Over 100 Israelis have died and more than 900 were injured after rockets were fired from Gaza by Hamas militants, Israeli officials said Saturday.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said 198 were killed in Gaza and at least 1,610 were injured Saturday in retaliatory attacks from Israel.
“We are at war. We will win,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday.
The Israeli Defense Forces earlier declared “a state of alert for war,” according to a statement issued by the IDF.
“Over the past hour, the Hamas terrorist organization launched massive barrages of rockets from Gaza into Israel, and its terrorist operatives have infiltrated into Israel in a number of different locations in the south,” the IDF said early Saturday.
I don’t support or condone it at all. But with how they’ve been treated for decades I’m just not surprised.
Let me ask you a basic question. Israel has tried on many occasions over the span of decades to pursue peace. They tried a dozen peace proposals, they were all rejected. They tried setting up negotiations talks, they were rejected. They tried establishing diplomatic channels for communication, they were rejected. Every time Israel gives them the benefit of the doubt and loosens restrictions, they run around massacring civilians just like they did yesterday. Every single time, the Palestinians, and especially Hamas, chose to wage war, resort to terrorism, and double down on the idea of genociding or exiling the Jews, destroying the state of Israel, and establishing a theocratic Palestine that’s ruled by sharia. They refuse to talk, they refuse to come up with their own proposals, they refuse peace, and they are hell bent on destroying Israel. How is Israel supposed to work with them? What are they supposed to? If you were in their place, what would you do?