Israel reels: a bloody assault

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🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Almost exactly 50 years on from the moment that launched the deadly Yom Kippur War, Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza strip, carried out a series of attacks. Hundreds have been killed, Israeli intelligence services were surprised and the retribution is bound to be severe. What does this mean for Palestinian civilians, and regional politics more broadly?

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1:37.3	Over the weekend, the militant group Hamas launched a large-scale attack on Israel. It began on Saturday when thousands of rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip,
1:43.3	the Palestinians' tiny coastal enclave, and into Israeli cities.
1:49.0	Then, smashing through border defences with trucks
1:52.8	came wave after wave of Hamas fighters.
1:58.9	In small Israeli towns, militants were filmed going door to door firing on civilians.
2:07.6	At a music festival, partygoers fled as dozens of Hamas militiamen arrived at dawn in jeeps and motorized paragliders.
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