Wednesday, October 11
There are now over 1,200 killed and close to 3,200 wounded from Hamas’s animalistic invasion last weekend. Countless lives have been shattered by grief and irreplaceable lost.
An estimated 150 Israelis, overwhelmingly civilians, remain hostages of Hamas in Gaza. In a video, Hamas has admitted to targeting women and children specifically for rape.
Confusion on Wedneday led to false reports of a massive drone and paratroop incursion into northern Israel from Lebanon.
Prime Minister Netanyahu has assembled an emergency unity government to oversee the war effort, including Benny Gantz of the formerly opposition National Unity Party.
Israel has prohibited civilian entry to a vast territory surrounding the Gaza Strip, as it calls up reserves and prepares for future combat operations.
As pro-Israel forces hold vigils, Anti-Israel forces globally have latched onto the symbol of the paragliding terrorist, celebrating the acts of slaughter and rapine that left 260 young people dead and an unknown number taken captive to be abused and tortured in Gaza.
kyrocketing Casualties: The death toll slaughtered in Israel this weekend is now over 1,200 and close to 3,200 wounded; at least 150 are believed to be held captive in Gaza.
At least 22 Americans were murdered in the attack, with an unknown number being among the hostages in Gaza.
An interrogated Hamas terrorist admitted that they took female captives “to have our way with them… to dirty them, to rape them.” When His interlocutor asks why they took babies and children, the terrorist says: “to rape them.”
Voices of the Murdered and Enslaved: 22-year-old paramedic Amit Maan was besieged at the clinic of Kibbutz Be’eri for six hours; her heart-wrenching WhatsApp conversation with her family shows that she kept saving lives until the last minute.
Images have emerged of babies and children beheaded and burned to death in the towns captured by Hamas.
Horrendous accounts have emerged of the targeting of the Supernova festival, where at least 260 young people were murdered and an unknown number taken captive.
27-year-old Michal Ohana said: “It wasn’t a war… We were like ducks. Sitting ducks on a range.”
35-year-old Shani Hadar said: “They called the parents of a woman who was kidnapped, and said, ‘Your daughter is alive, we’re going to rape her.’ These are beasts.”
Tensions South and North: Israel is forming an emergency unity government that will include formed IDF chief-of-staff Benny Gantz and his National Unity Party, which had been in opposition.
It has now emerged that Hamas’s original plan was to conquer and hold the region of Israel around Gaza, destroying or enslaving the entire civilian population. Only a faster than expected Israeli response prevented events from being even worse.
Israel is massing troops near Gaza, including called up reservists, near Gaza and prohibiting unauthorized entry for civilians to the region, as it weights its options.
In Northern Israel, millions fled to shelters on Wednesday after apparently false reports about drone and paratroop penetration of the northern frontier; clashes continue but no all-out second front.
Anti-Israel Activists Celebrate Murder: Anti-Israel groups around the world have latched onto the symbolism of the paragliders who attacked the music festival as a way to celebrate the murder of Jews.
Student groups at campuses like California State University in Long Beach have crafted posters with this symbol in calling for an anti-Israel “National Day of Resistance.”
Black Lives Matter Chicago posted a similar image on social media, raising concerns that this vile image and everything it invokes is being normalized as a progressive symbol.