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Israel pounds Gaza neighborhoods, as people scramble for safety in sealed-off territory
AP News ^ | Updated 8:54 AM CDT, October 10, 2023 | BY JOSEF FEDERMAN AND ISSAM ADWAN

Posted on 10/10/2023 8:04:48 AM PDT by Red Badger

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood on Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory as Israel vowed a retaliation for Hamas’ surprise weekend attack that would “reverberate ... for generations.”

Aid organizations pleaded for the creation of humanitarian corridors to get aid into Gaza, warning that hospitals overwhelmed with wounded were running out of supplies. Israel has stopped all access of food, fuel and medicines into Gaza, and the sole remaining access from Egypt shut down Tuesday after airstrikes hit near the border crossing.

The war began after Hamas militants stormed into Israel on Saturday, bringing gunbattles to its streets for the first time in decades. At least 1,600 lives have already been claimed on both sides, and perhaps hundreds more. Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza hold more than 150 soldiers and civilians hostage, according to Israel.

The conflict is only expected to escalate. Israel expanded the mobilization of reservists to 360,000 on Tuesday, according to the country’s media. After days of fighting, Israel’s military said Tuesday morning that it had regained effective control over areas Hamas attacked in its south, and of the Gaza border.

A looming question is whether Israel will launch a ground offensive into Gaza — a 40 kilometer-long (25 mile-long) strip of land wedged among Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea that is home to 2.3 million people and has been governed by Hamas since 2007.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamaswar; israeli; israeliranhamaswar; wot
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To: Lurker

Does Israel have A 10’s? if not they need some....


81 posted on 10/10/2023 9:40:34 AM PDT by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: Dead Corpse

Aerial spraying with pig fat................


82 posted on 10/10/2023 9:42:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
Israel has stopped all access of food, fuel and medicines into Gaza, and the sole remaining access from Egypt shut down Tuesday after airstrikes hit near the border crossing.

Are the terrorists and all their sympathizers still celebrating and hooting in the streets?

83 posted on 10/10/2023 9:44:18 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: EEGator
How, in detail.

Take troops into Gaza and take out every man of fighting age there - and any others who take up arms.

84 posted on 10/10/2023 9:46:09 AM PDT by politicket
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To: Paul R.

If there is a pic of their face or gait, they can’t hide anymore.


85 posted on 10/10/2023 9:52:01 AM PDT by Theophilus (It's far easier to rig a jury than an election)
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To: Crusher138

Or technically go to Egypt.

If Egypt would let their fellow muslim bretheren in.


86 posted on 10/10/2023 9:52:25 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: politicket

Good luck with that. Urban CQB against 250K hiding in the 2 million population.
How many IEDs, RPGs, and assorted hardware/weapons do they have?
Are you going in?


87 posted on 10/10/2023 9:53:15 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Tellurian

Sunni or later Shiite happens.


88 posted on 10/10/2023 9:55:42 AM PDT by SpokeshaveReturns (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and curmudgeons.)
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To: nomorelurker
Egypt could also offer them an additional parcel of land in the Sinai for economic development - or even farming.

I think they only care about killing Jews. Israelis left behind thousands of greenhouses when they withdrew in 2005. The structures were looted and ruined in very short order.

89 posted on 10/10/2023 9:57:56 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: EEGator
Are you going in?

Call me crazy - but I'd love nothing more than to go over there and take out as many Hamas cowards as I could before I got taken out.

I'm old and lived a good life. Taking a few of them with me, after seeing what they did to Israeli children, would be an absolute pleasure...

90 posted on 10/10/2023 9:59:58 AM PDT by politicket
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To: Pox

No electricity = no desalination...no water no petroleum...everything in a modern civilization works by electricity.
That’s why the Greenies want “sustainability”..they want to go back to the stone age.


91 posted on 10/10/2023 10:00:23 AM PDT by SpokeshaveReturns (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and curmudgeons.)
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To: politicket

The people going in aren’t old.
A block by block tank and personnel mission will get tons of troops killed.
IDF will kill more by far, but that likely won’t comfort the soldiers families.

In the end, Israel is going to do whatever they decide to do.
Gaza can’t stop or defeat them.


92 posted on 10/10/2023 10:04:01 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Red Badger

Bacon grease based Napalm


93 posted on 10/10/2023 10:04:58 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: politicket

“Not good enough Israel. Go in and remove every Hamas male of fighting age from the face of the Earth.”

That only buys time to lick your wounds.
To put an end to the hate and death from Gaza every living muzloid has to be eliminated by force of arms.
The muzzies start teaching their young about glorious jihad and martyrdom while they’re still sucking on Mama’s teat.

EVERY muslim of any sex/age is a military asset and must be treated as such.


94 posted on 10/10/2023 10:23:30 AM PDT by oldvirginian ("Had I known what the North had in store for us, I would have continued fighting." Gen R E Lee )
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To: Brian Griffin

That would be a war crime.


Would it be a war crime if the hospitals are aiding and abetting Hamas? More than once have American troops given their lives, when enemy facilities holding them prisoner were bombed. Did they want to die? Of course not, but no greater love hath a man, than he lay down his life for another. Of course, the supporters of Hamas are the enemy, not the righteous, but being supporters, they asked for it.


95 posted on 10/10/2023 10:24:29 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: Red Badger

During the Battle of the Bulge the Germans blasted one town (Amblev?) totally into rubble. Israel needs to do the same with the whole of Gaza. Maybe then the Muslims will learn a lesson. (But I doubt it.)


96 posted on 10/10/2023 10:45:48 AM PDT by PortugeeJoe
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To: Old West Conservative

Thanks.


97 posted on 10/10/2023 11:06:47 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Red Badger

Humanitarian corridors would just be used by Hamas and other Muslims to hide and to resupply guns and ammo.


98 posted on 10/10/2023 11:22:33 AM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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To: politicket

Kill them all. Their children will only grow up to come after you and kill you.


99 posted on 10/10/2023 11:20:19 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: cuban leaf

I’d prefer a Hiroshima or Nagasaki type response.


100 posted on 10/10/2023 11:21:10 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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