At about 6:30 a.m. on Shabbos/Simchas Torah morning, hundreds of terrorists infiltrated into Israel, took over Israeli border communities, including an IDF base, and nearby towns, and murdered hundreds of Jews and injured thousands. At the same time, Hamas terrorists launched thousands of rockets at Israel, including the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem area, killing several Israelis, seriously injuring others, and causing widespread damage.
Terrorists entered dozens of Israeli yishuvim, towns and cities and went door to door firing with automatic weapons, sometimes killing entire families. They also took over 100 hostages, including many women, children, and the elderly. Some of the murdered victims’ bodies were taken hostage as well.
The terrorists captured an IDF base and murdered and took hostage dozens of IDF officers and soldiers and captured tanks and other equipment and brought them into Gaza. In Sderot, terrorists captured the local police station, murdering at least 10 police officers, and opened fire on the streets, murderous numerous civilians. Israeli security forces destroyed the police station overnight to eliminate the terrorists who were holed inside.
As of about 8 p.m. on Sunday evening, it was reported that over 700 Israelis had been murdered and 2,500 wounded, including 20 in critical condition and over 300 in serious condition. Sadly, the death toll is expected to rise. Thirty-four Israel Police and Border Police officers and policemen fell in clashes with the terrorists and at least 57 IDF officers and soldiers were killed, many of whom were only 19 or 20 years old.
Israel’s security cabinet unanimously voted on Motzei Shabbos to declare a war, Operation Iron Swords – a first since the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
As of Sunday morning at 11 a.m., Israeli security forces were still trying to gain control of terrorists in six Israeli communities in the south, including Sderot, Kissufim, Kibbutz Be’eri, Kfar Aza and Zikim. Earlier on Sunday morning, security forces recaptured the Sderot police station, which had been in the hands of terrorists since early Shabbos morning.
In a neis, about 50 Israeli hostages being held in the dining room of Kibbutz Be’eri since Shabbos morning were rescued on Sunday morning by Israeli security forces and the terrorists were eliminated. About an hour later, Yamam officers eliminated the terrorists holding hostages in Ofakim. Three officers were injured during the clashes.
The terrifying video below shows Hamas terrorists armed with automatic weapons going from door to door in Kibbutz Be’eri looking for Israelis to murder and abduct:
VIDEOS BELOW MAY BE DISTURBING – VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED
On Sunday morning, Hezbollah terrorists fired a number of rockets from Lebanon into the Har Dov area of northern Israel. The IDF responded with artillery fire and a drone strike.
About 2,000 young Israelis, including many high school students, who were attending an overnight nature rave at Kibbutz Reim outside Ofakim were caught outside during the incursion and hundreds were gunned down by the terrorists. Terrorists also threw grenades inside the tents where some of the Israelis were sleeping. Some Israelis tried to flee only to be killed after terrorist threw grenades at them or fired into their cars. Others were taken hostage and brought to Gaza. Witnesses saw the terrorists dragging away some of the murdered Israelis’ bodies.
Sadly, the bodies of about 240 of the participants at the rave were found dead later in the day by Israeli security officials. A number of fatalities were tourists from the US and Europe.
As of Motzei Shabbos, Israeli security forces were still trying to subdue terrorists who took hostages in 22 locations. In Ofakim on Motzei Shabbos, at least ten terrorists were inside apartments after murdering residents and taking some hostage. Gun battles ensued between Israeli security forces and the terrorists and some of the security forces were killed. At about 11 p.m. on Motzei Shabbos, a number of Israelis were still being held hostage in the dining room at Kibbutz Be’eri.
One Israeli man from Kibbutz Nir, near the Gaza border, told Channel 12 on Motzei Shabbos that his wife, two small children, and mother-in-law were abducted and taken into the Gaza Strip. An Israeli mother tearfully told Channel 12 that she was on the phone with her 12 and 16-year-old sons as they were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz into Gaza, causing the TV host to begin crying as well.
Shocking and horrifying videos and photos are circulating online of terrorists entering Gaza with captured Israelis – dead and alive – including two elderly women. One video shows a crowd of Arabs dragging and trampling the body of a dead IDF soldier through the streets of Gaza. Other videos show elderly Israelis being paraded through the crowd.
Erez Kalderon, 12 years old, was hiding in his house as Hamas terrorists broke in and kidnapped him in gunpoint to Gaza.
The family asked to share this.
We need him home.#BringBackOurFamily pic.twitter.com/HsyHZcyUeB
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) October 8, 2023
The horrifying video below shows a kidnapped Israeli child being abused by Palestinian children in Gaza:
Another absolutely heartbreaking video of Hamas terrorists who killed a child of a family in front of her parents and siblings:
Palestinian depravity on full display on the world’s front pages. pic.twitter.com/u65EJGSEEp
— Michael Dickson (@michaeldickson) October 8, 2023
Noa’s parents are seen in the heartbreaking video below:
The videos below show Hamas terrorists opening fire on the streets of Sderot on Shabbos morning and Hamas terrorists taking over an IDF base:
It is not yet clear how the IDF was caught so unprepared by the massive incursion. The video below shows Hamas terrorists driving over the security barrier – with no Israeli security forces in sight.
At the same time as the infiltration, Hamas terrorists launched over 3,500 rockets at Israel, including dozens into Gush Dan and Jerusalem. A new rocket barrage hit the Tel Aviv area on Motzei Shabbos, seriously wounding a number of Israelis, including four people in Tel Aviv, two men in Rishon L’Tzion who were seriously injured, two people in Yavne, and one in Bat Yam.
As of Sunday, rockets continued to be launched at Israel, seriously injuring an Israeli in Sderot, where six buildings were directly hit. A rocket that hit Ashkelon on Sunday evening seriously injured one Israeli and lightly injured five more. Another rocket hit the city’s hospital, Barzilai Medical Center. B’Chasdei Hashem, there were no casualties as the rocket hit a bridge between buildings but there was extensive damage to the buildings.
The video below shows a building in Tel Aviv that was directly hit by a missile on Motzei Shabbos/Simchas Torah.
People look at the damage from a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Tel Aviv, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Moti Mildrod)
(YWN’s Jerusalem desk is keeping you updated after tzeis ha’Shabbos/Simchas Torah in Israel.)
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Bibi has failed Israel
In my yishuv today there must have been over 75 young men leaving in their shabbos clothes and others in there reserve uniforms. It was a site I will never forget. Bircas Kohanim today was emotional to say the least.
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Israel needs to eliminate these sand monkeys once and for all. Every time there’s a conflict with them, they retreat and succumb to international opinion and the UN. No retreat, finish them! Send them back to the caves where they belong.
The tel aviv missile hit near the american embassy
The address of the bldg is mendele mokher sfarim st 14 in tel aviv near usa embassy
PLEASE distort the pictured of those kidnapped- their families dont need to see this.
The deep state runs “terrorist” organizations like Hamas. The deep state wants you to get angry at the enemy it created and trained for you to channel your anger against it. Look at all those videos. It would have been very cheap and easy to set this up like the stage for a play. Don’t fall for it. The true enemy is the terrorist regime that wants you on edge with high levels of cortisol. The deep state wants the central banks to keep printing more money, wars are profitable, good excuse to squeeze oil to put austerities on the plebes worldwide, distaction from people dying from participation in an ostensible genetics experiment, atual depop conspiracy. Do not fall for this one. Seriously, I don’t mind a few spook comments, just as long as Yisroel mostly doesn’t rally round the flag of the terrorist regime that puts red flag gainst blue flag. If most of Yisroel falls for this again, I will see it as a lost cause.
In regards to
“Terrorists drive back to the Gaza Strip with the body of an Israeli soldier on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Ali Mahmud)”
Please blur photo – it’s NOT a soldier – it’s an Israeli German girl mostly not dressed and probably not alive.. her name was Shani Louk
Pray for all of the world’s Jews to be safe from the hands of the gentiles.
So, where is Israel’s great defender The Donald? Sleeping late? Or just sleeping?
PRAY THAT THESE 700 NESHAMOT CAN BE JUDGED FAVORABLY IN THE NEXT WORLD/
6 hours the military doesn’t respond, what is going on here?
השם ירחם!!
Please remove these videos. They are graphic and disturbing
A captured terrorist revealed: THE PROTESTS ENCOURAGED US!!!
BUT NO DOUBT; DISTURBING YOM KIPPUR TEFILLOTH ETC ETC CAUSED HASHEM TO WITHDRAW HIS PROTECTION!
ONCE AND FOR ALL; THE IDF IS POWERLESS WITHOUT THE HELP OF HASHEM – TO DESERVE THE HELP AND PROTECTION OF HASHEM; WE NEED BACHURIM AND AVREICHIM LEARNING IN BEIS HAMEDRASH – NOT BEING DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY!
WISHING ALL INJURED A SPEEDY AND COMPLETE RECOVERY
WISHING ALL MOURNING RELATIVES: המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבילי ציון וירושלים
WISHING ALL HOSTAGES A SPEEDY UNHARMED RETURN
PLEASE CONCLUDE EVERY TEFILLOH WITH AT LEAST 2 KAPITEL TEHILIM AS ONLY HASHEM CAN HELP!
It is single-stage, road-mobile and can carry high-explosive warhead up to 500 kg. It was developed into four generations successively improving range and accuracy. In the latest version, it has a range of 300 km and a “pinpoint accuracy” (a CEP below 10m).
It is believed that during the January 8, 2020 missile attack of the US military bases in Iraq, Iran also used the Fateh-110 missile.
Right now, THE NETUREI KARTA are praying to G*D that the terrorists should win the war, and that Israel should be completely defeated — even though this would result in another Shoah [Holocaust] and the destruction of ALL yeshivahs in Eretz HaKodesh.
When Rabbi Shteinmann ZTL came to Monsey, they spit on his face
When will Jews get SERIOUS about stopping these very dangerous evil people?
PLEASE REMOVE THESE HORRIBLE VIDEOS! THERE IS NO REASON FOR PEOPLE TO VEIW THESE TRAUMATIC SCENES!
Such unspeakable carnage:- The Following must sadly be said:- Cause & effect:- This is what transpires when:-
1) viscous self hating Jews interfere with מחיצה in Dizengoff & other places during נעילה when our fates are being sealed
2) When leftists show total disregard & total disrespect for moral & religious Jews
3) When we didn’t have תקיעת שופר to protect us during 1st morning of ראש-השנה when our fates are being written
ה ירחם!
Israel needs to kill Hamas without warning them. Civilians or no Civilians, kill everyone. Kahana was right.
this is HORRIBLE oh my God i heard from the security guard at my shul that a war started in Israel but I never would’ve imagined it being THIS terrifyingly violent.
May we all do Teshuva and increase Ahavas Chinam
Lapid Ben Lapid
Is a accomplice, aiding and abating the enemy and mass murder of innocent Jews. He hands is soaked with the blood of innocent Jews and he is still wants power.
Satan!!!!
please take these down.they are disturbing and graphic
Why are you posting that horrific vdieo!!!??
See the videos ?
ERASE GAZA FROM FACE OF THE EARTH.
How do the have so many bulletproof vests and machine guns😥?
Why the country was sleep?
Where the hell is the army?
The friend’s of Lapid and Barak HAMAS animals killed the sister and the mom of the child? And she says it’s better for her to be gone? Is this real ? TOTAL SHOCK
ERASE GAZA
WHY WAITING
THEY ARE DISORGANIZED NOW BEST CHANCE TO SAVE LIVES.
The 4 minute video 🤯🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🤯🤯😭🤯😭😭🤯🤯🤯 why?
EHUD BARAK YOU WANTED BLOOD
YOU ENABLED THE ENEMY AND GOT BLOOD.
Are you happy.
Lapid you wanted power and sold out the Jews to the world and now YOUR HANDS IS SOAKED IN BLOOD.
LEFT AND TEL AVIV SCUMS
YOU REMOVED THE YOM KIPUR MECHITZAH AND PREVENTED SEPERATION OF PRAYER ON THE HOLIEST DAY
NOW FEAST YOUR EYES ON THE HAMAS BRAKING OUT THE SPERATION WALL AND INFETRATING AND MURDERING JEWS.
Your hands are soaked in the blood of the innocent.
Left, Lapid, Barak, Olmert feast your eyes on the IDOLS YOU WARSHIP.
To show that we need to change our belief that fighting a war is not good enough; we need to fight terror with terror!!!
Time for immediate serious Teshuva and Achdus together ASAP as one loving nation. Nothing just happens by coincidence “Ain poranius baolam ela bishvil yisroel” everything has a direct wake up call message from Hashem our loving father even if there are no Yidden involved in the tragedy.
Are we going to finally stop living in denial and FACE REALITY and accept Hashems wake up call for serious Teshuva and Achdus together ASAP as one loving nation so Hashem can send Mashiach already bkarov and stop this time of no stop horrific tragedies worldwide in klal yisroel?
Shmendrick, take your meds.
The US embassy is not in Tel Aviv, so the missile can’t have landed near it.
Huju, what exactly was Trump supposed to do about it? He’s a private person now. If he were president you can be sure you’d have heard full-throated support from him, not the mealy-mouthed response of the Biden administration, and probably the offer of military support if needed, e.g. to bomb Lebanon should Hisballah join in.
147, I know you think you’re funny, but what are viscous Jews? Do they ooze through the gaps?
DavidtheKanoi, yes, we must daven and say tehillim. But, we absolutely need to do our hishtadlus and have the IDF in full control. Sadly, Yom Kippur davening isn’t always ‘accepted’ by Hashem in the way we desire in Olam HaZeh. Sadly, we experienced heavy rain on the first night of succos, as Hashem may not have wanted our bracha this particular year for night 1 of Succos. Right now, if we say that the answer is to have more folks learning, then we will have millions of Jews destroyed. If we actually had the zchus of actual Limid HaTorah (without a coffee room, cigarette breaks, late to shacharis, shmoozing during davening) then the answer would be to have guys learning. These guys aren’t going to learn like it’s yeztias Miztraim, so let’s not kid ourselves. Unfortunately, we need to grab the guns.
YWN editors — keep posting each and every video and photo . American Jews and the world need to internalize what just happened.
Why should YWN take these down ??? This isn’t the 40’s where American communities sat and watched baseball while Europe and its Jews burned . How dare anyone tell them to take it down –
Watch it and do something for a change .
Oh how terribly sad but U people dont get this.
These animals have nothing to lose and are ready to die. F
FLATTEN them! Sure so, BUT? AND? More bloodshed. More mayhem?!
Kahana was right? He was a militant and a רשע. In his “zchus” many people were slaughtered.
U people are asking for more? WHO DOESNT SEE THE WRITING ON THE WALL IS TONE BLIND AND DEAF.
ANYONE REMEMBERS THE מכה of צפרדע?? Thats exactly the case here.
May Hashem help us all and may we be worthy of His protection.
Schecht them all. Bulldoze gaza. All this blood is on Sharon’s hands ימח שמו
One very important advice:
Maybe we should try to forgive one person who wronged us.
Reb Chaim Shmulevitz
זכר צדיק לברכה
said that the reason why the bombs stopped falling in Bais Yisroel during the 6 day war, was due to the fact , that a lady who was an Aguna for many years, she got up in the Miklat and she said that she forgives her ex-husband and she prayed to Hashem that Hashem should also forgive his nation.
All of a sudden, the bombs stopped falling in
בית ישראל
The “Tiktok” video of the innocent so young yingel being tormented and abused by Palestinian children and kidnappers who taunt him with cries of “ima” and “al yahud” bring me to tears-his scared look at the end of the video is eerily similar to the look of the Warsaw ghetto boy- let us daven for his pidyon soon and that of all the shvuyim – we get to sleep safely in our beds – who knows what horrors this little child and all the hostages (including a Holocaust survivor in her 80s) are experiencing right now? אַחֵינוּ כָּל בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל, הַנְּתוּנִים בְּצָרָה וּבַשִּׁבְיָה, הָעוֹמְדִים בֵּין בַּיָּם וּבֵין בַּיַּבָּשָׁה, הַמָּקוֹם יְרַחֵם עֲלֵיהֶם, וְיוֹצִיאֵם מִצָּרָה לִרְוָחָה, וּמֵאֲפֵלָה לְאוֹרָה, וּמִשִּׁעְבּוּד לִגְאֻלָּה, הַשְׁתָּא בַּעֲגָלָא וּבִזְמַן קָרִיב
Please. Do Not Remove any of these Videos.
People need to see and understand the unbelievable atrocities that are being committed. In fact, the videos that are being left out should be shown. The unedited pictures of the carnage, murder and rape of the innocent. Unfortunately we live in a world where we have become so desensitized to such horror through various forms of media that we have become numb. We need to feel the visceral pain and suffering, the anger, the helplessness that comes when confronted with these types of atrocities. The world needs to see this. Platitudes from the nations of the world are useless without the necessary visceral vomiting that should accompany such acts for which there are no words to describe the perpetrators. Please show them, honor the victims, honor the families. Show them that the world should tremble with disgust. Show them in the hope that a future will come where we will never see them again.
@TGIShabbos: Sorry, but I have no apology and firmly stand by my statement, which is no less than the Daas Torah of ALL gedolim.
YES, we do need an army, merely as hishtadlus, and there are plenty of people who would never enter a beis hamedrash, so they can and should all fight while an equal number must do the davening and learning for the success of those at the front line.
There is no such thing as davening not being accepted at all. However, there are many ways to increase its power. First and foremost: NOT TO TALK IN SHUL, certainly not during davening, but even afterwards, that would give the required kedushoh to the shul.
Regarding the rain on first night sukkos, I am pleased to report, that in our location, and many others around the world, we were able to eat in sukkoh first night. Rav Schneebalg ZT”L from Manchester, UK, would daven all Elul that there should should be a dry sukkos (which does not happen often in that city).
So, it’s all down to the Zechusim of Klal Yisroel – AND NOT the power of the IDF, which is non-existent as we have seen by recent events unfortunately.
PARENTS!!
DO NOT LET YOUR TEENS AND SURELY DO NOT LET CHILDREN VIEW THE VIDEOS.
THEY ARE HORRIFYING. THEY WILL LEAVE AN EVERLASTING FEAR IN THEM. THEY WILL BE THE CAUSE OF NIGHTMARES.
You may think, that we should view them in order to show them how bad those animals are, but the downside far outweighs the gain.
If I may humbly ask, that they remove these horrific videos, which have left me with my mouth open in shock.
I REGRET WATCHING THEM!
PLEASE: DON’T WATCH THEM!
Why would anyone ever trust the Israeli govt ever again??
Unless they completely level Gaza and take it over, any IDF retaliatory reaction is a useless bracha levatalah