Saw the death toll showing up this morning and at first thought it was a report on the year toll so far, not one unthinkable day.
High ranking Israeli commander taken hostage and paraded in Gaza in his underwear.
Terror group posts image of Israeli commander apparently being led through Gaza
www.thejc.com
Reports of other Israelis being kidnapped and taken to Gaza including civilians.
Unconfirmed reports say 52 Israelis taken into Gaza Strip; several vehicles, including an IDF tank and 2 Magen David Adom ambulances captured; EU says hostage-taking abhorrent
www.timesofisrael.com
Towns overrun. Reports of Hamas going house to house.
Residents of southern cities in desperate call for help amid wide-scale terror attack
www.thejc.com
Stuff on Twitter I'm not going to repost of terrorists posing with dead civilians like big game hunters showing off a catch, desecrating an Israeli woman's corpse, etc. Celebrations in Palestinian towns. Sickening, gut-wrenching stuff I'd normally not take at face value from social media except it's the kind of depraved barbarity that's to be expected from Israel's enemies and they want this stuff out there for all the world to see because it's quite frankly a propaganda bonanza unlike anything ever seen in this conflict.
Where the hug is the IDF? Where the hug is Netanyahu? What an absolute unmitigated disaster on every level. This government and military and intelligence agencies have thoroughly failed its most important duty in no small part because the government is distracted by all the divisive dumb hug jive the right-wing crazies want to do and the endless circus they constantly generate. But beyond that the strategy of just maintaining the status quo with the Palestinians while thinking peace deals with other countries will make you safer when Iran, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah etc plot, equip, and train to murder you has clearly failed. Maybe that works when the IDF and government are capable, but they've been proven far short of that standard. What good are the Abraham Accords when you can't prevent this from happening to your people?
I don't even know what the response to this is after the IDF gets its jive together and pushes them out. The amount of concessions Israel makes for one life are astonishing (and part of the reason Hamas is taking hostages) and now Hamas is carting people off to Gaza en masse to parade around like a Roman triumph.
I know what my visceral, substantially disproportionate response would be.