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The Fourth Day of the Gaza War: Israel’s Standstill and the Violation of Terror in the Second and Third Generation Israeli Regimes

The Israeli military said Tuesday it had largely regained control of areas in the south that had been attacked by militants from Hamas. On the fourth day of the war with Hamas, there was an announcement.

The military said it had found “hundreds and hundreds” of bodies of Hamas militants who died fighting inside Israel – an indication of the size of their attack. It stated that there weren’t infickers coming over the Gaza border Monday. There could still be some holdouts on Israeli territory.

The Israeli military says more than 900 Israelis were killed by Hamas attackers and rocket fire, in what it has called “the worst day in Israeli history.”

Meanwhile, in his first televised comments since the war started, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei denied that Iran was involved in the attack but said, “We kiss the hands of those who planned the attack on the Zionist regime.”

Israel has put a complete blockade on the Gaza Strip, cutting off food, fuel and water for 2.3 million residents. The borders with Gaza have been closed by Egypt.

The first day of the current war showed that Hamas is a capable fighting force, as it fired thousands of rockets toward Israel from Gaza.

The bloodshed began a day before the 50th anniversary of the start of the Yom Kippur War and on the day after the Jewish Simchat Torah holiday.

The Palestinian militant group Hamas, which took control of Gaza in 2007, launched a massive surprise attack along Israel’s southern border on Saturday. Militants used paragliders, motorbikes and boats to cross Israel’s border.

The military wing of Hamas, known as Ezzedin Al-Qassam Brigades, has said that every time an Israeli strike without warning kills civilians, the group would “execute a civilian hostage” and said it would release audio and images. Hamas has reportedly taken 150 people hostage after Saturday’s incursion into Israel.

Over the weekend, Netanyahu said anyone in areas where Hamas operates in the Gaza Strip should leave. There has been a blockade by Egypt and Israel for 16 years.

Hamas’s actions have no justification, no legitimacy, and must be universally condemned. There is no justification for terrorism.

The leaders went on to add they “recognize the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people, and support equal measures of justice and freedom for Israelis and Palestinians alike.”

“Make no mistake,” the group said. “Hamas does not represent those aspirations, and it offers nothing for the Palestinian people other than more terror and bloodshed.”

Indications of a Collapse in the United States for Security in the Light of the September 14 Israeli Violations in the Gaza Strip

President Biden confirmed on Monday that at least 11 Americans have been killed and that citizens of the US are being held captive by Hamas.

“I have directed my team to work with their Israeli counterparts on every aspect of the hostage crisis, including sharing intelligence and deploying experts from across the United States government to consult with and advise Israeli counterparts on hostage recovery efforts,” he said in a statement.

Biden encouraged Americans fleeing the region to follow the guidance of their local authorities and to take “sensible precautions” in the days ahead.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs for Argentina said 250 of its citizens had signed up to be evacuated from Israel, and that two of their citizens were missing. 180 Columbian tourists were being helped by the consulate in Tel Aviv, most of them in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nazareth.

Meanwhile, U.S. officials tell NPR they are offering Israel air defense and munitions and are pressing to get munitions to the country as quickly as possible.

The Pentagon didn’t give a timetable on how long the Gerald Ford Strike Group would be in the Mediterranean.

“This is applying too much pressure on our health professionals in the hospitals,” Abbas said. “Unless these borders are opened at once — for the fuel to run the generators and for medications, medical supplies to come at once together — there will be a collapse of the health system.”

The creation of Hamas’ military wing was overseen by the spiritual leader, who was a paralyzed man, and spent years in Israeli prisons.

Hamas is the acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement and is a nod to their roots in the Muslim Brotherhood, which started in Egypt in the 1920s.

The group has been responsible for suicide bombings and other attacks on civilians and Israeli soldiers.

In 2006 parliamentary elections, Hamas won, and in 2007, violently took control of the Gaza Strip from the Palestinian Authority. The semi-autonomous areas of the West Bank are administered by the Palestinian Authority.

Yehia Sinwar, in Gaza, and Ismail Haniyeh, who lives in exile, are Hamas’ current leaders. They realigned the group’s leadership with Iran and its allies, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Since then, many of the group’s leaders relocated to Beirut.

In recent years, Israel has made peace deals with Arab countries without having to make concessions in its conflict with the Palestinians. The U.S. has recently been trying to broker a deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia, a bitter rival of Hamas’ Iranian backers.

Israel’s Resistance Camp in the Hezbollah-Iran War and Iran’s Violation of the Law in the West Bank and Gaza

Hundreds of its 40,000 fighters were involved in the assault. Israel says the group has 30,000 fighters and an arsenal of rockets, ranging in range from about 15 miles to 250 kilometers.

Iran has been ruled by Shia fundamentalists since the 1979 revolution. Max said Hezbollah was created to help project Iranian power in the region, as well as export the Iranian revolution.

Abrahms, an expert on terrorism in the region, said Iran’s influence over both Hamas and Hezbollah varies, and that the Sunni organizations operate with more autonomy than Hezbollah does.

“I don’t think [Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan] Nasrallah would authorize a major attack against Israel without approval of Iranian leaders,” he said Monday. He mentioned that the attack from Gaza on Saturday might have been different because of Hamas waiting for Iranian permission.

The relationship among Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas is called the resistance camp by Israeli intelligence analysts. Neomi Neumann was the former head of research for the Israeli Security Agency and said that they both wanted to weaken Israel and make a Muslim-run land on the Mediterranean Sea.

Neumann now works at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and he said that the groups are different even though they share a goal. Hezbollah has a bigger fighting force than Hamas.

Iran and Hezbollah have come to realize that Hamas is not as bad as they thought. Hamas is necessary in order to weaken Israel.”

They realized this, Neumann said Monday, after Hamas sought to unify disparate groups of Palestinians amid clashes with Israel in 2021, among them Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, and Arab Israelis, which constitute about 20% of Israel’s population.

Raisi also held phone calls with leaders from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad after the attacks against Israel began, Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA said Sunday.

“We know that there were meetings in Syria and in Lebanon, if I remember correctly, with the other leaders of the terror armies that surround Israel,” he said. Spokespeople for Hamas did not return requests for comment.

The director of the University of London’s Middle East Institute said that the response from Hezbollah in southern Lebanon wasn’t opportunist.

Source: Fighting with Israel signals coordination between Hamas and Hezbollah, analysts say

Israel’s response to Israeli attacks on the border: a joint attack on Hezbollah and the other militant groups in the Gaza Strip

The fighting around the northern Israeli border is at a much smaller scale than in southern Israel near Gaza, the Palestinian coastal enclave to Israel’s southwest. But the double-pronged attacks at both poles of Israel left many fearing a more widespread, regional escalation of violence.

Monday’s fighting follows rocket and drone attacks in the region on Sunday. Both Hezbollah and Israel fired across the border, leading the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon to urge “everyone to exercise restraint … to de-escalate a fast deterioration of the security situation.”

The Israeli military said Monday it killed several fighters crossing the border from Lebanon. Hezbollah said one of its fighters died in Israel’s retaliation. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed it had hurt seven Israeli soldiers.

In this week, Hezbollah and the other militant groups in southern Lebanon intensified their attacks on northern Israel.

The leaders of France and Germany said on Tuesday that they are still looking for proof that Iran was involved in the Hamas attacks. But analysts interviewed by NPR say the link is undeniable.

The Palestinians carried out a multi front assault against Israel on Saturday, and Western and Middle Eastern intelligence officials say Iran provided training, money and other assistance to them.