All The News Anti-Israel Posters Will Not Read Or Discuss 2

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Israel and Egypt have maintained restrictions on Gaza leading up today’s blockade since Hamas seized control of the Strip in 2007.

Often overlooked, forgotten or taken for granted in media coverage and public discussion is the reason for the blockade: the threat of Hamas weapons smuggling.

Egypt captured Gaza during the 1948 Israeli War of Independence. The Strip would remain under Egyptian military occupation until the Six-Day War of 1967. Israel’s administration allowed Jews to settle in the Strip. (The Jewish Virtual Library expands on historical Jewish ties to Gaza). When Israel unilaterally disengaged from Gaza in 2005, 8,000 settlers were evacuated from 21 settlements. The Fatah-led Palestinian Authority managed Gaza’s affairs until 2007, when Hamas violently seized control of the Strip, killing and expelling Fatah personnel.

The Hamas takeover destroyed international agreements between Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Egypt over Gaza’s border crossings. PA personnel and European monitors manning the crossings fled the violence.

Since Hamas seized power, Israel has fought three wars in Gaza (Operation Cast Lead in 2008-09, Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012, and Operation Protective Edge in 2014). The IDF has foiled a number of attempts to smuggle Iranian arms to Gaza. Egypt has also has also periodically moved against Gaza-Sinai smuggling tunnels. Hamas has an up-and-down relationship with jihadist insurgents in the Sinai fighting the Egyptian military.

(For the sake of brevity, we look forward to addressing the legality of the Gaza blockade separately. For the time being, readers interested to learn more can see International Law and the Fighting in Gaza by Justus Reid Weiner and Avi Bell.)

The Cairo Context​

The Hamas coup set off alarm bells in both Israel and Egypt and the two countries established a blockade of the Strip. Jerusalem was worried because Hamas is sworn to Israel’s destruction.

Cairo’s concerns, however, aren’t as fully understood in the West but are a critical part of the Gaza blockade’s background.

Hamas is an ideological offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Article II of the Hamas covenant identifies the organization as “one of the wings of Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine.” The Brotherhood, which was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, seeks to spread Islamist rule throughout the Middle East. In the years before Israel’s founding, the Brotherhood provided support for Palestinian terror attacks associated with the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. Egypt’s failure to prevent the establishment of Israel led the Brotherhood to increase its rhetoric against King Farouk and attacks on government officials. Banna’s assassination in 1949 is widely thought to have been carried out by the Egyptian Iron Guard, a royalist movement which Farouk used to settle political and personal vendettas.

Successive Egyptian leaders Gamel Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak suppressed the Brotherhood. But the Egyptian Revolution turned the tables. In 2012 elections, the Brotherhood-affiliated Freedom and Justice Party’s candidate, Mohamed Morsi, was elected president. The FJP also won 47 percent of the Egyptian parliament. The Brotherhood sought to draft a new constitution enshrining Islamic law and authorizing the president wide powers to “protect the revolution.” The power struggle came to a head in 2013, when, in the face of mass anti-government protests, the Egyptian military overthrew Morsi, arrested Brotherhood members and seized the organization’s assets.

Despite being crushed in Egypt, the Brotherhood has affiliates in numerous other Arab countries, Europe and even Israel. (The Islamic Movement in Israel split in 1993 over the Oslo accords. The “Southern Branch” accepted Oslo and eventually ran in Knesset elections. The “Northern Branch” rejected Oslo and was outlawed in 2015 over its ties to Hamas.)

Timeline of Key Events​

To better understand the Gaza blockade’s history, here is a timeline of key events followed by background information on Gaza’s three operational border crossings.


(full article online)

The Gaza Blockade: An Explainer | HonestReporting

Israel and Egypt have maintained a blockade of Gaza since Hamas seized control of the Strip in 2007. But what are the reasons for the blockade?

honestreporting.com

The Hamas coup set off alarm bells

After the so called Hamas coup the president was still the president. The prime minister was still the prime minister. All of the cabinet ministers held their seats. All of the members of the parliament were the same. The constitution was still in force.

WOW, that was a coup like no other.

 

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Every year, Palestinian media and the Palestinian Authority claim that when Israel closes its crossings during Jewish holidays, it is just a "pretense" for hurting Palestinians and a racist decision.

But here is how they are reporting on Egypt closing the Rafah crossing with Gaza this week to celebrate the Yom Kippur War:

The Egyptian authorities decided to close the Rafah land crossing Thursday, October 5, 2023, on the occasion of the 6th of October anniversary among the Egyptian brothers.

The General Authority for Crossings and Borders said that Thursday, October 5, 2023 is an official holiday on the occasion of the 6th of October anniversary among our Egyptian brothers, and therefore the Rafah land and commercial crossings will be closed in both directions.

When Israel closes borders for the holidays, it is because they are racist haters of Palestinians. When Egypt or Jordan close their borders from Palestinians crossing on their own holidays, they are "brothers" whose decisions make perfect sense and who must be cooperated with.

Palestinians aren't condemning Egyptian plans to close the Gaza border this week

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In a recent interview, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor and PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash stated that the PA won’t attack Israel because it doesn’t have the same “military capabilities” as Israel does, and were the PA to attack, Palestinians “would all die”:

Al-Habbash: “We do not have military capabilities equivalent to the occupation, and if we confront it, we will all die.”

[Al-Masry Al-Youm, independent Egyptian news website, Sept. 12, 2023]​

In other words, it is not that the PA doesn’t want to attack Israel, it is simply unable to. Al-Habbash’s remark echoes PA strategy as expressed a decade ago by PA Chairman Abbas himself, documented by Palestinian Media Watch:

“‘We are unable to confront Israel militarily, and this point was discussed at the Arab League Summit in March in Sirt (Libya). There I turned to the Arab States and I said: 'If you want war, and if all of you will fight Israel, we are in favor. But the Palestinians will not fight alone because they don't have the ability to do it.' He [Abbas] said: 'The West Bank was completely destroyed and we will not agree that it will be destroyed again,' in addition to 'the inability to confront Israel militarily.'"
[Official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 6, 2010]

“We tried the Intifada (PA terror campaign) in 2000, and it destroyed everything that we had built. If the Arabs would want to fight, we’d be the first to fight.I told them at the [Arab] Summit in Sirt [Libya]:”

[Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam, Sept. 6, 2010]​

Abbas: “Then came the Intifada (PA terror campaign, 2000-2005), which was an armed Intifada. It destroyed us, completely destroyed us… Honestly, we don’t have the Israelis’ military capabilities.Proof of this is that they destroyed everything here in the Intifada, including the Presidential Headquarters - the Muqata’a in Ramallah and in Gaza. Therefore, I said ‘no.’”

[Sky News Arabia TV, Dec. 12, 2013]​

Al-Habbash also stressed that the PA has “changed” - that as opposed to Palestinian “military struggle” -i.e., terror - that “caused pain to the occupation” from the 1960s until the 1990s, now the PA “only recognize peaceful popular struggle”:

“The military struggle caused pain to the occupation in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, until the 1990s. Now the type of resistance that the PA believes in has changed, and we only recognize peaceful popular struggle… Peaceful popular resistance is the preferred way that will enable us a political, legal, and moral victory over the occupation.”

[Al-Masry Al-Youm, independent Egyptian news website, Sept. 12, 2023]​

It sounds good, but what does “peaceful popular struggle” actually mean to Palestinians? Contrary to what it means in the West, “peaceful popular struggle” is a Palestinian term that includes the use of terror. Abbas has explained so himself!

In the middle of a wave of Palestinian terror, Abbas described 65 stabbings, 8 shootings, and 8 car rammings as a “peaceful popular uprising.” After 14 people had already been murdered and 167 had been wounded “peacefully,” Abbas said the following:

“We said to everyone that we want peaceful popular uprising, and that’s what this is. That’s what this is.”

[Official PA TV, Nov. 16, 2015]​

By the end of the murderous 2015-2016 terror wave (“The Knife Intifada”), 40 people had been killed (36 Israelis, 1 Palestinian, 2 Americans and 1 Eritrean) and hundreds wounded in Abbas’ “peaceful popular uprising.”

The following is a longer excerpt of the interview with Al-Habbash:

Headline: “Mahmoud Al-Habbash, the Palestinian [PA] president’s advisor, to Al-Masry Al-Youm: Israel has eliminated all chances for the two-state solution, and we may turn to the one-state solution against our will”
“[Question:] What is the agenda of [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas to save the two-state solution, and do you view it as the preferred solution?
[PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash:] I think that Israel has eliminated all chances for the two-state solution. Tel Aviv intends to declare this officially, it’s just a matter of time. The two-state solution was a compulsion in light of the Zionist lie, as it is not logical that an occupied people would agree to receive 22% of its lands. But the international community forced it on us and forced the occupation on us as a fact. We did not accept the two-state solution willingly, but rather as part of ‘the art of the possible.’
[Question:] If Israel pushes the one-state solution by force on the basis of apartheid, how will the PA view this solution?
[Al-Habbash:] Accepting the one-state solution relies on the character and nature of this state – will it be a state of all its citizens or an apartheid state? If it will be one equal state for all its citizens, that is something that can be discussed. Eliminating the two-state solution is liable to force us to go towards the one-state solution. In the end there are 8 million Palestinians in the Palestinian territories and the demography leans strongly in favor of the [Palestinian] owners of the land. We do not believe in isolating anyone, but we have historical rights and heritage of 6,000 years (sic., the Palestinians have no history prior to the modern period)…
[Question:] Is Palestine on the brink of a Third Intifada?
[Al-Habbash:] Palestine has been in an ongoing intifada since the Balfour Promise (i.e., Declaration) in 1917 until today. The people has been carrying out intifada for 106 years. The intensity of the struggle goes up and down, but it continues…
[Question:] What exactly is thwarting the [Fatah-Hamas] reconciliation? Will you condition it on disarming Hamas? …
[Al-Habbash:] The military struggle caused pain to the occupation in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, until the 1990s. Now the type of resistance that the PA believes in has changed, and we only recognize peaceful popular struggle (i.e., Palestinian term that also refers to the use of violence and terror). We do not have military capabilities equivalent to the occupation, and if we confront it, we will all die. Peaceful popular resistance is the preferred way that will enable us a political, legal, and moral victory over the occupation.”

[Al-Masry Al-Youm, independent Egyptian news website, Sept. 12, 2023]​

Mahmoud Al-Habbash also serves as Chairman of the Supreme Council for Shari'ah Justice and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations.

The Balfour Declaration of Nov. 2, 1917 was a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Baron Rothschild stating that "His Majesty's government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." In 1922, the League of Nations adopted this and made the British Mandate "responsible for putting into effect the declaration," which led to the UN vote in favor of partitioning Mandatory Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state in 1947. In response, Britain ended its mandate on May 15, 1948, and the Palestinian Jews, who accepted the Partition Plan, declared the independent State of Israel. The Palestinian Arabs rejected the plan and together with 7 Arab states attacked Israel, in what is now known as Israel's War of Independence.

The terms "peaceful uprising/resistance,” and “popular uprising/resistance" are used by PA leaders at times to refer to peaceful protest and at times to refer to deadly terror attacks and terror waves. For example, ‎Mahmoud Abbas defined as “peaceful popular” the murderous terror during the 2015-2016 ‎terror wave (“The Knife Intifada”), in which 40 people were killed (36 Israelis, 1 Palestinian, 2 Americans and 1 Eritrean) and hundreds wounded in stabbings, shootings, and car ramming attacks. Abbas said: "We want peaceful popular uprising, and that’s what this is." At the time Abbas said this, 14 Israelis had already been murdered.

Abbas’ advisor: We won’t attack Israel because we don’t have the “military capabilities” | PMW Analysis

PA has it's own limitations about creating a war with Israel

palwatch.org

 

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In a recent interview, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor and PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash stated that the PA won’t attack Israel because it doesn’t have the same “military capabilities” as Israel does, and were the PA to attack, Palestinians “would all die”:


In other words, it is not that the PA doesn’t want to attack Israel, it is simply unable to. Al-Habbash’s remark echoes PA strategy as expressed a decade ago by PA Chairman Abbas himself, documented by Palestinian Media Watch:






Al-Habbash also stressed that the PA has “changed” - that as opposed to Palestinian “military struggle” -i.e., terror - that “caused pain to the occupation” from the 1960s until the 1990s, now the PA “only recognize peaceful popular struggle”:


It sounds good, but what does “peaceful popular struggle” actually mean to Palestinians? Contrary to what it means in the West, “peaceful popular struggle” is a Palestinian term that includes the use of terror. Abbas has explained so himself!

In the middle of a wave of Palestinian terror, Abbas described 65 stabbings, 8 shootings, and 8 car rammings as a “peaceful popular uprising.” After 14 people had already been murdered and 167 had been wounded “peacefully,” Abbas said the following:




By the end of the murderous 2015-2016 terror wave (“The Knife Intifada”), 40 people had been killed (36 Israelis, 1 Palestinian, 2 Americans and 1 Eritrean) and hundreds wounded in Abbas’ “peaceful popular uprising.”

The following is a longer excerpt of the interview with Al-Habbash:


Mahmoud Al-Habbash also serves as Chairman of the Supreme Council for Shari'ah Justice and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations.

The Balfour Declaration of Nov. 2, 1917 was a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Baron Rothschild stating that "His Majesty's government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." In 1922, the League of Nations adopted this and made the British Mandate "responsible for putting into effect the declaration," which led to the UN vote in favor of partitioning Mandatory Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state in 1947. In response, Britain ended its mandate on May 15, 1948, and the Palestinian Jews, who accepted the Partition Plan, declared the independent State of Israel. The Palestinian Arabs rejected the plan and together with 7 Arab states attacked Israel, in what is now known as Israel's War of Independence.

The terms "peaceful uprising/resistance,” and “popular uprising/resistance" are used by PA leaders at times to refer to peaceful protest and at times to refer to deadly terror attacks and terror waves. For example, ‎Mahmoud Abbas defined as “peaceful popular” the murderous terror during the 2015-2016 ‎terror wave (“The Knife Intifada”), in which 40 people were killed (36 Israelis, 1 Palestinian, 2 Americans and 1 Eritrean) and hundreds wounded in stabbings, shootings, and car ramming attacks. Abbas said: "We want peaceful popular uprising, and that’s what this is." At the time Abbas said this, 14 Israelis had already been murdered.

Abbas’ advisor: We won’t attack Israel because we don’t have the “military capabilities” | PMW Analysis

PA has it's own limitations about creating a war with Israel

palwatch.org

Israel has not won a war since 1973.

 

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Fact Into Fiction: New York Times Book Review Lies Over Palestinian School Bus Crash | Honest Reporting

In June 2021, Nathan Thrall published a lengthy essay “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama” in The New York Review of Books. Writing for HonestReporting,

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Every month, a Palestinian NGO named MADA issues a report of violations of press freedoms in the territories.

For September, it counted 41 violations by Israel and only 8 by the Palestinian Authority.

But the devil is in the details.

All of the Israeli "violations" were where reporters were at the wrong place at the wrong time (i.e., hit by tear gas canisters) or where they tried to go to areas where the Israeli security forces were operating. They did not name a single case where it was obvious journalist was targeted because he or she was a journalist. (They made that claim for a few cases but didn't back them up.)

With the Palestinian violations, though, the violations of press freedom are not ambiguous at all:

The most prominent of these violations were:

The Center said: “Despite the decrease in the number of Palestinian violations, they occurred as part of the serious attacks on journalists and on the state of media freedoms. Among the most prominent of these violations was the arrest of 3 journalists by the Palestinian security services after they were summoned for investigation, and they were subjected to ill-treatment amounting to torture (Al-Shabah Journalist Jarrah Khalaf was released after 11 days of detention, and journalist Hatem Hamdan was released after spending four days in detention, while freelance journalist Tariq Al-Sarkji is still detained by Preventive Security in the district building in the city of Nablus after his detention was extended on 09/27 for 15 days.”

In addition to the above, the Preventive Security Service summoned the photographer Muhammad Shusha due to a post he published on his Facebook page, and the Military Intelligence summoned the freelance journalist Mujahid Mardaway and subjected him to investigation for hours due to his media work.

Being arrested by police and imprisoned for days or longer? Being summoned because they didn't like a Facebook post?

It sounds like there are no Palestinian press freedoms.

As Bassem Tawil writes:

"The phenomenon of arresting journalists at the hands of the Palestinian security services represents a dangerous policy," the Palestinian Journalists' Forum said in a statement on March 15, 2023. The forum called on the PA to "stop its violations against male and female journalists and to release them immediately."

It is a sad truth that, three decades after the inception of the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinians still do not have a free and independent media.

It is another sad truth that Palestinian journalists are being arrested and intimidated by PA security forces for the crime of carrying out their duties. Palestinians who want to practice real journalism are forced to seek work with Israeli and foreign media, where they enjoy far more freedom than in their own media outlets.

An even sadder truth is that most international human rights organizations care nothing about the abuse perpetrated against Palestinian journalists by their own leaders.

Press freedom, Palestinian-style

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BBC Arabic reported Israeli minister performing "Talmudic rituals" for "so-called Sukkot Festival" ​

Arabic language media often uses the phrase "Talmudic rituals" as an epithet for anything religious that Jews do. But for a while, the BBC did, too.

In an article published yesterday, as seen in Google cache, BBC Arabic wrote, "Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karai performs Talmudic rituals and prayers for the so-called “Sukkot Festival” in Riyadh."





This mirrors the language in countless anti-Israel and antisemitic sites, including calling Sukkot "so-called."

Apparently a BBC editor noticed this and changed the story several hours later to say, "The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation 'Kan' reported that Communications Minister Shlomo Karai performed a Jewish prayer called 'Sukkot' in Riyadh." (The prayer isn't called "Sukkot' so the editor didn't quite fix everything.)

But the BBC's original captioning of the video of Karai saying "Hoshanot" as "performing Talmudic prayers" remains at this Arabic news aggregation site, screenshot above.



This points to a long-standing problem at not just the BBC but other Western media sites who rely on anti-Israel Arab reporters to write their stories. The Arabic sections get less editorial oversight than the Western-language sites do, and antisemitic language makes it into the supposedly professional Western media.

BBC Arabic reported Israeli minister performing "Talmudic rituals" for "so-called Sukkot Festival"

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Report outlines how Iran smuggles arms to Hamas

Israel reveals how weapons are being smuggled from Iran to Hamas in Gaza via Yemen and Sudan and then through Egypt.

www.al-monitor.com

 

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A leaked email sent on October 7 by George Achi, the CBC’s Director of Journalistic Standards and Practices and Public Trust to all CBC journalists, has urged journalists at our public broadcaster to not refer to Hamas as “terrorists” and cautioned reporters to not say that Israel ended its occupation of Gaza in 2005, when the Jewish state pulled its settlers and soldiers from the Strip in its disengagement plan, but to instead refer to Israel’s military presence and its control over the air, land & sea and movement into and out of the area.

The leaked email told CBC journalists the following:

• “The Gaza strip: Gaza is OK to use as a clipped form even in first reference. Please do not describe 2005 as “the end of the occupation” as Israel has maintained control over airspace, seafront and virtually all movement into or out of the area. Our description should be fact-based, referring to the end of permanent Israeli military presence on the ground.
• Do not refer to militants, soldiers, or anyone else as “terrorists.” The notion of terrorism remains heavily politicized and is part of the story. Even when quoting/clipping a government or a source referring to fighters as “terrorists,” we should add context to ensure the audience understands this is opinion, not fact. That includes statements from the Canadian government and Canadian politicians.”

Click below to read the full leaked email:


CBC News refuses to refer to Hamas, a proxy of Iran which has kidnapped Israeli women, children, men and the elderly and which has slaughtered over 300 innocent Israelis in cold blood as terrorists. If this isn’t terrorism, what is?

To wit, it is an undisputed fact, not an opinion, that the Canadian government regards Hamas as a terrorist group and is listed as such by Public Safety Canada.

That CBC prefers to sanitize and whitewash Palestinian terrorism into broad and utterly meaningless terms like “militants” and “fighters” is not surprising, but appalling to see, nonetheless. As a result, CBC readers, listeners and viewers will continue to be misled as a result of this CBC directive.

Furthermore, that CBC is intentionally slanting the news by telling its journalists to not state as fact how Israel ceased its occupation of Gaza in 2005, is more damning evidence of the CBC’s pervasive bias against Israel. Lastly, this CBC memo fails to acknowledge that Egypt also enforces a blockade of Gaza as a necessary security measure to prevent and thwart attacks by the Hamas terrorist group, a proxy of Iran which today murdered over 300 Israelis and injured 2,000 more.

As an annual recipient of over a billion taxpayer dollars, CBC is duty-bound and tasked to be politically neutral and objective. This latest directive sent to all journalists at our public broadcaster further validates our longstanding concerns about the CBC’s bias against Israel and reveals its slanted coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/exposed-cbc-urges-journalists-to-not-call-hamas-terrorists-cautions-against-saying-2005-saw-an-end-of-the-occupation-of-gaza/?utm_source=Honest+Reporting+Canada&utm_campaign=efbc02429d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_01_01_06_22_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c2395b4f14-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

 

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[ These are some of the worse people in Islam. The ones who brazenly rejoice at the death on any Jews ]

Muslims in Europe, Middle East celebrate slaughter of Israelis | World Israel News

Muslims across the world revel in murder of Israelis, waving Palestinians flags and dancing in the streets.

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[ This is how Peace is ever going to happen between Palestinians and Israel ]

• Fatah: Terror massacre was “a morning of victory, joy, [and] pride”
• Abbas: Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians is “self-defense” and “Israeli escalation”
• Fatah calls for Palestinian “escalation” and to “intensify the confrontation in all arenas of confrontation with the occupation”
  
• Fatah urges all Palestinians to join the terror against Israel and “to take action and participate in this story of heroism”
  
• Fatah: “Glory to the Martyrs, healing to the wounded, and victory to our mighty Palestinian people”
  
• Fatah’s antisemitic legitimization of terror: The Jews “defile our Jerusalem and our holy places”
  
• Fatah stresses its participation in the “heroic battle” to “defend” the Palestinian people’s “honor and holy sites”
  

Fatah calls to expand war to West Bank â âconfrontation in all arenasâ | PMW Analysis

Fatah calls to expand war

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Islam's Victory over the Jews, ABOVE ALL ELSE.

 

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700 Dead, 100 Abducted, 2,243 Wounded in Hamas War Against Israel

On Saturday night, Israel’s security cabinet voted unanimously to approve a declaration of war -- Operation Iron Swords -- for the first time since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

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Dozens of warplanes attacked at least 150 targets throughout the massive Shujay’a neighborhood in Gaza City, IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari said Sunday night.

Around a hundred tons of ammunition were dropped in the attack.

“The Shujay’a neighborhood is also used as a terrorist nest for Hamas and is where many activities against Israel were launched, also as part of the fighting in recent days,” Hagari said.

In addition, fighters of the 13th Israeli Navy Fleet captured the deputy commander of the southern brigade of the Hamas naval force in Gaza, Muhammad Abu A’ali.

“The suspect is being held and is currently being interrogated by the security system,” the IDF said.

IDF Attacks Shujay’a, Captures Senior Hamas Navy Commander

"The Shujay'a neighborhood is also used as a terrorist nest for Hamas and is where many activities against Israel were launched."

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Day 2: Israeli Forces Destroy Hundreds of Hamas Terror Targets in Gaza

Following an overnight assessment, the IDF issued an order designating the Gaza Division sector as a closed military zone.

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