Hamas blindsides Israel with most serious attack in a generation - Jeremy Bowen
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Risk of flare-up between Palestinian militants and Israel has been deepening for months, writes Jeremy Bowen.

Israel was taken by surprise by the most ambitious operation Hamas has ever launched from Gaza.

The scale of what’s been happening is unprecedented. Hamas breached the wire that separates Gaza from Israel in multiple places in the most serious cross-border attack Israel has faced in more than a generation.

It came a day after the 50th anniversary of the surprise attack by Egypt and Syria in 1973 that started a major Middle East war. The significance of the date will not have been lost on the Hamas leadership.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country is at war and will exact a heavy price from its enemies.

Videos and photos of dead Israelis, civilians as well as soldiers, are all over social media.

  • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1717·
    11 months ago

    Terrorism is not the means to combat this. Murdering and kidnapping civilians is never excusable.

    • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
      122·
      11 months ago

      You’re aware that terrorism is how Israel became Israel. Look into proto Israeli bombings of civilian targets.

      On 22 July 1946, Irgun bombed the British administrative headquarters for Palestine, which was housed in the southern wing[142] of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.[143][144][145] A total of 91 people of various nationalities were killed and 46 were injured.[146] The hotel was the site of the Secretariat of the Government of Palestine and the Headquarters of the British Armed Forces in Mandatory Palestine and Transjordan.

        • Custodian1623@lemmy.worldEnglish
          104·
          11 months ago

          disgusting that people defend this because “Israel bad.” get a grip, Hamas would do the same to you if you were in their path.

          • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
            54·
            11 months ago

            I even largely agree with the claim “Israel bad.” This is not how you get Israel to stop doing the bad things.

            This is just totally fucked.

            • Custodian1623@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              11 months ago

              Anyone who unironically calls this “freedom fighting” is not merely explaining. Not happening in this comment chain but absolutely elsewhere on lemmy and social media