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.

  • 🐱TheCatEnglish
    2•9 months ago

    I wear clothes that show my arms and legs below the knee, and I like to be able to go outside at night. Audacious I know, for me to want the same freedoms as men. Do you need sources for the fact that I can’t do this in Palestine? Do you need sources for the fact that when Palestine started to see more beach tourism, HAMAS swooped in to crackdown on women on the beach?

    Im not silly enough to think that if these abrahamic religions spread that I will be spared.

    You’re right. Palestine are victims now. If Israel stopped being funded by the west, Israel would be the victims next. You disagree?

      • 🐱TheCatEnglish
        2•9 months ago

        Bro saying Hamas doesn’t have a ‘perfect track record’ is the biggest understatement. They push towards fundamentalism every chance they get and rose to power through violence.

          • 🐱TheCatEnglish
            0•9 months ago

            Your source mentions internal patriarchal control on the same level as the Israeli occupation. Almost like you just ignore evidence that yea, Sunni Muslim populations who welcome Shar’ia law don’t provide good lives for women by definition.

            You also ignored my question about what Hamas would do to Israel if they had more weapons / power.

            You’re the one confusing Palestine and Hamas. Israel is attacking the Gaza strip which is run by Hamas.

              • 🐱TheCatEnglish
                0•9 months ago

                Fuck Hamas, Fuck Israel, and fuck everyone who believes they should have power. Are we better now?

                  • 🐱TheCatEnglish
                    0•9 months ago

                    and you learned nothing. And you refused to engage with or acknowledge any information that complicates your opinion that Palestine = innocent victim. You won’t admit out loud that Palestinians refused to live in peace with Israel, just as Israel has refused to live in peace with Palestine.

                    I wonder which of us is arriving at an informed worldview, and which of us is DunningKrugering around the internet name-calling.