Israel showed the world photos of Hamas atrocities, charred children, and promised that the terrorist organization will be "crushed" as ISIS. For a simple reason: Hamas, explained Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu posting the terrifying images on the government's social channels, is "the ISIS of Gaza". On the sixth day of the war - with the Lebanese border still boiling and an Israeli raid that hit Damascus airport - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Tel Aviv and admitted that "the images of children and babies massacred, soldiers beheaded, boys burned alive, are beyond imagination. Almost incomprehensible." Then he added: "They reminded me of the violence of ISIS", it was "like ten September 11" for Israel. Earlier, it was Defense Minister Yoav Gallant who showed the horror videos to his NATO colleagues in Brussels.
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Moreover, the army announced that flags of the Islamic State were found in the recaptured border kibbutzim, especially in that of Sufa, as well as al Qaeda manuals on the bodies of the killed terrorists. While the Jerusalem Post wrote that it could "confirm, based on verified photos, that reports of children beheaded during the Hamas assault are correct." The cross-border attack that sparked the war and the capture of more than 150 Israeli hostages, according to Ali Baraka, a member of the faction, had been in preparation "for at least two years." But Hamas's allied countries, he assured, were informed only after the assault began. And "you could count on the fingers of one hand" the number of leaders who knew the day precisely. Tomorrow Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, her German colleague Annalena Baerbock, the President of the EU Commission Ursula Von der Leyen and that of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola will arrive in Israel. Then they will travel, like Blinken, to Amman, to see Abbas. The head of the Palestinian National Authority, meeting King Abdullah in the Jordanian capital, condemned "the killing or abuse of civilians by both sides because it violates morality, religion and international law." But at the same time he called for "an immediate end to the aggression against the Palestinian people."
Gaza is increasingly under siege in all this. "No electricity, no water, no gasoline trucks will come in until the Israeli hostages return home," Israeli Energy Minister Israel Katz warned. To give an idea of the military pressure on the Strip and on Hamas - which in any case continues to launch rockets in southern and central Israel, including the area of Tel Aviv and Ashkelon - just think that since last Saturday the Israeli army has carried out raids against 3,600 targets using more than 6,000 ammunition. So much so that Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said that "Gaza will never be the same again". But Halevi also admitted that the army did not honor "its responsibilities to the security of Israel and its citizens" on Saturday. In the crosshairs of Israeli attacks are not only the organizational and command structures of Hamas and other Palestinian factions, but above all their leaders. The army today eliminated Yosef Abu Marzouk, brother of Mussa, a member of the Hamas politburo and spokesman for the organization, who reached the Rafah industrial zone south of the Palestinian enclave. Similarly, two other Hamas leaders who were freed in exchange for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011.
The death toll in both Israel and Gaza is rising more and more. In the Jewish state, more than 1,300 people are killed and 3,300 injured, 28 of whom are in critical condition. The death toll in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 1,537, including 500 children and 276 women, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The wounded are 6,612. The humanitarian situation is collapsing and there are ongoing negotiations, mediated by Egypt, to at least open humanitarian corridors for the wounded and for the supply of medicines. If Israel's position is known, Hamas has reiterated that it agrees on humanitarian corridors but not on the passage of the population. The Rafah crossing with Sinai remains closed. Cairo has claimed that it is blocked because Israel continues to bomb it, which however does not confirm. Meanwhile, the militants have called for tomorrow to revolt to celebrate the first Friday since the Al-Aqsa flood, as Hamas called the blitz in Israel. Police and army in the West Bank are on high alert.
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