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Multiple militants from Gaza have entered Israeli territory, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Saturday, shortly after a barrage of rockets left one person dead and at least three injured.

Palestinian militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the rocket attack.

Hamas military commander Muhammad Al-Deif released a recorded message, announcing operation “Al-Aqsa Storm” and saying the Palestinian militant group “targeted the enemy positions, airports and military positions with 5,000 rockets.”

The IDF has warned Israelis who live near Gaza to stay in their homes.

The rockets, which were witnessed by a CNN producer in Gaza, prompted sirens as far north as the Tel Aviv area, east to Beer Sheva, and many other locations in between.


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"These aren't bunkers for Gazan civilians. It's only for Hamas and other terrorists so that they can continue to fire rockets at Israel, to plan operations, to launch terrorists into Israel," they claimed.
It is very difficult to assess the size of the network, which Israel has dubbed the "Gaza Metro" because it is believed to stretch beneath a territory that is only 41km (25 miles) long and 10km wide.
Following a conflict in 2021, the IDF said it had destroyed more than 100km of tunnels in air strikes. Hamas meanwhile claimed that its tunnels stretched 500km and that only 5% were hit. To put those figures into perspective, the London Underground is 400km long and is mostly above ground.
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Israel targets Hamas’s labyrinth of tunnels under Gaza

Palestinian militants are thought to have built hundreds of kilometres of tunnels underneath Gaza.
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Map Image of Extensive tunnel system "under Gaza" (IE: under schools, hospitals, residential areas, refugee camps etc). These tunnel systems are legit military targets and ergo the extensive area to which Israel must ensure becomes unusable in order to protect their citizens. I wonder if there is some way whereby Israel can simply flood the heck out of these.
 
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Hamas claims rocket fire from Lebanon at northern Israel​

The Hamas terror group claims responsibility for rocket fire from Lebanon at northern Israel earlier.

In a statement, the terror group says its Lebanon branch targeted Nahariya with some 20 rockets “in response to the occupation’s crimes against our people in Gaza.”

The attack caused no injuries or damage.

The IDF says nine rockets crossed into Israel, five were intercepted and four fell in open areas.

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Following the reports of alerts being activated in the Western Galilee, nine launches were identified that crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory. Air defense fighters intercepted five launches according to policy.
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5:21 pm

Bar says Air Force ‘aggressively’ hitting Hamas to lay groundwork for offensive​


An IAF F-15 takes off to conduct strikes on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on October 15, 2023 (IDF)
An IAF F-15 takes off to conduct strikes on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on October 15, 2023 (IDF)

The chief of the Israeli Air Force says fighter jets and drones are “aggressively” striking the Gaza Strip to clear as many threats as possible before ground forces begin their expected offensive.

“We are preparing the arena for an as effective as possible operation. Removing as many threats as possible from the ground and air,” IAF chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar says in a call with reporters.

“We will do what is necessary, aggressively, so that if it is decided to maneuver, we will allow the best ground entry that will give the troops operational freedom of action,” Bar says.

“The Air Force will work shoulder to shoulder with the ground forces,” he adds.

Bar says the IAF is focused on fighting in the Gaza Strip, but it is “strongly and highly prepared for any development that may occur in the north as well.”

“The Air Force is deployed with all units in a state of war to respond with fire and attack as needed,” he says, after the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group and allied Palestinian factions have been launching attacks on the northern border.

On the continued fighting, Bar says: “We are hurt, but we fight. From the moment the incidents in the south began, the IDF and within it, the Air Force, has been working to remove any threat, both offensively and defensively.”
 
Israel-Hamas war live updates: Dire humanitarian crisis grips Gaza, Israel readies ground attack (nbcnews.com)
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Netanyahu meets with emergency Cabinet, vows to 'demolish Hamas'​

Reuters
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened Israel’s expanded emergency Cabinet for the first time today, saying the national unity on display sent a message at home and abroad as the country gears up to “demolish Hamas” in Gaza.

The meeting, held in the military headquarters in Tel Aviv, began with ministers standing for a moment’s silence in memory of the 1,300 Israelis killed in Hamas’ shock Oct. 7 onslaught, a video released by Netanyahu’s office showed.

Welcoming former opposition lawmaker Benny Gantz, who joined the government along with several members of his party last week, Netanyahu said all ministers were “working around the clock, with a united front.”

“Hamas thought we would be demolished. It is we who will demolish Hamas,” he said, adding that the show of unity “sends a clear message to the nation, the enemy and the world.”
 

‘We’re in this together.’ To Hamas, all citizens are targets, say Arab Israelis​

As the country grapples with the escalating aftermath of Hamas’s onslaught, Arab citizens share their shock, pain, loss – and some concern for a repeat of the 2021 riots​

Awad Darawshe, a 23-year-old Arab Israeli paramedic, arrived at the scene of the Hamas massacre of partygoers at a music festival near Gaza on October 7 to treat the wounded. His friends begged him to leave the embattled area, but he insisted on staying to perform his duty. He was killed by Hamas terrorists, who stole his ambulance and drove it into Gaza.

Darawshe’s story stands as a symbol of the contribution and sacrifice of members of Israel’s Arab minority in facing the deadly Hamas assault that claimed the lives of over 1,300 Israelis, the majority of them civilians.

“Arabs have been hurt by this attack in the same way as Jews. Not in the same numbers, but we have been targets too. Hamas also shoots rockets on Arab towns,” Shahira Shalaby, co-deputy director at the shared society nonprofit Abraham Initiatives, said in an interview with The Times of Israel.

More: ‘We’re in this together.’ To Hamas, all citizens are targets, say Arab Israelis
 
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I meant actual help. Talk is cheap.
Rallies are lovely.
Where is the Arab delegation heading there ?
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Where is the demand for HAMAS to release hostages and to let the Palestinian people move to safety like Israel has been trying to get them to do? When are these countries "supporting" the Palestinian people going to call HAMAS out for what they are doing to their people?

No civilized Army would EVER refuse to allow it's innocent civilians to get out of the way of impending attacks and they sure wouldn't put their bunkers and supplies under hospitals and schools AND then allow patients who are ill to remain in those hospitals and put innocent civilians in the schools. Their actions show they do not care for the people they are supposed to be acting on behalf of.

I feel any country that is only making demands of Israel to stop this or that is NOT in support of the Palestinian people. They are in support of terrorism and allow terrorists to do what they do.
 
Israel-Hamas war live updates: Fears for civilians as 'next stages' of Gaza attack loom (cnn.com)
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will return to Israel on Monday​

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel on Monday and meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, according to State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.

Blinken is currently in Cairo as part of a whirlwind trip in the Middle East following Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7. He has already traveled to Israel as well as Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

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Israel seeing "strong flow" of people evacuating northern Gaza, IDF spokesperson tells CNN​

Israel's military is seeing a "strong flow" of people moving out of northern Gaza after it said civilians should evacuate southward, a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces, Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, told CNN in an interview Sunday.

"We are currently operating in order to ensure that people evacuate the area. We are seeing a strong flow of people going south which is actually a good thing," Lerner told CNN's Sara Sidner.
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I'm looking at google earth to get a better feel for the area inside Gaza and the location of the Rafah crossing. There seems to be space in the southern part of Gaza near the Rafah crossing that is open land. If Egypt is not allowing people to enter then why can't the supplies and support be set up just inside the Rafah crossing. I don't know what the HAMAS situation is like in this area, but if much of the action is up north then perhaps something can be set up just in the southern area.
 
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I'm looking at google earth to get a better feel for the area inside Gaza and the location of the Rafah crossing. There seems to be space in the southern part of Gaza near the Rafah crossing that is open land. If Egypt is not allowing people to enter then why can't the supplies and support be set up just inside the Rafah crossing. I don't know what the HAMAS situation is like in this area, but if much of the action is up north then perhaps something can be set up just in the southern area.
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This is just me thinking aloud, but I worry that by corralling people in the south with no exit, they will be fish in a barrel. Jmo.
 
Israel Gaza live news: Gaza being 'pushed into abyss', UN says, as Israel prepares ground offensive - BBC News
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British-Palestinian in Gaza tells of conditions in Khan Yunis​

Mohammed Ghalayini is a British-Palestinian scientist who lives and works in Manchester and travelled to Gaza a few weeks ago to visit family and friends.

Now that the only border crossing out of Gaza is only sporadically open, even with a British passport, he can't leave - but he doesn't want to leave his non-British relatives behind, he says. He is now sheltering in an office block in Khan Yunis with his father, half-brothers, uncle and others.

"We’re sleeping on thin foam mattresses on the floor, there’s 16 of us here, four children, one person who has special needs, two elderly people," he says.

"Our water supply is sporadic so we’re rationing it – I’ve diverted grey water from the sinks to buckets so we can use it to flush the toilet, we’re rationing our drinking water, and we’re eating what we can find – but it’s a makeshift diet.

"We have some bread, some cheese and some za'atar [bread dip]. Water is dependent on electricity, but there's only electricity when someone can find fuel to power a generator," Ghalayini says.
 
Israel Gaza live news: Gaza being 'pushed into abyss', UN says, as Israel prepares ground offensive - BBC News
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'In Gaza, we count our age in wars'​

More from Mohammed Ghalayini, a British-Palestinian citizen who is sheltering in Gaza with relatives, including his two half-brothers.

Despite only being teenagers he says they have already seen their share of conflict. He adds that the continued bombing "frays the nerves".

"There was very intense bombing today till around noon. The house was shaking. Last night there was bombing too. I was trying to keep a bomb diary but lost track," Ghalayini says.

He says his brothers are "holding up ok, but every day is a psychological trauma for them. And at times their resilience betrays that trauma."

One of them turned 13 yesterday, but it wasn't much of a party. "We sang him happy birthday and I got him a chocolate bar. My friends from Manchester sent him a group photo," Ghalayini says.

"A Palestinian writer wrote that in Gaza we count our age in how many wars we've been through. Everyone here... is at least five wars old."
 
Israel-Hamas war live updates: Fears for civilians as 'next stages' of Gaza attack loom (cnn.com)
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Egypt willing to accept Americans from Gaza but Hamas stopping crossing, White House says​

Hamas has been stopping Americans from leaving Gaza through the Rafah crossing to Egypt, even though Cairo has agreed to let US citizens cross into the country, the White House said Sunday.

“We have told President Sisi to open the border to let Americans out,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “The situation there at the crossing is actually more complicated.”
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Sullivan said while the Egyptians have agreed to allow Americans to depart to get safe passage through the Rafah crossing and the Israelis agreed, “to ensure that the area around there would be safe, at least as far as they were able to do so,” when a group tried to cross yesterday, it “was actually Hamas taking steps to try to stop that from happening.”

“But we are continuing to work this around the clock, and we are doing all that we can to make sure that American citizens who are in Gaza can get through that border crossing,” Sullivan said. He added US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Egypt Sunday to meet with the country’s president, and it was “at the top of his list to help get those American citizens out of Gaza.”

“Anyone who is a US citizen should have the right to free passage through there, and then have the US government facilitate their travel home,” he said.

Key context: Egypt is facing mounting pressure to act as neighboring Gaza gets pummeled by Israeli airstrikes after Hamas' brutal October 7 terror attacks on Israel.

In the wake of the Hamas attacks, Israel closed its two border crossings with Gaza and imposed a “complete siege” on the territory, blocking supplies of fuel, electricity and water.

It has left the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt as the only viable outlet to get people out of the enclave — and supplies into it. But it’s unclear if even the crossing is operational.

The Egyptian foreign minister told CNN Saturday the crossing was officially open on the Egyptian side, but aerial bombardment had left the roads to the crossing "inoperable" on the Gaza side. He emphasized the need for humanitarian shipments to use the crossing.

CNN spoke to several Gaza residents Saturday who said they tried to leave via the Rafah crossing but were eventually turned away.
 
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