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Israel is at war – Netanyahu

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the nation today. Image – screenshot @i24NEWS_EN, Twitter (X).

Hamas will pay a price like it never knew before, the Israeli prime minister has warned.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel is at war in his first comments after Palestinian armed group Hamas launched a major surprise attack on Israel earlier on Saturday.

“Citizens of Israel, we are at war. And we will win,” Netanyahu said in a video address.

“The enemy will pay a price like they have never known before,” he vowed, referring to Hamas.

Netanyahu’s comments were echoed by Israel Defense Forces chief spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, who said that Israel is in a “state of war” following Hamas’ surprise attack early on Saturday.

“The IDF has declared a state of war,” he said in a video statement. “We are in a state of war.”

He added that “more than 2,000 rockets have been fired” and that “terrorists infiltrated, and some are still in Israel.”

“The IDF is flooding the area with troops. We are focusing the fighting on the Gaza border,” Hagari said. “We have begun a widespread call-up in all parts of the IDF. The Air Force is also striking in Gaza.”

An IDF spokesperson added that fighting is ongoing and that militants remain present in multiple locations. Israel’s defense forces, they said, are presently focused on fighting in regions surrounding the Gaza envelope, while military reservists are being called up.

The Israeli air force has begun an attack on Gaza, the spokesperson also said.

At least 22 Israelis have been killed since the beginning of the surprise attack by Hamas, according to local media reports.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday that the Palestinian people have a right to defend themselves against what he described as the “terror of settlers and occupation troops.”

The WAFA news agency reported that Abbas had chaired an emergency meeting of civilian and security officials. He gave instructions for Palestinians to be protected, the news agency added.

A spokesperson for Hamas, Khaled Qadomi, said the group’s incursion came in retaliation for decades of “atrocities.”

“We want the international community to stop atrocities in Gaza, against Palestinian people, our holy sites like Al-Aqsa,” Qadomi told Al Jazeera. “All these things are the reason behind starting this battle.”

Qadomi added that Israeli soldiers and civilians taken captive are “not hostages” but “prisoners of war.”

An official from Israel’s emergency services has suggested in an interview on local radio that the death toll is higher than the official number of 22, according to a report by The Guardian. Efforts are ongoing to reach the injured.

Israel’s health ministry has said that 545 have presented for treatment at hospitals.

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  1. Israel is at war since its creation by the UN in 1948.
    It’s a sh*thole of a country, constantly at war with the occupied people of Palestine.
    They have annexed vast territories that do not belong to them and zionist ‘settlers’ are still stealing Palestine land. Today.
    They are really good at killing civilian Palestinians, especially children.
    Israel is also at war with the rest of the world via Mossad, launching many terror attacks (9/11).
    They are, together with the USA, THE global terrorist.

  2. The Palestinians are not putting up with the Zionist terrorists any longer. GOOD FOR THEM!
    The MSM (owned by J***) will report the stories to come as ‘J***** persecutions’ by Hamas and Hezbollah, but have for years ignored the Israel brutality of murders by the IDF and the Mossad assassinations. (Mossad leads the world in global assassinations…).
    Saudi Arabia has re-stated the reasons for the Palestinian retaliation; 75 years of Israeli brutality.
    We may soon see the same in the U.S. as the U.S. Government continues to abuse it’s citizenry at the behest of the Israeli supporters in D.C., who take their marching orders from Tel Aviv. (remember; ‘elected’ officials in D.C. signed pledges to Israel that over-rode the U.S. Constitution).
    These wars are flashing all over the globe now as a result of Zio-J3wi$h hostilities towards non-J3wi$h people and nations. Ukraine is a prime example.
    Israel will use tactical nukes on the Gaza and probably the West Bank as well, as noted in the attack on Beirut which has been confirmed with videos of a tactical nuclear missile fired from an Israeli F-16.
    These tactics are in keeping with the Talmud, Noahide Law, and the *Learned Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
    (note; Henry Ford gave out the ‘Learned Protocols’ with every Model T & subsequent models of Ford vehicles that were purchased as a warning to the world!).
    BILLIONS of American taxpayer money has been paid to Israel, making the bullied and oppressed U.S. Taxpayers slaves to Israel. & yet, Isrealis spit on Americans on ‘Pilgrimage’ there.
    Look for massive J***** / Zionist body counts, and hopefully this will be the end of the Zionist Talmudic nightmare in the Middle East, with the Arabs restoring peace and prosperity to their land that was stolen thru the Balfour Declaration, and the 1948 establishment of the so-called ‘J***** State’!
    Keep in mind also that this is a ‘religious war’ that the Palestinians Arabs, Moslems and Christians will win!
    It’s all or nothiing now!
    And… when the Palestinians win this, you can bet that the J*** will end-up in the U.S., (Brooklyn, north Chicongo, Miami Beach, Beverly Hills, Vegas, etc.) making that country even more miserable to live in.

    • I like your take.
      As a persnickety rooter for facsimile docus, may i please have the root of: “as noted in the attack on Beirut which has been confirmed with videos of a tactical nuclear missile fired from an Israeli F-16.”
      and
      “…(note; Henry Ford gave out the ‘Learned Protocols’ with every Model T & subsequent models of Ford vehicles that were purchased as a warning to the world!)….”
      Just asking to quench my quizz.
      But you are damn right on the spot!

  3. Lot of people in Washington are gonna be very happy tonight. Ching Ching 💵

    How odd that this happens just as Kevin McCarthy is booted out of his position and all signs point to the Ukraine Ponzi scheme coming to an end.

    Another mysterious coinky-dink I suppose 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️

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