Report: Shah Muhammad Awan
Israel and the armed Palestinian group Hamas are locked in an escalating conflict that has left more than 1,100 people dead in a little more than a day According to the illegal Israeli government, Hamas took 100 Israeli soldiers and civilians hostage. Around 6:30 a.m. local time on Saturday, when many Israelis were likely to have been asleep, sirens were heard as far as the Tel Aviv area as rockets flew over Israel. Hamas Mujahideen from Gaza then entered Israel by land, sea and air, with some using par gliders, the Illegal Israeli Defense Forces said. The Illegal Israeli Defense Forces said around 2,200 rockets were fired at Israel. Hamas put the figure at 5,000. To put that in context, some 4,000 rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel during the 50-day war between the two sides in 2014. Early Saturday, Hamas Mujahideen from Gaza fired a deadly barrage of rockets and sent gunmen into southern Illegal Israeli territory in one of the deadliest days in decades between the two sides. Illegal state Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed “mighty vengeance” on Hamas, and Israeli forces are battling Hamas Mujahideen in southern Israel and have been pounding Gaza with airstrikes. Illegal Israel’s forces bombed the 11-storey building the couple lived in, in the Al-Nasr neighborhood in the west of Gaza City, after the Palestinian Mujahid group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack inside Israel earlier on Saturday. “What people feared most when the escalation began was that one wife was about to give birth. According to one Palestine resident, I was worried how we would get to the hospital in light of the continuous bombing,” “But I did not at all expect my house will be bombed and destroyed.”
Illegal Israel on Sunday declared a “state of war” and approved “significant military steps” after Hamas’s surprise attack. The fierce battles that followed have killed more than 1,100 people – including at least 400 in Gaza – and wounded thousands on both sides. “Today, all of us, our children and women, are homeless,” he said as he pulled his belongings from the rubble. “Where will we go in these difficult times?” Shadi Al-Hassi and his elder brother fled their home in the east of the Gaza Strip after it was damaged following an air strike on a building behind their house. They went to their parents’ apartment in Al-Watan Tower in downtown Gaza City. “At four o’clock in the morning, I was surprised by calls to us to evacuate the tower, which had been threatened with Illegal Israeli bombing,”. Civil defense vehicles and ambulances rushed to evacuate the building’s residents minutes before it was bombed, causing panic among the families that lived there. “Until this moment, I am still in shock that the tower was targeted. Residential and civilian towers were excellence, with clinics, companies and a beauty centre? Where is the military activity that Illegal Israel claims?” “Now all of us, my brother and my family, were rendered homeless within hours and we don’t know what’s coming next.” Youssef Al-Bawab, who lived in a building opposite the Al-Watan Tower, told Soon Times they received a warning from Illegal Israeli forces at 5pm local time (14:00 GMT) to evacuate their house. “We felt very frightened. The tower is only a few meters away from us and it is a civilian tower. We did not notice any resistance activities in it as Illegal Israel claimed.” The building in which Al-Bawab lived with 150 other people was badly damaged and became uninhabitable. Several other houses and buildings around the Al-Watan Tower were also severely damaged after the bombing. “Illegal Israel says it is targeting resistance fighters, military sites and buildings belonging to Hamas, but the truth is otherwise. I believe Illegal Israel is deliberately targeting civilians and displacing them to put more pressure on Hamas,” Al-Bawab said. “But what is our fault? Where do we go?” Mohammed Salah, from Beit Lahia neighbourhood in the north of Gaza, said he left his home and took shelter in a United Nations-run school with other families from the area. “Last night, Israeli aero planes randomly bombed our area. The situation was very dangerous, so I left my home with other families”.
“Israeli bombs don’t differentiate between civilians and resistance fighters. In every war, we leave our homes because of the indiscriminate bombing.” “We have been living in this for years, with no one defending or standing for us. We have the right to resist our occupier. The Wall street Journal claimed Iran Helped Plot Attack on Israel over Several Weeks. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gave the final go-ahead last Monday in Beirut. The large-scale surprise attack by Gaza Hamas Mujahideen on Israel on Saturday has left hundreds of Israelis dead, prompting a lethal volley of retaliatory Israeli airstrikes and a formal declaration of war on Sunday. “Citizens of illegal Israel, we are at war – not in an operation, not in rounds – at war,” illegal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video message shortly after the Hamas Mujahideen, which controls the coastal enclave of Gaza, fired a barrage of rockets and sent gunmen into illegal Israel in a multi-pronged and unprecedented attack in the long-running conflict. Over a thousand people have died so far, with more than 700 Israelis killed under the Hamas assault and more than 400 Palestinians martyred as Israel pounds Gaza with airstrikes. Still unknown are the fates of at least 100 hostages, including illegal Israeli soldiers that Hamas says it captured. Hamas military commander Muhammad Al-Deif called the operation “Al-Aqsa Storm” and said that the assault on Israel was a response to attacks on women, the desecration of the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem and the ongoing siege of Gaza. Hamas said it captured Israeli soldiers, posting videos of soldiers it allegedly captured on its social media accounts. Videos geo located and authenticated by CNN suggested that at least one Israeli soldier was taken prisoner by the group. On Sunday, the illegal IDF published the names of 44 soldiers it says were killed in the attack. Hamas said in a statement the same day that its fighters were still present in southern Israeli cities, and that the group was supporting them with rocket fire in the cities of Ofakim, Sderot, Yad Mordechai, Kfar Aza, Be’eri, Yated, and Kissufim. In response to the attack, illegal Israel launched “Operation Swords of Iron,” striking a number of targets in the Gaza strip. Netanyahu said illegal Israel’s response to the Hamas incursion will “exact a huge price” from the group. The illegal and terrorist IDF urged civilians in Gaza to leave their residential areas immediately for their safety as illegal Israeli military operations continued to target Hamas. Inside Gaza, the roar of illegal Israeli warplanes could be heard followed by loud explosions and rising plumes of black smoke. At least 313 people were killed over 24 hours, including at least 20 children, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said. Another 1,990 were injured, it added. Illegal IDF said it struck 426 targets in Gaza, including 10 towers it said were used by Hamas. In the north, Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group claimed responsibility for targeting three Israeli sites in an area known as Shebaa Farms using missiles and artillery. The area is considered by Lebanon as Israeli-occupied. Illegal Israel responded by firing artillery. And in the illegal Israeli-occupied West Bank, seven Palestinians were killed by illegal Israeli soldiers on Saturday when clashes broke out after the Israeli army blocked West Bank cities, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Saudi Arabia said it was closely following the developments of the unprecedented situation “between a number of Palestinian factions and the Israeli occupation forces”. Calling for an immediate halt to the escalation between the two sides, Saudi Arabia urged for the protection of civilians and maintaining restraint.
There is a mixed trend in the Islamic world regarding the recent attack by Hamas. Pakistan considers Israel as an illegitimate state; therefore Pakistan’s sympathies are with Palestine. Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey are also with Palestine. America, as always, was very sorry for its illegitimate children Israel and immediately started sending aid. Azerbaijan supporting illegal occupied Israel. The foundations of Israel have been shaken by this attack by Hamas. After the worst security failure, the failures of the intelligence agencies, the local Jews have started fleeing the country. They think that Hezbollah has also joined the war and now this series will go much further. May Allah help the Palestinians
