Hundreds dead in Israel and Gaza, thousands injured after Hamas launches rockets, Israel declares war

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At least 40 dead in Israel, more than 700 injured as Hamas militants launch thousands of rockets
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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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Conflating religion and national belonging like this is pure and vile xenophobia. Thinking all Muslim countries supports Palestine is also staggeringly ignorant.

Yea, think about that for a minute. even most muslim countries don't want extremist palestinians in their country.

"Those other people are also xenophobes" isn't the great argument you think it is.

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