10/9/2023-|Last update: 10/9/202306:35 PM (Mecca time)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel’s response to the unprecedented attack carried out by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Palestinian factions from the Gaza Strip “will change the Middle East.”
Netanyahu added – in a call with the heads of Israeli local councils in the Gaza Strip – “We are already in the (military) campaign and have just begun it. Your leadership is very strong in these difficult days.”
He stated that it will take time, and a strong position is needed in the difficult days ahead, and he continued, “I ask you to stand firm because we will change the Middle East.”
Netanyahu added, “I know that you have gone through terrible and difficult things,” and Hamas vowed, saying, “What you will go through will be difficult and terrible,” as he described it.
Netanyahu’s statement comes while multiple reports talk about criticism directed at him and his government, as the Israeli Channel 12 reported accusations in the cabinet session against the security and military leaders of abject intelligence failure.
The American New York Times also published a high-ranking Pentagon official saying that the widespread Hamas attack revealed major failures of the Israeli defense establishment, and that Israeli intelligence was surprised by the methods of militants entering and leaving Israel.
Al-Aqsa flood
At dawn on Saturday, Hamas and other Palestinian factions in Gaza launched the “Al-Aqsa Flood” military operation against Israel in response to the continuing attacks by Israeli forces and settlers on the Palestinian people, their property and sanctities, especially Al-Aqsa Mosque.
On the other hand, the Israeli army began Operation Iron Swords and continues to launch intensive raids on several areas in Gaza, which is inhabited by more than two million Palestinians who suffer from deteriorating living conditions as a result of an ongoing Israeli siege since 2007.
Today, Monday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that 560 Palestinians were killed and 2,900 others were injured, while Israeli media reported that estimates indicate that the number of Israeli deaths reached 800, 2,506 injured, and dozens of prisoners held by Palestinian factions.
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2023-10-09 15:38:21
