At least 40 dead in Israel, more than 700 injured as Hamas militants launch thousands of rockets
abcnews.go.com
Rockets have been fired from Gaza "across southern and central Israel, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and the infiltration of Hamas militants."

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.

  • protovack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2425·
    1 year ago

    based on many of these threads here and on reddit, im starting to think that there is much more anti-semitism in the world than I thought there was. And the veil is getting much thinner.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
      361·
      1 year ago

      Don’t confuse criticism of the Israeli government for antisemitism. They have a history of treating Palestinians like absolute garbage, and pushing them more and more and then acting shocked when they push back.

      I do not condone the attacks from Hamas on innocent people, but the Israeli government is not innocent in this.

      • BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The comments celebrating the slaughter of civilians leaves little confusion to be had.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      1 year ago

      Only a racist would confuse a sovereign nation with a religion and hence criticism of the actions of said sovereign nation with criticism of a religion.

      Anybody claiming anything in the name of all people in this World who are members of the Jewish religion (such as claiming that Israel represent all those people) is by definition a racist because they’re literally implying “they’re all the same”: the racism of thinking of all people who are Jewish are the same (and worse, thinking you can speak for all of them) is specifically called anti-semitism.