Israel and Gaza are fighting a war after militant assaults

A Ground Attack on the Gaza Strip: Inspirals, rocket fires, and the Israeli mission to protect the Aqsa mosque

In recent weeks thousands of Jews have visited the Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, and there was a military operation carried out by the military wing of Hamas to protect it.

An urgent call for blood and a special drive to give blood was issued by Magen David Adom, the ambulance service.

The Israeli military said that armed gunmen had crossed the border fence in several locations and infiltrated Israeli communities in a ground assault from Gaza, a poor coastal enclave that has been under blockade by Israel and neighboring Egypt for about 15 years.

At least 2,200 rockets had been fired into Israel by 11 a.m. Saturday, the Israeli military said. Fighter jets had begun to bomb the Gaza Strip, which it declared as a state of alert for war.

The assault started without a warning on the Jewish Sabbath and the day after the end of the Jewish high holidays. It was 50 years almost to the day after the surprise attack by Egyptian and Syrian forces over Israel’s northern and southern borders at the opening of the 1973 war that traumatized the nation.

The leader of the military wing of Hamas said in a recording that the group was going to start an operation so that the enemy would understand that the time of their rampaging was over.

The Palestinians and the Gaza Strip: Israeli response in the wake of Israeli attacks on esclaves, including the death of a dozen soldiers

There have been at least 22 deaths according to Israel’s ambulance service. More than 100 people were reported wounded in three Israeli hospitals. A hospital spokeswoman said a few people were in very difficult condition at the Soroka Medical Center.

Netanyahu said that he had ordered a call up of reserve soldiers, to help clear the towns from the militant group.

On Saturday there were a number of rockets fired into southern and central Israel from the Gaza Strip.