2023-10-07 20:15:26
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant ordered the extension of the “special security situation” to the entire territory of the country. transmits on the evening of October 7 TASS.
This happened following the second Hamas rocket attack in a day on civilian and military targets in Israel.
Let us remind you that the first rockets fell on Israeli houses at 6.30 am on Saturday.
It soon became clear that as a result of the first attack, more than a hundred Israelis were killed and over a thousand were injured. According to the other side of the conflict, almost 200 Palestinians were killed as a result of the retaliatory Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip.
At the same time, military installations, checkpoints and civilian houses were attacked by Hamas fighters. They entered Israel by water, by land and by air – using parachutes.
Israeli police said 200–300 Hamas fighters invaded Israel on the morning of October 7. According to security officials, dozens are still hiding in the country.
Footage appeared on the Internet depicting an almost medieval picture – the Palestinians were taking the Israeli civilian population captive. Women were taken away in cars and motorcycles, men were forced to walk. Children were also taken prisoner.
The representative of one of the Palestinian groups, Dawood Shihab, publicly called the main goal of the Hamas operation in Israel to take hostages. According to Shihab, the hostages are needed to be exchanged for Palestinians in Israeli prisons. And also as a human shield and a guarantee that the Israel Defense Forces will not launch a ground operation in Gaza.
After a new airstrike on Gaza neighborhoods, Hamas threatened to launch one and a half hundred rockets – and in the evening they flew to Tel Aviv and neighboring cities.
As a result of this shelling, cars were burned, houses were destroyed, and at least 9 people were wounded. The victims were taken to the hospital. The provision of routine medical care in hospitals in southern Israel has been suspended due to the influx of wounded, the country’s Ministry of Health reported.
Hamas’s attack on Israel was approved by Syria, Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement. In Iran, the successful Palestinian attack was even celebrated with fireworks.
Western countries came out with support for Israel. In particular, the actions of Hamas were condemned by French President Emmanuel Macron, the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, British Foreign Minister James Calverley, German Foreign Minister Annalena Bärbock, her Italian counterpart Antonio Taini and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Moscow called on the Palestinian and Israeli sides for an immediate ceasefire, renunciation of violence, and the exercise of the necessary restraint.
As stated at the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv, there is no information regarding casualties among Russian citizens.
On the evening of October 7, following the second rocket attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the nation on television. He statedthat the Israeli army will use all its might to destroy Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“We will take revenge with great might for this dark day for Israel,” Netanyahu said. He called on Gaza civilians to “leave now.”
According to the latest data, 200 people have already died in Israel, over 1,400 injured, including 18 in critical condition, 267 in serious condition. In Palestine, 230 citizens were killed in a day, almost 1,700 were wounded.
After Netanyahu’s address, it became known that eyewitnesses had filmed a large column of Israeli Merkava tanks. It is reported that the convoy is heading towards the Gaza Strip.
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