas stresses Palestinian right to self-defense, as int’l community condemns Hamas

Zelensky: Israel has ‘indisputable’ right to defend itself from terror



Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel a ‘horrific act’
Israeli News Anchor Lital Shemesh says Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel has been a “horrific act”.
Ms Shemesh said the situation unfolding in Israel is “literally horrific”.
“I’m talking about over 15 hours of harsh war,” Ms Shemesh told Sky News Australia.
Hundreds have been killed in the attack, with more than 1,500 left wounded.
Ms Shemesh said the attack isn’t just a “fight against Israel” but a “war against the free world”.


Governments around the world need to ‘get behind Israel’
Former British Commander Richard Kemp says governments around the world need to “get behind Israel”.
Mr Kemp’s comments come after Hamas militants launched a surprise attack against Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has responded, saying the country is at war with Hamas.
“If they really want Israel to deal with the situation … then they should not get on Israel’s back,” Mr Kemp told Sky News Australia.
“They should just give Israel every bit of support it needs.”


Hamas escalates 'aggression' towards Israel with surprise attack
Hamas’ escalation of aggression against Israel following its surprise attack is “unprecedented,” according to Australia’s Ambassador to Israel 2013-2017 Dave Sharma.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared Israel is at war, facing the greatest outburst of violence in half a century following an unprecedented attack from Hamas militants.
It began with a violent flurry – thousands of rockets fired from inside the Gaza Strip and gunmen storming into Israeli territory.
“We’ve never seen anything like this from Hamas before in its aggression against Israel – this is undoubtedly unprecedented,” Mr Sharma told Sky News Australia.
“This one has taken Israel by surprise – it's clear they were not expecting any aggression from Hamas.”


'Horrific day'- Assault on Israel 'bigger than a terrorist attack'
Israeli author and activist Noa Tishby describes the terror unfolding in Israel, saying it’s a “horrific day” for every Jew and “every democracy-loving human being” around the world.
“Israel is under assault,” Ms Tishby told Sky News Australia.
“This is bigger than a terrorist attack; this is nothing short of Israel’s 9/11 or Israel’s Pearl Harbor.”
Ms Tishby said at 6:30 in the morning, Israel was surprised with what seemed like launched missiles and rockets but what was actually a "land, air and sea invasion" by Hamas terrorists.
“The terrorists have taken over towns, villages and kibbutzim in the south of the country, moving door to door, taking hostages and slaughtering people,” she said.


‘Most horrific thing I’ve ever seen’- Australian living in Israel describes surprise attack
The Zionist of Australia Federation Director of Social Media Emily Gian has spoken with Sky News Australia on the surprise attack on Israel launched by Hamas.
A "state of alert for war" has been declared in Israel, with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing to retaliate following the incident.
“This is the most horrific thing I have ever seen,” Ms Gian told Sky News Australia.
“Today, there has been a lot of shock and disbelief that it went this far.”
“Today, I just saw fear on every single face that I saw.”


'We are at war'- Journalist speaks about Israel-Hamas conflict from bunker
Journalist and former Israeli military major Sarit Zehavi has spoken about the Israeli-Hamas conflict from a bunker, saying Israel has “never experienced this kind of attack”. “Since this morning, we are at war,” Ms Zehavi told Sky News Australia. “It’s live hostages that were taken to Gaza – around 160 Israelis were taken to Gaza and 300 Israelis dead. “We have never experienced this kind of attack. “I’m talking to here from the northern part of Israel, and I can tell you that we are very much worried here that this will escalate to the north as well.”




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