The Gaza War: Day 11

Yom Shleeshee

Tuesday

2 Cheshvan 5784

October 17 2023

UPDATE 11:00 PM

We are back with one last update so you can see for yourself the missile fired by the terrorists that hit the Gaza hospital. Click here. More tomorrow.

UPDATE 10:00 PM (last update of the night)

Between 7:00 and 9:00 pm, virtually every area of Israel had incoming missile sirens in three massive outbursts of missiles from Palestinian Hamas Gaza.

As seen on several videos which OneIsrael will try to upload tomorrow, a terrorist missile apparently misfired and hit the Al-Ahli Al Mamadini Baptist Hospital  in Gaza killing an estimated 200-300 people. Of course, the Palestinian monsters in Gaza along with the rest of the Arab world are screaming that we hit the hospital.

The number of IDF soldiers who have fallen in battle has risen to 302.

Another barrage of Palestinian missiles at 10:01 pm.

We are on our way to our bomb shelter, and will sign off for today.

UPDATE 5:00 PM

Numbers Summary So Far

1400+ Israelis massacred–expected to rise to 1900+ after 455 more identifications are made and more bodies are found on the other side of the egregiously misnamed “security fence”.

289 IDF soldiers have fallen in battle. 71 of these soldiers were members of the Golani Brigade who died on Saturday.

47 policemen and policewomen killed

3000+ Israelis wounded

7500+ Missiles and mortars fired by terrorists in Gaza

Locations targeted by missiles and mortars since 12:00 pm: Ein Hashlosha, Ofakim, Nahal Oz, Nirim, Sderot, Ashkelon, Rishon Lezion, Kissufim, Kfar Aza, and Netivot.  

The PLO has just released a video proudly showing that its Fatah terrorists participated in the massacres and kidnappings on October 7. 

In the north, there has been another cluster of incidents involving anti-tank missile fire from Lebanon at Kfar Giladi, Kibbutz Yiftah, and Zerait with return fire from Israel–which killed 2 Hezbollah terrorists. In the last 20 minutes, incoming missile sirens for Kiryat Shmona have sounded.

UPDATE 12:00 PM

“Jordan and Egypt will not accept refugees from Gaza. This is a red line.”

King Abdullah of Jordan speaking in Berlin this morning.

11:34 am: Palestinian terrorist missiles targeted Beersheva.

10:30 am: Hezbollah fired an anti-aircraft missile at Metula on the northern border. 2 Israelis were wounded. The IDF responded with artillery fire toward the launch site.

10:11 am: Palestinian terrorist missiles targeted Ein Hashlosha and Nirim on the Gaza border.

8:46 am: Palestinian terrorist mortars and missiles targeted the IDF staging area at Tzelim.

8:41 am: IDF soldiers killed 4 terrorists infiltrators who tried to place a bomb near a community in the north.

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UPDATE 9:00 AM

There is no doubt whatsoever that Israel has lost the momentum and that a ground invasion of Gaza seems less likely with every passing hour.

The facts of Israeli babies beheaded, and Israeli children handcuffed and burned, and Israeli children carted off to Gaza by barbarian Palestinian monsters have been replaced by the old faux Palestinian narrative of “poor Palestinian civilians” in Gaza. The report this morning is that the U.S. and Israel have developed an aid package for these “poor people.”

It matters not there remain some 200 Israeli men, women, and children hostages barbarically held by Hamas-ISIS, the only consideration now is for “humanitarian aid” to come to the rescue of the “poor Palestinians.” There is every reason to believe that the hundreds of trucks full of who knows what and now parked on the Egyptian side of the border will soon be let in.

Perhaps even more disconcerting is the growing idea that the IDF has hesitated because it is “unprepared” to fight a ground war. When you stop and think about it, the IDF has not fought such a war successfully in decades. The last such efforts in Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza in 2014 were borderline disasters. Neither Hezbollah nor Hamas was even remotely “destroyed” as Israeli’s IDF leaders (Dan Halutz in the Hezbollah war and Benny Gantz in 2014) constantly blustered each would be.

Israel’s soldiers fought bravely each time, but the utter incompetence of Halutz and Gantz spelled failure. Hamas was left to rebuild, and Hezbollah became stronger than ever. 

Now, our IDF General Command is terrified of Hezbollah. So terrified, that another reason that a ground invasion has been “delayed” is the fear that Hezbollah will open another front in the north. So terrified that we have forfeited some of our sovereignty in order to get the U.S. to commit forces to the area. Tomorrow–pardon the cynicism–our new leader, Joe Biden is arriving here to tell us what to do.

In the south, Sderot and other border communities have been evacuated, Be’eri and Kfar Aza are no more, and we see funeral after funeral for the 1,400 confirmed dead–a number likely to soon jump to at least 1900.

The same evacuation scenario is playing out in the north as the government has evacuated everyone with 4 km of Lebanon. All of the evacuations in the south and north, by the way, are in line with the IDF plan described last year which called for evacuations if wars broke out. Just the fact that the IDF plans focused on evacuations instead of ramping up our defenses speaks volumes.

Meanwhile, Israelis everywhere are getting used to life in bomb shelters.

We have been in ours here in Ashdod 26 times since the war began. Yesterday there were 2 more volleys of 8 missiles each intercepted over our house. Actually, the scariest moment came at about 10:00 pm when two massive missile impact explosions suddenly took place directly in front of our house.

There was no alarm, no warning, no description or explanation afterward from the IDF about what happened. But we know from previous missile attacks, what the incoming missiles hit were the dunes between our house and the sea. Those dunes are classified as “open space” so the IDF deems them unworthy of giving nearby residents an alarm.

And so we all sit here like sitting ducks on a sunny blue-sky morning here in Israel waiting for the next missile attack because Hamas remains alive and well 40 km away.