🔴 The sudden attack, the reports of Hamas infiltration, and soon the announcement by Mohammad al-Deif, means that a successful Palestinian operation happened.

The rockets are a diversion to force everyone inside. An Israeli soldier was likely successfully kidnapped.

🔴 Settler footage shows Palestinian fighters inside Israeli settlements.

⋯ Earlier, footage showed Palestinian fighter paragliding inside Israeli settlements.

Direct rocket impact reported in Tel Aviv

⋯ Killed and wounded settlers.

Alleged reports of two settlers dead, one in Sderot and one in Ashdod, due to rocket launches in Gaza's envelope.

🔴 The Resistance might expand to Lebanon

Al-Qassam Chief of Staff Muhammad al-Deif:

We decided to put an end to all the crimes of the occupation, and the time during which it was rampant without accountability has ended. We announced Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, and we were targeted with the first strike within 20 minutes, in which more than 5,000 missiles were fired. (...)

O our brothers in the Islamic resistance in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen, this is the day when your resistance unites with the resistance of your people in Palestine.

🚨 Israel declares war on Gaza

🚨 IDF started to attack Gaza now

🔴 Footage shows the Resistance bringing the corpse of an IDF soldier with them

Israel gov will only meet at 1 pm. Why not now?

Exactly 50 years to the “Yom Kippur War”, today's war is not on the border but inside Israel, Israelis have been commenting.

The October War, known in the West, as the Yom Kippur War, was fought from October 6 to 25, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab countries.