The Israeli death toll from the Hamas attack is now at 1,200. Number of hostages taken to Gaza estimated at 150.
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Watching CNN right now (0443 MDT, Wednesday), live from Israel. Erin Burnett live on the ground. Scary stuff.
What a great story! Thank you. This picture made me teary-eyed:
This is good to see.
Also notable that he’s urging Israel to minimise casualties, which implies US acceptance of a war on Hamas.
Breaking news that Netanyahu and Gantz have agreed to form a unity government for the duration of the conflict:
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/11/hamas-israel-war-gantz-netanyahu-unity-government
About time. Should not have taken this long. Hopefully Lapid joins as well.
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House members were in a classified-only meeting this morning and left “clearly shaken”, per Punchbowl News.
From a tweet by a Hill reporter:
GOP Rep. Max Miller on the classified briefing about Israel this morning: Miller won’t divulge info shared in room on Israel because it’s classified but - “I learned something very, very new within that room that has changed the scope and how I see this developing situation.”
That’s… ominous. Could Hamas have gotten its hands on a nuke? What else could it be? Just genuinely horrific non-public photos of atrocities?
I don’t see how Hamas could use a nuclear weapon against Israel without killing many of their coreligionists.
Rep Derrick Van Orden was belligerent during a White House security briefing today and accused the WH of not mentioning “US hostages” so potentially related to that.
Never mind - probably belongs in discussion thread.
Known hostages.
The US State Department according to CNN says there are seventeen Americans held.
Meh. Doesn’t have to be a nuke… could be chemical or biological, too. Or something to make a dirty bomb? Or something else I can’t think of at the moment since I wasn’t at that meeting.
I’m not sure Hamas cares.
I didn’t know there were that many Thai people living in Israel.
Lots of Thai and Filipino workers come to Israel to do agricultural work, take care of the elderly, etc.
Although Iran is almost certainly funding and supplying Hamas, there is doubt about whether they had any hand in the planning or execution of the recent attack.
Just throwing this out there. Dead babies with their heads cut off and raped women seem to be bs.
https://www.tiktok.com /t/ZPR79gBok/