{"id":421125,"date":"2023-10-08T10:05:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T07:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=421125"},"modified":"2023-10-08T10:05:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T07:05:25","slug":"hezbollah-and-israel-exchange-fire-as-israeli-soldiers-battle-hamas-the-day-after-a-surprise-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/hezbollah-and-israel-exchange-fire-as-israeli-soldiers-battle-hamas-the-day-after-a-surprise-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah and Israel exchange fire as Israeli soldiers battle Hamas the day after a surprise attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

TEL AVIV, (SONNA) \u2014 Israeli soldiers battled Hamas fighters in the streets of Israel\u2019s south on Sunday and exchanged strikes with Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah militant group in the north, while Israel\u2019s retaliation strikes leveled buildings in Gaza. The prospect of Hezbollah joining the fighting a day after an unprecedented surprise attack<\/span>\u00a0from Gaza raised the chances of a broader conflict.<\/p>\n

Hamas fighters, backed by a volley of thousands of rockets, broke through Israeli barricades early Saturday to rampage through nearby Israeli communities. They took captives back into the coastal enclave, including women, children and the elderly, while Israel\u2019s retaliation strikes leveled buildings in Gaza and its prime minister said the country was at war. Israeli media, citing rescue service officials, said at least 300 people were killed, including 26 soldiers.<\/p>\n

At least 250 people were killed in Gaza and civilians paid a staggering cost for the violence on both sides. Israeli TV news aired a stream of accounts from the relatives of captive or missing Israelis, who wailed and begged for assistance amid a fog of uncertainty surrounding the fate of their loved ones. In Gaza, residents fled their homes to find refuge from the onslaught of Israeli strikes, fleeing the border area after warnings from the Israeli military, and sheltering in schools.<\/p>\n

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Previous conflicts between Israel and Gaza\u2019s Hamas rulers brought widespread destruction in Gaza and days of rocket fire on Israeli towns. The situation is potentially more volatile now, with Israel\u2019s far-right government stung by the security breach and Palestinians in despair over a never-ending occupation in the West Bank and suffocating blockade of Gaza.<\/p>\n

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The flare-up on Israel\u2019s northern border also threatened to draw into the battle Hezbollah, a fierce enemy of Israel\u2019s which is backed by Iran and estimated to have tens of thousands of rockets at its disposal. Hezbollah struck Israeli positions in a disputed area along the border with Syria\u2019s Golan Heights, and Israel\u2019s military responded with armed drone strikes on Hezbollah targets in a disputed area where the borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria meet.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0an assault of startling breadth<\/span>, Hamas gunmen used explosives to break through the border fence enclosing Gaza, then crossed with motorcycles, pickup trucks, paragliders and speed boats on the coast. They rolled into as many as 22 locations outside the Gaza Strip early Saturday morning, including towns and other communities as far as 15 miles (24 kilometers) from the Gaza border, while Hamas launched thousands of rockets at Israeli cities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael is waking up this morning to a terrible morning,\u201d said Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, an Israeli military spokesman. \u201cThere are a lot of people killed… children, grandmothers, families, bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the Israeli military said its forces were fighting Hamas incursions in eight places. An Israeli military spokesperson said that two hostage situations had been \u201cresolved,\u201d but did not say whether all the hostages had been rescued alive.<\/p>\n

Source: AP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TEL AVIV, (SONNA) \u2014 Israeli soldiers battled Hamas fighters in the streets of Israel\u2019s south on Sunday and exchanged strikes with Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah militant group in the north, while Israel\u2019s retaliation strikes leveled buildings in Gaza. The prospect of Hezbollah joining the fighting a day after an unprecedented surprise attack\u00a0from Gaza raised the chances of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":421126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-421125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421127,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421125\/revisions\/421127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}