• At around 7 a.m. Saturday morning, Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel, firing 5,000 rockets and launching guerrilla raids in Sderot, southern Israel
• The preliminary death toll from the attack on Israel is 350 dead, 1,900 injured and 750 missing
• The attack was claimed by Hamas chief Mohammad Deif: “It is the day of the great revolution, we have decided to put an end to all the crimes of the occupation.”
• Israel responded with a massive airstrike on Gaza. Netanyahu: “Our country is at war”
• The Gaza Health Ministry reports 313 Palestinians dead and around 1,990 injured.
• Israeli army claims to have killed “400 terrorists.”
11:00 a.m. – Hamas: Israeli hostages in tunnels and safe houses in Gaza
Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades – cited by local sources – has revealed that the Israeli hostages are being held in the organization’s tunnels in the Gaza Strip and in “safe houses.”
10:57 a.m. – Jerusalem Post, around 1,900 Israelis injured, 750 missing
The number of Israelis wounded in the Hamas attack has risen to around 1,900. “According to an unofficial report, around 750 Israelis are currently missing.” The Jerusalem Post reports this.
10:51 a.m. – Von der Leyen, “Full support, pure terrorism”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that she had spoken to Israeli President Isaac Herzog to express her “full support” to him. “I reiterate that Israel has the right to self-defense,” he wrote on Twitter. Former X Von der Leyen added that he “strongly condemns the senseless attack by Hamas against Israel.” This violence – he added – is neither a political solution nor an act of courage. It’s pure terrorism.”
10:49 a.m. – Army, 500 attacks on Gaza and 400 militiamen killed. Netanyahu takes stock
Since the start of Operation Iron Swords, the Israeli army has carried out 500 attacks on Gaza, killing at least 400 Hamas militants. This was said by military spokesman Daniel Hagari. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently meeting with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Chief of Staff Herzy Halevi to assess the situation. His office made it known.
10:31 a.m. – Netanyahu meets security leaders at the Defense Ministry
In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the Defense Ministry with incumbent Yoav Gallant and senior security officials in Tel Aviv. His office announced this.
10:26 a.m. – Israeli Embassy in Italy: Citizens massacred in the name of hate
“Hamas has attacked Israel in the most barbaric and cruel manner, terrifying thousands of innocent civilians. They were taken from their families, kidnapped and murdered in the name of hatred. Over 300 dead, 1,800 injured and numerous hostages.” The Israeli embassy in Italy wrote it on social media, asking people to share the hashtag #IoStoConIsraele. The embassy also posted another photo with the caption “I stand with Israel.”
10:23 a.m. – “Over 400 terrorists killed in the south of the country and in Gaza”
Israeli army chief spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said the Star of David army killed more than 400 Palestinian terrorists in southern Israel and the Gaza Strip and captured dozens more during fighting that began yesterday. after the Hamas attack.
10:08 a.m. – Hamas, attack on Sderot underway: 100 rockets fired
The al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ armed wing, announced that “an attack with around a hundred rockets is underway on Sderot.” This is an action “in response to the Israeli army’s attack on a mosque in Gaza” and on “houses” in the Palestinian enclave, the militiamen say.
9:51 a.m. – Hamas attack, 750 Israelis missing
After the attack by Hamas militants in Israel, 750 Israelis are still missing. This was reported by Channel 12, which reported on the numerous kidnappings of Hamas men.
9:39 a.m. – Israeli army: Aim to evacuate areas near Gaza within 24 hours
Israel’s goal is to evacuate all residents of towns near the Gaza border within the next 24 hours. Army spokesman Daniel Hagari said this, citing media. Hagari then explained that there was still fighting in Kfar Aza, with soldiers trying to free hostages held there by Hamas.
9:37 a.m. – The number of Hamas attacks in Israel rises to 350 dead and 1,800 injured
More than 350 people, including 30 soldiers, died in Israel as a result of the attack by Hamas militiamen and over 1,800 were injured, some seriously. The current death toll is provided by Channel 12.
9:19 a.m. – Gaza Ministry of Health: 256 dead and around 1,800 injured
The death toll in Gaza since the start of the war is 256. This was announced by the Gaza Strip Ministry of Health, citing local sources. 20 of the deaths were minors. The number of injured is around 1,800.
9:10 a.m. – Tajani: Nobody wants another war, we need de-escalation
“Nobody wants another war, we demand de-escalation, we count on Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, on the moderate countries that want a solution to the conflict,” explained Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani in the Tg1 special. “We have to calm the situation,” he emphasized and confirmed the contact at the quintet level and thus the telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Blinken. “We condemn the invasion, the attack by Hamas against Israel, which has the right to defend itself,” Tajani reiterated, making sure he had no negative news about the Italians in Israel.
08:53 – Unifil: in contact with parties to avoid escalation
“We are communicating with those involved to contain the situation and prevent escalation in the region.” “We ask everyone to exercise moderation”: This is what we read in a statement from Unifil, the UN peacekeeping force on the Israel-Lebanese border , after the exchange of fire between the Israeli army and the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah that took place at Dawn.
8:52 a.m. – Hamas spokesman told the BBC: Iran supported us
A Hamas spokesman, Ghazi Hamad, told the BBC that it had received support from Iran in its attack on Israel.
8:46 a.m. – Dozens of Israeli tanks heading towards Gaza, IDF on the way to land invasion
Israeli forces are reportedly preparing for a ground attack on the Gaza Strip. This is demonstrated by the dozens of Israeli tanks heading towards the Palestinian enclave, as videos shared on social media show. The IDF previously said that the evacuation of Israeli residents near the Gaza Strip had begun. The hundreds of Hamas militants who attacked Israel withdrew from here.
8:35 a.m. – Haass: Hamas attack will slow normalization with the Saudis
“One of the first things everyone will look at is the role of Iran, and it remains to be seen whether Hezbollah will also do something similar to what Hamas did.” That’s why everyone has their eyes set on the northern front and not just Gaza .” So to Corriere della Sera Richard Haass, US ambassador and former adviser to Bush Sr. and Colin Powell. “There is no precise security for yesterday’s attack” and it is not a response to anything specific. It may be that Hamas wants to shake up and destabilize the status quo, it may have to do with internal rivalries within the Hamas group, it may be that Iran has pushed for it, it may be that it is the possible normalization of the Israel and Saudi Arabia want to disrupt relations between them. We don’t know, we can only speculate.” Here is the full interview.
8:34 a.m. – A German mother’s appeal: My daughter, who was kidnapped by Hamas at a rave, help her
The appeal from German Ricarda Lauk, who lives in Israel and whose daughter was kidnapped by Hamas militants, was shared on social media. “My daughter Shani Nicole, a German citizen, was kidnapped by Hamas while attending a party in southern Israel with a group of tourists,” she says. “I was sent a video in which I could see my daughter in a car. unconscious with a group of Palestinians as he crossed the streets of Gaza. In the video message, the mother shows a photo of her 22-year-old daughter. The woman starts a cry for help and asks for news about her daughter, whose passport she shows. The young girl’s uncle, Winfried Gehr, told the Bild newspaper that Nicole had attended a music festival in a kibbutz with her boyfriend.
8:23 a.m. – Israel: The Hamas intelligence chief’s compound is attacked
Israeli warplanes have attacked the military compound at the home of the Hamas intelligence chief in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army made this known.
8:22 a.m. – IDF spokesman: The evacuation of residents near the Gaza Strip has begun
Israeli authorities are “slowly beginning to evacuate” residents of areas surrounding the Gaza Strip. The IDF military spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hecht, announced this in a briefing, without specifying how many people would be evacuated. The Mateh Asher regional council in the north and west of the Galilee this morning called on residents to evacuate the south or center of the country.
8:12 a.m. – Israel: 26 soldiers killed in Hamas attack, give their names
The Israeli army has released the names of 26 soldiers killed since Hamas began its attack in the early hours of Saturday; including high-ranking officers, men, but also women.
8:08 a.m. – Kibbutzim Beeri and Ofakim are liberated
While the Israeli Air Force has attacked Hamas in Gaza several times during the night, the army is working to liberate communities near Gaza from the organization’s armed militiamen, who have infiltrated these areas and taken numerous hostages heading to the Palestinian Enclave were brought. According to media reports, many of them have so far been killed or captured by security forces. According to the source, residents of kibbutzim Be’eri and Ofakim who had barricaded themselves in their homes were rescued by security forces. The Sderot police station, occupied by Hamas militants, was liberated by killing ten of them.
8:01 a.m. – Israel: Some hostages released at Gaza border
In Israel, some hostages held in a house in Ofakim on the Gaza border were released and in the operation Israeli soldiers killed “ten terrorists” but also some civilians. According to the Israeli army, there are a “significant number” of Israeli civilians and soldiers held hostage by Hamas, including children, women, the elderly and the disabled. Some are alive, others are probably dead, said military spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus.
7:58 a.m. – Hezbollah: We have reached the disputed area of Sheeba Farms
Hezbollah said it had used “large amounts of artillery and guided missile fire” on Israeli positions in the disputed Sheeba Farms area, detailing the operation it claimed this morning to which Israel responded. “The Islamic Resistance (Hezbollah, editor’s note) attacked three positions of the Zionist enemy in the occupied territory of the Lebanese Sheeba farms (…) with a large number of artillery shells and guided missiles,” said a statement the Lebanese Shiite Party of God, expressing “solidarity” with yesterday’s massive Hamas attacks.
7:51 a.m. – Israel activates center to search for missing people
Israeli police and the Home Front Command, the Israeli agency that operates in emergency situations, have announced that they have set up a center to search for missing people. According to the Israeli army, there are a “significant number” of Israeli civilians and soldiers held hostage by Hamas, including children, women, the elderly and the disabled. Some are alive, others are probably dead, said military spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus. Interested people were asked to go to the center near Ben-Gurion Airport and bring any identifying information of the missing people, including photos but also items from which DNA can be extracted.
07:29 – Shots from Lebanon, Israel hits Hezbollah structure
Lebanese Hezbollah claimed to have carried out “artillery fire and rocket fire” against Israel from Lebanese territory. And the Israeli army responded to so-called “mortar shells from Lebanon” with artillery attacks. The military spokesman said the shots coming from Lebanon were fired in the “disputed Mount Dov region on the Lebanese border”. Subsequently – the military spokesman added – an Israeli drone hit “an infrastructure of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in the Har Dov area.” The Israeli army has ordered residents of the Upper Galilee, which borders Lebanon, to stay in emergency shelters.
7:25 a.m. – Israel: “Hamas targets hit, including secret service headquarters”
The Israeli army announced at dawn that it had struck at least 10 Hamas targets, including the terror group’s intelligence headquarters.
7:23 a.m. – Drone warning sirens sound near the Israel-Gaza border
Alarm sirens sounded near the town of Tekuma, near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, due to suspected drone infiltration. The Times of Israel writes this, stating that after a brief lull in rocket attacks against Israel, the sirens sounded again.
7:22 a.m. – A German family among those kidnapped by Hamas
Among those kidnapped by Hamas is a family with German citizenship. It was his father Asher Yoni, an Israeli citizen, who announced this in an interview with the Bild newspaper. “I recognized her immediately, Doron Katz-Asher, my wife, a German citizen, a terrorist, who covered her head. My daughters were under a blanket, but I recognized the older one. They were kidnapped along with my mother-in-law and her partner.” The video is among those distributed by Hamas. The father provided Bild with four photos, they show the happy family, the two little girls aged five and three by the sea. Asher’s wife and her family wanted to visit her grandmother in a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip.
7:14 a.m. – Hamas spokesman: Iran supported us in the surprise attack
Iran supported Hamas so that it could launch the surprising and unprecedented attack on Israel. Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad told the BBC. The multi-pronged attack has so far resulted in the deaths of 300 civilians and Israeli security force men, the wounding of over a thousand and an unknown number of people abducted from southern Israel and taken to the Gaza Strip.
7:13 a.m. – Israel attacks targets in Lebanon, responding to mortar fire
Israeli forces attack Lebanon with artillery fire after numerous mortar shells were fired at Israel. The IDF reports this in a note, stating that “measures have been taken to prepare for this type of possibility and we will continue to operate in all regions and at any time necessary to ensure the safety of Israeli civilians.”