An Israeli military spokesperson confirmed that there were “hostage situations” in the southern city of Ofakim and the nearby kibbutz of Beeri.

Hamas said it had taken “dozens” of Israeli soldiers hostage and moved them to the Gaza Strip as footage emerged appearing to show gunmen in military fatigues leading a group of mostly barefoot women down a street in Israel.

The announcement and video verified by NBC News came hours after Hamas launched a deadly land, air and sea attack and fired a huge barrage of rockets at Israel.

  • danhakimi
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    -99 months ago

    People frequently feel emboldened to celebrate murder when the people being murdered are Jews.

    • @[email protected]
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      79 months ago

      So, not because of a long history of brutality towards the Palestinian people, but because they’re Jewish? GFTO with that nonsense.

      • danhakimi
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        39 months ago

        The conflict has been raging for a long time. So have many other conflict. Nobody defends attacks on civilians anywhere else in the world; only when the victims are Jewish.

      • danhakimi
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        -39 months ago

        People oppose North Korea. Nobody revels in the slaughter of North Korean civilians. Nobody celebrates the killing of civilians anywhere except Israel. There’s a reason.

        By the way, they’re constantly using anti-semitic tropes to do it.

        • @[email protected]
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          29 months ago

          North Korea wasnt artificially planted on land that wasn’t theirs less than a hundred years ago, terrible comparison.

          • danhakimi
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            -29 months ago

            Neither was Israel. Israel retook its homeland from British colonizers through a conflict with the British, the Jordanians, and another group of Arabs (the word “Palestinian” at the time referred to everybody who happened to live there, not particularly to the Arab subgroup it refers to today). It was not planted, it was liberated by its indigenous people.

            • @[email protected]
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              09 months ago

              Nope, its indigenous people were the arabs who happened to live there for hundreds of years previously.