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Meanwhile, the airport in Aleppo, Syria, was hit by rockets a second time, and the runway that had just been repaired is unusable again. Syria blames Israel for this.
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The airport in the Syrian capital Damascus has not yet been repaired after an Israeli attack. The Israeli army also says it has attacked several targets in Syria. After an air alarm in the towns of Avnei Eitan and Alma on the annexed Golan Heights, the army is attacking targets in Syria from which the shelling came, an army spokesman said on Saturday evening. In addition, reports of an incursion from Lebanon by air are being investigated.
In view of the escalation in the region, Austria’s Foreign Ministry has set the security level for Israel at 4 “high security risk” on 5 “partial travel warning” for the areas in Israel around the Gaza Strip and along the Israeli border with Lebanon and Syria and warns against all travel there.
Israel postpones ground offensive due to weather
According to a US media report, Israel’s military has postponed its planned invasion of the Gaza Strip by a few days due to adverse weather conditions. The ground offensive was actually supposed to begin this weekend, but was postponed due to cloudy skies and the resulting difficulty in visibility for pilots and drones, reported “New York Times” citing three unnamed senior Israeli officers.
The aim is to wipe out the political and military leadership of the Islamist organization Hamas, which carried out massacres in Israel a week ago that left hundreds dead. The military operation carries the risk of Israel becoming embroiled in months of bloody house-to-house fighting, the report says. Tens of thousands of Hamas fighters are believed to be holed up in bunkers and hundreds of kilometers of underground tunnel systems beneath Gaza City and surrounding parts of the northern Gaza Strip. Israel’s army assumes that Hamas will try to impede its progress by blowing up tunnels as ground forces advance above them. Hamas is also planning to get behind Israeli lines through secret tunnel exits and attack from behind. Another strategic dilemma is that the terrorists can hide themselves particularly effectively underground with hostages.
“Fighter planes, drones and artillery”
In addition to infantry units, Israel’s response force will also include tanks and engineers, the officers added, according to the newspaper. The ground troops would receive cover from fighter aircraft, attack helicopters, drones and artillery from both land and sea, it said. Israeli officials warn that Hamas could kill Israeli hostages and use civilians as human shields. They also littered the area with booby traps, the reported “New York Times” further.
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Palestinian terrorists, acting on behalf of Hamas, carried out a massacre of Israeli civilians in border towns and at a music festival last weekend. More than 1,300 people were killed. Israel has since responded with heavy air strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip, where at least 2,228 people were killed and 8,744 others injured, according to Palestinian figures on Saturday.
Registration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Austrians in Israel should follow the instructions of the Israeli authorities, follow the news and report to the embassy in Tel Aviv or register with the Foreign Ministry at https://auslandsregistrierung.bmeia.gv.at/#.
While Austria has already completed its evacuation flights (we have reported), two German Bundeswehr planes are currently on the return flight from Israel to Germany to repatriate German citizens. There were a total of 80 passengers on board the two A400M military transporters, the Bundeswehr announced on Sunday night via the online platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The first plane with 51 passengers took off from Tel Aviv at 11 p.m. (CEST), the second with 29 passengers almost three hours later. “Further flights are in preparation”it was said.
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Expulsion of Hamas supporters
In Germany, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) has spoken out in favor of expelling supporters of the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas from Germany. “We will use all legal options to expel Hamas supporters”she said “Picture on Sunday”. She received support from SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil, who appeared in the newspapers “Funke Media Group” said, “If someone who celebrates Hamas on German streets does not have German citizenship, then they should be expelled from Germany”it must “be a democratic consensus in our society that we condemn Hamas’ barbaric terror”. But one should not generally condemn Arabs or Muslims in Germany for Hamas’ terror.
- Video: Escape from Gaza difficult
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