Hamas brutally massacres Israeli infants and civilians… Signs of the 5th Middle East War

More than 3,000 deaths on both sides… Procedure for deploying large-scale ground troops in Gaza

The armed conflict began when the Palestinian armed group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, and the death toll on both sides exceeded 3,650 (as of October 11). 1,200 and 950 people were killed in Israel and the Gaza Strip, respectively, and the number of Hamas members killed in the Israeli army’s counterattack exceeded 1,500. The number of deaths is expected to increase as the Israeli military continues to escalate the war, including airstrikes in southern Lebanon.

In this conflict, Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, showed its brutality by indiscriminately massacring civilians, including Israeli infants and children. In a kibbutz (collective farm) recovered by the Israeli military, a pile of bodies of women and infants killed by Hamas were discovered. Local media reported, “Hamas beheaded the babies in the style of IS (Islamic State, an Islamic Sunni militant group).” Hamas, which has kidnapped more than 150 civilians, threatened to kill one hostage each time the Israeli army attacked the Gaza Strip without warning.

The Israeli people were outraged by Hamas’s brutal atrocities and launched a counterattack. Israeli airstrikes destroyed more than 5,000 buildings in the Gaza Strip and killed many people. The Israeli military launched a large-scale airstrike and simultaneously deployed a large number of troops to the southern border area adjacent to the Gaza Strip. It will be the first time in nine years since 2014 that Israeli ground forces are deployed to the Gaza Strip.

This incident began when Hamas suddenly invaded Israel on October 7 after careful preparation. At the beginning of the war, Hamas neutralized the Israeli air defense network Iron Dome with a barrage of conventional rockets and carried out three-dimensional mobile warfare by land, sea, and air, including striking all front and rear areas through sea infiltration with paraglider units.

Palestinian residents gather around a destroyed Israeli tank and cheer in the Gaza Strip near Khan Yunis, Palestine, on October 7. As soon as the war began, Hamas attacked Israel’s air defense system and surveillance network with large-scale rockets and drones. [동아DB, 뉴시스]

Israeli military personnel collect the bodies of their citizens killed by Hamas on October 10. Despite Hamas’ attacks, the will of Israeli citizens to resist did not break. In Kibbutz Nir Am near the Gaza Strip, Inbal Lieberman, a female security guard in her 20s, identified the circumstances of the Hamas surprise attack early on and repelled it, leaving no casualties. [뉴시스]

On October 11, Palestinian residents are collecting the bodies of those killed in an Israeli airstrike. [뉴시스]

Israeli artillery units were deployed to the border area with Lebanon. Following air strikes on the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon, Israel is about to deploy ground troops into the Gaza Strip. [뉴시스]

A music festival venue in Kibbutz Laim, southern Israel, where about 260 people were killed in a surprise attack by Hamas on October 7. Hamas showed brutality in this conflict by indiscriminately killing Israeli civilians. [뉴시스]

An Israeli man holds up a photo of his missing family member. [뉴시스]

Hamas members are kidnapping an elderly Israeli woman. [뉴시스]

Source: Donga

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