Status: 10.10.2023, 05:21 a.m.
By: Jens Kiffmeier
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Dead, injured and hostages: the war in Israel continues to claim victims today. The Hamas attacks could lead to a ground offensive. The news ticker.
- Latest Israel News: Dozens Dead After Israeli Airstrike on Gaza Refugee Camp
- After Hamas Attacks: Israel Imposes Complete Blockade of the Gaza Strip
- 300,000 reservists mobilized: Israel launches largest mobilization in its history against Hamas
- The information processed here comes from international media and news agencies, but also from Israel. At present, it is not yet possible to fully assess the situation. As a result, not all information can be verified directly and independently.
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Update from October 9, 14:46 p.m.: According to the Times of Israel, more than 800 people have been killed in Hamas' attacks against Israel. This is according to unconfirmed reports in Hebrew-language media. Meanwhile, Israel's Ministry of Health announced that 2506,353 people had to be hospitalized as a result of the Hamas attacks. 23 people are said to be seriously injured, <> are in critical condition.
Israel News: Dozens of People Die in Israeli Airstrike on Refugee Camp
Update from October 9, 14:02 p.m.: According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, dozens of Palestinians have been killed and injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp, as Spiegel Online reported. At least 493 people have fallen victim to Israel's retaliatory strikes so far, according to the ministry in the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory. 2751 people were injured.
Update, October 9, 13:10 p.m.: The BBC reported that the Israeli army leadership has launched a "full-scale" attack on Hamas centers in the Gaza Strip. The operation was announced on social media by both the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israeli Air Force. Shortly before, Hamas in the Gaza Strip resumed its massive rocket attacks on Israeli territory.
Israel News: Israeli Government Imposes Complete Blockade of the Gaza Strip
Update from October 9, 11:40 a.m.: Israel is advancing with increasingly harsh reactions in the fight against the terrorists of Hamas. After the attack on Israel, according to Defense Minister Yoav Gallan, the country imposed a complete blockade of the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no more fuel, everything is closed. He spoke of a fight against "bestial people".
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News on the war in Israel: New alarm in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
Update from October 9, 11:25 a.m.: As reported by the Reuters news agency, an air alarm was sounded in the greater Tel Aviv area and in Jerusalem. Explosions were heard in Jerusalem, which could have come from either rocket strikes or air defenses.
Damage from a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Tel Aviv on Saturday (7 October) © Moti Milrod/dpa
In addition, the sirens wailed in other cities and towns. Among others, Herzliya and Raʿanana, which are located north of Tel Aviv, were affected. In Gvaram, a kibbutz north of the Gaza Strip, sirens are said to have wailed again to warn the population of rocket fire by Hamas. At least one rocket penetrated the Israeli shield and landed in an open area near Tel Aviv, Israeli television reported. So far, there has been no official information on possible injuries or victims.
News on the War in Israel: Largest Mobilization in History to Fight Hamas
Update from October 9, 11:15 a.m.: Israel has launched the largest mobilization in its history following Hamas attacks, an army spokesman said. In total, the country has mobilized around 300,000 reservists because of the war. On Saturday, the "Brothers in Arms" movement had already temporarily suspended its protest against Netanyahu's government and called on all protesting reservists to report for duty immediately.
Israel News: More Airstrikes Launched in the War Against Hamas in the Gaza Strip
Update from October 9, 11:07 a.m.: The Israeli army says it continues to carry out airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. Hamas targets were attacked, the military said, according to the Times of Israel.
War in Israel: Army regains control of border towns with the Gaza Strip
Update from October 9, 11:01 a.m.: Until a few hours ago, heavy fighting was still going on in "seven to eight places" on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army now reports that the fighting with Hamas there has now ended. The military has regained control in all localities, the army said. However, it is still possible that armed Palestinians are still in the region.
Update from October 9, 11:00 a.m.: According to UN figures, more than 123,000 people have been displaced in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the massive large-scale attack on Israel by the radical Islamic Hamas. A total of 123,538 of Gaza's 2.3 million residents have left their homes "out of fear, concern for their protection and the destruction of their homes," the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) said on Monday. More than 73,000 refugees are housed in schools.
According to a spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), a further increase in the number of refugees is to be expected. There is electricity in the schools, some of which have been declared emergency shelters. The UN staff also provided the people staying there "with a meal, clean water, psychological support and medical treatment," he told the AFP news agency.
Update from October 9, 10:24 a.m.: According to the Palestinian Foreign Ministry, Israeli airstrikes hit a United Nations school in Gaza. Hundreds of civilians, including children and the elderly, were housed at the school, according to the ministry, which described the attack as "brutal."
The UN confirmed the attack and said the school had been "severely damaged". No one was killed, it said.
Israel war: Death toll in Gaza rises after airstrikes
Update from October 9, 10:10 a.m.: The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip has risen to at least 493, according to Palestinian figures. 2751,<> people were injured, according to the Ministry of Health in the Palestinian territory controlled by the extremist organization Hamas. The airstrikes are a response to Hamas' surprise full-scale attack on Israel on Saturday.
"People are still coming in": Fighting continues in the south
Update from October 9, 9:50 a.m.: Fighting continues between Israeli soldiers and Hamas attackers in the border area. Special forces are still involved in active firefights at about seven to eight locations in Israel, said military spokesman Richard Hecht. In addition, it cannot be ruled out that more militants will enter Israeli territory. "I can't deny the fact that people are still coming in," Hecht said.
According to media reports, there were fierce exchanges of gunfire in a swimming pool in the Israeli city of Sderot, with several Israeli wounded. The Israeli military said the paratrooper brigade was engaged in a "stubborn battle" with soldiers searching Sderot "to rid the city of terrorists." Sderot is located about a kilometer from the Gaza Strip.
Israeli ground troops to free hostages
Update from October 9, 9:10 a.m.: According to the Washington Post, Israeli ground troops will be sent to the Gaza Strip within 48 hours in response to Hamas attacks on Israel. The aim is to free the hostages abducted to Gaza. The Post cites sources in the U.S. government. So far, there has been no independent confirmation from the Israeli government.
Update from October 9, 7:35 a.m.: Two days after the deadly surprise attack on Israel by the radical Islamic group Hamas, a number of Israeli villages near the border are still heavily contested, according to the Israeli army. "We are still fighting," army spokesman Richard Hecht told reporters on Monday morning (9 October). There are "between seven and eight" open theaters of combat in the border area with the Gaza Strip, "where we are still fighting terrorists."
Army gathers 100,000 reservists for possible ground offensive in Gaza
Update from October 9, 7:15 a.m.: Israel has amassed around 100,000 reservists in the south of the country. This was stated by an IDF spokesman on Monday night (October 9). The task, he said, is that at the end of the war, Hamas will no longer be able to threaten Israelis militarily. At the same time, it will ensure that Hamas can no longer govern the Gaza Strip.
Is there now a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip? An advance by the army into the particularly densely populated Gaza Strip entails major new risks. Attempts to rescue the hostages, presumably hidden in underground tunnels, would be a dangerous gamble with an uncertain outcome. Hamas apparently wants to try to free prisoners in Israeli jails.
Iran denies any connection to the attacks in Israel
Update October 9, 4:20 a.m.: Iran denies any connection to the attacks in Israel. "We strongly support Palestine, but we are not involved in the Palestinian response, as it is only made by Palestine itself," the Iranian mission to the United Nations (UN) declares.
"Palestine's resolute actions are a perfectly legitimate defense against seven decades of oppressive occupation and the heinous crimes of the illegitimate Zionist regime." The success of the Hamas operation is due to the element of surprise, which makes it the "greatest failure" of Israeli security organizations.
Israel vergleicht Hamas mit IS
Update from October 8, 22:05 p.m.: Dead, missing and, above all, many hostages: After the rocket attacks by the Islamist Hamas, Israel's army has compared the organization ruling the Gaza Strip to the terrorist network Islamic State (IS). Hamas has been "more barbaric and brutal" than ISIS, military spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Sunday evening. Hamas has started "a war against Israel with the worst massacre of innocent civilians in Israel's history."
Shock figures after massacre on festival grounds in Israel – 260 bodies discovered
Update from October 8, 21:43 p.m.: Shocking realization in the Israeli war: After the terrorist attack by the Islamist Hamas from the Gaza Strip, emergency services have so far found at least 260 bodies on a festival site in Israel alone. This was reported by the news website Ynet, citing the Zaka ambulance service on Sunday evening. Hamas fighters attacked the participants of a music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip on Saturday and also abducted numerous people from there to the Gaza Strip. Media quoted eyewitnesses who spoke of a massacre. Videos are circulating on the Internet that are supposed to show how the revelers flee from the shots of the attackers.
Israel News: Father of kidnapped hostage breaks down in tears
Update from October 8, 20:09 p.m.: The brutal horrors of the Israel war: After the Hamas hostage-taking, an Israeli father has lamented his suffering in tears. So Uri David, whose daughters were kidnapped, wept, begged the kidnappers for mercy. "I don't know where they are. Maybe they will be raped in Gaza. Maybe they were thrown into a ditch. I can't do anything," the Bild newspaper quoted him as saying on Sunday evening. According to the authorities, the Palestinian terrorist organization is holding more than 100 civilians captive, including Germans.
U.S. to deploy aircraft carrier "Gerald R. Ford" to eastern Mediterranean
Update from October 8, 19:57 p.m.: Reaction to the escalation of violence in the Israeli war: Because of the ongoing fighting, the US apparently wants to send a sign of military support. For example, there are apparently plans to move ships and the air force close to the Israeli coast. This is reported by the US broadcaster NBC, citing government circles. The relocation could begin immediately, but all the funds would not be on site for a few days. Shortly before, US President Joe Biden had again pledged his help.
Secretary of State Lloyd Austin confirmed the report a short time later. According to them, a fleet with the aircraft carrier "Gerald R. Ford" will be sent to the eastern Mediterranean. In addition, the U.S. government will quickly provide equipment and ammunition to the Israeli armed forces. The shipment is expected to arrive in the conflict region within a few days.
War in Israel: Death toll continues to rise
Update from October 8, 19:16 p.m.: There is no end to the suffering in the Israeli war: After the large-scale attack by the Islamist Hamas from the Gaza Strip, the death toll in Israel has risen to at least 700. This was reported by several Israeli media outlets on Sunday, citing medical circles. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, more than 2243 people were injured.
Federal Foreign Office confirms German victims of Hamas hostages
Update from October 8, 18:34 p.m.: The German government assumes that German nationals are among those abducted from Israel by the Islamist Hamas. The Foreign Office in Berlin said on Sunday that, according to the Foreign Ministry's findings, these were people who all had Israeli citizenship in addition to German. On Sunday, the Federal Government's crisis team met again at the Federal Foreign Office. The authority did not want to give concrete information on the number of hostages.
News on the Israeli war: Demonstration against Hamas in front of the Brandenburg Gate
Update from October 8, 18:22 p.m.: According to preliminary police figures, around 2000,<> people demonstrated in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin at a solidarity rally for Israel, which was attacked by the Islamist Hamas. There was largely silence in the crowd, but the silence was repeatedly broken by angry heckling, the dpa news agency reported. Many participants called for an end to aid payments to Palestinians in the Middle East. Posters read, for example, "Peace and security for Israel, no financial aid to terrorists."
War claims 600 lives and 100 hostages – is the ground offensive coming?
Initial report from October 8, 18:14 p.m.: Tel Aviv – Dead, injured, missing and more than 100 hostages: After Hamas' attacks on Israel, the war in the Middle East has broken out again. Even on day two of the confrontation, there was no end in sight to the bloodshed. While videos of abducted civilians circulated online and new rockets flew out of Gaza, the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retaliated with massive air strikes. But is that enough? Experts consider a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip to begin soon to be realistic.
The news of the resurgence of the Middle East conflict had already alarmed the world the day before. The Islamist Hamas had launched the large-scale attack from Gaza. He took Israel completely by surprise on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah (Joy of the Torah). The Palestinian organization, classified as a terrorist organization by the EU, the US and Israel, fired more than 3000,<> rockets. Gunmen entered Israel by land, sea and air.
War in Israel: Hamas kidnaps more than 100 hostages – including a German
Several Israelis were abducted to the Gaza Strip, according to military sources. A spokesman spoke of a "significant number" without giving specific details. Israel announced an evacuation of its border towns with the Gaza Strip. The Federal Government is examining whether German citizens are affected. Previously, videos circulated on the Internet about the mistreatment and abduction of a German woman. The relatives have already contacted the relevant authorities.
News from Israel: Security Cabinet declares state of war and vows revenge
The death toll rose to more than 600 on Sunday. In addition, more than 1000,7 people are said to have been injured in the attacks – on both sides. In Israel, the security cabinet reacted harshly and declared a state of war. "The war imposed on Israel by a murderous terror attack from the Gaza Strip began at 2023:06 a.m. on October 00, <>," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. The state of war allows for "far-reaching military steps". In the background, talks were underway to form an emergency government.
"We will turn all the places where Hamas is organized and hiding into islands of rubble," Netanyahu said in an address. He urged residents of the Gaza Strip: "Flee from there now, because we will act everywhere and with all our strength." Israel will take revenge.
War against Hamas: Will Israel dare to launch a ground offensive with tanks?
It was initially unclear on Sunday evening how this was to be done. In an initial response, Israel launched the war and bombed the Gaza Strip and parts of Lebanon with air strikes. However, the Israeli army also reported that in addition to the air forces, the ground forces were also operational. In previous years, Israel had repeatedly dared to invade the Gaza Strip with tanks. In recent years, however, the tactics had changed and shifted to targeted attacks with drones and missiles. But in view of the large number of hostages, a tank offensive could again become an option. In any case, military observers do not rule this out.
But a ground offensive with tanks is dangerous. In the conflict that has been going on for decades, the Palestinians have crisscrossed their territory with an extensive tunnel system. They provide Hamas fighters with good hiding places and quick changes of direction. This makes them inaccessible to the tanks.
War in Israel: Hamas rocket attack came as a surprise
However, the exact backlash is likely to be worked on. The Hamas attack apparently took the government in Israel completely by surprise. The Palestinians launched the attack almost exactly 50 years ago, after the Yom Kippur War of 1973. The attack on Israel by hostile Arab states on the highest Jewish holiday is considered the most serious national trauma to date. (With agency material)