Minute by minute of the Palestinian resistance offensive

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On Saturday morning, dozens of Palestinian fighters attacked Israeli bases in the region, surprising Israeli security forces. According to initial figures, resistance fighters captured 35 Israeli soldiers.

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The Palestinian resistance launches a large-scale offensive in the Israeli-occupied territories

Hamas resistance leader Mohammed Deif announced the start of what he called “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.”

Here’s a minute-by-minute breakdown of the situation in the Middle East:

08:00 AM (05:00 GMT) SUNDAY

Israeli Occupation Forces aircraft bomb Palestinian residential buildings in Gaza this morning in response to the Al-Aqsa flooding operation.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reports that the number of Palestinians killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip has risen to 256, including 20 minors.

One report put the number of Israeli dead at 300 and the number of wounded at 1,590. It was also noted that the commander of the Nahal Brigade (Elite), Yehontan Steinberg, died during the armed clash near Kerem Shalom.

05:02 (02:02 GMT) / SUNDAY 8 OCTOBER
Israel’s security cabinet decides to cut off the flow of electricity, fuel and goods to Gaza to “destroy the military and state capabilities” of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

11:30 p.m. (8:30 p.m. GMT)

The Israeli army announces the creation of a closed military zone throughout the Gaza Strip Division’s area of ​​responsibility and prohibits access to this zone.

10:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. GMT)

The head of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, said that the clashes with the Israeli occupiers will extend to the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. He claimed that the Palestinian resistance warned Israel against allowing settlers to desecrate the Al-Aqsa Mosque and that Tel Aviv encouraged it anyway.
He said the Al-Aqsa Deluge military operation showed that Israel was fragile and had “suffered a military crisis, a security crisis and a political defeat.”

9:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. GMT)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Gazans to evacuate the area. “Go now, because we will go everywhere and with full force,” he said. “We will take revenge for this black day with all our might.”

9:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. GMT)

The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirms the deaths of 232 Palestinians and 1,697 injured as a result of the current Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip. There are also reports of the murder of five Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank, including a 13-year-old boy.

8:30 p.m. (5:30 p.m. GMT)

In response to the destruction of the Palestinian skyscraper, the Palestinian resistance now fires 150 rockets into Tel Aviv.

8:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. GMT)

This Saturday, Israel ordered the state-owned electricity company to cut off supplies to the Gaza Strip after the Palestinian resistance launched a surprise offensive against Israeli territory, the energy minister reported.

7:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m. GMT)

Thirteen hours after the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, violent clashes between resistance fighters and the occupying “army” continue in several settlements.

7:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. GMT)

“There are fears that the Israeli occupier will launch a major offensive against the Gaza Strip and the West Bank tomorrow, and now is the right time for the United Nations to convene an extraordinary meeting of the Security Council and take action to stop what is happening. “,” Palestinian Ambassador to Moscow Abdel Hafeez Nofal told the Russian news agency TASS.

6:00 p.m. (3:00 p.m.)

The Israeli occupiers’ warplanes destroy the “Palestinian Tower”, a 14-story building in the center of the Gaza Strip

5:30 p.m. (2:30 p.m. GMT)

Six hours after clashes began between Hamas militants and Israeli forces along the Gaza-Israel barrier, the Israeli Air Force’s response was of “unprecedented scale and intensity,” according to Gaza residents.

17:00 (14:00 GMT)

More than 100 people have died in Israel as a result of the Palestinian resistance’s surprise attack by land, sea and air from Gaza, and the number of injured exceeds 900, at a time when the war continues to escalate and the situation is overwhelming.

According to local media citing medical sources, the death toll in Israel since the offensive began early this morning has exceeded 100 and the number of injured stands at 908.

16:30 (13:30 GMT)

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, the death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza has risen to 198, with 1,610 injured.

16:00 (13:00 GMT)

The head of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, confirmed that in these historic moments the Palestinian resistance is engaged in a heroic epic, protecting Al-Aqsa, the shrines and prisoners.

3:30 p.m. (12:30 p.m. GMT)

Israeli health sources reported that attacks by the Palestinian resistance left 40 Hebrews dead and another 750 injured.

3:00 p.m. (12:00 GMT)

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said that ending Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories was the only guarantee of “security, stability and peace” in the region.

2:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m. GMT)

According to the WAFA news agency, a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance was attacked by an Israeli airstrike outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, injuring several Palestinians.

2:00 p.m. (11:00 a.m. GMT)

Central areas in the Gaza Strip, including public squares and residential complexes, were targeted by airstrikes. In some rural neighborhoods near the fence, residents were advised to evacuate as fighting escalated.

1:00 p.m. (10:00 a.m. GMT)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Saturday: “We are at war” after Palestinian militiamen from the Gaza Strip entered the south of the country and thousands of rocket attacks were registered.

12:00 p.m. (09:00 GMT)

Palestinians celebrate while riding in an Israeli military vehicle seized from Palestinian gunmen who have infiltrated areas in southern Israel.

11:00 a.m. (08:00 GMT)

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reaffirmed this Saturday “the right of the Palestinian people to defend themselves against the terrorism of the settlers and the occupying forces.”

10:00 a.m. (07:00 GMT)

Palestinians take to the streets in Nablus in the West Bank in solidarity with the Gaza resistance forces, which have seized control of several illegal Zionist settlements in occupied Palestine…

09:00 (06:00 GMT)

The Palestinian resistance released images from the start of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, in which they blew up the border fence with “Israel,” destroyed tanks and military equipment, and captured Zionist soldiers

08:00 (05:00 GMT)

The commander-in-chief of Hamas’ Ezzedin Al-Qassam Brigades, Mohammad al-Deif, announced this Saturday the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in response to the occupation’s atrocities against the Holy Mosque.

The resistance fired more than five thousand rockets and projectiles in the first phase of the attack, calling on Palestinians in the West Bank to organize actions and drive out the occupier.

07:00 (04:00 GMT)

The combatants killed Israeli soldiers, took residents of Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip hostage and kidnapped around fifty people, according to Gaza sources and videos circulating on social networks showing soldiers, civilians and even immigrants being captured. Asians.