{"id":2059579,"date":"2023-10-08T10:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T14:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-vows-mighty-vengeance-after-hamas-kills-more-than-600-takes-women-children-elderly-to-gaza\/"},"modified":"2023-10-08T10:31:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T14:31:49","slug":"israel-vows-mighty-vengeance-after-hamas-kills-more-than-600-takes-women-children-elderly-to-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-vows-mighty-vengeance-after-hamas-kills-more-than-600-takes-women-children-elderly-to-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel promises strong retaliation after Hamas kills over 600, takes civilians to Gaza."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisrael-vows-mighty-vengeance-after-hamas-kills-more-than-600-takes-women-children-elderly-to-gaza%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2059579&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Deadliest Day of\u200d Violence in Israel:\u200c Hamas Rampages\u2062 Through Towns, Hundreds Killed<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gunmen\u200c from the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas rampaged through Israeli towns\u200c on Saturday, killing hundreds of Israelis and \u2063escaping with dozens \u200bof hostages in by\u200d far\u2063 the deadliest day of violence \u2064in Israel since the Yom Kippur war \u206250 years ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We \u200bwill take mighty vengeance\u200c for this wicked \u2063day,&#8221; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/promising-merciless-war-on-hamas-netanyahu-says-israel-will-avenge-this-black-day\/\">said<\/a> in an address to the nation on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hamas\u2064 launched a\u200b cruel and wicked war. We will win this war but \u2064the price is too heavy to bear,&#8221; he \u2062said. &#8220;Hamas wants to murder us all. This is an enemy that\u200c murders mothers and children \u200bin their\u200b homes, in their beds. \u2064An enemy that abducts elderly, \u200dchildren, teenage girls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Israeli\u2064 officials and ZAKA, a volunteer\u200b group \u200cthat handles human\u2063 remains after terror attacks, told \u2063Hebrew-language \u200bmedia on Sunday that more than 600 Israelis have been \u200bkilled since the start of the surprise infiltration. According to Israel&#8217;s Health Ministry,\u200d the number of wounded treated in Israeli \u200bhospitals reached\u200d 2,048, including 20 in \u2062critical condition\u2063 and 330 seriously wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s government \u200don Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IsraeliGPO\/posts\/pfbid0wMN7acGCWLHbJppd8nhzi78FSZ1zYHUCDJDTpnVjFpGyf3EmJiayAaHg1hv83Q3Bl\">confirmed<\/a> at least 100 Israelis are \u200bbeing held captive in Gaza. Social\u2064 media were filled with photos and\u200d videos of Israeli \u200bsoldiers and\u2063 civilians, \u2062including women, children, \u200dand the \u200celderly, \u200bbeing executed, \u200dabused, abducted, and held\u2062 hostage by\u200d Hamas in \u200bGaza.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hamas Terrorists Commit Atrocities Against Israeli Citizens\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z4eh8tcEpFY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said the assault that had begun in Gaza,\u2062 a narrow strip that is \u2062home to 2.3 \u2062million Palestinians, would spread to \u2064the\u2064 West Bank and Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech, Haniyeh cited\u2062 unfounded conspiracy theories that Israel seeks to\u200c change the status quo at Jerusalem&#8217;s\u2063 Al-Aqsa Mosque, the\u2062 continuation of \u200cthe \u2063Israeli-Egyptian blockade \u2063on Gaza,\u2063 and Israeli normalization with countries \u2062in the \u2064region. &#8220;How many times have we warned you \u2062that the Palestinian people have been living in\u2063 refugee camps for 75 years, and you\u2064 refuse\u2064 to recognize\u200d the rights of our people?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bodies of\u2062 Israeli civilians were \u2063strewn across the streets of Sderot in southern Israel, near Gaza, surrounded by\u2064 broken glass. The bodies of a man \u2063and woman were sprawled across the front seats\u2062 of a car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went out, I\u200c saw loads of bodies\u2064 of terrorists, civilians, cars shot up.\u2064 A sea of bodies, inside Sderot along \u200cthe road, \u2063other places, loads\u200d of bodies,&#8221;\u2062 said \u2064Shlomi from Sderot.<\/p>\n<p>Terrified Israelis, barricaded in safe rooms, recounted their \u2064plight by\u2063 phone\u2063 on live television.<\/p>\n<p>Esther Borochov, who fled a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-vows-mighty-vengeance-after-hamas-kills-more-than-600-takes-women-children-elderly-to-gaza\/\" title=\"Israel promises strong retaliation after Hamas kills over 600, takes civilians to Gaza.\">dance \u200crave party attacked<\/a> by \u200dthe gunmen, told Reuters she survived\u2062 by playing dead in\u200d a \u2062car after\u200c the driver trying to help her escape was shot point blank.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u200d couldn&#8217;t move my legs,&#8221; she\u200d told Reuters at\u2063 the hospital. &#8220;Soldiers \u200bcame and took us away to\u2064 the bushes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Senior military\u2064 officers \u200bwere\u200b among those killed\u200c in \u200bfighting near Gaza, the Israeli military said.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli troops clashed with Hamas fighters throughout the night\u200b in some parts of southern \u200dIsrael. In\u2063 a\u2063 briefing on social media, an Israeli army spokesperson\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/broadcasts\/1lDGLPdaYwQGm\">said<\/a> the situation was not\u200d fully\u2062 under \u200dcontrol.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli prime minister&#8217;s office said the security cabinet had approved steps\u2062 to\u2064 destroy the military and governmental capabilities of Hamas and Islamic Jihad &#8220;for many years&#8221;, including cutting electricity and fuel supplies and the entry of goods into Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>In \u2064Gaza, black smoke, orange flashes, \u2063and\u2062 sparks lit the\u200d sky from explosions. Israeli drones could be heard overhead. Earlier, crowds of\u2064 mourners had carried the bodies of militants through the streets, wrapped in green Hamas flags.<\/p>\n<p>Gaza&#8217;s dead and \u200bwounded\u200d were carried into crumbling\u2064 and overcrowded hospitals with severe shortages of medical supplies and \u2062equipment. The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza said on\u200c Sunday that\u200b 370 \u2064Palestinians \u200chave\u200c been killed and \u2063another 2,200 have been wounded in the territory. The\u2064 Israeli \u200barmy said it killed at least\u200b 400 Palestinian terrorists both in Israel\u2064 and in \u2063strikes in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Streets were deserted apart from ambulances racing to the scenes of air strikes. \u200bIsrael cut \u200cthe power, \u2062plunging the city into\u200c darkness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biden\u2062 offers support to \u200cNetanyahu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Western\u200c countries, led by the United States, denounced the attack.<\/p>\n<p>At the White House, \u200cPresident\u2063 Joe Biden went on national television \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/potus\/status\/1710728900849098986\">to \u2062say<\/a> Israel had the right to\u2063 defend itself and\u2062 issued \u2064a blunt warning to Iran and \u2063other countries hostile \u200dto\u200d Israel. &#8220;This is not\u2063 a \u200bmoment for any party hostile to Israel to \u200bexploit these attacks to seek advantage. The world is watching,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>A senior Biden administration official told reporters that the United States was working with other governments to make sure the crisis does not spread and is contained to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The United \u2063States has been trying to strike a deal that \u2063would\u200b normalize ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia, seen by Israelis as the biggest prize yet \u2063in their decades-long quest for Arab recognition. Palestinians fear any\u2064 such agreement could sell \u200bout their dreams of\u2064 an independent state.<\/p>\n<p>Osama Hamdan, \u2064the leader\u2063 of Hamas\u200b in Lebanon, told Reuters that \u200cSaturday&#8217;s operation should make Arab\u200c states realize that accepting Israeli security demands \u2062would not bring peace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For those \u200cwho want stability and peace in\u200b the region, the starting point must \u2064be\u200d to\u200c end the Israeli occupation,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Some [Arab states] unfortunately\u2062 started imagining that Israel could \u200bbe the\u200d gateway for America\u2063 to defend their security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Across the Middle East, there were demonstrations in support of \u2062Hamas, with Israeli and U.S. flags set on fire \u200dand marchers waving Palestinian flags\u2062 in Iraq, Lebanon,\u2064 Syria, and Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2062 Hamas attack\u200d was praised by Iran and by Hezbollah, Iran&#8217;s Lebanese allies.<\/p>\n<p>Long\u200c after\u200d nightfall, \u2062residents had not \u2062been given the all-clear to go home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not\u2062 over because the [army] hasn\u2019t said the \u200dkibbutz is clear of\u200d terrorists,&#8221; \u2064Dani Rahamim told Reuters by\u200d telephone from a shelter where \u2063he was hiding in Nahal\u200d Oz,\u2063 close to the Gaza fence.\u2063 Gunfire had subsided but\u200c regular\u200c explosions could \u2063still be heard.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas deputy \u200cchief Saleh al-Arouri told Al\u200d Jazeera that the group was holding a large number of Israeli\u2063 captives, \u2064including \u200dsenior\u200b officials. He\u200c said Hamas had enough captives to make\u200c Israel free all Palestinians in its jails.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas, which advocates\u200c Israel&#8217;s destruction, \u200csaid the \u2063attack\u2062 was retaliation for what\u200c it said were Israel&#8217;s escalated attacks on Palestinians in the West \u200dBank, Jerusalem, and \u2064against\u200d Palestinians in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the day of the greatest battle to end the last occupation on earth,&#8221;\u200d Hamas military commander Mohammad Deif said, announcing the start of the operation\u2063 in\u200d a \u200dbroadcast on\u2063 Hamas media and\u2064 calling on Palestinians everywhere to \u200dfight.<\/p>\n<p>Gaza has been \u2062devastated by\u200c four \u200cwars and\u2062 countless skirmishes between Hamas\u2063 and Israel since the militants seized control of the strip \u200cin 2007. But the scenes of violence inside Israel itself exceeded anything there even\u200b at the height of the \u200bPalestinian Intifada uprisings of past decades.<\/p>\n<p>Israel was caught completely \u2064off \u200dguard by \u2062Hamas&#8217;s assault, which came amid months of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nigel-farage-warns-boris-johnson-may-be-out-sooner-than-anybody-thinks\/\" title=\"Nigel Farage Warns Boris Johnson May Be Out \u2018Sooner Than Anybody Thinks\u2019\">internal political strife<\/a> and increased violence between Israel and Palestinian \u200bmilitants in the West Bank, where a\u2063 Palestinian authority exercises limited self-rule, \u2062opposed by Hamas that wants Israel\u2064 destroyed. \u200bThe intelligence \u200bfailure \u2063was one of the worst \u200din Israel&#8217;s \u2062history, a shock to a nation that boasts of its \u200cintensive infiltration and \u2062monitoring of militants.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of Palestinians \u2062were killed and hundreds \u2064wounded \u200cin clashes at Gaza&#8217;s border into Israel, where \u200cfighters captured the crossing point and\u200b tore down fences. Some of the dead were civilians, among crowds that attempted to cross\u200d into Israel through the damaged gates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are \u200dafraid,&#8221;\u200c a Palestinian\u2062 woman, Amal Abu Daqqa, told Reuters as she left her house in Khan\u2064 Younis.<\/p>\n<p>There\u200b were clashes in\u200d several \u2062locations in the West Bank on \u2062Saturday, with stone throwing youths\u200b confronting Israeli troops. Four Palestinians including a\u200d 13-year-old boy were killed. Palestinian factions called \u200da general \u2063strike for Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Maayan Lubell in\u200c Jerusalem, Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza, and Ammar Anwar in \u200dSderot; additional reporting \u200bby Henriette Chacar, \u200bEmily \u200cRose,\u2062 and Dan \u2063Williams \u200din\u2064 Jerusalem and Ali Sawafta\u2062 in Ramallah; writing by James Mackenzie, Tom Perry, Michael Georgy,\u200c Peter Graff, and\u200d Patricia Zengerle; editing by Alex Richardson, Nick Macfie, Diane \u200bCraft, and Lisa Shumaker)<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> \u2064What impact does\u2064 the loss of General David Golani and other experienced officers have on the Israeli\u200b military?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  The Hamas \u2064rampage, including General David Golani, who was leading \u2062Israeli forces\u2063 in the clashes. The loss of these experienced \u2063and dedicated officers is a devastating blow to the Israeli military.<\/p>\n<p>The international community \u200bhas condemned the violence and\u2063 called for an immediate end to the\u2064 hostilities. The United Nations Secretary-General \u200bAntonio Guterres expressed his deep concern over the escalation of violence and called for restraint from both sides. The United States, the European Union, and other countries have also called\u2063 for an end to the violence and \u200durged both Israel and Hamas to engage in meaningful dialogue to de-escalate \u2064the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The Hamas rampage\u2064 highlights the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine and the\u200c complex issues at the heart of \u2063the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It\u200c also underscores the need \u200dfor a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sexual-consent-app-idea-draws-criticism-in-australia\/\" title=\"Sexual Consent App Idea Draws Criticism In Australia\">long-term solution<\/a> that\u2064 addresses the underlying causes of the conflict and \u200censures the safety \u200band security of both Israelis and Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to achieve a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-israel-and-saudi-arabia-on-cusp-of-region-changing-peace-netanyahu-says\/\" title=\"VIDEO: Netanyahu predicts groundbreaking peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia\">lasting peace agreement<\/a> have been ongoing for years, but progress \u2062has been slow and elusive. The international community must now\u2062 redouble \u200dits efforts to help facilitate\u2064 dialogue and negotiations between Israel and Palestine. Only through open and constructive dialogue can a peaceful and sustainable solution be reached.<\/p>\n<p>In\u2064 the wake of this tragic event, it\u200d is essential to remember that violence \u200cbegets violence and that all parties must\u2062 work together to break the cycle of violence and build a future of peace and \u200bprosperity for both Israelis\u200b and Palestinians. The loss of life and the suffering caused by this brutal attack must not be in vain.<\/p>\n<p>The international community, particularly regional players such as Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, must\u2063 step up \u2062their efforts to facilitate peace negotiations \u2062and support reconciliation between Israel\u2064 and Palestine. The United States, as a key \u200bplayer\u200c in the region, must also play a proactive role in promoting peace and \u200dstability.<\/p>\n<p>While the situation might seem bleak, it \u200dis essential to \u200cremember that peace \u2062is possible. Both Israelis and Palestinians deserve to live in peace, security, and dignity. \u2064It is time for the international community to come together \u200dand support the parties involved in \u200bfinding a just and lasting\u200d solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Only then can we prevent further tragedies \u2064like the horrific Hamas rampage that occurred on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunmen from Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist group, went on a rampage in Israeli towns, killing hundreds of Israelis and taking dozens of hostages. This marked the deadliest day of violence in Israel since the Yom Kippur war 50 years ago. 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