Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement on October 7, 2023 (Screen grab)
Israel is at war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in his first public statement on the unprecedented large-scale attack that was launched by Palestinian armed factions in the Gaza Strip on October 7.
“Citizens of Israel, we are at war, and we will win,” Netanyahu said. “The enemy will pay a price like they have never known before,” he says, in his first public statement on the matter, some five hours since the start of the assault by the Gaza-based terror group.”
Palestinian factions led by the Hamas Movement launched the surprise attack in the early morning. The attack 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.
The attack, codenamed “Al-Qasa Flood,” came a day after Israel and the Arab world marked the 50th anniversary of the surprise attack by Egypt and Syria that launched the Yom Kippur War.
Netanyahu’s declaration was reaffirmed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) top spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, who said that Israel was “in a state of war”.
“The IDF has declared a state of war. We are in a state of war,” Hagari says in a live video statement.
Israel’s Health Ministry says 545 people have been hospitalized since the start of the large-scale Palestinian attack. Meanwhile, the Magen David Adom emergency service said that at least 22 people have been killed. The death toll is expected to rise.
Heberew and Arab media reported that more than 50 Israeli soldiers and civilians were captured by Palestinian fighters in the early hours of the attack.
Several settlements and military positions near the Gaza Strip are reportedly still in the nads of Palestinian fighters. Clashes continue there.
In an initial response to the attack, Israel launched a series of strikes against Gaza. The Israeli Air Force said that it had dropped 16 tons of munitions on the strip. 17 military compounds and four headquarters belonging to Hamas were among other targets, according to the IDF.
From its side, Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, released footage showing a deadly raid on an IDF position, several captured Israeli soldiers as well as the destruction of a Merkava Mark IV main battle tank with a drone and the capture of its crew.
The Palestinian large-scale attack drew condemnations from the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union. However, it was praised by Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, key allies of Hamas. Meanwhile, Russia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia called for de-escalation.
The IDF will likely restore control over the Gaza border in the upcoming few hours, then step up strikes on the strip. Heavy Israeli losses could force Netanyahu to order a ground offensive, which will lead to weeks or even months of fighting.
so much for the zionist iron dome system, and those idf suckers are having 7.62mm bullets being thrown at them this time.
the iron dome isn’t designed to track and neutralize 5000+ incoming projectiles at the same time
why ? what is creators expected ?
the satanic zionists are so corrupt they can’t help but to even rip off themselves. corrupt israeli companies create garbage iron dome. no good in combat as it is a fraud but great at making zio companies lots of money.
“the palestinian large-scale attack drew contamination from the united states, united kingdom and the european union.”
lol, ‘contamination’ is an oddly appropriate word for comments from those sources.
condemnation ?
they noticed the typo and corrected it.
i hope this time no more sease fire till the last occupation is exterminated. iran be prepared to intervene and send balistic missils at the yankee warcriminele in the mediterranean !!! russia has to put a d in position to shoot yankee and parasite planes out off the palestinian, syrian, lebanon sky.
not gonna happen. iran fears retaliation from the usa.
also, there is fragile long-term diplomacy with benefit in its infancy that might be thrown away
i think you will find it’s the us that fears retaliation from iran. don’t forget the 108 brain dead yankys last time us stepped over the mark.
iran prbly has some suitcase nucs it got from the ukraine blk mkt in the 90s. iran prbly has ‘cells’ in usa as well.
israelis are westernized. they care about going to clubs and traveling and posting on instagram. they don’t want to die fighting in a ditch in gaza. any attack on gaza by ground forces will leave many israelis dead. i don’t think many of them have the motivation or will to fight hand to hand.
palestinians, on the other hand, want to liberate their country and fight for justice. they have more will to fight.
the only way this will end is with israel occupying the gaza strip, something they always wanted to do, and now they have a pretext for it. the invaders are probably not even palestinian but if they are, then it’s just a couple hundred of guys who were bribed to stage this militarily insignificant attack.
anyway rest assured that this is just another cia op and very bad news for actual palestinians.
i think its clear israel will win, but the scale of this means hamas have already won and have set a precedent for the future. israel is on borrowed time. as is europe now.
its going to take literal divine intervention to dethrone the zionists right now. they have all the resources, media, mic, fake politicians and everyone else who serves them knowingly or unknowingly. who is going to stop them exactly?
not stop but inflict heavy loses and casualties with the western weapons that ukraine sold on the black market, javelins, stingers etc. and of course drones
so then what’s the purpose. let’s just say the palestinians exceed everyone’s expectations and 1000 israeli soldiers are dead, but afterwards occupy the gaza strip and palestine ceases to exist. is that a victory in some way? does it serve a purpose? how would you feel being a palestinian right now, knowing that you won’t have a home in the near future?
the only other option is that this will be a bigger play than what i described and is actually the catalyst for a planned ww3.
it’s called resistance. if you were in their shoes, you would want to fight as well. the alternative is extinction. would you prefer that?
i get that and if they can somehow actually pull it off, good for them. but this just assures their accelerated destruction.
the jewish controlled warmongers in the west are already #standingwithisrael and unlike russia, palestine doesn’t have anything to defend themselves with.
insignificant? where do you live? in europe? hering from your liar medias?
i’m sorry, are you actually arguing that a few hundred, maybe a few thousand insurgents are going to achieve results of military significance?
russia is still busy fighting in ukraine and russia has a bit more military equipment than hamas does don’t you think? not that i am implying israel comes anywhere close to the military power of ukraine but the military difference between palestine and israel is like the distance between earth and the moon.
i have been pulled from reserve as we speak. i will unleash unspeakable destruction upon the palis with my futuristic jew weapons while wiping my ass with the geneva convention and then forcibly feeding it to them. my 5th pfizer booster gives me regenerating health and vaccine shedding ability, which allows me to produce blood clots in my enemies just by breathing at them. mark my words bitches.
dea \d meat is talking
you are gay niggar fagggot jew running to give head to palestinian niggar dick. eat shit and die niggar faggot jew scum.
pathetic gof
yep, that’s just about the level of intelligence i’ve come to expect from southfront’s usual elite force of jew hating morons!
this time you will face western weapons, the ones they confiscated from your outposts the others you provided to the ukronazis and they sold on the black market.
go for it sir! the whole world is now behind you! kill a load of palestinian kiddies for me!!
– kill a load of palestinian kiddies for me?
you have shown us your true face, what kind of disgusting nazi speaks like that?! —> revelation 3:9
oh but it’s ok for you anti-sematic scum to celebrate the deaths of jewish kids, not to mention the kidnapping and torture of jewish women? fuck off and go crawl back inside your dead mother’s uterus, you pathetic insignificant, pitiful excuse for a human.
jews are not humans, the only good one is the dead one
israel has been asking for this. now they have it. good luck to them…not.
slava palestine
hopefully there will be f-16s falling from the skies next.
it’s been a long time coming, 70 years at least.
and will all end in tears for the palestinians as israel will reap bloody revenge and slaughter thousands.
bet that will really make you piss your panties and cry like a little bitch won’t it, fag?
haha murphy the human-righted man barking about the pain of his brothas zio pigs
sorry, didn’t understand a word of that? i assume it was just the usual pathetic response expected from a clueless jew hating cretin? please try to form a coherent sentence next time dickhead.
well no one would ever fight back if they thought that, the french resistance fought the nazi occupation with a few machine guns and explosives, the alternative is to be a slave.
maybe you should stop feasting on foreskins all day and read a book or sumpin
oh look. another ignorant jew hating shithead has joined in and has made a pathetic attempt to sound tough!
make this zionist filth fear the death. dont withdrew use this same soldier as hostage and advance further in the city area give them hard time . take some soldier to the gaza and then negotiate with zionist filth to withdraw all settlement from west bank and near gaza and never return
theytalk about hostages, well there are thousands of lebanese and palestinian hostages in israeli prisons, some for decades.
russian political leadership did not disappoint either while calling for the de-escalation. really ? after all that repeated backstabbing from israel ? what about dead russian soldiers and pilots ? traitors to the common cause, nothing less, nothing more.
the real russians are clapping their hands and smiling ear to ear.
as are real human beings
the russian military operation in syria should hand over their weapons to the syrians. to help them get the occupation out of syria.
long live palestine and hamas, all of palestine should seize the chance today is the day you will win your freedom and your lands back, destroy all the jews and take back your freedom. do not shed any tears for images of jews killed as those same jews have been killing palestinian women, men, elderly, children medical people for over 70+ years so whatever you see feel no pity for the jews as the day of judgement is upon the jews, long live hamas and palestine.
what a sick, twisted little depraved human being you are.
“pot, meet kettle…” the sick, twisted little depraved human being” is you, murphy. but you secretly know that, don’t you?
do you even know what you are talking about at times, stephan? actually, don’t answer that. probably too hard a question for someone with your limited mental capacity.
i jize in my pant :)
i jizz in my pants :) good work boys!
die, israeli filth! let your blight be cleansed from this earth!
oh yes, tank destroying drones. the tide is turning. new chapter in history.
i love the way southfront has only the finest minds bearing on this topic, twitter is awash with reactionary idiots.
ironically, the safest place for people from gaza is in israel.
hallelujah!!! rabid jewish nazis getting raped, killed and eaten by palestinians hordes.
i guess that the palestinians will find themselves in europe after this war is over. israel is heavyly armed and is allied to every major power in the world. some of them even putting israels safety before their own.
dont be a clown. israel surounded by 500 million muslims and dozents of anti israel resolutions in the un, voted with up to over 90% of all un members, only stopped each time by usa veto.
when are you, human natalists, gonna pull out your directed energy weapons? cmon now, show us something actually “unprecedented”.
praying for lots of dead jew vermin!
lol
praying for even more dead muslim pigs!
lol
tactical and strategicaly not a intelligent move from hamas, because it should have been coordinated with an dual attack from gaza and from south lebanon from hezbollah to more than double the effect, overload the isr air defence and to push deeper in and targeting airfields, bases, arms and ammo depots for capture. israel 4sure now will now bomb hamas to the ground, but still questionable if they will dare to go fully into gaza in bloody street fights.
apparently hezbollah will join in if israel enter gazza. clearly now is their time to strike. i would have thought that syrian factions would also enter golan. dissapointing responce from egypt who could have played a decisive blow.
a few clips show captured and short after dead israeli sodliers and civilists. the palestinian resistance is just and legitimated, but the torture and killings of civilians or captured unarmed were, are and always will be crimes and do a massive medial and political harm for the palestinian resistance.
once again the palestinians bravely fight for their freedom while the cowardly hezbolah and iran stand by and do nothing.
maybe it was a trap? too much went wrong for it to have been an accident. no detection of rocket imports, buid up, early iron dome warning, quick responce special forces. they allowed it to happen so they can declare war and do what they want over the next few weeks.
i bet you a lot of weaponry who disapeared from ukraine, sold on the black market will now show up in this conflict, so i hope. israel gave ukraine support, under the table, what goes around comes around.
problem with that is getting it into gazza.