Israel At War: The Crisis The World Didn't See Coming
Simon Whistler · October 9, 2023 · 33 min video · Middle East
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At 6.13 in the morning, local time on October 7th, 2023, the Palestinian Sunni Islamic fundamentalist group known as Hamas made announcement, the start of Operation al-Qasaflud. Dear mass tell it, over 5,000 rockets were on their way to Israel at that very moment, with potential to wreak havoc all across the world's only Jewish state.
Minutes later, Israeli media reported the arrival of thousands of rockets on Israeli territory, and then the real attacks began.
Palestinian militants would steam into Israel by air land and sea, killing civilians, taking hostages and raising the neighborhoods that they attacked. Dozens of battles and skirmishes have broken out across the Israeli landscape, as both Israeli and Palestinian civilians run for cover.
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