Hamas’s weekend onslaught saw at least 1,500 terrorists cross the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip in vehicles, by air and by sea, killing 1,300 people and seizing 150 hostages of all ages under the cover of a deluge of 5,000 rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities.
The vast majority of those killed as gunmen seized border communities were civilians, men, women, children and babies. Entire families were executed in their homes and in some locations, the Palestinian terrorists mutilated their victims.
Israel has retaliated with artillery and airstrikes, and officials from the Hamas-controlled health ministry estimate more than 1,100 Palestinians have been killed. Israel says it is targeting terrorist infrastructure and all areas where Hamas operates or hides out, while issuing evacuation warnings to civilians in regions it plans to attack.
“Today, all the Islamic and Arab countries and all the free people of the world must reach a serious convergence and cooperation in the path of stopping the crimes of the Zionist regime against the oppressed Palestinian nation,” Raisi told his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad in a phone call late Wednesday. READ MORE
