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“Unfortunately, despite a series of measures on Saturday, we were unable to issue a sufficient warning that would have made it possible to thwart the attack,” said Shin Bet director Ronen Bar. “As the head of the organization, the responsibility lies with me.” There will be investigations into this. “Now we fight.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the Lebanese Hezbollah militia and Iran against attacks on his country. “Don’t put us to the test in the north,” Netanyahu said in parliament on Monday at the start of the winter session. “Don’t repeat your previous mistake because this time the price will be much worse.” US President Joe Biden told them in English: “Don’t do it.” I told you in Hebrew: Be careful.”
Since the devastating terrorist attacks on Israel by the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas and the Israeli army’s counterattacks on the Gaza Strip, there have been regular incidents on the border between Israel and Lebanon in recent days, raising concerns about further escalation.
“Hamas is part of the axis of evil of Iran, Hezbollah and their accomplices,” Netanyahu said. “They want to destroy the state of Israel and murder us all.” Their goal is to return the Middle East “to the abyss of the barbaric fanaticism of the Middle Ages.” Netanyahu again compared Hamas to the terrorist network Islamic State (IS). Many people in the world would have understood this. “They understand that Hamas is a new version of Nazism.”
Just as the world united against the National Socialists and IS, it must now do the same to defeat Hamas. “We say to our friends in the enlightened world: Our war is also your war. If we don’t stand together as a united front now, it will reach you too.”
Meanwhile, the Israeli army said it killed the regional head of Hamas’ intelligence service in an airstrike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. The attack took place in the early hours of the morning, an army spokesman said on Monday. The army also released a video of the attack on Twitter (X). The name of the member of Gaza’s ruling Islamist Hamas was not mentioned.
Israel also attacked the border crossing from Gaza to Egypt. As AFP journalists reported, the area surrounding the border crossing was hit by an attack on Monday. Hundreds of Palestinians were waiting there to leave the sealed-off coastal strip.
The Rafah border crossing, which was bombed three times in 24 hours by the Israeli Air Force at the beginning of last week, remained closed on Monday. It is the only border crossing into the Gaza Strip that is not controlled by Israel. Palestinians with foreign passports have been waiting in vain for passage for days, including numerous children. Long convoys of trucks carrying aid deliveries are also backed up on the Egyptian side.
After Hamas’ major attack on October 7, the Israeli army put the Gaza Strip under constant fire and completely sealed off the densely populated coastal area. The Israeli military is also preparing a large-scale ground offensive and urged 1.1 million residents in the north of the Gaza Strip to flee to the south. According to Palestinian information, around 2,750 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip so far.
According to Israel, more than 1,400 people were killed in the Hamas attack and at least 199 others were kidnapped in the Gaza Strip.
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