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submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Israel was taken by surprise by the most ambitious operation Hamas has ever launched from Gaza.

The scale of what's been happening is unprecedented. Hamas breached the wire that separates Gaza from Israel in multiple places in the most serious cross-border attack Israel has faced in more than a generation.

It came a day after the 50th anniversary of the surprise attack by Egypt and Syria in 1973 that started a major Middle East war. The significance of the date will not have been lost on the Hamas leadership.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country is at war and will exact a heavy price from its enemies.

Videos and photos of dead Israelis, civilians as well as soldiers, are all over social media.

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[-] bestnerd@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I had no idea. Why wouldn’t they take the offers

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago

Thats like asking why Ukrainian wont just accecpt Russians offer for peace. They have their homeland stolen, and then should be happy with a little bit of it after the fact?

[-] bestnerd@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I mean that’s a solid point

[-] PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

They never accepted because it was thier fertile crop land that was being taken from them. It failed to be mentioned that these offers were by the British. The Jews themselves also declined the first to offers.

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