Over 100 Israelis have died and more than 900 were injured after rockets were fired from Gaza by Hamas militants, Israeli officials said Saturday.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said 198 were killed in Gaza and at least 1,610 were injured Saturday in retaliatory attacks from Israel.

“We are at war. We will win,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday.

The Israeli Defense Forces earlier declared “a state of alert for war,” according to a statement issued by the IDF.

“Over the past hour, the Hamas terrorist organization launched massive barrages of rockets from Gaza into Israel, and its terrorist operatives have infiltrated into Israel in a number of different locations in the south,” the IDF said early Saturday.

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    1 year ago

    You realise just how racist it sounds when you’re blaming the Palestinian people as a whole for the actions of a subset?

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        1 year ago

        Do you have evidence that a huge majority wants to take over states if they are invited in, which was the claim you were making?

        To quote you:

        The whole reason they don’t take Palestinians in is because Palestinians try to take their country over.

        It happened in Jordan, it happened in Lebanon. It will happen anywhere they are allowed to congregate.

        This is full on far-right “if you let those immigrants in they’ll take over” rhetoric.

        EDIT: I’d also like to point out, that in fact this notion of a people coming in and trying to “take over” ironically given the context here has a long-standing history as an anti-semitic trope when used against Jewish people. It’s no less of a racist trope when employed against other groups, though.