‘There Were Terrorists Inside’: How Hamas’s Attack on Israel Unfolded

Patrick Kingsley, Aaron Boxerman, Gabby Sobelman

Palestinian militants from Gaza raided Israel on Saturday, killing and abducting hundreds. Survivors have begun to recount the most complex attack on their territory in half a century.

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by  Liel Leibovitz

Israel’s UN Ambassador holds press conference following Hamas attack on Israel: This is Israel’s 9/11. Nothing will be the same from now on.

Israel National News    Oct 9, 2023, 4:12 AM (GMT+3)

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Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, held a press conference in the UN on Sunday ahead of the Security Council’s meeting on the surprise Hamas terror attacks against Israel.<

The Ambassador presented shocking photos and distressing videos of civilians who were murdered or kidnapped from their homes by Hamas including children and the elderly, among them Holocaust survivors. He emphasized that this is Israel’s 9/11 and that from now on, nothing will be the same.

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JNS CEO and Jerusalem Bureau Chief Alex Traiman discusses the latest events in Israel.

(October 8, 2023 / JNS)

What exactly happened in Israel with the unprecedented Hamas attacks on Oct. 7—a Shabbat morning and Jewish holiday—including a massive barrage of thousands of rockets, an infiltration across the border with the Gaza Strip, and the taking of civilian and military hostages?

What’s happening now? What is at stake?

Find out the latest news with JNS CEO and Jerusalem Bureau Chief Alex Traiman.

Israeli forces cross a main road in an armored personnel carrier (APC) as additional IDF troops are deployed near the southern city of Sderot following an assault by Hamas terrorists, October 8, 2023. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Israel formally declared a state of war on Sunday as the death toll from an unprecedented Hamas attack a day earlier rose above 700 and was expected to rise further, with the fate of over a hundred people abducted and taken to the Gaza Strip still unclear.

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A WARNING FROM THE JORDANIAN OPPOSITION COALITION
TERROR ALERT: LIKELY TERROR ATTACK IN SHARM EL-SHEIKH-EGYPT
——————————————————— The Jordanian Opposition Coalition (JOC) has received advanced intelligence confirming of an elevated threat of… pic.twitter.com/bgGyY1GITE

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) October 8, 2023

IISS predicted/warned–time and time again–that a major strategic fiasco over Gaza was imminent (see below). Sadly, these warnings were never heeded.  Help IISS gain more traction by supporting its incisive and insightful work.

Israel’s stark option: Arabs in Gaza or Jews in the Negev?

If back in 2005, on the eve of the “disengagement,” some far-sighted individual had predicted that reality would be as it is today, his caveats would have been disdainfully dismissed as unfounded scare-mongering.

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By Gary Willig, INN      Oct 8, 2023, 2:04 PM (GMT+3)

Colonel Richard Kemp, the former commander of the British military forces in Afghanistan, spoke to Israel National News – Arutz Sheva on Sunday about the Hamas-launched war on Israel in which over 350 people have been murdered so far and stated that Russia’s hand can be seen in the attack in addition to the hand of Iran.

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T. Belman.  And this was written 2 days before the vicious attack on civilians.  600 dead and counting. Six times bigger per capita thjan 9/11 for the US

Let’s not be fooled. Extolling “ironclad friendship” between America are simply meaningless and phony words when Biden is enriching the Iranian terror regime with billions of dollars in funds and sanctions relief; pressing Israel to cede her sovereignty and security to a Palestinian terror state on “Auschwitz lines” that would render Israel indefensible.

By Morton A. Klein

(October 5, 2023 / ISRAEL HAYOM) President Joe Biden and his administration have been pursuing the same hostile-to-Israel policies promoted by the Obama-Biden administration.

Let’s not be fooled. Extolling “ironclad friendship” between America are simply meaningless and phony words when Biden is enriching the Iranian terror regime with billions of dollars in funds and sanctions relief; pressing Israel to cede her sovereignty and security to a Palestinian terror state on “Auschwitz lines” that would render Israel indefensible; and sending over $1.5 billion to Hamas-allied UNRWA and to the Palestinian regime thereby freeing up funds for the Palestinian Authority to continue paying Arabs lifetime pensions to murder Jews and Americans.

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By Mordechai Ben-Menachem 8 October 2023

Fifty years to the day of the Yom Kippur War; and once again a surprise attack of unprecedented viciousness.

The war began at 06:30 with the intentional targeting of children and families. They intentionally murdered children and mothers in their beds.

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T. Belman. I blame the West too. Always protecting the Palestinians and stopping Israel from defeating Fatah and Hamas.

Always ignoring the intent of Hamas and the PA to destroy Israel and forcing Israel to get in bed with them

Always financially supporting the PA and UNRWA knowing they were terrorists.

and we should cancell the deal that Biden insisted on in which we gave Hezbollah some of our gas fields.

By Tuqa Khalid, Al Arabiya English  08 October ,2023: 08:06 AM GST

Russia is already and will continue to exploit the Hamas attacks in Israel to advance several information operations intended to reduce US and Western support and attention to Ukraine, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said on Sunday.

The Washington-based think tank said: “The Kremlin amplified several information operations following Hamas attacks in Israel, primarily blaming the West for neglecting conflicts in the Middle East in favor of supporting Ukraine and claiming the international community will cease to pay attention to Ukraine by portraying attention to the Middle East or alternatively Ukraine as a zero-sum comparison.”

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Authored by Victor Davis Hanson,

Why did Hamas stage a long-planned, carefully executed and multifaceted attack on Israeli towns, soldiers, and civilians – one designed to instill terror by executing noncombatants, taking hostages, and desecrating the bodies of the dead?

And how were the killers able to enter Israeli proper in enough numbers to kill what could be hundreds and perhaps eventually wound what could be thousands?

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The security establishment has feared engagement in Gaza more than the terror group’s rule. Saturday’s attack may change that.

By Daniel Pipes, WSJ

The surprise attack on Israel by Hamas, the Islamist organization ruling Gaza, is a humanitarian horror. It is also a strategic opportunity for Israel, the U.S. and democracies everywhere.

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Sunday 2:10 AM: Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan remarked on the attack: “Today is Israel’s 9/11 moment. Life for us will never be the same after today’s vicious terror attacks by Hamas terrorists. 250 murdered Israelis is the equivalent of over 8,000 Americans. When we say never again, never again is now. May God bless the State of Israel.”

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A decade of perverse U.S. policy sets the stage for mass murder

By Liel Leibovitz, TABLET  October 07, 2023

I am writing this on Saturday, as news outlets report hundreds of Israeli dead, and dozens, if not hundreds, of soldiers and civilians kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and taken into Gaza.

It is never a good idea to write anything as events are still rapidly unfolding, especially as neither I nor anyone else can answer the only question that ultimately matters—namely, “what happens now?” But we can answer another, much more rudimentary and no less urgent question: Who’s at fault?

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Western intelligence and military sources:
“The King of Jordan’s intelligence and the Egyptian military intelligence are the ones behind Hamas’ escalation against Israel,” and the goal is “to buy time for Abdullah, the king of #Jordan, who is on the verge of falling.” Sisi knows…

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) October 7, 2023

Sources: Netanyahu’s office has just refused to receive a call from #Jordan’s kinglet’s office offering to negotiate on behalf of Hamas.
Response: “We will eliminate Hamas this time.”
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As Jordanians, we will not mourn Hamas if Israel eliminates it, after all, this is the entity…

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) October 7, 2023

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‘Hamas wants to murder us all, we will win this war,’ PM Netanyahu tells Israel’s citizens.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night spoke to Israel’s citizens about the war which broke out Saturday morning following a surprise attack on Israel.

“This morning, Hamas forces invaded Israeli territory – on the morning of a holiday, and the Sabbath – and murdered innocent civilians, children and old people. Hamas cruelly and wickedly declared war.”

“We will win this war, but the price will be heavier than we can bear. This is a most difficult day for us all.”

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