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submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Hamas claimed responsibility for the unprecedented assault, which the militants said involved 5,000 rockets and infiltration across the border.

Israel was plunged into chaos Saturday after Palestinian militants launched a deadly land, air and sea attack inside the country, with Hamas fighters infiltrating the southern border and firing a massive barrage of rockets from the Gaza Strip.

"We are in a war," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in a video on social media. He ordered strikes on Gaza and called for an "extensive reserve mobilization" as the nation responds to the unprecedented incursion.

At least 70 people in Israel have been killed, a spokesperson for the Israeli rescue service Magen David Adom said in a statement.

Graphic but unverified video and photos shared on social media suggested that toll could rise sharply, while Hamas fighters were able to take a number of soldiers and civilians hostage, the Israeli military said.

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[-] cylon_jg@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

Freedom fighters don’t go door to door killing or kidnapping civilians.

[-] ilmagico@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

So what do we call Israel then?

[-] fanta69@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The same thing we called the last apartheid state the west took an interest in?

[-] betwixthewires@lemmy.basedcount.com 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is incorrect. The Americans seized Loyalists and executed them, the Red Army killed civilians and genocided several ethnic groups, the Chinese did it, the Cubans did it, everybody does it. The distinction between "terrorist" and "freedom fighter" is who controls the narrative after the dust has settled. Warfare is atrocity.

[-] bobman@unilem.org 4 points 11 months ago

I guarantee this has happened for every nation that has fought for its liberty.

War is never pretty.

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