The Gaza Hostage War no.1.

"Iron Swords" 2023.

Articles.
The Gaza Hostage War no.1.
Gaza Hostage War no. 2.
Gaza Hostage War no. 3.
Gaza Hostage War no. 4.
Gaza Hostage War no. 5.
Gaza Hostage War no. 6.
The Gaza Hostage War no. 7.
Friends and Enemies
Move Gaza Away.
China and Gaza.
More China and Gaza.


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The Gaza Hostage War no.1.

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1. Beginning.
The war began on Otober 7th, 2023.
This was the Shabat and the Feast of Shemini Atzeret which in Israel combined the celebration of Simchat Torah concerning the completion of reading the whole of the Torah (Pentatuch) based on the weekly portion.

Source. See:
October 2023 Gaza Israel conflict
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2023_Gaza%E2%88%92Israel_conflict

On 7 October 2023,  in the early morning  a rocket barrage over  ca. 20 minutes of at least 2,300  rockets was  fired at Israel  from the Gaza Strip Hamas claimed to have fired 6,000 rockets.
Simultaneously with this about 1000 Hamas militants broke through the Security Fence and entered Israel at about 7 places. They smashed through the fence using at least one bull dozer folowed by  trucks, pickup trucks, motorcycles, bulldozers, speedboats and paragliders.Many of the invaders were heavily armed and masked, dressed in black fatigue and riding pickup trucks. Other groups  of them reportedly  had Israeli-type armalite rifles (similar to the ones) and were dressed in Israeli type uniforms. This was intended to make it difficult to identify them and caused confusion in the Israeli ranks at the initial time of confrontation.

What Happened Before then?
The State of |Israel had gone through five (sic) rounds of elections before being able to establish a duly elected coalition government.
Participants in this government included National-Religious and Ultra-Orthodox parties who were anathemas to ruling elites within Israel.
The progressively-orientated and left-wing dominated judiciary and associated legal bearaucrats had created a constructional impasse virtually emasculating the elected authorities. They were backed by powerful moneyed groups and officer cliques in the IDF. They initially  received wide support from sections of the israeli Public which has however since diminished.
A military coup may have been under consideration but it lacked public support and what support it had was rapidly evaporating.

We then had the Spitting Incidents and homosexual anti-Prayer partisan actions.

On Yom Kippur and Succoth numerous prayer groups got together in Tel Aviv as they do every year. They consisted of Observant Jews and Traditional Jews and non-Observant  Jews who wanted to pray for the sake of their Judaism as they do every year, sometimes for this only once a year. . When the ceremonies began many of these prayer meetings received visits from secular protesters waving Israelite Flages and Gay-pride banners. They aggressively shouted, cursed,  physically pushed,  and argued with those assembled causing many to leave. At least 18 such incidents such as these were recorded by Tel Aviv officials.
Some of these  incidents were filmed and may be seen on the Internet.  Simcha Rothman, Chairman of the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee also attended one of these prayer meetings and he was spat upon from a window above. This too was recorded.
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Meanwhile in Jerusalem around this time Christian pilgrims from Catholic Countries such as the Philipinnes or Latin America come to  the Old City of Jerusalem. They emerge from their churches carrying gigantic wooden crosses and parade in the streets. dominating everything around them. Religious Jews use these same avenues to visit the Western Walls. Some of  the Jewish Children (of about 8 or 9 years old) picked up the habit of spitting on the ground besides their own feet while facing the direction of the pilgrims. This was reported as spitting at the pilgrims. A great furor was aroused and even PM Binyamin Netanyahu condemned the offenders, The police made arrests.

No arrests (so far) were made in the case of Tel Aviv and the secular and homosexual demonstrators against the God of Israel..

These events were followed by the Invasion of Ishmaelites from  Gaza.

Before they came the fence was considered almost impenetrable. The Arabs did must have taken a lot of planning, practising, and preparation to carry it out. How did they keep it all secret? How could they have been so sure it would succeed? They came in from  7 different palces almost all at once. 

The Israeli fence had incorporated "sophisticated tracking surveillance with remote operated machine gun emplacements" and according to RABBI CHANANYA WEISSMAN  (with whom we disagree on other points), there were there:

Multiple systems in place including;

1. Static thermal imaging observation posts.

2. Manned patrol vehicles.

3. Static manned observation posts.

4. Subterranean RADAR.

5. Reconnaissance drones.

6. Reconnaissance aircraft.

7. Autonomous patrol vehicles.

8. Fence motion detection.

9. Bomb proof multi-layered reinforced fence set in concrete.


Anyway we can leave all that for another time.

Let us continue with what happened:

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2. The Invasion in Progress.



Seven communities came under Hamas control, including Nahal Oz, Kfar Aza, Magen, and Sufa Beheri. The police station of Sderot was reported to have come under Hamas control,[56] as was the Erez crossing, enabling the militants to enter Israel from Gaza Israeli Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai said that there were 21 active high-confrontation locations in southern Israel.

 Mohammed Deif was identified as the commander in chief of the Palestinian invaders. They entered Israel through at least seven locations  and invaded four small rural Israeli communities, the border city of Sderot, and two military bases from both land and sea.
They took hostages in Ofakim and in Kibbutz Beeri but eventually were killed for their trouble and the captives freed.

An open air dance and nature festival was taking place at Reim involving many young people. The Hamas attacked them shooting into the dancers who because of the atmosphere and lout music took a few minutes to comprehend what was happening. Many were killed. Others fled into the wilderness and neighboring forest and hid. Many were killed or wounded.

Among those killed was  a young female from Germany whose naked body was found and identified by the tatoos on her shoulder. She had been raped and apparently tortured. 

As of now it seems that most of the invaders have been killed or gone back to Gaza. There are however still pockets of them here and there and indivuals wandering around.

Israel has also bombed many Hamas localities in Gaza (and is still doing so) causing much damage to them.

About 17 Nepalese students studying in Israel are held captive by Hamas forces in Gaza. The captives include foreign nationals from Germany and elsewhere.

A group of 5 to 10 Israeli girl soldiers are also reported to have been taken hostage.
The hostages include an unknown number of Israeli women and children.


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3. Overseas.

Hizbollah in  Iran is also acting in support of Hamas and altercations with Israel are in progress.
Demonstrations in support of Hamas took place in many Middle Eastern countries, such as Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Turkey, Bahrain, and Iran in solidarity with the Palestinian groups.[A small rally was also held in Berlin.
Syria, iran, and Turkey are liable to attempt intervention on the side of Hamas.
Iran provides 100 million dollars to Hamas each year.

Britain, the USA, Canada, and most European  countries have spoke out in favor of Israel.




To be continued.