21 brutally honest cartoons that show us the disaster in Israel and Gaza Murder of the grandmother in the live stream – Hamas’s new terror tactic

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The Islamist Hamas attacked Israel in a terrorist attack on October 7. Israel then announced that it wanted to destroy Hamas.

According to official Israeli information, terrorists on behalf of Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, kidnapped at least 203 people from Israel to the coastal strip after the Oct. 7 massacre. According to the army, more than twenty children and young people were involved on Friday. The Israeli army says it believes most of the more than 200 hostages kidnapped in the Gaza Strip are still alive.

The humanitarian situation of many people in the Gaza Strip has deteriorated dramatically since the start of the Gaza war. UN Secretary General António Guterres has strongly appealed for help for the people in the Gaza Strip, which is being bombed and closed off by Israel.

The human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the US and its allies of failing to criticize Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip. This stricter lockdown of the coastal enclave amounts to “a collective punishment, a war crime”.

US President Joe Biden says he expects that first aid supplies for Gaza can be brought across the border from Egypt to the closed coastal strip in the next one to two days.

Germany is increasing its support to the suffering civilian population in the Gaza Strip with emergency humanitarian aid worth EUR 50 million. The money was intended to “support the Palestinians who were also victims of this terrorist attack by Hamas.”

According to Israel, preparations for the ground offensive have been completed. Exactly when this starts is confidential.

Following the Hamas terrorist attacks, Israel wants to eliminate the Islamic organization’s military capabilities and rule. But experts warn of bloody urban wars if Israel launches a ground offensive in the densely populated Gaza Strip.

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have repeatedly fired rockets at Tel Aviv and central Israel in recent days.

So far, more than 1,300 Israelis have been killed and more than 3,000 people have been injured. According to the Ministry of Health there and Hamas, the number of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip has risen to more than 3,500 since the start of the war.

Israel continues to face the threat of a two-front war with the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.

Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin welcomed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for a lengthy chat on the sidelines of a visit to Beijing this week. During his first meeting with a head of government of an EU state this year, Putin spoke of his “satisfaction” that there were still countries in Europe in contact with Russia despite tensions with the West.

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With material from the SDA news agency

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