By Nation World News Desk

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke today (Monday) for the first time since the outbreak of war with the heads of authorities in the southern region and told them that the state will do everything possible to help everyone.

“We are in the middle of the campaign,” Netanyahu said. “I know they have been through terrible and difficult things. “What Hamas will go through will be difficult and terrible.”

He also said: “We are already in the campaign and we have just started it. Your leadership is very strong in these difficult days. “It will take time and will require a strong stance in the difficult days ahead.”

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The govt is reporting that there have now been 2600 wounded since the war broke out. Also, unconfirmed reports in the Hebrew media indicate that the death toll has risen to 800, and the Qatari reports of negotiating a prisoner exchange has been dispelled by Israeli sources. The Gaza border is being reported as being closed, but the enclaves in the surrounding areas are not yet secure. It had been hoped that the border area would be secured yesterday, but it has been a difficult and costly affair with reports of significant casualties taking place in Sderot which was incorrectly reported to be a hostage situation, but was later corrected to be an intense fire fight with the terrorists.

Gallant has orderd a complete siege of Gaza, “There will be no electricity, no food, no gas – everything is closed”. Meanwhile the IDF has continued its air assault on Hamas targets in Gaza. There has not yet been a statement related to a land assault on Gaza, though Gen. Avivi, who previously served as Deputy Division Commander of the Gaza Brigade, has noted that it Bibi has little choice but to do so.

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T. Belman. Biden should be asking what Israel wants to do rather than ignoring what she wants and once again imposing the US on Israel

Despicable even for this administration. 

by Daniel Greenfield   October 9, 2023

It didn’t take long.

On October 8th, Secretary of State Blinken tweeted that, “Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and I spoke further on Hamas’ terrorist attacks on Israel. I encouraged Türkiye’s advocacy for a cease-fire and the release of all hostages held by Hamas immediately.”

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Tamar, Yonatan, 6-year-old Shachar and Arbel, and 4-year-old Omer were all murdered by Arab terrorists in Nir Oz in southern Israel.

Israel National News    Oct 9, 2023, 9:48 AM (GMT+3)

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Tamar Kedem-Siman Tov, her husband Yonatan (Johnny), their two six-year-old daughters Shachar and Arbel, and their 4-year-old son Omer were all murdered by Arab terrorists in Nir Oz in southern Israel.

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‘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
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— 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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