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.
Israel has the iron dome to prevent something like this from happening, right? So why does the attack work this time?
It’s not perfect and especially a huge amount of rockets can overwhelm it. Also it’s much more effective on slower homemade rockets, not the faster kind Iran typically sells Hamas.
… Well, this isn’t going to end well.
OP’s headline isn’t great, the rockets were only one part of todays events
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ETA: there’s the added factor that it’s Saturday and a religious holiday so more people would have been asleep at home at that time, or on their way to pray/celebrate/party.
Saturation attacks are a common tactic to overwhelm air defense zones, but this isn’t just that. Hamas and IJ fighters have begun ethnically cleansing border towns, literally gunning down shelters full of civilians, as well as parading the naked bodies of women they’ve raped and murdered, through the streets.
This is only a fraction of the attacks, and all on video btw, but I don’t suggest watching them.
Could you source that?
No, but only because I don’t want to have to look at them again. Go on Twitter, or any combat footage forum/sub, and they’ll be there.
There is no shortage of videos of both slain IDF (It’s war, so that legitimate), and terrorists attacks on civilians. I’m sure there are hundreds more clips uploaded since I stopped looking at the discussions.
What are IJ fighters? Civilians from which side?
Islamic Jihad. It’s a relatively newer militant faction. All, or most, of the recent IDF military incursions into Gaza lately have been targeting their leadership and fighters.
Because the Iron Dome, like most other products of the US military industrial complex, is more of a profit seeking venture for PMCs than it is a solution to any actual combat problem
Still seems like the first time I’ve heard of this kind of attack causing double digit casualties isn’t it? I’m not super in the loop so I could be wrong.