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Israel attacks several targets in the Gaza Strip following Hamas attacks. The time frame for a ground offensive is clear. The news ticker.
Armed fighters killed: Israel apparently repels attack from Lebanon on its northern border.Krieg in Israel: Israeli military launches “full-scale attack” on Hamas centers in GazaKampf once morest the Hamas: Minister announces complete blockade of Gaza StripThe information processed here comes from international media and news agencies, but also from Israel. The situation cannot currently be fully understood. Therefore, not all information regarding the war in Israel can be immediately independently verified.
Update from October 9th, 5:40 p.m: According to the news website Axios Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to have suggested in a telephone conversation with US President Joe Biden that Israel had no choice but to advance into the Gaza Strip with ground troops. “We have to get in there. “We cannot negotiate now,” he reportedly said, according to Israeli and US sources. Netanyahu has already spoken of a “long and difficult war” that his country faces. Neither the White House nor Netanyahu’s office would comment on the reports.
War in Israel: Attack from Lebanon apparently repelled on northern border
Update from October 9th, 4:33 p.m: According to Israeli media reports and army sources, the Israeli armed forces repelled an infiltration attempt by hostile individuals who tried to enter Israel via the northern border with Lebanon. Several armed men are said to have been killed by Israeli soldiers. “The troops continue to search the area,” the army command said. An attack helicopter is also said to have been in action and attacked targets within Lebanon.
Shortly before, the TV station affiliated with Hezbollah published Al-Manar according to the Times of Israel a video showing gunfire and multiple explosions near the southern Lebanese village of Dhayra. Two mortar shells were also said to have been fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory. A Hezbollah official told the news agency Archyde.comHezbollah was not involved in a cross-border attack on Israel.
Israeli forces fire artillery fire into southern Lebanon from the border area in northern Israel on October 9, 2023, as Hezbollah denies involvement in clashes or “any attempt to infiltrate” into Israel. © Jalaa Marey/AFP
Israel at war: Prime Minister Netanyahu announces tough counter-reaction – “We are only at the beginning”
Update from October 9th, 3:55 p.m: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a tough counter-reaction in the fight once morest Hamas following at least 700 deaths and 2,400 injuries. “We will change the Middle East,” he told representatives of Israeli towns in the south of the country on Monday, according to a statement. “What Hamas will experience will be hard and terrible,” he continued, emphasizing: “We are only at the beginning.” Hamas is classified as a terrorist organization by the EU, the USA and Israel. According to the Ministry of Health there, more than 558 people were killed and more than 2,800 injured in Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip in response to the massive attack.
War in Israel: Allegedly over 800 Israelis dead – dozens of Palestinians die in air strikes
Update from October 9th, 2:32 p.m: According to unconfirmed information from Israeli media, over 800 people are said to have fallen victim to Hamas’ large-scale attacks in Israel. That’s what she reports Times of Israel. The Israeli Ministry of Health speaks of 2,506 people who had to be admitted to hospitals. Of these, 353 are said to be seriously injured and 23 in critical condition.
Update from October 9th, 1:52 p.m.: According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, dozens of Palestinians are said to have been killed and wounded in Israeli air strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
Israel in war with Hamas: Air strikes are said to have killed at least 511 Palestinians
Update from October 9th, 1:10 p.m.: The Hamas attack on Israel and the Israeli army’s response are increasingly claiming lives in the Gaza Strip. According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, 511 people have been killed and 2,750 injured in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip since Saturday.
War in Israel: Military launches “full-scale attack” on Hamas centers in Gaza
Update from October 9th, 12:45 p.m.: The Israeli military says it has launched a “full-scale” attack on Hamas centers in the Gaza Strip. Both the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Air Force announced the operation on social media. This comes as Hamas resumes its large-scale rocket attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip.
The war in Israel has provoked a harsh military response. Airstrikes on Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip are rekindled. © Fatima Shbair
Update from October 9th, 12:20 p.m.: More rockets from the Gaza Strip hit Israel on Monday. The newspaper Haaretz speaks of hurting in Ashkelon and Ashdod. The victims are said to include a 75-year-old man. However, independent confirmation of this information is still pending.
War in Israel: Minister announces complete blockade of Gaza
Update from October 9th, 11:40 a.m.: Israel is showing increasingly harsh reactions in the fight once morest Hamas terrorists. After the attack on Israel, the country imposed a complete blockade of the Gaza Strip, according to Defense Minister Yoav Gallan. There will be no more electricity, no food, no more fuel, everything will be closed. He spoke of a fight once morest “bestial people”.
More heavy fighting in towns bordering the Gaza Strip in the war in Israel
Update from October 9th, 11:26 a.m.: Following the Hamas attack from Jerusalem, fighting continues unabated in some cities. According to media reports, there were violent exchanges of gunfire in a swimming pool in the Israeli city of Sderot. Several Israeli injured are spoken to.
The Israeli military said the paratrooper brigade was engaged in a “stubborn battle” with soldiers searching Sderot “to liberate the city from terrorists.” Sderot is one of the border towns with the Gaza Strip and is regarding a kilometer away from where Hamas began its attack on Israel at the weekend.
Another alarm in Israel: possible rocket strikes in Jerusalem
Update from October 9th, 11:23 a.m.: There are siren alarms once more in Israel. Alarms were raised in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The Archyde.com news agency reported explosions in Jerusalem, which might possibly be due to new rocket strikes.
Sirens also blared in several cities and towns. For example, Herzliya and Ra’anana, which lie north of Tel Aviv, were affected. In Gvaram, a kibbutz north of the Gaza Strip, the sirens are said to have sounded once more to warn the population of rocket fire from Hamas. At least one rocket penetrated the Israeli protective shield and landed in open areas near Tel Aviv, Israeli television reports. There has so far been no official information regarding possible injuries or victims.
War in Israel: Army undertakes largest mobilization of reservists ever
Update from October 9th, 11:08 a.m.: Israel has undertaken Hamas’s largest mobilization following the Hamas attacks, an army spokesman said. In total, the country has mobilized around 300,000 reservists because of the war. The “Brothers in Arms” movement had already temporarily suspended its protest once morest the Netanyahu government on Saturday and called on all protesting reservists to report for duty immediately.
Israel is carrying out more air strikes in the war once morest Hamas in the Gaza Strip
Update from October 9th, 11:03 a.m.: The Israeli army says it is carrying out further air strikes in the Gaza Strip. According to the military, Hamas targets were being attacked Times of Israel with.
War in Israel: Army brings border towns to the Gaza Strip back under control
Update from October 9th, 11 a.m.: Until a few hours ago there was still heavy fighting in “seven to eight places” on the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army now reports that the fighting there with Hamas has now ended. The army said the military had regained control in all locations. However, it is still possible that there are still armed Palestinians in the region.
Update from October 9th, 10:53 a.m.: The Israeli umbrella organization for anti-racism work in Israel, Tag Meir, wrote a letter to the United Nations following the Hamas attack on Israel. The international community must act immediately to release all Israeli and other citizens who have been kidnapped and disappeared by the terrorist organization Hamas, said a letter written by lawyer Eitay Mack on behalf of the organization.
Mack has legally represented numerous Palestinians in the past and has often opposed the Israeli government. He appealed “in the hope and prayer that it is not too late” that the UN work in every possible way to ensure that the citizens abducted by Hamas are freed.
War in Israel: UN publishes figures on displaced people from the Gaza Strip
Update from October 9th, 10:33 a.m.: According to the United Nations, 123,538 people in the Gaza Strip have been displaced, mostly “out of fear, concern for their protection and because of the destruction of their homes.” The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) added that 73,000 people are sheltered in schools.
Adnan Abu Hasna, spokesman for the UN Refugee Agency (UNRWA), expects the number to rise. “In these schools there is electricity, we provide them with a meal, clean water, psychological support and medical care,” he says.
2.3 million Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip. Before Israel began its retaliatory strikes on Saturday, it warned people in certain areas to leave. “I say to the residents of the Gaza Strip: Leave the Gaza Strip, because we will strike everywhere with all our might,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday.
Hamas attack on Israel: Ministry speaks of over 700 victims
Update from October 9th, 10:33 a.m.: The Israeli Ministry of Health has published new figures on the victims of the Hamas attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. Accordingly, more than 2,300 injuries are reported, of which 345 are seriously injured, 22 are said to be in a critical condition. The ministry puts the number of deaths on the Israeli side at over 700.
War in Israel: According to Palestinian information, there are at least 493 deaths
Update from October 9th, 10:25 a.m.: The death toll from Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip has risen to at least 493, according to Palestinian sources. The Ministry of Health said 2,751 people were injured in the Palestinian area controlled by the extremist organization Hamas. The air strikes are a response to Hamas’ surprise major attack on Israel on Saturday.
War in Israel: United Nations school hit in airstrike in Gaza
Update from October 9th, 10:20 a.m.: Israeli airstrikes have hit a United Nations school in Gaza, according to the Palestinian Foreign Ministry. The school housed hundreds of civilians, including children and the elderly, according to the ministry, which called the attack “brutal.”
The UN confirmed the attack and said the school had been “severely damaged”. No one was killed, it said.
War in Israel: UN Ambassador confirms US hostages held by Hamas in Gaza
Update from October 9th, 9:47 a.m.: The war in Israel caused by the Hamas attack from the Gaza Strip has so far made more than a hundred people hostage. According to Israeli information, there are also numerous US citizens among them. This was also confirmed by UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan.
Erdan initially spoke on the TV show “Fox & Friends” regarding dozens of Americans who were now being held hostage in Gaza. According to host Will Cain, he later corrected himself and said fewer than a dozen. The USA announced on Sunday that it would relocate several fighter aircraft and warships, including the aircraft carrier “USS Ford”, to the eastern Mediterranean.
War in Israel: Ground offensive once morest Hamas in Gaza is expected to begin in the next 48 hours
Update from October 9th, 8:47 a.m.: The Washington Post Israeli ground troops are to be sent to the Gaza Strip within 48 hours in response to Hamas attacks on Israel. The aim should be to free the hostages who were kidnapped to Gaza. The Post cites US government sources. There has so far been no independent confirmation from the Israeli government.
Fighting once morest Hamas in the war in Israel continues
Update from October 9th, 7:55 a.m.: The Israeli military says it continues to fight once morest Hamas in seven to eight locations outside the Gaza Strip. “It is taking longer than expected to bring things back to a defensive security situation,” admits Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hecht to the press. Hamas is still able to invade Israel. In addition, dozens of Israelis are being held in the Gaza Strip.
Israel muster around 100,000 reservists during the war
Update from October 9th, 7:15 a.m.: Israel has recruited around 100,000 reservists in the south of the country. An IDF spokesman said this on Monday night (October 9). The task is that at the end of the war, Hamas will no longer be able to threaten Israelis militarily. At the same time, it will be ensured that Hamas can no longer rule the Gaza Strip.
Is there now a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip? An army advance into the particularly densely populated Gaza Strip poses major new risks. Attempts to rescue the hostages, presumably hidden in underground tunnels, would be a dangerous venture with an uncertain outcome. Hamas apparently wants to try to free prisoners in Israeli prisons.
Israeli forces take up positions behind a vehicle in Sderot. © Ilia Yefimovich/dpa
War in Israel: Hamas uses civilians as “human shields”
Update from October 9th, 5:45 a.m.: According to Israeli military findings, the Islamist Hamas is using civilians as “human shields.” In addition, Hamas in the Gaza Strip is “hiding terrorist infrastructure in civilian areas,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a post on the x (formerly Twitter) platform on Monday morning (October 9). In a photo-accompanied list of “Hamas war crimes,” the IDF further stated that Hamas “defiled and mutilated bodies,” “deliberately killed civilians,” and kidnapped and held hostages.
The information cannot be independently verified.
Casualty figures in the war in Israel: More than 700 dead reported
Hamas, which rules in the Gaza Strip, reports 413 deaths and 2,300 injuries in the Palestinian territory. The fatalities also include several foreigners, including “several” US citizens, ten people from Nepal, two Ukrainians and a French woman.
Israel war: Israel retaliates
First report: Tel Aviv – On Saturday morning, the radical Islamic Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel by land, air and sea. The counterattacks followed promptly, and the battles have now claimed almost a thousand lives. The Israeli security cabinet declared a state of war on Sunday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced “mighty revenge for this evil day” and prepared the population for a “long and difficult war”. The suffering among the civilian population is immense and the death toll is growing. Apparently aid organizations recovered 250 bodies at a music festival alone.
The attackers’ actions were brutal: While the Palestinian organization fired thousands of rockets into Israel as part of its “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood”, Hamas fighters made their way on the ground and across the sea in speedboats and advanced into Israeli territory. The group’s members killed civilians and took more than a hundred people hostage. Apparently the Israeli secret services were not prepared for this, which is why they are now being criticized. The EU, USA and Israel classify Hamas as a terrorist organization.
According to government figures, at least 600 people have died on the Israeli side so far. Israeli media reported over 700 deaths, but the actual numbers are likely to be significantly higher. According to the spokeswoman for the volunteer organization ZAKA, 250 bodies were recovered from the music festival attacked by Hamas alone, reported Times of Israel. On the Palestinian side, there was talk of at least 370 deaths. The number of injured for both warring parties is over 2,000 each. The Israeli army says it wants to free the Israeli hostages and evacuate the entire Israeli border region within 24 hours.
War between Israel and Hamas: USA moves warships to the eastern Mediterranean
Tens of thousands of Israeli soldiers are deployed in southern Israel around the Gaza Strip, and Israel also carried out numerous air strikes once morest Gaza in response to the Hamas attacks. The USA has also already reacted: The major military power relocated the aircraft carrier “USS Gerald R. Ford”, the Air Force cruiser “USS Normandy” and four Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to the eastern Mediterranean, as the US Department of Defense announced on Sunday. Preparations have also been made to relocate Air Force squadrons with their fighter jets to the region, it said.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also announced that additional equipment and ammunition would be made available to the Israel Defense Forces. The first delivery will be set in motion on Sunday. Austin said the U.S. was emphasizing its support for the Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli people. Meanwhile, fighting and shelling in Israel continued on Sunday. The Israeli government announced that Hamas hideouts in the Gaza Strip would be reduced to “rubble.” (with agency material)
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