Day 19, the Gaza Strip, Oct 25th: Big effin Boooms & billowing black/grey smoke!
https://twitter.com/Timesofgaza/status/1...1199010273
Key Statements From Netanyahu’s Address Today:
All Hamas operatives must die. All Hamas terrorists are dead men walking – above ground, below ground, outside Gaza.
We are raining down hellfire on Hamas. We have already eliminated thousands of terrorists – and this is only the beginning. At the same time, we are preparing for a ground incursion. I will not detail when, how or how many, or the overall considerations that we are taking into account, most of which are unknown to the public, and this is how it needs to be, in order to better safeguard the lives of our soldiers.
There are no political considerations. We're fighting to save Israel.
We are working to get the hostages free.
We will rebuild the Kibbutzim that were destroyed.
We're encouraging civilians to be armed in an organized way.
October 7th was a dark day. There will be an investigation. Everyone will have to give answers. I'll have to give answers. But that investigation will happen after the war. Now is the time to come together as a nation to storm ahead to victory.
My responsibility now as Prime Minister is to ensure the existence of the Jewish state.
"Together we will fight. Together, we will win," Netanyahu concluded.
Statement by PM Netanyahu (Oct 25, 2023)
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More than half of Hamas' hostages have foreign nationality - Israel
So basically every fourth hostage in Gaza since Oct. 7 is a Thai farm worker...and probably expendable.
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan at the UN Security Council slammed China and Russia for their resolution calling for a ceasefireand their blocking of the US resolution which would condemn Hamas and call on them to release the hostages:
"How would Moscow react if terrorists wiped out entire neighborhoods in Moscow? How would Beijing react if terrorists cut off the heads of your babies?"
Russian Ambassador to the UN Vasily Alekseyevich Nebenzya responded to Erdan's remarks by basically saying that Russia has also had terror attacks and that Israel has the right to go after the terrorists (not sure how that is in line with their resolution calling for a ceasefire) but shouldn't go after civilians.
Chinese Ambassador to the UN Zhang Jun responded to Erdan's remarks as well.
They spoke all day so quotes are from this reporter's thread.
Erdogan says Hamas isn’t a terror group but patriotic organisation that defends its territories and people.
"They are the warriors (mujahids) he says. "We aren’t indebted to Israel. But the West is...I won’t visit Israel."
Awliyat al-Waad al-Haq, or The True Promise Brigades, a little known militia with ties to Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah, or Hezbollah Brigades, an Iran-backed group listed by the US as a terrorist organisation...says US bases in Kuwait and the UAE are now "legitimate targets." More war propaganda or maybe not.
They claimed to have launched attacks against the UAE in 2022.
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Goog translation:
"After the persistence of the Zionist entity and its supporters in exterminating our people in steadfast Palestine, and the killing, displacement and destruction we are witnessing today against the patient, struggling Palestinian people, we affirm that our patience has limits, and we give good news to the honorable and jealous members of our nation, that we consider the American bases in Kuwait and the Emirates as legitimate targets for us, in response to crimes. The Zionist entity and America, and in revenge for the martyrs of beloved Palestine."
Lord knows how many of these groups/cells/Jihad bots exist joining the online battlefield.
https://twitter.com/Timesofgaza/status/1...1199010273
Key Statements From Netanyahu’s Address Today:
All Hamas operatives must die. All Hamas terrorists are dead men walking – above ground, below ground, outside Gaza.
We are raining down hellfire on Hamas. We have already eliminated thousands of terrorists – and this is only the beginning. At the same time, we are preparing for a ground incursion. I will not detail when, how or how many, or the overall considerations that we are taking into account, most of which are unknown to the public, and this is how it needs to be, in order to better safeguard the lives of our soldiers.
There are no political considerations. We're fighting to save Israel.
We are working to get the hostages free.
We will rebuild the Kibbutzim that were destroyed.
We're encouraging civilians to be armed in an organized way.
October 7th was a dark day. There will be an investigation. Everyone will have to give answers. I'll have to give answers. But that investigation will happen after the war. Now is the time to come together as a nation to storm ahead to victory.
My responsibility now as Prime Minister is to ensure the existence of the Jewish state.
"Together we will fight. Together, we will win," Netanyahu concluded.
Statement by PM Netanyahu (Oct 25, 2023)
More than half of Hamas' hostages have foreign nationality - Israel
So basically every fourth hostage in Gaza since Oct. 7 is a Thai farm worker...and probably expendable.
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan at the UN Security Council slammed China and Russia for their resolution calling for a ceasefireand their blocking of the US resolution which would condemn Hamas and call on them to release the hostages:
"How would Moscow react if terrorists wiped out entire neighborhoods in Moscow? How would Beijing react if terrorists cut off the heads of your babies?"
Russian Ambassador to the UN Vasily Alekseyevich Nebenzya responded to Erdan's remarks by basically saying that Russia has also had terror attacks and that Israel has the right to go after the terrorists (not sure how that is in line with their resolution calling for a ceasefire) but shouldn't go after civilians.
Chinese Ambassador to the UN Zhang Jun responded to Erdan's remarks as well.
They spoke all day so quotes are from this reporter's thread.
Erdogan says Hamas isn’t a terror group but patriotic organisation that defends its territories and people.
"They are the warriors (mujahids) he says. "We aren’t indebted to Israel. But the West is...I won’t visit Israel."
Awliyat al-Waad al-Haq, or The True Promise Brigades, a little known militia with ties to Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah, or Hezbollah Brigades, an Iran-backed group listed by the US as a terrorist organisation...says US bases in Kuwait and the UAE are now "legitimate targets." More war propaganda or maybe not.
They claimed to have launched attacks against the UAE in 2022.
Goog translation:
"After the persistence of the Zionist entity and its supporters in exterminating our people in steadfast Palestine, and the killing, displacement and destruction we are witnessing today against the patient, struggling Palestinian people, we affirm that our patience has limits, and we give good news to the honorable and jealous members of our nation, that we consider the American bases in Kuwait and the Emirates as legitimate targets for us, in response to crimes. The Zionist entity and America, and in revenge for the martyrs of beloved Palestine."
Lord knows how many of these groups/cells/Jihad bots exist joining the online battlefield.
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell