NAfter a major attack by Islamist Hamas from the Gaza Strip, emergency services are left alone Festival grounds So far in Israel At least 260 bodies detected. This was reported by news website Ynet on Sunday evening, citing the Zaka rescue service. Hamas militants attacked participants of a music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip on Saturday and abducted scores of people from there into the Gaza Strip. The media quoted eyewitnesses who spoke of a massacre. Videos circulating online showed revelers running away from the attackers’ gunfire.
die Number of deaths Now open in Israel Over 700 increased, the armed forces announced on Twitter on Monday morning at X. According to the latest information from the Ministry of Health At least 2,243 people were injured.
In response to the bloody attack, Israel declared a state of war. “The war forced on Israel by a murderous terrorist attack from the Gaza Strip began at 6 a.m. on October 7, 2023,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday. A state of war allows for “long-range military operations”. Against this backdrop, the formation of an emergency government was discussed.
The Islamist group Hamas launched a major attack from Gaza earlier in the day. He came as a complete surprise to Israel on the Jewish holiday Simchat Torah (Joy of the Torah). The Palestinian Authority, classified as a terrorist organization by the European Union, the United States and Israel, fired more than 3,000 rockets. Armed men advanced into Israel by land, sea and air.
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According to government figures, more than 100 Israelis were smuggled into the Gaza Strip. Israel announced the evacuation of its border towns with the Gaza Strip. The federal government is investigating whether German citizens are affected. According to WELT information, the hostages include at least two German-Israeli citizens.
A military spokesman said on Sunday there were “hostile forces” in Israel. Some of the infiltrators were killed, but some were still at the site, military spokesman Daniel Hagari said. Fighting has been going on along the border for the past few hours.
Chancellor Olaf Schaalz (SPD) pledged Germany’s solidarity with Israel. “Germany stands firmly and unwaveringly by Israel in the face of this terrible attack,” Scholz said in a telephone conversation with Netanyahu on Sunday at the presidential palace in Berlin. “The security of Israel is the reason for the German state. This is especially true in difficult times like these. We will act accordingly.” Scholz called the Hamas attack “barbaric” and “atrocious”.
Hamas’s surprise attack began exactly 50 years after the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The attack on Israel by hostile Arab states on the highest Jewish holiday is considered the worst national shock to date.
Iran’s support
Hamas spokesman Qazi Hamad told the BBC the group had direct access Iran’s support will receive Iran has pledged to “support Palestinian militants until the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem”. Hezbollah, a Shiite organization closely allied with Iran, expressed solidarity with Hamas. “Our hearts, souls, rockets and guns are with you because we were originally a protest for Palestine and al-Aqsa,” said a senior Hezbollah member in Lebanon.
die Hezbollah He claimed responsibility for rocket attacks on Israeli-occupied territories from southeast Lebanon on Sunday. The United Nations monitoring mission at UNIFIL in Lebanon confirmed this. Israeli artillery also returned fire, the spokesman said.
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“We will turn all the hiding places of Hamas into islands of rubble,” Netanyahu said in a speech. He called on residents of the Gaza Strip: “Flee from there now, because we will act everywhere with all our might.” Israel will take revenge.
Netanyahu has offered two opposition leaders, Jair Lapid and Benny Kantz, to join the emergency government, a spokesman for Netanyahu’s Likud party said. Lapid had already expressed a willingness to do so.
How cool would Israel have been?
I don’t know why Israel was surprised. Scores of people living in the affected cities said they waited hours in vain for help from security forces. Israel declared an “Iron Sword” defensive operation and called up reserves. Its aim is to destroy the military and political capabilities of Hamas and Islamic Jihad so that they are not ready to threaten and attack Israeli citizens for years to come, it said after a defense cabinet meeting.
A senior Hamas member was killed in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Civil Defense confirmed that the body of Ayman Younis was recovered from the rubble of the Nusirat refugee camp on Sunday. The Palestinian side is according to the latest information from the Ministry of Health in Gaza 413 people was killed Among them were 78 children and 41 women. Also, 2,200 people were injured there. Israel says 400 Palestinian terrorists have been killed.
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Israel bombed Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip overnight
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The federal government has suspended cooperation with the Palestinians
die Leaders of Traffic Light and Union Parties Emphasized Germany’s ties to Israel. The statement by the leaders of the SPD, Greens, FDP, CDU and CSU said, “The defense of the State of Israel is our duty and the cause of the German state.” The Federal Ministry of Development initially suspended its cooperation with the Palestinian Territories.
“These attacks on Israel are a terrible turning point,” he declared Development Minister Svenja Schüle (SPD) On Sunday. “So we will explore our full commitment to the Palestinian territories.” According to the ministry, support payments are “not currently being made”. According to the Ministry of Development, Germany is “one of the largest donors to the Palestinian territories”. This year and next, development commitments total 125 million euros. In addition, additional funds have been allocated to the UN and non-governmental organizations and the Foreign Office’s humanitarian assistance in a “lump sum” for 2023.
The President of the Central Council of JewsJosef Schuster pointed out threats to Jewish life elsewhere: “The threat to Jewish institutions in Germany shows that terrorists are not only concerned with Israel, but that Jewish life is being questioned by them everywhere.” In Alexandria, Egypt, two Israeli tourists died Sunday in a suspected attack after a police officer opened fire on a tour group.
at one o’clock Solidarity rally in Berlin According to preliminary police reports, around 2,000 people protested in front of the Brandenburg Gate. The crowd was mostly peaceful, but the silence was repeatedly broken by angry hecklers, a DPA reporter said on Sunday. Many participants called for an end to aid payments to Palestinians in the Middle East. For example, the posters read, “Peace and security for Israel, no funding for terrorists.”
On the sidelines of the demonstration, Berlin’s ruling mayor, Kai Wegner, emphasized that Berlin stands by Israel. “I don’t think we should allow ourselves to be divided as a city. “Berlin stands together against terrorism, against war,” he told the German Press Agency. He condemned a pro-Palestinian rally on Saturday in the Neukölln district where about 50 people celebrated a major attack on Israel. “Unfortunately there have been quite a few stories in Newcoln. But each one is one too many.”
Many EU countries are trying to stay together Expulsion of their citizens in the country. Romania The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bucharest announced on Sunday that 346 of its citizens left Israel on Saturday evening. Further Poland and Hungary Announced evacuation flights.
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