Iron Sword War - Day Three: At least 700 people were killed and 2,315 wounded, including many in very serious condition, in the surprise attack by Hamas and the terrorist organizations in Gaza on Saturday and the events that followed. The terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip announced that they had more than 130 Israeli prisoners.
Meanwhile, the Israeli security forces continue to wage battles to cleanse the terrorists from the area surrounding the Gaza Strip. During the night, the Israeli Air Force attacked a number of targets of the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip. In their raid, forces of Shayetet 13 got their hands on the deputy commander of the southern brigade of the naval force in Gaza, Muhammad Abu Ghali. The United States announced that the fighter group of the aircraft carrier "Ford" would make its way to the region.
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03:13IDF reports a series of airstrikes.Among the targets attacked: a building housing Hamas operatives, several operational headquarters of the terrorist organization, including a headquarters in a three-story building and a headquarters affiliated with a senior Hamas naval force official, Muhammad Qeshta. An operational asset used by a mosque in the Jabaliya area and other intelligence assets were also destroyed.
IDF attacks in the Gaza Strip, photo: AP
02:30Reports of significant airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.
02:05Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs tweets a tweet that may hint at the government's goals in the operation: "The first Gaza war, planned to be the last!"
The day after September 11, I came to visit my late grandfather, who was 96 years old and for the first time he didn't smile, lifted his head from the newspaper and told me: If al-Qaeda managed to carry out such an attack, they would take over the world!
And I calmed him down and told him that this was a wake-up call and that this terror would be defeated.
The first Gaza war is also planned to be the last!
— Yossi Fuchs (@YossiFuchs) October 8, 2023
01:00The Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, headed by MK Yuli Edelstein, will hold a confidential discussion tomorrow (Monday) at 11:00, in which it will hear an intelligence-operational update on "iron swords" and the Defense Minister's order to call up reserves will be approved.
00:39Another barrage to the southern settlements and Ashkelon.
00:10Damage to a 2-story residential building in Ashkelon. At this stage, MDA medics and paramedics provide medical treatment and refer an 8-year-old boy in light to moderate condition with shrapnel wounds and a 40-year-old woman in a panic attack to Barzilai Hospital.
Firefighters evacuate the building after several fires developed (which were controlled). In addition, searches are carried out in the apartments to rule out trapped persons, searches for trapped persons and extinguishing fires in a number of locations.
00:09Another barrage towards southern settlements, including the city of Ashkelon.
Damage to the residential building in Ashkelon, photo: use under section 27A of the Copyright Law
00:00Reports of a direct hit on a residential building in Ashkelon.
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