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Middle East War - Not a political thread - Rpts of 100s dead 1st day - 10/7/23 - to Lebanon: 9/1724 - Iran too, 10/1/24 - Syria & Russia, 10/3/24 - to

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Hamas surprise attack out of Gaza stuns Israel and leaves hundreds dead in fighting, retaliation

​BY JOSEF FEDERMAN AND ISSAM ADWAN
Updated 4:59 PM EDT, October 7, 2023

JERUSALEM (AP) — Backed by a barrage of rockets, dozens of Hamas militants broke out of the blockaded Gaza Strip and into nearby Israeli towns, killing dozens and abducting others in an unprecedented surprise early morning attack during a major Jewish holiday Saturday. A stunned Israel launched airstrikes in Gaza, with its prime minister saying the country is now at war with Hamas and vowing to inflict an “unprecedented price.”

In an assault of startling breadth, Hamas gunmen rolled into as many as 22 locations outside the Gaza Strip, including towns and other communities as far as 15 miles (24 kilometers) from the Gaza border. In some places, they roamed for hours, gunning down civilians and soldiers as Israel’s military scrambled to muster a response. Gunbattles continued well after nightfall, and militants held hostages in standoffs in two towns and occupied a police station in a third.

Israeli media, citing rescue service officials, said at least 250 people were killed and 1,500 wounded, making it the deadliest attack in Israel in decades.

At least 232 people in the Gaza Strip have been killed and at least 1,700 wounded in Israeli strikes, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Hamas fighters took an unknown number of civilians and soldiers captive into Gaza, a deeply sensitive issue for Israel, in harrowing scenes posted on social media videos.
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more....

https://apnews.com/article/israel-p...kes-tel-aviv-11fb98655c256d54ecb5329284fc37d2
 
Please - no politics. This is not a political site. News items about loss of life, injuries, are appropriate.
 
Hundreds killed on both sides


Since the attacks on Israel from Gaza began on Saturday, more than 500 Israelis have been killed, local media report - a total that has risen steadily in the past 24 hours.

In the Gaza Strip, the Ministry of Health said 313 people had been killed by Israeli air strikes, with almost 2,000 wounded.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67037895
 
Not a political statement but an official notice by the Israel government.

Israeli cabinet formally declares war against Hamas


From CNN's Amir Tal and Lauren Iszo
The Israeli government formally declared war on Hamas on Sunday, setting the stage for a massive response against the Islamist militant group.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu already said Saturday the country was at war — but that declaration was rhetorical. Sunday’s move by the Israeli cabinet is an official decision, tantamount to a declaration of war by Congress in the United States.


more....https://www.cnn.com/webview/middlee...8T13:00:24#h_ab82e86a3ee54772589cce034430b017

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We can not verify all of the reports of deaths, injuries, from this war. There are reports that the death toll is now about 1,500.

We will not be updating this thread regularly and is only on the site because war is a known public health threat.

Please use at least two sources for your information. There are a lot of conflicting reports.

Our condolences to everyone all around the world who is suffering from conflicts/wars.
 
Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Travel Advisory

Travel Advisory
October 11, 2023

See Individual Summaries


Updated given the current security situation including increased travel restrictions for U.S. government employees.

Summary: Terrorist groups, lone-actor terrorists and other violent extremists continue plotting possible attacks in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza. Terrorists and violent extremists may attack with little or no warning, targeting tourist locations, transportation hubs, markets/shopping malls, and local government facilities. Violence can occur in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza without warning. There has been a marked increase in demonstrations throughout Israel, some with little or no warning.

Some areas have increased risk. Read the country information page for additional information on travel to Israel and the West Bank, and Gaza.

Visit the CDC page for the latest Travel Health Information related to your travel.

Do Not Travel To:
  • Gaza due to terrorism, civil unrest, and armed conflict
Reconsider Travel To:
  • Israel due to terrorism and civil unrest
  • West Bank due to terrorism and civil unrest
If you decide to travel to Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.
  • Check the most recent Alerts at the Embassy website for the latest information on travel in all of these areas. 
  • Maintain a high degree of situational awareness and exercise caution at all times, especially at checkpoints and other areas with a significant presence of security forces.
  • Avoid demonstrations and crowds.
  • Follow the instructions of security and emergency response officials.
  • Beware of and report suspicious activities, including unattended items, to local police.
  • Learn the location of the nearest bomb shelter or other hardened shelter. Download the Home Front Command Red Alert application for mobile devices to receive real time alerts for rocket attacks.
  • Obtain comprehensive travel medical insurance that includes medical evacuation prior to travel. Most travel insurance packages do not cover mental health related illnesses/care. 
  • Enroll in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) to receive Alerts and make it easier to locate you in an emergency.
  • Follow the Department of State on Facebook and Twitter.
  • Review the Country Security Report for Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.
  • Prepare a contingency plan for emergency situations. Review the Traveler’s Checklist
Gaza – Do Not Travel

Do not travel due to terrorism, civil unrest, and armed conflict.

The U.S. government is unable to provide routine or emergency services to U.S. citizens in Gaza as U.S. government employees are prohibited from traveling there. Hamas, a U.S. government-designated foreign terrorist organization, controls the security infrastructure in Gaza. The security environment within Gaza and on its borders is dangerous and volatile. Sporadic mortar or rocket fire and corresponding Israeli military responses may occur at any time. During periods of unrest or armed conflict, the crossings between Gaza with Israel and Egypt may be closed.

Visit our website for Travel to High Risk Areas.

If you decide to travel to Gaza:
  • Be prepared for an indefinite stay as the crossings between Gaza with Israel and Egypt can close without advance notice and for long periods during times of unrest and armed conflict.
  • Have a plan for entering and departing Gaza that does not rely on U.S. government assistance.
Israel – Reconsider Travel

Reconsider travel due to terrorism and civil unrest.

U.S. government employees are currently restricted from personal travel other than mission-critical travel.

The Embassy can impose even greater travel restrictions on its personnel, with little to no notice due to increased security issues or threats.

West Bank – Reconsider Travel

Reconsider travel due to terrorism and civil unrest.

U.S. government employees are currently restricted from personal travel other than mission-critical travel.

The Embassy can impose even greater travel restrictions on its personnel, with little to no notice due to increased security issues or threats.

Visit our website for Travel to High Risk Areas.
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https://travel.state.gov/content/tr...srael-west-bank-and-gaza-travel-advisory.html
 
My bolding in 3rd paragraph.


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Alert Number: I-101023-PSA
October 10, 2023


Situation in Israel
SUMMARY


The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are issuing this notification to advise of an ongoing issue of potential public safety concern consequent to the Hamas attacks in Israel. The FBI and DHS are actively monitoring the situation in Israel and any implications these horrific terrorist attacks pose to the domestic threat environment. As with any potential threats to the United States, we will coordinate with our partners to ensure they have the resources and information necessary to keep our communities safe.


THREAT


While we continue to collect and analyze intelligence from a variety of sources, we do not currently have specific intelligence reflecting additional attack planning against the United States stemming from the HAMAS attacks in Israel which began on October 7, 2023. However, foreign terrorist organizations and their supporters remain committed to attacking the United States within and beyond our borders. In recent years, there have been several events and incidents in the United States that were purportedly motivated, at least in part, by the conflict between Israel and HAMAS. These have included the targeting of individuals, houses of worship, and institutions associated with the Jewish and Muslim faiths with acts of physical assault, vandalism, or harassment.

Anti-Semitism permeates many violent extremist ideologies and serves as a primary driver for attacks by a diverse set of violent extremists who pose a persistent threat to Jewish communities and institutions in the United States and abroad. Foreign terrorist organizations have exploited previous conflicts between Israel and HAMAS via media outlets and online communications to call on their supporters located in the United States to conduct attacks. Some violent extremists have used times of heightened tensions to incite violence against religious minorities, targeting both Jewish and Muslim Americans.


RESOURCES


The FBI and DHS encourage the public to promptly report information concerning suspicious activity to tips.fbi.gov or contact their local FBI field office (www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices).

Call 911 to report emergencies, including imminent threats to life.

For concerns involving US citizens abroad, to include reporting missing persons or individuals taken as hostages, please call the Department of State's Overseas Citizens Services (OCS) toll-free hotline at (888) 407-4747 or complete Crisis Intake Form at https://cacms.state.gov/s/crisis-intake.​

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2023/PSA231010
 
The morgue at Gaza's biggest hospital is overflowing as Israeli attacks intensify

BY ISABEL DEBRE, SAMYA KULLAB AND MOHAMMED JAHJOUH

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The morgue at Gaza’s biggest hospital overflowed Thursday as bodies came in faster than relatives could claim them on the sixth day of Israel’s heavy aerial bombardment on the territory of 2.3 million people.

With scores of Palestinians killed each day in the Israeli onslaught after an unprecedented Hamas attack, medics in the besieged enclave said they have run out of places to put remains pulled from the latest strikes or recovered from the ruins of demolished buildings.

The morgue at Gaza City’s Shifa hospital can only handle some 30 bodies at a time, and workers had to stack corpses three high outside the walk-in cooler and put dozens more, side by side, in the parking lot. Some were placed in a tent, and others were sprawled on the cement, under the sun. ...

https://apnews.com/article/gaza-isr...s-casualites-8469bbcb566446d78f368bf2a1b49d88

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He was a peace activist with a PhD. In dying, Hayim Katsman saved 3 other lives
His grandparents were Holocaust survivors. He was murdered by Hamas on the kibbutz he loved
By Beth Harpaz October 12, 2023​

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In dying, Katsman, 32, saved three other lives: His bullet-riddled body shielded a neighbor hiding with him, and that neighbor, Avital Alajem, later saved two children.

His body “absorbed all the bullets,” Alajem told CNN. “I was saved because he was next to the door.”

The terrorists then marched Alajem to Gaza, more than a mile away, taking another family’s 4-month-old baby and 4-year-old boy with them. At some point in the terrifying ordeal, their captors abandoned them. Alajem took the children and managed to make her way back to the kibbutz.

“Hayim in Hebrew is ‘life,’” Alajem said. “That’s the meaning of his name. And he gave life to this planet as he saved me, and I was able to save two kids.”

Alajem visited with Katsman’s mother to tell her the story in person. “One of my friends said, ‘Maybe he inspired her to do what she did,’” Wacholder Katsman said.

‘Stop killing innocent people’

Katsman was involved in various peace initiatives, including Mahsom Watch, which monitors the impact of government activity on Palestinian lives.

Katsman’s sibling, Noy, an activist with Standing Together, which is a grassroots movement of Jews and Palestinians, said Katsman’s death should not be used to justify retribution.

“They always tell us if we’re going to kill enough Palestinians, it’s going to be better for us,” Noy told CNN. “But of course it never brings us peace and never brings us better lives. It just brings more and more terror, and more and more people killed like my brother.”

Noy added: “I don’t want anything to happen to people in Gaza like it happened to my brother — and I’m sure he wouldn’t want that either. That’s my call to my government: Stop killing innocent people. That’s not the way to bring us peace and security.”

Katsman “wouldn’t want innocent people to be killed,” their mother said...
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https://forward.com/fast-forward/564468/hayim-katsman-university-washington-kibbutz-hamas/
 
Russia ready to help end Middle East crisis, Putin tells Netanyahu

Reuters / Oct 16, 2023, 23:23

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered assistance to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Putin emphasized the need to prevent further violence and a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

He also held discussions with leaders from Iran, Egypt, Syria, and the Palestinian Authority, condemning violence against civilians. ...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...-netanyahu/articleshow/104476681.cms?from=mdr
 
Secretary Antony Blinken


@SecBlinken
Today, at our request, the United States and Israel have agreed to develop a plan that will enable humanitarian aid from donor nations and multilateral organizations to reach civilians in Gaza, including the possibility of creating areas to help keep civilians out of harm’s way.​
 
There are reports that there are 200-300 deaths caused by a rocket that hit a hospital in Gaza city today. It is not verified who launched the rocket.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-news-hamas-war-10-17-23/index.html



It is really important to use more than one source for your news. Early news reports are generally lacking in many details.


FACT:

The mounting loss of life in this confllict is beginning to outpace any disease that we are following.

For instance, in the US there were approximately 1,295 COVID-19 deaths for the last week reported by the CDC - out of a population of approximately 330 million. link The population of Israel + Gaza = approximately 11 million.
 
WHO statement on attack on Al Ahli Arab Hospital and reported large-scale casualties

17 October 2023 Statement Reading time: Less than a minute (130 words)

WHO strongly condemns the attack on Al Ahli Arab Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip. The hospital was operational, with patients, health and care givers, and internally displaced people sheltering there. Early reports indicate hundreds of fatalities and injuries.

The hospital was one of 20 in the north of the Gaza Strip facing evacuation orders from the Israeli military. The order for evacuation has been impossible to carry out given the current insecurity, critical condition of many patients, and lack of ambulances, staff, health system bed capacity, and alternative shelter for those displaced.

WHO calls for the immediate active protection of civilians and health care. Evacuation orders must be reversed. International humanitarian law must be abided by, which means health care must be actively protected and never targeted.

https://www.who.int/news/item/17-10...-hospital-and-reported-large-scale-casualties

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Translation Google

The population of Gaza under threat of infectious diseases including cholera

October 17, 2023

Food, water, energy are almost exhausted. Oxfam partners begin small-scale distribution. But the scale of the needs and the logistical chaos pose enormous challenges to the humanitarian response.

Gaza is facing an unprecedented health crisis that risks an outbreak of deadly infectious diseases, such as cholera, as water and sanitation services have completely broken down.

Gaza's five sewage treatment plants and most of its 65 sewage pumping stations were forced to close. Untreated sewage is now dumped into the sea, and in some areas solid waste accumulates in the streets.

Drinking water is now practically exhausted. Some people are forced to drink from farm wells. The United Nations Water and Sanitation group, of which Oxfam is a member, says only three liters of water per day are now available per person in Gaza. The World Health Organization recommends that a person should have access to 50 to 100 liters of water every day to meet basic health needs.

Private sellers who operate small water desalination or purification plants are now the largest water suppliers. Oxfam staff say the cost of purchasing water has increased fivefold.

“The call for a ceasefire must be heard to urgently provide relief. We are deeply saddened and outraged by the loss of hundreds of lives following the bombing of the Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza today.

More than 2 million people endure enormous deprivation of water, food and live in deplorable hygienic conditions, in addition to suffering indiscriminate bombings. Families are experiencing an unacceptable situation and are at risk of an unprecedented health crisis. We can act with our partners as soon as conditions permit. Let the humanitarians do their job! »
Béatrice Vaugrante
Executive Director of Oxfam-Québec

“There is no electricity, no food and now no water in Gaza. It risks becoming a breeding ground for cholera and other diseases. The situation of civilian populations is already intolerable. Our staff tells us that in some cases there are up to 70 people crammed into one room. Humanitarian aid must be allowed into Gaza now. »
Amitabh Behar
Acting Executive Director of Oxfam International
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https://oxfam.qc.ca/gaza-risque-cholera/

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