Blowing up in social media for the past eight or so hours. Hamas has opened an offensive against Southern Israel in a massive coordinated assault. Reportedly thousands of rockets/missiles launched, some estimates saying upwards of 3000-5000 of them. Palestinian militants have attacked numerous checkpoints at the Gazan-Israeli border and widespread infiltration has taken place via the ground, sea and even paragliders. Hamas has also used drones and drone dropped munitions as well.
Reportedly over a hundred Israeli civilians and soldiers have been captured, with many having been taken back to Gaza as hostages/human shields. Dozens of Israelis documented as killed as well, including many civilians. Over a hundred wounded by the rocket attacks. There's videos all across social media of corpses and hostages being dragged through the streets of Gaza... of burning vehicles, Palestinian militants infiltrating Israeli neighborhoods and roads by checkpoints littered with dead Israeli civilians.
Israel is launching counter operations, including airstrikes against Gaza as well and declared a state of emergency.
The apparent motivation for Hamas' offensive is to incur a response from Israel that will harm its attempts at normalizing relations with more Middle Eastern countries, including most notably Saudi Arabia. A lot of commentators are stating that Russia is backing Hamas but personally, I don't see that as a thing. It just so happens that Russia's allies/clients in the region are supporting Hamas, nothing direct from Moscow.
This seems like the most serious Israeli-Palestinian Conflict since the Second Intifada IMHO and it just started.
There's a lot of ree'ing going on right now but a lot of threads are collating the media coming out of the zone, a fair bit of it graphic in nature. And likely unconfirmed as well.
Thread by Evergreen Intel collating events.
And one by some Israeli supporter having a panic attack.
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Israeli Airstrikes in Response to Attacks
Not just Israelis have been taken hostage, foreign workers have as well at the moment.
At least one, maybe two Merkava Tanks have been lost, one to drone dropped munitions as well.
Reportedly over a hundred Israeli civilians and soldiers have been captured, with many having been taken back to Gaza as hostages/human shields. Dozens of Israelis documented as killed as well, including many civilians. Over a hundred wounded by the rocket attacks. There's videos all across social media of corpses and hostages being dragged through the streets of Gaza... of burning vehicles, Palestinian militants infiltrating Israeli neighborhoods and roads by checkpoints littered with dead Israeli civilians.
Israel is launching counter operations, including airstrikes against Gaza as well and declared a state of emergency.
The apparent motivation for Hamas' offensive is to incur a response from Israel that will harm its attempts at normalizing relations with more Middle Eastern countries, including most notably Saudi Arabia. A lot of commentators are stating that Russia is backing Hamas but personally, I don't see that as a thing. It just so happens that Russia's allies/clients in the region are supporting Hamas, nothing direct from Moscow.
This seems like the most serious Israeli-Palestinian Conflict since the Second Intifada IMHO and it just started.
There's a lot of ree'ing going on right now but a lot of threads are collating the media coming out of the zone, a fair bit of it graphic in nature. And likely unconfirmed as well.
Thread by Evergreen Intel collating events.
And one by some Israeli supporter having a panic attack.
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@Iyervval: Multi pronged attack on israel happening. First rockets, then actual infiltration with pickup trucks & para gliders. .You can see these terrorist scum have entered residential neighbourhoods in Sderot. Fi...…
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Israeli Airstrikes in Response to Attacks
Not just Israelis have been taken hostage, foreign workers have as well at the moment.
At least one, maybe two Merkava Tanks have been lost, one to drone dropped munitions as well.
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