🇮🇱 ❌️ 🇵🇸 Israel Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant: “Today we saw the face of evil. The Hamas [terrorist organization] has launched a brutal attack against the citizens of the State of Israel - attacking men, women, children and the elderly, indiscriminately. Hamas will understand very quickly that it has made a mistake - a grave mistake, and will pay a [heavy] price.

Fifteen years ago, as Head of the Southern Command, I came close to 'breaking the neck' [destroying] of Hamas. I was stopped by the political echelon. This phenomenon will not continue. We will change reality on the ground in Gaza for the next 50 years. What was before, will be no more. We will operate at full force.

I ask Israel's citizens to remain determined and to support our security forces.”

📎 Joe Truzman

After a state of emergency was declared within an 80 km range from the Gaza strip earlier, Defense Minister Gallant has expanded the situation to the whole of Israel.

This allows the Home Front Command to restrict gatherings throughout the zionist entity.

🚨 Hebrew Channel 13: The number of Israeli deaths has risen to 300.

Official: The commander of the Nahal Infantry Brigade, Col. Yonatan Steinberg, was killed this morning during clashes with Hamas fighters in the Kerem Shalom area.

The Nahal Brigade is one of the main infantry brigades in IDF.

🚨 Intense armed clashes continue at these moments between resistance fighters and the IOF in the settlement of "Sderot" in the occupied interior.

Latest footage from the occupation's police headquarters in Sderot, where the Palestinian resistance fighters and Israeli troops continue to exchange fire.

Hebrew Channel 7 website:
According to Israeli estimates, there are about 100 Israeli prisoners in Gaza, including settlers, soldiers and officers.

At least 3 members of the Yamam Special Forces unit were reportedly injured by Hamas gunfire in Ofakim.

Yamam, also known as Israel's National Counter Terror Unit, is one of four special units of the Israel Border Police. They specialize in hostage-rescue and offensive take-over raids against hostile targets in civilian areas.

Photo of damage sustained by a building in Ashkelon after direct impact by a rocket from Gaza.

🚨 Al-Quds Brigades' Naval Unit storms Zikim military base and clashes with occupation forces.

Occupation warplanes continue to bomb civilian areas all throughout the Gaza strip. Numerous casualties reported.

Footage of the rocket impact in Ashkelon. Number of injured is 6 thus far.

Former head of the Mossad to CNN:

“We did not receive any warning of any kind, and what happened today was a complete surprise.”

“We did not know that they had this number of missiles and we did not expect them to be as effective as they are today. More than 3,000 missiles have been launched from Gaza so far, and this is beyond imagination.”

Rocket barrages continue to rain on settlements near the Gaza strip, with the latest impact being reported in Sderot. Meanwhile, the occupation continues to conduct violent air raids, almost exclusively targeting residential buildings throughout Gaza. Over a dozen have been martyred as a result.

Neither seem keen on ceasing their attacks during the next few hours.

Scenes from another rocket impact in Ashkelon.

Israeli media: 22 hours after the start of the event, there are still Palestinian resistance fighters roaming the settlements around the Gaza Strip.

🚨 IDF says it is carrying out artillery strikes in Lebanon after mortars were fired toward the Israeli-occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms. This area is designated in Israel as Mount Dov.

⋯ Israeli shelling in the Shebaa Farms area

⋯ IDF border post at the “Ruwaisat Al-Alam” site under mortar fire between Kfarshouba and the Shebaa Farms in south Lebanon. (Video)