Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) meets with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (C) and military chiefs at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv for a security assessment on October 8, 2023 (GPO)
The Israeli security cabinet voted late on October 7 to put the country officially at war and it can carry out “significant military activities,” the Prime Minister’s Office announced.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already said that “Israel was at war” after Palestinian armed factions in the Gaza Strip led by the Hamas Movement started a surprise large-scale attack, launching thousands of rockets and storming nearby military positions and settlements.
The high-level security cabinet decision gives the declaration legal standing in keeping with Basic Law: The Government, which in its Clause 40 says that the country cannot go to war without a government decision.
This was the first time Clause 40 was invoked by the Israeli government since the 1973 Yom Kippur War with Egypt and Syria.
The announcement came after Israeli officials said that the death toll from the Palestinian attack has exceeded 600. The Israeli Health Ministry also confirms that the number of wounded in hospitals has reached 2,048, including 20 in critical condition and 330 seriously wounded.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is still struggling to regain control over the military position and settlements which were captured in the early hours of the attack.
Hebrew media reported on October 8 heavy clashes at Kfar Aza, Magen and several other settlements near Gaza and said that the IDF deployed tanks to push back fighters holding out there. Hamas’s military wing, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, confirmed that its fighters were still carrying out attacks in Sofa, Holit, Yetid, Ofakim, Sderot, Yad Mordechai, Kfar Azza, Be’eri, Yeted and Kissufim.
Gaza factions also launched hundreds of rockets at Sderot and other nearby settlements, causing casualties and material losses. A number of suicide drones were also used in attacks against Israeli targets.
Meanwhile, the IDF stepped up strikes on Gaza, targeting several high-rise buildings, the home of the head of Hamas’s intelligence and several command centers of the group and its close ally, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The Israeli Navy also targeted two groups of Palestinian fighters on Zikim beach.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said that 370 Palestinians have been killed and another 2,200 have been wounded since the start of the battle. Most of those were apparently killed in the strip as a result of Israel’s retaliatory strikes. From its side, the IDF said it killed at least 400 “Palestinian terrorists” in Israel and in strikes in Gaza.
With Israel’s declaration of war, the battle will likely go on for weeks, if not months. The IDF may even attempt to invade Gaza after clearing its border.
Hamas would not have decided on this attack without some encouragement. However, Russia and Iran are not likely behind this. Neither Iran nor Russia is interested in a big war in the region.
First of all, this war could worsen the situation in Syria. Secondly, it could disrupt the supply of Iranian weapons to Russia. Thirdly, a Russian involvement could mark the start of deliveries of Israeli military equipment and technology to Ukraine. Thus, it is safe to assume, Iran and Russia were satisfied with the status quo in the Middle east.
There is however another group of interested parties, the United State and Saudi Arabia. A very complex electoral cycle is gaining momentum in the U.S. The war in the key overseas region is an excellent information occasion for the U.S. to distract the electorate from domestic problems and to disrupt the negative news flow from Ukraine.
The U.S. political establishment is also showing disagreement over further financing of the war in Ukraine at the level of 2023. This means that the profits of the U.S. powerful military-industrial complex may be at risk. As is well known, the majority of this complex is controlled by Republicans. At the same time, the Republicans have always used the topic of the Arab-Israeli confrontation to gain or maintain control over certain financial flows.
If the conflict in Gaza continues for a long time, the Republicans will simply reallocate the same or even more funding that they had for Ukraine toward Israel. Besides, the need to support Israel is much easier to explain to voters than the need to continue supporting the Kiev regime, which is constantly discrediting itself. In addition, it is important to remember Hamas is not a pro-Iranian organization. Rather, it is more oriented towards the Muslim Brotherhood and pan-Arabism.
Here, Saudi interests became clear. No matter how the conflict develops the relationship between Iran and Israel, the U.S. will escalate. Energy prices will rise. There will be a large window of opportunity to expand Saudi influence in the region, especially if Riyadh demonstrates public neutrality or mild sympathy for the Palestinians, while tacitly helping Israel. Saudi elites have already demonstrated that they can play this field masterfully.
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caught by complete surprise…..it just gets worse for the squatter state. lots of illusions shattered. the 1967 army is long gone
“caught by surprise” just like america was “caught by surprise” on 9/11.
honestly just roll up your sleeves and get the vaxx, its pointless. goyim just keep falling for the same tricks time and again.
israeli owned twin towers larry silverstein was a mossad informant who made 4.5 billion dollars after 9/11 insurance claims. he had mossad bring down both tower and wtc 7 with planted explosives, also airport security was owned by israeli firms which allowed hijackers through. it was mossad that did 9/11 watch 9/11 missing links, the documentary
the notion that “mossad” was able to conduct the september, 2001 psy-op is absurd. it was an overlord kind of co-operative effort with absolutely crucial roles filled by bona fide ‘murikans in addition to their identitarian chums from the levant.
your assessment is objectively verifiable.
strange that otherwise intelligent people still buy into the official “hijacker” narratives.
perhaps it’s just too awful for some to face the truth – even two decades later – that their own government deliberately murdered 3,000 americans in a preplanned false flag to justify games of empire.
peculiar that your statement of self-evident fact has been downvoted.
hijackers?? lol the planes were cgi buddy. come up with another story
hey hey hey, most of us got a fake shot! i mean we visit our doctors and the shot was not administered. i mean how easy is it to do? those who took it deserve to die anyway. but hey, it was the israeli’s themselves that gave us the precious data that the more you get vaxed the weaker your immune system gets. it was the israeli’s who were vaxxed first. we learned from you guys (here in australia as we were the last to get vaxxed) that it was pointless getting vaxxed.
meanwhile white aussies are dropping dead from the vax.
muslim and chinese doctors refused to adminiser the vax in aus but the white clowns did. and in 5 years those who got 2 or more vaxes will be dead, have aids or be extremely sick.
australia has the highest excess death rate in the world atm.
the construction industry in melbourne is collapsing because too many vaxed workers are spending months of with covid. the building industry wont even exist in 2 years
lol and they try and blame it on the ukraine war and costs lol
builders left right and centre are going bust in australia because only the immigrants in aus are smart. and the chinese, indians and muslims will inherit australia in about 40 years i say. they will control all aspects of govt.
and you can thank the jews for that ;)
300+ idf eliminated
-2 idf officers eliminated, 1 captured
-2 merkava destroyed, 6 captured all under 24 hours by gaza resistance which has no real army or artillery, no tanks, no advanced weapons idf is a joke. pussies who rely on overwhelming american made air power to bomb to shreds their civilian enemies to subjugate them israel is nothing without america’s military and billions in support – but they control america through federal reserve and lobbying firms. so usa are isarel slave
yes their main force is the air force and the number of airfields is limited, a massive attack should have started here and directly deprived israel of its main force, hoping soon because israel actively uses it
excellent point.
however, don’t the israelis have their airborne weapons platforms protected in underground installations?
if so, that would be a hard nut to crack even for hamas. but for iran – not so much.
wait america is falling so will israel and it’s satanic worship
“nasser to islam” – hamas, hezbollah, quds.
may allah grant them victory over those clowns, settlers.
if only usa, britain and soviet union allowed germany to fully exterminate the paraistic jewish race. there would be no issue today in palestine. but jewish rothschilds who controlled britain/ussr declared war on germany. heil hitler, fuck the jews, 6 million wasn’t enough.
except hitler was a jew and according to red cross documents only 200k jews died from all causes in that period, including disease. 6m is a number they just came up with later so that goyim like yourself would repeat it.
hitler was to germans what zelensky is to ukrainians. brainwashing goyim to fight each other.
zero evidence hitler was jewish. but 6 million is a fallacy. waffen ss took out many communist jews and partisans, and many died in work camps from starvation after allies bombed the supply lines. the jews were forced to do manual labor and called it a genocide
270,000 total deaths. far from 6 million.
the 6 million is a lie anyway!
ussr didn’t declare war on germany, instead germany dishonorably broke the non-aggression pact with the ussr and attacked them early in the morning like true cowards. yet even despite this treacherous advantage, the ussr replied with titanic organizational and patriotic armed force and in the end decisively defeated the nazi imperialists!
may your allah grant curse those who curse the children of israel
“behold, i will make them of the synogogue of satan, which claim they are jews, but do lie, behold, they will come and worship before thy feet”-jesus christ revelations 3:9 ashekanzis aren;t children of israel. they are children of satan
st.john apostle 13:11.
your allah is a blood thirty god who rapes women and children.
hamas rats only attack civilians, wipe whatever you have to wipe off the map, maybe then you’ll learn that rats don’t eat steaks with roses
you clown, zionists were are and will always rape oppressed palestinians, if you moron realized this country is run by a nazi apartheid regime, then you would understand, moron.
hehehe always knew that the pro ukraine posters are kikes. lets hope some stray missile will hit an israeli troll farm.
the kremlin’s mentally retarded parrot earned another 0.05 cents for the post, brave you can go eat more ice cream with your forehead, the russian troll with two neurons
fkoff p00f! your the pathedic little dance n heels loving runt,go bak to your lice infestated gayee bar runt,shut the fk up or else you lose front row teeth.
i was going to keep on strolling down the page past your dumb ass comment but then…hey! i had to say something after almost burning my eyes out reading your antics.
and the something i want to say is this:
spiderman, i feel for ya. honest, i do. no one deserves to go through life as stoopid as you.
‘spiderman, i feel for ya. honest, i do. no one deserves to go through life as stoopid as you.’
well stephan, you seemed to have done pretty well so far. your parents must weep every night being totally ashamed at bringing someone as gormless as you into the world.
amen to that spidey!
as is well known, the majority of this complex is controlled by republicans. trump is republican. he won’t make america great again. that’s a fact.
amen to your premature death soros loveth askemaggot punk,morphy
you are too gayee to defends anything,pff!
visit gtvflyers.com to learn more about jewish zionist supremacy control over usa and the world
visit gtvflyers.com to learn more about jewish zionist supremacy control over usa and the world!! fuck kikes
israel should just take over gaza
hopefully now, they will.
lol you moron. kike schmock bases and vilages around gaza still under hamas control, caused 600 dead an 2000 wounded. imagine what losses would mount to idf in gaza street fights against 30.000 hamas, islamic jihad and others?
you fucking clueless gimp. the idf are going to retaliate with everything they’ve got. the sheer number of losses will be with your precious terrorist group as well as thousands of palestinian pig civilians when gaza is laid to rubble. and all you’ll be able to do is sob helplessly into your cornflakes. get that through your fucking deluded head once and for all you dimwitted ignorant hick.
stop trying be something the fk you are not (real gimp) your going down seens your only as tough as the weakestt poof,fekn dug addict quit the fithly fkn drugs gimpo deadset they will kill you fuggies!
every time one of you jew hating maggots suddenly appear on southfront, you become more and more incomprehensible!! i guess you all have your own unintelligible deranged language that only you understand given your limited mental capacity!
support for ukraine will continue for the long term. the target is to break russia’s military backbone and overthrow putin. it’s a delusion to think republicans will pull russia out of a self-made quacgmire.
you poof loving maggot weak punks got another thing coming,vax head bugger off!
the target is to keep the us economy afloat, and since it is mostly based on the military industrial complex, who cares who receives the weapons.
seems to me the attack was allowed so that the isrealis could declare war and hammer down another nail in the coffin of palestine. for maybe 1000 dead, many foreigners at a drug festival, they get to smack down hard, which will keep gazza down for another five years. in short i think it was all planned.
i hope that palestinians liberate themselves from the kikes
the analysis that the us is behind this is too twisted, meaning it‘s wrong. the us is weakened and this is a good time to act. pro-israelism will not win elections. netanyahu will not be saved as his debility is exposed. it will draw us and israeli forces away from syria, so good news for asad. this is a real surprise. hamas and hezbollah coordinate closely.
pffft oh please
95% of jews are ashenazi and khazarian… their homeland is ukraine.
the usa is behind this with israel.
kill a few jews, but mainly westrn tourists, use it as an excuse to attack iran, steal more oil, and black mail saudi arabia. then set up soldiers nice and close to armenia and russia.
all the listening devices, sensors and cameras israel has all over gaza and they didnt hear see or feel the build up of 1000 men
this was a pearl harbour not a 9/11 event.
getting your country on war and declare war just because your enslaved palestines revolted its like after 9 / 11 usa declared war on terror because of their failure to stop the attacks. but israel is not usa, israel will win in middleeast because it’s the bigger player sustained by the empire. israel will win with a great costs to the empire of the exceptionals. time to move on from the colonies of usa to a better country. i see too many troubles in the future.
moroni…jebace vas izarael….. gaza will bi platened.. mark my words-13 to 20.000dead palestiniac… little scum of earth
de si pera, ja ti ga sterah.
pure geniuses…
notice that natzi salute as natzie were good people much aligned by those folk in our modern world.
just moderate that yah biotch…
they wanted it,so theyre gonna get it,behead lovers of p00fs,old testament so be it,end depopulation:
600 death ufff good number
it’s sad how this board is compromised and comments are blocked. too bad sf doesn’t care enough to deal with this.