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The move reflects broad support for war against Hamas.
“The laws of war permit Israel to destroy Hamas’s rule in Gaza.”
The mood in the capital is subdued, as people absorb the shock of Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault. But Israelis are starting to manifest the values of mutual responsibility and caring that have stood out in every crisis the country has ever experienced.
“I pray for all those families that saw a day of celebration be transformed into a day of mourning,” said the pontiff.
Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfus, Commander of the IDF’s 98th Division and one of the first military responders to the Oct. 7 massacre, says the military is prepared to “take away” terror organizations.
The Palestinian terrorists planned to conquer and hold border communities.
“We definitely can handle two fronts once the military is deployed and mobilized; this is not a big issue. We already paid such a heavy price that you cannot threaten us with paying heavy prices,” said Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser.
Senior U.S. and Israeli officials spoke several times on Oct. 10, the fourth day after Hamas attacked Israel, killing more than 1,000 people.
Winston & Strawn stated that it is “outraged and deeply saddened by the violent attack on Israel over the weekend.”
The Israeli Air Force struck in Gaza’s Al Furqan neighborhood, “a terrorist hotspot from which Hamas devises and executes their attacks,” per the IDF.
The U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism had said in June, when the White House invited CAIR to advise its antisemitism strategy, that CAIR should be judged going forward. It recently blamed Israel for the Hamas attacks.
“We did not move the carrier for Hamas. We moved the carrier to send a clear message of deterrence to other states or non-state actors that might seek to widen this war,” said Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national security adviser.
