Thread by @Indian_Bronson

Shit is popping OFF in Israel: Hamas is invading/shooting rockets, Israeli police seem completely blind sided, Israeli govt declaring war.

Thread of craziest shit:

Hamas is *hang gliding* into Israel:

Hamas rolling around in a pickup truck in an Israeli neighborhood, aimlessly shooting

Maybe the same guys? Gun battles street to street in Israeli towns. I think this is Ashkelon? Not sure.

I guess maybe Sderot, not Ashkelon. They're close by anyway.

More gunmen in trucks. Notice an Israeli police SUV just zipping by:

Wow - Apparently Hamas is even invading by boat!

Rocket attacks are hitting all over the south of the country:

The rockets being fired from the Gaza Strip:

Hamas forces are apparently running completely unobstructed ? Wild

Hamas took out an Israeli tank:

Dawg, I would maybe not stand real close to that burning tank

More footage of the Israeli tank taken out by Hamas militants:

Hamas bugging out back into Gaza on a stolen humvee? Wild

Yeah apparently Hamas has made off with some Israeli military vehicles:

It looks like Hamas has made off with two or three Israeli humvees

Good Morning, resuming

Looks like Hamas took out that Israeli tank with a drone that dropped grenades - similar to how Ukraine has been hitting Russian tanks;

Israel seems completely unprepared for the new style of war with cheap drones turning old mortar shells into precision bombs — Here, Hamas released footage shows a drone dropping a shell onto Israel troops fighting from what they thought was cover:

Wild:

Israeli Commander Nimrod Aloni captured

Hamas must have gotten super deep into Israel AND BACK to do this. What a massive intelligence failure.

Unreal:

Israel is EVACUATING its airbase near the Gaza Strip as Palestinians in vehicles drive unimpeded into Israel. Are they Hamas? Are the civilian refugees? No one has any idea. Israel has lost control over the border *for now* it seems

Israeli troops in Sderot are searching for Hamas infiltrators

Perhaps the tempo has shifted and there are now gunmen in hiding, within residential districts? There doesn’t seem to be any gunfire in the background/urgency in their movements

Maybe the tempo has decreased. Maybe not — Israeli troops in Sderot shoot at and fire a rocket towards Hamas militants but….don’t they seem relaxed to you? Odd. Maybe that’s just how it normally is/no wasted movements.

Israel striking back by bombing the Gaza Strip. Not sure that Hamas will let up.

Update: it seems Israel has totally lost control of certain areas, but is confident they will regain them soon — here are Palestinian reinforcements joining Hamas in Sderot

Hamas has apparently captured many Israeli soldiers and civilians. Here is a female Israeli soldier who has been captured and taken back into Gaza from Israel by the Palestinians:

Wild: Israel has completely lost control of settlements near Gaza, Hamas is straight up carrying off Israeli captives a mix of civilian and military, men and women alike

Holy shit.

Hamas have captured an entire Israeli post and all its equipment. Presumably all of the soldiers/police Israel had there have fled, been killed, or been captured. Incredible

It is NOT a small base. Hamas has completely captured this IDF base from Israel, and the Palestinians appear to have taken possession of multiple armored vehicles. If they can get them working quickly, it’ll be like a more kinetic situation than the Taliban takeover shortly

Another captured IDF base near Gaza. There are multiple tanks just sitting around. Apparently Hamas has taken out several poorly defended posts during the holiday hours, but has not made much of an effort to take the tanks, capturing armored vehicles and trucks instead.

Hamas has knocked out multiple IDF tank crews. Here the Palestinians appear to have been able to overrun a tank, and capture its crew. Evidently they shot one who was resisting and are dragging off a surviving Israeli as a captive.

Update: it looks like the female Israeli soldier captured by Hamas is still alive, and being held hostage somewhere in Gaza by the Palestinians

I wonder if this is a way to limit IDF willingness to bomb Gaza?

Woah:

Saudi Arabia has put out an official statement, calling for a ceasefire but also explicitly noting that these events are the result of Israeli occupation of Palestine

I wonder how that impacts Saudi and Israeli cooperation