Hamas rocket unit. Illustrative image.
The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas Movement, has released video footage showing the storming of two bases of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) near the Gaza Strip on the first day of their surprise large-scale attack.
The attack, codenamed “Operation Al-Qasa Flood,” was launched by Hamas and several other Palestinian armed factions on October 7 morning. It began with a barrage of hundreds of rockets that targeted southern and central Israel. Several groups of Palestinian fighters later infiltrate nearby settlements and military positions from land, sea and air.
On October 10, video footage of the attack on a large IDF base near the settlement of Nahal Oz was released by the media wing of al-Qassam.
The footage shows Palestinian fighters storming the position from land and air, under the cover of heavy mortar, rocket and drone fire, killing or wounding Israeli troops. Several destroyed or damaged main battle tanks and armored personnel carriers of the IDF can be also seen in the footage.
A second video released by al-Qassam on October 11 shows a very similar attack on another IDF base near the settlement of Ein HaBesor. The footage also shows Israeli losses.
Al-Qassam also released footage showing the launch of several locally-made suicide drones in the first hours of the large-scale attack.
According to Israeli officials, more than 1,200 Israelis have been killed since the start of the Palestinian attack. The number includes at least 170 soldiers and officers from the IDF as well as 41 police officers.
In its most recent update, the Israeli Health Ministry said that 3,007 individuals were taken to hospitals throughout Israel after the start of the attack. At this time, 471 remain hospitalized: 109 in serious condition, 199 in moderate condition and 183 in good condition.
The IDF has been carrying out heavy strikes on targets in Gaza in response to the attack and is reportedly preparing to invade the strip.
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the zionist lobbies are pushing hard for a fanatical pro israel stance in western countries. it wont be long before the israelians commit genocidal acts against gazans that these monsters will start squirming that this is all just a figmet of your imagination. watch and see. goodbye abraham accords
palestinian fighters are true heroes, zionist terrorists got what they deserved! actually no, they deserve this many times over, but we do what we can.
so what you propose is this, ” do you want to kill israelis or palestinians?” how about a third choice like build water and power infrastructure, agriculture,schools, and hospitals?
exactly, but the fact is, israel is doing all of this, while preventing any resources which could help develop infrastructure in gaza from coming in. so how do you envision your 3rd option to be implemented?
this archaic anti-semitism only legitimizes israel to wipe gaza off the map, then ask iran for humanitarian aid, the images of what the hamas animals did are circulating widely even though here on a nazi propaganda website they say it’s fake, you’re going to eat shit.
no you are going to eat it all! know yo face, pig.
that’s you zionazi filth who is frying and eating shit _already_ and more to come when worldwide hunt for you rats will intensify .
hey, humans hate jews. its natural to hate such evil.
idf is soon going to go into gaza and the jews are going to get smoked like pigs.
the whole world is waiting. the whole world hates the jew and the whole world supports free free palestine.
the filthy jew is lmost extinct
99% of semetic jews were kiled off. now all that remains if the 95% jews that are inbreed khazarin scum jew or ashkenazi jews, both from europe.
the jew will become extinct very soon
lol hamas a group with few thousand fighters, is humiliating and bringing pissrael to its knees, well done.
thank you for your insight. my question is only why an attack is started without any air force available. to me this looks suicidal. but maybe that’s just me.
israel is imploding. demands once again call for removal of bibi. this killing is senseless; only the crazy money changers want war while the people want their lives lived in peace and prosperity.
the more brutal the jooze becomes the more united the quarreling factions of islam become ready for a war that the jooze will lose..
does anyone see a military purpose or a plan??? i mean they didn’t even damage the airfields??? or fuel supplie,s?? or bridges…
and they do not have an air force fcol
its all about sending a messege
there will be only palestine loses from now for ever. bravo hamas.
yesterday the zio pigs idf reported more casualties…hahahah
sweep up everything there is to sweep up, this hamas human trash needs to disappear
nah zionism and anglo-american hegemony need to disappear.
you’ll see in the next few hours whether they disappear or not, even the last hamas rat that cowardly hides among the people
call rat to those suicidal heores when you have the more genocide army in the world is a cynism….stop cry miserable bestard mothafack zionist
you are confused little man.
bravo spidershit! let all them know that you are real asshole from london.
why did isreal supplied tax shekels to create hamas in the first place?
here a huge opportunity was missed to inflict much greater losses on men and material on the israelis. there are supposed to be around 30,000 hamas fighters, but why were only around 1,000 involved in the action and why didn’t thousands join in when the border fortifications were breached? and in these military bases, many dozens of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles could have been captured and/or destroyed.
maybe because the rest is staying behind to defend gaza when the idf starts putting boots on the ground? as for the tanks, you need to know how to operate them. plus for all we know, hamas might have booby trapped them
is it possible the zionists are being baited?
the khazar jooze are just doing what they always always do when stealing lands that are not theirs.
i think this was just a bit of election campaign support for bibi, not really much more, but also a great pretext for sending more of this scum to europe.
neuveriteľné, tak oni dobijú vojenskú základňu a odchádzajú s tade na osobnom aute? a tanky a obrnené vozy, tam stoja ako vo výpredaji? to ako fakt? to kto toto pripravoval? prečo neboli zaškolený na riadenie ťažkej techniky ktorú ukoristia? no neviem? divné!!! mysleniu zdar!!! svetu mier!!!
considering their limited resources, hamas did an amazing amount of damage to the jizrahellis and their military at the beginning of this conflict. a very well thought out operation, great asymetrical warfare. i thought the use of para-planes was particularly innovative. i am not justifying any atrocites on either side, just admiring hamas level of planning and execution and innovation.
they have not and will not achieve any victories, they are arrogant and blind.
meant for aggressors.
this had be a false flag. there’s no way they could have just walked in done all this with isrealis behind this. they like the us, proven they do it over and over. desperate old tricks.
hamas is now pride and joy of the world, the tip of the spear against zionazi judeo-masonic enemies of himanity. heartw and souls people of good will are with hamas and hezbollah. keep on stomping out zionazi rats.