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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: moovova

Or a hostage..........................


61 posted on 10/10/2023 9:11:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: MeganC

Boring. Nothing’s happening. No smoke plumes or nothin’. 😏


62 posted on 10/10/2023 9:15:23 AM PDT by cuban leaf (It is easier to fool a man than to convince him he's being fooled. - Mark Twain)
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To: Red Badger
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.

Gee that's too bad.

63 posted on 10/10/2023 9:15:40 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
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To: Red Badger
The only ones supporting them is IRAN and parts of what's left of Syria....

... and they're probably considered "useful idiots" by the IRAN regime.

64 posted on 10/10/2023 9:16:02 AM PDT by Tellurian (To the Dems, the middle class is a festering wound. They want it amputated.)
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To: Red Badger

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving people.

Hamas must be destroyed.


65 posted on 10/10/2023 9:16:38 AM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: neverevergiveup

“There is so much money in those countries, and if they cared to they could fund Palestinian development, instead of anti-Israel terrorism in the name of Palestinians. With 25 miles of Mediterranean coastline, a stable non-violent government, and proper development, tourism to Gaza could generate enough income to incredibly increase the standard of living for those Palestinians living there. Egypt could also offer them an additional parcel of land in the Sinai for economic development - or even farming.

The hatred of Israel and Jews is the biggest obstacle to Palestinian prosperity.”

Good idea and points.


66 posted on 10/10/2023 9:18:04 AM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: Red Badger
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67 posted on 10/10/2023 9:18:14 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Lurker
No ground operation.

Eventually there will have to be.

68 posted on 10/10/2023 9:18:39 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
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To: Rummyfan
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.


69 posted on 10/10/2023 9:18:53 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action.)
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To: Paul R.

>>Practical question: Say, you have a guy, 32 y/o, unarmed, no Hamas tattoo or anything like that. Doesn’t match any video evidence. How do you know if he is Hamas?

Easy. Shoot him anyway, God will know his own. Hamas is just the proxy by which the Palis make war on Israel; they are ALL guilty.


70 posted on 10/10/2023 9:19:09 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: Kriggerel
The wording in that article very quickly reveals its slant. Phrases like “tiny, sealed-off territory”, “pleas for humanitarian corridors”, etc. etc...

Humanitarian? Like the humanitarian conduct of murdering and mutilating children?!

71 posted on 10/10/2023 9:20:49 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
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To: Red Badger
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.

Too bad. No "corridors", no aid. Let them suffer.

Israel has stopped all access of food, fuel and medicines into Gaza

Good. Keep it that way for at least 90 days. No water either.

A looming question is whether Israel will launch a ground offensive into Gaza

The only question at this point is when, not if. The terrorist breeding grounds must be dealt with, harshly. Push them into the sea, or into Egypt. Do not let them return to Gaza, ever.
72 posted on 10/10/2023 9:21:02 AM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: Red Badger

Hamas is getting the Hamas Treatment. Unfortunately, it is well deserved.


73 posted on 10/10/2023 9:23:06 AM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to he)
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To: cuban leaf

There’s no war in Ukraine. It’s fake just like that moon landing. All AI-generated in order to build the largest money-laundering scheme in the history of the world. Biden, Zelensky and Putin are dividing the money evenly.


74 posted on 10/10/2023 9:23:35 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Paul R.

Agree. But I’m sure Israel has a database of Hamas affiliates.

And they have ID’s.

Yes, they can identify them.

I’m sure the Israeli’s also have facial recognition data.

Not perfect, but is likely to work in most instances.

Interrogators can also pick up on speech and tone. Like accents.


75 posted on 10/10/2023 9:27:39 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: caww

Yep


76 posted on 10/10/2023 9:28:32 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: Crusher138; Red Badger

“It’s not sealed off. They can swim away.”

Don’t give Brandon any ideas! He’ll have American aircraft carriers waiting to pick them up and bring them HERE!

*SHUDDER*


77 posted on 10/10/2023 9:33:51 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Texas Fossil

No the poster is only an authority on keyboard warfare


78 posted on 10/10/2023 9:34:51 AM PDT by Old West Conservative (President Reagan - 3rd greatest POTUS after Washington and Lincoln)
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To: Brian Griffin

It’s only a war crime if you lose.


79 posted on 10/10/2023 9:35:46 AM PDT by This_Dude
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To: Red Badger

Reduce every standing structure to rubble and every living thing to ash...


80 posted on 10/10/2023 9:39:09 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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