Posted on 10/10/2023 6:41:11 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie
The Israel Defense Forces said it had finally regained control over its suddenly porous border with the Gaza Strip Tuesday morning, some 72 hours after Hamas terrorists blew through sections of the barrier and launched an invasion that saw over 1,000 Israelis slaughtered or kidnapped.
As Israel continued to grapple with the emerging enormity of Saturday’s massacres and the military was formally notifying hostages’ families that their loved ones were being held in Gaza, air force planes bombarded wide swaths of the Strip. Meanwhile, some 300,000 reservists girded for a possible ground invasion, sweeps to locate terrorists feared still hiding inside Israel continued and tensions on the northern border threatened to snowball into a second front.
The IDF said it had managed to seal the border, mining areas around breaches as a stopgap against further incursions.
The death toll in Israel from the surprise attack and subsequent battles rose above 900, according to reports. Over 500 people remained hospitalized, many with life-threatening injuries; over 2,700 have been injured since Saturday.
“In the last day, not a single terrorist entered via the fence,” said the Israel Defense Forces’ top spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari.
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Despite earlier indications, Hagari said that the military had not identified any tunnels crossing from Gaza into Israeli territory.
The IDF estimates that there are a small number of terrorists still hiding in Israeli territory. Overnight, Israeli security forces killed at least one Palestinian terrorist near Kibbutz Sa’ad. Troops also exchanged fire with terrorists in Kissufim and Monday night saw police kill another terror suspect near Mishmar Hanegev, some 24 kilometers (15 miles) inside Israel.
Lt. Col. Richard Hecht said the bodies of 1,500 terrorists had been located around southern Israel. Hundreds more have been killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza, according to Hamas health officials.
Oh stop it already.
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Malaysia.
The “old ultraviolence” seems to be an Arab cultural tradition, though Salafist hate preachers certainly have a bad influence on emotionally unstable young men in other lands.
Indonesia, being the most populous muslim nation, doesn’t come up too often in “Atrocities Today.” But perhaps I missed some.
Too late. Islam is at war with Civilization, and has been since Mad Mo had his first hallucination.
DONT DEFEND ISLAM, every single one of them support whats happening. Islam is a cancer everywhere it exists. Everyone inside and outside the mosque is culpable. The scum in gaza put hamas in charge when Israel left in 2005. Israel supplies them with ALL their food, electric, water and the best health care in the world for free and this is how they thank them. This IS Islam through and through.
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