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It is said to be Hamas’ most massive rocket attack against Israel to date in the ongoing conflict. The news about the war in Israel.
- resources become scarce: Hamas is said to have stolen fuel from the UN refugee agency
- Because of War in Israel: Demonstration of hostage relatives against Prime Minister Netanyahu
- Will speaks: Hamas will release hostages if Israel stops bombing
- All new developments and news about the war in Israel in our news.
Update October 16, 5:12 p.m.: The Knesset, Israel’s parliament, had to briefly cancel its plenary session today due to air alerts. According to the Times of Israel, there were massive rocket attacks on Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, but there were apparently no casualties. The rockets were fired directly from the Gaza Strip. This is said to be the largest Hamas rocket attack against Israel since the current conflict broke out on October 7.
Rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel on October 9, 2023
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The air alarm sounded during the opening session of the Knesset. Deputies and others in the room had to briefly seek shelter in an air raid shelter. Later there was another rocket attack from the Gaza Strip against Tel Aviv. At least one of these missiles was intercepted.
War in Israel: Hamas is said to have stolen fuel from UN refugee agency
Update October 16, 4:25 p.m.: The UN refugee agency UNRWA, which cares for Palestinian refugees and their descendants, accused Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip of apparently stealing fuel and medical supplies for refugees from its building in Gaza City.
In a thread on UNRWA noted that any non-humanitarian use of its fuel will be “strongly condemned”. UNRWA deleted the relevant posts (formerly tweets). However, an American journalist writes in his own publication on X that “UN sources and Israeli officials confirm this incident.
Update October 16, 3:23 p.m.: The Israeli army has released images showing the Israeli Navy’s most advanced warships in their first attacks on the Gaza Strip. The clips show how the warships INS “Magen” and INS “Oz” destroy a Hamas weapons production facility, a military outpost and a naval observation post. These are the latest Sa’ar-6 class corvettes.
War in Israel: demonstration against Prime Minister Netanyahu in Tel Aviv
Update October 16, 2:49 p.m.: In Tel Aviv, countless people took to the streets in front of the Ministry of Defense and demanded the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to media reports, the demonstration was started by people whose relatives were taken hostage by Hamas. Israel’s prime minister faces questions about why the country’s intelligence services failed to predict last Saturday’s massive Hamas attack.
Photos of people who were kidnapped by Hamas as hostages in the Gaza Strip are displayed in front of the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv.
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During the demonstration, a 42-year-old man, who apparently belongs to the right-wing extremist camp, mocked the protesters and called them “traitors”. He is said to have told a father, “I hope your daughter dies.” There was a fight during which he was arrested.
Iran: Hamas will release hostages if Israel stops bombing
Update October 16, 1:42 p.m.: Iran says Hamas is willing to release nearly 200 hostages if Israel ends airstrikes on Gaza. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said this at a press conference in Tehran. According to Kanaani, Hamas representatives declared that they are “ready to take the necessary measures to release citizens and civilians detained by resistance groups.” At the same time, they stressed that “such measures require preparations that are impossible under the daily bombardment by Zionists in various parts of the Gaza Strip.”
Kanaani also said Hamas had signaled it would wage a long war against Israel if necessary. “They said that the resistance was militarily capable of continuing the fight on the ground for a long time. Iran is one of Hamas’ main financiers and is accused of providing key support to the Palestinian terrorist organization in carrying out its major attack on Israel on October 7.
War in Israel: Hamas holds more hostages in the Gaza Strip than expected
Update October 16, 12:39 pm: There are new figures on the number of people kidnapped in Israel who are held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said today that it has so far informed the families of 199 hostages of their capture and kidnapping by Hamas. There are many elderly people, children and women among them. So far, figures of 100 to 150 hostages have been circulating in the media.
War in Israel: Israeli army threatens Hezbollah with a “lethal” response to aggression
Update October 16, 11:13 am: Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, an Israeli military spokesman, said the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah would face a “lethal” response if it continued to carry out attacks against Israel.
“Hezbollah carried out a series of attacks yesterday to try to undermine our operational efforts [vom Gazastreifen] To distract. “This is under the direction and support of Iran, thus endangering the state of Lebanon and its citizens,” Hagari said at a press conference. “We have increased our forces on the northern border and are responding aggressively to any activity directed against us. If Hezbollah dares to test us, the reaction will be deadly. “The United States gives us full support,” Hagari continued.
Israel denies alleged ceasefire
Update October 16, 9:58 am: Israel on Monday denied reports of an alleged ceasefire planned with the Palestinian Islamic organization Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip. “There is no ceasefire,” said the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Previously, there were reports that a ceasefire lasting several hours was intended to allow foreign nationals to travel to Egypt and to import humanitarian aid supplies through the Rafah border crossing.
Before the War in Israel: The History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict in Pictures
In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly decided to divide Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The Jewish state was founded in May 1948. The Arab states of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq crossed its borders with their armies just a day later. The photo shows Israeli members of the paramilitary organization Haganah in August 1948. © AFP
In 1949, the Lebanese delegate signs the Lebanese-Israeli armistice. © ACME Newspictures/afp
In 1959, Yasser Arafat founded Fatah, a party in the Palestinian autonomous areas. His troops are attacking Israel from the Gaza Strip. © PPO/afp
An Egyptian fighter plane after an Israeli airstrike in 1967. The Six-Day War between Israel, on the one hand, and Egypt, Jordan and Syria, on the other, lasted from June 5 to 6, 1967. Since then, Israel has occupied Palestine. territories of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, as well as East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights in Syria. Negotiations for a peaceful solution to the bloody conflict have repeatedly failed. © AP/dpaArab-Israeli War An Israeli soldier in the Yom Kippur War. On October 6, 1973, the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, an Arab military coalition led by Egypt and Syria simultaneously attacked the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. The war triggered an oil shock. © afpPeace treaty between Israel and Egypt, Jimmy Carter shakes hands with Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat. US President Jimmy Carter congratulates Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in front of the White House in 1979. After the Camp David negotiations, they signed the peace treaty between the two countries. © Consolidated News Pictures/afpShelling in the Lebanon WarIn 1982, Israel fired on Lebanese areas, starting the year-long Lebanon War. © Dominique Faget/afpSoldiers and children in the 1987 Intifada Israeli soldiers instruct children to leave the area as hundreds of protesters throw stones and bottles. This 1987 uprising is called the Intifada. Eight Palestinians were shot dead and dozens injured in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in the space of a week. © Esaias Baitel/afp PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzahk Rabin shake hands for the first time at the White House in 1993. PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, shake hands for the first time at the White House in 1993. US President Bill Clinton is in the middle. Arafat and Rabin have just signed the Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO on Palestinian autonomy in the occupied territories. © J. David Ake/afpYasir Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin receive the Nobel Peace Prize Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin receive the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize. Here are the award winners along with their medals and diplomas in Oslo City Hall. © Aleksander Nordahl/ImagoBill Clinton, King Hussein and Rabin at the peace meeting Bill Clinton, King Hussein and Rabin at the peace meeting between Jordan and Israel at the White House in 1994. © Imago/ZUMA PressYitzhak Rabin’s coffin, History of the War in IsraelYitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing Jewish extremist in 1995, following a large peace rally in Tel Aviv. The photo shows the prime minister’s coffin in Jerusalem, at his funeral. © Jim Hollander/dpaBoy shoots with a catapult during the second Intifada, history of the war in IsraelA Palestinian shoots with a catapult at Israelis in Bethlehem. From 2000 to 2005 there was a second intifada with street fighting between Palestinians and Israelis. © Imago/UPI Photo Israeli soldiers 2006, history of the war in IsraelIsraeli soldiers in the Lebanon War in 2006. An Israeli artillery unit has just fired into Lebanon, on the Lebanese-Israeli border. Nearly 10,000 Israeli ground troops fought Hezbollah militants near about a dozen villages in southern Lebanon. © Menahem Kahana/afp
War in Israel: Ground offensive in the Gaza Strip canceled at short notice
First report from October 16th: Tel Aviv/Gaza – A good week after the brutal attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists and the start of the war in Israel, a ground offensive by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip is imminent. The operation was apparently supposed to begin over the weekend, but was postponed due to weather and poor visibility for pilots, according to the New York Times.
The official reason for not launching the offensive is to protect civilians. “I don’t get into the mood. Protecting civilians is a priority for the Israeli army. “That’s why we clearly asked them to go south,” Israeli army spokesman Arye Sharuz Shalicar told the t-online news portal. On the ARD Anne Will program on Sunday night, Shalicar also indicated that more people should have the opportunity to leave the northern coastal strip.
War in Israel: Protection of the civilian population Reason for no ground offensive
In fact, a mass exodus southward into the Gaza Strip is underway. After several calls for the evacuation of the civilian population, more than 600,000 people have already moved there, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Sunday. The number was confirmed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (Ocha), in Geneva.
Images show how the war in Israel is changing the country
On October 7, 2023, Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip fire rockets at Israel. The Islamist Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip and is classified as a terrorist organization by Israel, the EU and the US, announced the start of a “military operation” against Israel. © Hatem Moussa/dpa 
Smoke can be seen billowing from a residential building following a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip. © Ilia Yefimovich/dpa
An Israeli soldier hides between the cars with his dog. © Ohad Zwigenberg/dpa
Israeli police evacuate a woman and a child from a site hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip. © Tsafrir Abayov/ dpa Palestinian militants are driving a pickup truck in the war in Israel, in which a kidnapped German-Israeli woman can be seen. Palestinian militants are returning to the Gaza Strip in a pickup truck in which a German-Israeli woman can be seen. Islamic Hamas announced that its members had kidnapped some Israelis to the Gaza Strip. © Ali Mahmud/dpaMassive rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip on IsraelMembers of the fire department try to put out fires in cars after a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip. © Ilia Yefimovich/ dpaPeople search for survivors in the rubble after massive rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip on Israel.People search for survivors in the rubble of a house destroyed by an Israeli airstrike. © Omar Ashtawy/ dpaAbandoned Supernova festival site after Hamas attack Around 270 visitors die at Supernova rave music festival in Israeli Kibbutz Re’im. This is what the abandoned site looked like after the attack. © JACK GUEZ / APFPalestinians celebrating after Hamas attack on IsraelPalestinians celebrate in Nablus after the major military operation launched against Israel by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. © Ayman Nobani/dpa Major Hamas attack on Israel – Gaza CityThe Israeli military responded by bombing Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. Smoke and flames rise from a building in Gaza after an attack. © Bashar Taleb/ dpaMan cries in Gaza during the Israeli war A man hugs a family member in the Palestinian territory and cries. © Saher Alghorra/ dpaIsraeli soldier in the Israeli War alongside a woman On October 8, Israeli soldiers take up positions near a police station that was stormed by Hamas fighters the day before. According to a media report, Israeli forces killed several suspected Hamas members during clashes in the town of Sderot, which borders the Gaza Strip. © Ilan Assayag/dpa After major Hamas attack – Israeli Sa’ad Forces patrol areas along the Israel-Gaza border as fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas Islamist fighters continues. © Ilia Yefimovich/ dpaPalestinian child in school that serves as a shelter during the war in Israel A Palestinian child is on the balcony of a school run by the United Nations that serves as a shelter during the conflict. © Mohammed Talatene/dpa
Meanwhile, the Israeli Air Force is taking senior ground force commanders on missions over the Gaza Strip. They should have an idea of the aerial area, wrote The Times of Israel. The Israeli military said on Saturday it was completing preparations for a “coordinated attack by air, sea and land.”
The number of victims in the war in Israel is increasing
- Number of people killed in Israel: 1,300
- Number of people killed in Gaza: 2,750
Israel is carrying out its heaviest attacks on the Gaza Strip to date
Although the ground offensive is slow in coming, the bombardment of Hamas targets continues. The Israeli military announced on Monday morning that attacks in the Gaza Strip had continued over the past 24 hours. As the Ynet news website reported, citing the Palestinians, these were the worst attacks to date.
A senior Hamas commander was reportedly killed in attacks on Sunday night. Muataz Eid, head of national security for the terrorist group’s southern district, was killed, the Times of Israel wrote. The Israeli army says it has killed six senior Hamas members. (mt)
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