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Israel was taken by surprise by the most ambitious operation Hamas has ever launched from Gaza.

The scale of what's been happening is unprecedented. Hamas breached the wire that separates Gaza from Israel in multiple places in the most serious cross-border attack Israel has faced in more than a generation.

It came a day after the 50th anniversary of the surprise attack by Egypt and Syria in 1973 that started a major Middle East war. The significance of the date will not have been lost on the Hamas leadership.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country is at war and will exact a heavy price from its enemies.

Videos and photos of dead Israelis, civilians as well as soldiers, are all over social media.

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[–] Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Is there going to be another war or should this just be considered a small scale attack?

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Bibi's an authoritarian with a strong desire to create a sort of ethnostate. He also needs the media to cover something other than his corruption and his removal of the judiciary's independence from his regime.

So, I expect this to be extremely ugly and to leave Palestine and her people worse off than ever before.

A major issue is that there isn't even a Palestinian Authority with which to negotiate anymore. And, Hamas is happy to let Palestine and Palestinians suffer to the last person so long as it means they get to shoot at just one more Israeli. It will go on until Israel wants to stop, which under the current government may be never.

[–] SuperCuber@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

until Israel wants to stop

Excuse me? And how will Israel stop this exactly?

hurr durr lift the blockade, remove the wall

And you think Hamas will disband immediately? No, they will launch an all out attack again, because one of their stated holy goals is to murder as many Israelis as possible. The blockade keeps Israelis alive, and your armchair suggestions are stupid.

[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe stop sniping kids from the wall or stop stealing land

[–] Chunk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I punch a dog. The dog bites me. I put the dog in a cage. The dog scratches me. I beat the ever loving shit out of the dog. The dog bites me. I torture the dog and then go to the UN and cry that the dog bit me. The UN looks the other way as I attempt to beat the dog to death.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

And how will Israel stop this exactly?

Hire a necromancer, reanimate Rabin.

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