[Middle East] - Israel declares war after dozens of gunmen from the Palestinian militant group Hamas infiltrated from Gaza launch rocket attack

[syed putra]

GAZA (Reuters) - A prominent Palestinian Christian in the Gaza Strip was found dead on Sunday after being abducted near his home, six months after the religious bookshop he ran was blown up.

There was no claim of responsibility for the killing of Rami Ayyad, director of the Protestant Holy Bible Society.

Medical officials in the Hamas-controlled territory said he had been stabbed and shot. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh condemned the killing and said the Islamist movement “would not allow anyone to sabotage” Muslim-Christian relations.

Some 3,000 Christians live among 1.5 million Muslims in the Gaza Strip and relations between two communities have generally been good.

“We are one people waging a single struggle for independence and freedom,” said Haniyeh, dismissed as prime minister by President Mahmoud Abbas of the secular Fatah faction after Hamas Islamists violently took over Gaza in June.

Neighbors said unknown assailants seized Ayyad, 31, on a street near his home in Gaza City late on Saturday. His body was later found elsewhere in the city.

Ayyad’s mother, Anisa, said her son had telephoned his family after he was seized.

“He said he was going to be with the ‘people’ for another two hours and that if he was not back (by then), he would not be returning for a long, long time,” she said. “Rami redeemed Christ with his blood. Rami redeemed the Bible with his blood.”

Last April, an explosion at the Holy Bible Society in Gaza City blew out windows and ignited a fire that burned shelves of Christian religious texts and pamphlets. Police said a bomb caused the blast.

Attacks against Christian sites in the territory are rare but at least 40 Internet cafes and video cassette shops have been blown up in the past year.

Many of the bombings were claimed by “The Righteous Swords of Islam”, a little-known group opposed to what it described as violations of Islamic tenets.

“This crime will not pass unpunished and the ministry has opened an investigation,” the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in the territory said in a statement, promising to bring Ayyad’s killers to justice.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinians-christian-idUSL0756728820071007

Some Jewish settlers probably did that. They are nuts. Extremist to the core. To them all palestinians are the same.

 

[JohnTan]

Some Jewish settlers probably did that. They are nuts. Extremist to the core. To them all palestinians are the same.

Yeah yeah...cut the crap. You support the jihadists because you share their islamic religion.

 

[syed putra]

Yeah yeah...cut the crap. You support the jihadists because you share their islamic religion.

I am against the unjust and the wicked.

 

[Pinkieslut]

The Health Ministry says so far 908 injured people have been taken to hospitals for treatment in the ongoing terror attack by Hamas on southern and central Israel.

At least 100 have been killed in the unprecedented assault, authorities say.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-october-7-2023/

Wonderful news. Less jiakliaobees in this world.

 

[rodent2005]

so can occupy other land and get sympathise?

Turkey is occupying other land, when are they returning?

 

[syed putra]

Turkey is occupying other land, when are they returning?

The land turkey occupying used to be under their control 100 years ago.

 

[JohnTan]

Turkey is occupying other land, when are they returning?

moslems, according to their arabic religion, are not obligated to return back stuff that they stole from other people.

 

[syed putra]

moslems, according to their arabic religion, are not obligated to return back stuff that they stole from other people.

Christians stole much much more and if they had not restrain themselves, would have done the same to China.

 

[red amoeba]

big slap on Israel's face, this is their version of 911, Pearl Harbor. Build great wall of Gaza only to be breached. Their MOSSAD can kill Iranian top commander but cannot prevent infiltration of such a scale?

SAF who idolise Israel way of operations will be sweating. NSFs will probably kenna silent mob if they have not experienced so,.

Will we see Yom Kippur again? Even Biden will find it hard to restrain his dog this time round....it has truly gone mad.

 

[Rogue Trader]

According to internet chatter, this time Hamas is using grenade dropping drones and weapons supplied to Ukraine.

A couple of IDF top brass have even been killed or captured. IDF really got caught off guard this time

 

[rodent2005]

big slap on Israel's face, this is their version of 911, Pearl Harbor. Build great wall of Gaza only to be breached. Their MOSSAD can kill Iranian top commander but cannot prevent infiltration of such a scale?

SAF who idolise Israel way of operations will be sweating. NSFs will probably kenna silent mob if they have not experienced so,.

Will we see Yom Kippur again? Even Biden will find it hard to restrain his dog this time round....it has truly gone mad.

If only Israel fought like the rest of the world i.e. do not warn your enemies before bombing them and flatten Gaza, Hamas will be crawling on their knees begging for their lives by yesterday.

 

[JohnTan]

If only Israel fought like the rest of the world i.e. do not warn your enemies before bombing them and flatten Gaza, Hamas will be crawling on their knees begging for their lives by yesterday.

From what I read elsewhere, Israel has stopped warning the enemies today for a number of the airstrikes.

 

[saynotomsm]

If only Israel fought like the rest of the world i.e. do not warn your enemies before bombing them and flatten Gaza, Hamas will be crawling on their knees begging for their lives by yesterday.

Putin should learn from Israel, give warning and bomb the shit out of Ukraine.

 

[k1976]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fi...tion-fdic-appointed-as-receiver-3296943/lite/

Maybe part of effort to "contain" the ME war?

 

[LexLuthor]

From what I read elsewhere, Israel has stopped warning the enemies today for a number of the airstrikes.

Hamas will surrender soon. The network has been cut off in Gaza, and when one Hamas cell is attacked, the rest are still oblivious.

Israel ground attack at night and air strike during the day. Hello, Hamas also must sleep, ok?