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Multi pronged attack on israel happening. First rockets, then actual infiltration with pickup trucks & para gliders.



.You can see these terrorist scum have entered residential neighbourhoods in Sderot. Firing at police knowing Israeli security won’t fire back in a civilian neighbourhood
Hamas terrorists driving in ISIS style pickup truck convoys have taken over an Israel-Gaza checkpoint at Nahal Oz
Naval infiltration by Hamas terrorists ongoing. Unusually sophisticated attack. I’ve never seen them carry out something like this. Huge intel failure on Israel’s part.
Typical Hamas cowards hiding in Israeli civilian neighbourhoods to maximise casualties. Today is Shabbat so they know most people will be at home. They do this to their own people as well.
The terrorists are literally spreading out searching for civilian targets. They know they’ll be hunted down & that this is a suicide mission. Their only objective is to kill as many Jews as possible - doesn’t matter man woman child.
Rocket impact in Tel Aviv
More footage of the terrorists in Sderot
Apparently a Merkava tank has been destroyed (unconfirmed)
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.An IDF hummer has been captured; more footage of the destroyed merkava, terrorists are continuing to roam the streets of Sderot



Palestiniana have started attacking in the West Bank - Salem Checkpoint, Ofer Camp near Givat Zeev , and Avnei Hefetz. Several terror groups announce full mobilisation
Israeli soldiers taken hostage, other pickup trucks have reached other kibbutzes, you can see indiscriminate firing on civilian vehicles,

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Sick!! Hamas leadership are celebrating the killing of civilians & praying. They all need to be taken out, no matter where they are.
My god!!!! Hamas terrorists have entered Ashquelon city!! They’re going to kill hundreds if they’re not neutralised.
Massive celebrations in Nablus in the West Bank
GRAPHIC WARNING! Palestinians strip the corpse of an Israeli woman, parade it & desecrate it. Sick sick people
Unprecedented! Terrorists have taken over the entire village of Nahal Oz. Presumably a general massacre has already happened or they’ve been taken hostage!

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GRAPHIC WARNING; Israelis - both alive & dead are being brought into Gaza in a steady stream as hostages.
Unbelievable!!! Israelis are apparently evacuating F-16s by road for fear of them being damaged/captured! If true this is beyond bizarre!
Terrorists are attacking an ongoing music festival. Hundreds are running for their lives. Celebrations happening in Jenin. New footage of some drive by shootings carried out by the terrorists



This is apparently an old video - my mistake
Friends in Southern Israel are telling me that terrorists have apparently been entering apartment blocks & killing families house to house. The aim is to kill as many people as possible. They’re also furious asking “Where the hell is the IDF”?
EXTREMELY GRAPHIC - PLEASE VIEW WITH CAUTION. This is a video taken by terrorists of how they entered and slaughtered the entire Israeli military camp at Nahal Oz. Soldiers were shot in the barracks.
Hamas released a video on how it prepared for paragliding terrorists into israel
Netanyahu has declared war
More images of Israelis being taken hostage. Notice how a Palestinian “professor” is salivating over what happened today. He calls it the “scent of dignity”

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says “𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀”. Does this mean he will order his forces to resist Israeli incursions?
Very disturbing video - Israeli family being taken hostage. The men have presumably been killed. But look that courage of the mother - she’s a lioness protecting her children and look at the courage of the lion cubs she raised
Hamas has released videos of some of the hostages - casually physically abusing them as well.
Hamas have released videos of how they targeted a Merkava Tank - with a drone. Also a police station is on fire in one of the Israeli towns occupied by terrorists ATM.

This is huge. Never have the Palestinians taken this senior a military commander hostage. Unreal
Hostages being abused and carted away. They spare no one. Not women, not children, not the old.





Some more charming Palestinian “hospitality” - forget violating basic Geneva conventions this violates basic humanity.




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From a friend in Tel Aviv “massive armoured columns moving south, all reservist being called up, never seen so many Apaches fly past, trains packed to get reservists south, repeat of Yom Kippur - 47% of the army were on leave”.
Several of my friends have been called up immediately. They’ve been told to prepare for the “long haul” no waiting for release of hostages. They’re going in hard, and going in now.
Some very interesting tactics used. It wasn’t a cyber attack. Rather multiple drones used to disable remote automatic machine gun and surveillance posts. Drones also used to attack rapid response units. Explains a lot



Massive airstrikes have commenced across the Gaza Strip. Notice these are huge bombs - at least 5 all in close proximity. Israel isn’t waiting for intel or issuing warnings like normal. They’re fine with mass casualties
Entire families wiped out today. Captured women separated and taken to an unknown fate separately.

An Israeli mother has been taken hostage with her two children - one is a baby. Terrorists have overrun another military garrison and captured armoured vehicles including two Merkavot.
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The amount of armour Hamas seemed to have captured is INSANE! These will be destroyed and if so the one day losses today are equivalent to the entire 2006 Lebanon war.
4 of the 7 captured villages remain in Hamas hands. Meanwhile Hamas are claiming 160 Palestinians were killed and 1000 injured in Israeli air raids today.
Israeli death toll stands at 100 and over 1000 wounded. For Indians used to such numbers, understand our population is 200x Israel’s. Israel’s feeling of loss is equivalent to us losing 20,000 killed and 200,000 injured in one day.
The extremely distressing kidnapping of the young mother & her two babies. The storming of the Erez military garrison that controls access between north Gaza & Ashquelon. You can see everyone was killed inside the camp.

A huge number of terrorists again entered Sderot this evening. Flushing operations underway. But it’s amazing the impunity with which they’re going in & out of Israel,
As stated before, massive 500lb + bombs used in ongoing strikes on Gaza. Israel isn’t using the low yield bombs it used to, it’s not calling residents & asking them to evacuate, and it’s not doing “double taps” to warn residents.
Electricity (and soon gas) cut off to Gaza.

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