How are you friends on the morning of October 7, 2023?
It was the last day of the 7-day religious holiday "Shakot Holidays" in Israel.
The Shakkot holidays are also called Cheg Sakkot in Israel. This day the Jews were freed from Egyptian slavery thousands of years ago
And they celebrate the end of the forty year journey in the Sinai desert.
After forty years of desert climbing, they had found their so-called Holy Land, the Promised Land.
According to a cursory estimate, this legend dates back to the thirteenth century BCE.
Meaning, if this event had ever happened, it would have been about three thousand two hundred and seventy years ago.
The only earliest details of this event we find in the first part of the Bible are in the second book of the Old Testament, Exodus.
So during those forty years when the Jews were searching for their Promised Holy Land
So they lived in tents in the desert, cooked and ate together and their journey was circular.
But when they found the Promised Land, their Eid was fulfilled. It is in this joy that they celebrate the festival "Cheg Sakot".
It is also called Eid-ul-Arsh or Eid-ul-Khayyam in Arabic and Urdu. Khayyam means tents, many campuses.
So, in his memory, Jews sometimes set up a tent in the yard of the house and commemorate him.
Sometimes, if a big party is to be held, this festival is also celebrated by pitching several tents or one big tent in the desert or in any open place.
Sometimes a party is held in which both Cheg Sakot and Hilla Gullah are held together.
So that's exactly what was happening in "Kobitz Reim," a settlement of Israeli settlers on the eastern side of Gaza's neighborhood.
On the morning of October 7th, a similar tent was pitched in the open fields outside Kubitz-Rheims.
The camp was also scheduled to host the "Supernova Festival", a music party that had been announced for several weeks.
Many young men and women had been there since the night and probably had to remove their tents sometime today, as this was the last day.
These youngsters were also sharing their pictures on social media sites showing how they are partying.
That is, their information was available to everyone about how many people are here, who they are and what they are doing.
Between six and seven o'clock in the morning of October 7, a few kilometers west of the same festival, on the border of Gaza, Israel erected a strong fence more than twenty feet high.
A bulldozer came to remove it. This wall, which was a temporary ceasefire line,
Israel had blockaded Gaza for years, using it as a border.
So within seconds, the bulldozer made way by breaking and twisting the same strong iron and steel wall.
Then he continuously held up the part of the fence that could not fall
As if wanting to keep the way back open. Hamas militants who came with the bulldozers shouted slogans
From this Rosen, began entering Israel from space and stormed the festival of the "Kobitzerium" camp.
Open fire was opened on it, resulting in the death of about a hundred, two hundred people
Those who had been celebrating all night and woke up at that time were killed.
Hamas fighters had prepared a trap outside for those who wanted to run away to save their lives.
They started to catch the fleeing Israelis and take them to Gaza by motorbikes and cars.
The videos of the attack and their takeover spread across Israel and the world within seconds.
By nine o'clock, the whole of Israel knew that Hamas had launched a new and larger operation "Al-Aqsa Flood" from Gaza.
The operation was so sudden and on such a large scale that Israeli intelligence was completely clueless about it.
He had not even thought of such a big attack. Because it was not limited to just one area, the Kubitz-Reim.
Hamas launched the "Al-Aqsa Flood" on Israel from all three sides, from land, air and sea.
The attackers were accompanied by people from their media cell "Al Alam Al Askari" who were recording the video.
And their teams were editing these videos and making them viral on social media.
Hamas fighters crossed the border on foot from two other locations, apart from their comrades, Kobitz Reim.
One of them was the "Krem Shalom" check post in the southernmost part of Gaza.
The other was the "Ariz Check Point" crossing in the north in the extreme north. So these became three positions from where the al-Qassam Brigade of Hamas fighters crossed with modern weapons.
Al-Qassam Brigades also included fighters from Islamic Jihad, another organization working for Palestinian liberation.
Arriving in the Israeli controlled area, all these fighters according to their planning
Twenty-two small ghettos near the Gaza border were infiltrated.
It was actually the illegal settlements, against which the Palestinians and a significant part of the world continue to raise their voices.
Neither the police nor the Israeli army were ready in the morning here. There was no warning either
So all these settlements and the people here were at the mercy of al-Qassam and the Islamic Jihadi organization, just like the civilians of Gaza and Palestine were fired upon by the Israeli army.
And are at the mercy of bombing all the time. So Hamas fighters from these twenty-two Israeli towns continued to kill and capture people.
In some places, the Israeli police and army resisted, killing hundreds of fighters from Gaza.
But in many places, these fighters successfully abducted police, soldiers and civilians and transferred them to Gaza.
While many Israelis were taken hostage in their areas.
After some fighting, either the fighters were killed and the hostages were taken or the fighters somehow eluded the Israeli forces.They managed to run back.
So these two cases happened, of which there are videos. We will not be able to show those videos due to YouTube's graphic policy.
Colleagues, the most surprising thing about Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7 was the paragliders
After some preparation, they crossed the high Israeli fence and landed right near the Israeli military posts.
These Israeli posts were the ones closest to Gaza and only a few Israeli soldiers were present at a time.
The paragliders that attacked them were accompanied by the entire filming crew
Who created and released videos in the gaming genre. As elsewhere, Hamas continued to kill or arrest Israeli soldiers from checkpoints.
A large number of Hamas fighters were also killed in the encounter. Some Israeli soldiers hid in a tank
But from there too the fighters of Hamas and Islamic Jihad took them out by opening the hatch
And put them in their cars and transferred them to Gaza. They also burnt dozens of vehicles on these military bases and took many with them.
These vehicles are now seen running on the streets of Gaza. There are many videos and pictures of him.
Another completely new aspect of the attack was that Hamas not only targeted Israeli tanks and vehicles with drones
But also released their live footages. Many youths also took a photo shoot with the tank being destroyed by one such drone.
The Hamas fighters who came from the sea, in addition to the allies by land and air, attacked the Israeli coastal areas of Ashkelon and Zekem.
Here too some parties were going on from night. But more details of these areas are yet to come out.
Al-Aqsa flood started shortly before 7 am. It was a coordinated attack, that is, a simultaneous attack from several sides.
What was most shocking were the thousands of rockets fired by Hamas.
Along with the rocket fire, the Israeli defense system alerted the entire country by sounding the siren.
According to Hamas, they fired 5,000 rockets, while according to Israeli officials, they initially fired a little over 2,200 rockets.
The rockets have hit nine different cities as close as the Israeli capital Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
But they did not hit any big target. That's because the Israeli sophisticated air defense system "Iron Dome" disabled most of them in the air.
You see this is a rocket fire system, with no mechanism to guide it.
Al-Qassam has few precision-guided missiles. The homemade rockets they have are like cannonballs that fall in a certain direction.
They frighten the enemy, they also damage him, but they are not able to hit a single target precisely.
Whereas Israel's Iron Dome system is a guided missile system.
It automatically targets rockets by calculating their trajectory
And then destroys or disables it in the air. But this defense system also has a limit.
There is a shortcoming. There is a weakness. That is, the more number of rockets will be fired
The harder it becomes for Iron Dome to stop them. That's why even though Iron Dome is active
Hundreds of Israeli civilians are among the thousands of rockets fired from the Gaza side by Hamas
and have fallen on military installations, causing a lot of casualties and destroying hundreds of vehicles.
The footage of which you can see is available on social media. Israel had to pay a human price in all this attack.
As of the last reports, around 900 Israelis have been killed and more than 2,000 injured. While this is still going on, because the fight is going on.
According to Israeli newspapers and statements by Hamas, it seems that those who have been abducted have been transported to Palestine
Their number is between one hundred and one hundred and fifty, probably 130.
So comrades, this was a one sided situation, in which we mentioned the attacks by Hamas, now we come to the Israeli response.
In response to the attack that started at 6:30 in the morning, Israel launched a counterattack before 9:00.
They attacked the civilian population in Gaza with fighter jets and started firing ground-launched missiles.
Many residential buildings were completely flattened and razed to the ground, claiming to be the bases of Hamas.
Many people of each house were killed.
By the end of the day, the death toll in Gaza had exceeded five hundred.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said in a TV address at nine o'clock
"We are at war, we are at war and we will win this war. We have entered into a long and merciless war.
But we will have to pay a heavy price for it, we are ready. He has warned the Hamas fighters that the Israeli citizens and soldiers who have been abducted
If any of them is damaged, it will be equalized.
Netanyahu is sharing scenes of destruction in Gaza on his X account.
They are sharing like Victory, obviously he is the Prime Minister of the Right Wing, he will do all this.
Israel has also activated its 300,000 reserve force. Remember, friends, that military service in Israel is compulsory for every citizen over the age of eighteen.
Thirty-two months of military service is a must. It is for men and 24 months for women.
Even after this service, every young man remains a part of the reserve army till the age of forty.
So the reserve army of 300,000 has been asked by Israel to be ready, this is the same trained civilian armIt is
Then Israel has asked and announced that all the citizens of Gaza should leave
That they will retaliate mercilessly. They will not even give a warning and will make it so that Gaza will not be forgotten for the next fifty years.
The Israeli Defense Minister has even said that we are facing humanoid animals
And we will deal with them in the same way. Following these announcements, Gaza's water, food and electricity have been cut off.
Bombing by fighter jets has also intensified. It is also blockaded by the sea.
Two point two million people of Gaza are imprisoned in this forty-one kilometer long closed hell.
Where there is no water, no electricity, no money, no way out and no hope of survival.
In doing all this, how is Israel to release its hostages?
If there is any planning in this regard, it is obviously not in front. Only Israeli officials have said that until they are told the locations of the hostages
They will continue bombing Gaza indiscriminately. Hamas has responded to this from Gaza
That is, if the civilian population was attacked without warning, the common people were not given a chance to evacuate the buildings.
So they will start killing the hostages. For every such attack, Israel will get a body.
But instead of responding to it, Israel has continued with merciless attacks.
In such a situation, America, the biggest supporter of Israel, is openly giving a statement in support of them.
President Joe Biden has not only said that he stands with Israel
Rather, they have the most powerful weapon of their army, an aircraft carrier, several fighter jets
And the boats have been sent to Israel. Well, to tell you the truth, Gaza City is as small as the Gaza Strip
US aircraft carriers, ships and jets would probably need more space to park.
Meaning such a small Battleground. Similarly, the United States has announced more billions of dollars for Israeli defense
Including the mission to advance the Iron Dome in particular.
So far, thirty-eight billion dollars is the aid that the United States has given according to an agreement
It is to be given to Israel for the next five years. That is, until 2028.
It also includes that the batteries required for the Iron Dome system will be produced by the United States.
Because this part is not currently being developed by Israel. Although he developed the first model of the Iron Dome system himself.
But now it needs innovation, which is happening with American help.
In this whole game, partners in the world, Iran is the only country that has openly declared to stand with Hamas.
Iranian officials have congratulated Hamas on the attack and said they will stand with them until the liberation of Palestine.
But Iran has denied that it was involved in Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, or that it planned or funded it.
Because a failed attack on Israel by Lebanon took place only on October 7,
It was believed to have been carried out by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.
But Hezbollah, like Iran, denied the attack
But at the same time, he declared his support for Hamas.
The situation on the Lebanon-Israel border is still tense, which can turn into a small-scale fight at any time.
Now, friends, apart from this rhetoric and events, why did Hamas do all this?
And did they calculate that from Israel's terrible counter-attack?
How to save the innocent and already forced citizens of Gaza? His response will come and then how to counter this attack?
What is clear in this regard is that Hamas had a plan for this.
Which they are doing now. Whether it succeeds or not, we cannot say
But their plan was to spread all the hostages in different areas of Gaza in the first step.
The advantage would be that Israel would not be able to launch an all-out attack on Gaza. Because in this way Hamas fighters and citizens of Gaza will be killed as well as the Israeli hostages.
And yes, it should be remembered that the hostages include some Americans and citizens of other countries.
That is, citizens of many other countries can be killed in the Israeli attack
So Hamas's planning seems to be to save Israel and the international hostages
Gaza cannot be bombarded openly for a long period of time. In the second step, their plan is, of course, to release several thousand of their Palestinian prisoners
Israelis will free from prisons those who have been imprisoned without trial for years.
So will they be able to free them? They think they can because they have done it more than once before.
In 2006, when Hamas attacked Israeli forces, a tank gunner, Corporal "Galid Shalit", was captured and brought back.
In response, Israeli forces launched Operation Summer Rain, but despite killing hundreds of civilians and children, the operation failed to free Galed Shalit.
Galed Shalit was then released five years later in 2011 when Israel released more than 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in return.
Coincidentally, at that time there was also the government of Netanyahu. Besides, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners have been exchanged for one Israeli.
Rather, in 2019 and 2020, Israel had to release several hundred Palestinians in exchange for the remains of some soldiers.
So this is a goal that Hamas thinks they will achieve.
If they are to be stopped, Israel will have to fight a very out-of-the-box battle.can
In the third step, through Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Hamas also seeks a global focus on the Palestinian issue.
Which, in his opinion, had been neglected in the growing Arab-Israeli relations. Especially the illegal settlements that Israel was constantly building in the Palestinian territories
No one in the world was ready to talk about it. According to a Palestinian leader, Mustafa Barghouti, "They are not being allowed to fight for freedom in any way.
If they fight for freedom, they are called terrorists, if they fight peacefully, they are called violent.
If they want to move towards their goal by talking, then the one who incites them to violence. called provocateur,
If a non-Palestinian speaks of them in Europe or Arabia, he is dismissed as an anti-Semite
And if a Jew gives their point of view in Israel, he is dismissed as a self-hating Jew.
So the Palestinian leaders ask, tell us, what should we do in such a situation?" After the Al-Aqsa flood, in the international media, where civilians have been killed by Hamas and Israeli attacks,
Along with their exact condemnation, the root cause of the Palestine-Israel conflict is also being discussed.
You look at CNN and Al Jazeera and other American and European newspapers. The statements of both are being hidden.
Rather, it is being written in the Israeli secular newspapers that these are Netanyahu's strict and illegal measures
Due to which Hamas has got the justification for such a big attack. Because everyone knows that since this government came from 20 to 20
Destroying Palestinian settlements in many places including Jenin camp
And Israeli settlements are being built there. This government had announced as soon as it came that it would increase the settlements.
It is actually a right wing property business there
But at that moment, in a few minutes, you understand the problem of Gaza, what is happening there.
The 41 km long and 6 to 12 km wide strip of Gaza has been under Israeli and Egyptian encirclement since 2007.
To its south is Egypt, which has blockaded it, and on the other three sides is Israel
which has completely blockaded it for the last sixteen years.
Two million, two point two million living people live here. All of them cannot go out without Israeli permission
Nor can anyone enter Gaza without going through a rigorous search process at Israeli checkpoints.
According to an Israeli military officer, Gaza is the world's largest open-air prison.
If they have to import anything into Gaza, only those items that Israel allows can come.
And his list of what he allows is very short and what he disallows is long.
For example, cement cannot go into Gaza, glass cannot go, anything made of glass cannot go into Gaza.
Carbon fiber can't go, drilling machines can't go, water-draining equipment can't go.
Gas, oil, chemicals, all drugs that can be used to make chemical weapons cannot go.
Water purification chemicals, vegetables like ginger, tomatoes, etc.
Concrete, steel, vehicles or vehicle manufacturing materials cannot be transported.
Likewise, there is a very long list that is updated daily at the Gaza crossing.
You will be surprised that there is even cement and steel because Hamas will strengthen its shelters with it.
Similarly, almost all life-saving medicines require two million Israeli permits.
Then there is the possibility that the medicine will come to Gaza through the United Nations.
A few schools in Gaza are managed by United Nations staff, and there are two hospitals each, which are used by Israelis during attacks.
Even these places have never been safe from Israeli attacks when citizens of Gaza come to seek refuge.
Even in these attacks, the buildings of the United Nations are falling. Their people are being killed.
The siege around Gaza began at that time
When a legislative assembly election was held in Palestine after a long struggle and bloodshed
In which Hamas-backed "Ismail Haniyeh" won. Currently, the Palestinian Authority, which is the government of Palestine that is recognized by many countries of the world, including Pakistan,
So its president was Mahmud Abbas. He was the leader of al-Fatah organization and opposed to Hamas.
So a tug of war between him and Prime Minister Ismail Hania began.
Then, because the United States and the European Union had declared Hamas a terrorist organization, and the Arab countries are not happy about it either.
He is considered an Iranian proxy, so the Arabs started creating financial difficulties for Ismail Haniyeh.
As aid etc. was reduced somewhere and stopped somewhere.
A few months later, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas also made several accusations against Ismail Haniyeh
He was dismissed in August 2007.
It was now that Hamas's stronghold was Gaza. So Ismail Haniyeh established his own private government in Gaza.
From here, he closed all the offices of Fatah and expelled them from Gaza. Neighboring Arab states and Israel also supported Fatah instead of supporting this victorious government
And blockaded Gaza. So since then this siege has been going on.
As you go, friends tell you a fascinating historical story that will give you some insight into the past and future of modern warfare and its complexity.
This story is written in Chapter Seventeen of the Book of Samuel of the Torah.
According to this, when the Israelites came from the Sinai desert to the Palestinian territory in search of their holy land
So their philistineThe battles started with the new ones. Because the Palestinians were the owners of this land
And the Israelis wanted to occupy their territories.
In these battles, the Palestinians won first.
He allowed the Israelis to live in Palestine but prohibited them from possessing any kind of weapons.
So the Israelites would have only a sling and a sling and would shoot with stones.
Which you will now see in the hands of Palestinian youth. So Goliath was a very powerful long-armed wrestler of the Palestinians.
One day, Goliath challenged the Israelites that there is a brave person who will come against me.
No Israeli dared. But David, a shepherd boy, stepped forward.
This boy was much smaller and weaker than Goliath. But he twisted the sling and put the stone in it and hit it right between Goliath's eyes.
Goliath fell down in a daze. David took his sword and cut off his neck.
Thus the Palestinians lost this war and the Israelis won.
After that, the same teenage shepherd boy David became the king of Israel and he established a government by defeating the Palestinians.
Solomon, the son of David, allegedly built the Temple of Solomon.
In Christian and Islamic history, both of them are named Prophet David and Solomon.
If you go to any place in the world where there is a large religious population of Jews or Christians
So you'll find common sculptures of a teenage boy holding a giant-sized severed head,
Or pressed under the feet. You will also find paintings based on such legends in many places.
Meaning the Israelis still use the same symbol for victory against the Palestinians.
But the ideology of the Palestinians has changed a lot, but the fight is still going on. Sometimes it seems that hardliners on both sides in Israel and Palestine
They do not understand each other as human beings. Because they have been fighting for the good future of humans for thousands of years.
That good future is much easier to achieve without war. After all, Jews and Palestinians lived here peacefully for a long time during the Ottoman Empire.
Muslims have lived very peacefully with Jews in Andalusia too.
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