Most of the world reacted with outrage to the deadly surprise attack on Israel by the Islamist militant group Hamas on Saturday, when Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu declared the country was at war.
Terrifying scenes from the conflict have begun to emerge, with video, which has been verified by CNN, showing Hamas militants pushing a woman into the back seat of a jeep with her hands tied and arms bleeding.
Dozens of Israelis were wounded in the fighting and more than 100 were killed.
The attack on Israel was timed for a major Jewish holiday, Sichat Torah, and came on the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war, in which Arab states bombed the country on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur.
The worst attack on Israel in 50 years: how we got here
2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip more than three decades after seizing the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.
2006: The terrorist group Hamas wins the Palestinian legislative elections.
2007: Hamas takes control of Gaza in a civil war.
2008: Israel launches a military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fire rockets at the city of Sderot.
2023: Hamas launches largest attack on Israel in 50 years.
More than 300 Israelis have been killed and at least 1,500 wounded and the death toll is expected to rise after Hamas terrorists fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of militants into Israeli cities.
Hamas terrorists were seen taking women hostage and parading them down the street in gruesome videos.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced “We are at war” and promised that Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”
Gaza health officials report that 300 Palestinians have been killed and more than 1,700 injured.
The Israeli military mobilized tens of thousands of reservists and said warplanes are carrying out airstrikes against Hamas sites in Gaza, and have already struck 17 Hamas military compounds.
“We are at war,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised speech, declaring a mass mobilization of the army. “It is not an ‘operation’, not a ’round’, but a war.”
“The enemy will pay an unprecedented price,” he added, promising that Israel “will return fire on a magnitude the enemy has never known.”
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