{"id":148385,"date":"2023-10-09T10:40:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T14:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=148385"},"modified":"2023-10-09T10:40:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T14:40:44","slug":"israel-announces-gaza-siege-vows-to-destroy-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=148385","title":{"rendered":"Israel Announces Gaza Siege, Vows to Destroy Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148386 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hamas-flag-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hamas-flag-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hamas-flag-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hamas-flag-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hamas-flag.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Hamas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The term &#8220;Hamas&#8221; is an acronym for Harakah al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah, meaning &#8220;Islamic Resistance Movement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was founded in Gaza in 1987 by Imam Sheikh Ahmed Yasin shortly after the start of the first Intifada, an uprising against Israel\u2019s occupation of the Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas has been the power in the Gaza Strip since 2007 after overthrowing Fatah forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).<\/p>\n<p>Hamas does not recognize Israel\u2019s existence and is formally committed to establishing a Palestinian state within its own borders.<\/p>\n<h3>Israel Announces \u2018Complete Siege\u2019 of Gaza Strip Cutting Off Water, Food, and Electricity, Vows to Destroy Military Capability of Hamas<\/h3>\n<p><strong>KURT ZINDULKA<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Israel has announced a \u201ccomplete siege\u201d of the Gaza Strip as hundreds of thousands of troops are preparing to launch an assault on the Hamas terror group responsible for the deadly attacks across Israel over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said following a situation assessment with Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Southern Command the military will enact a \u201ccomplete siege\u201d of the Gaza Strip, preventing supplies such as water, food and electricity from entering the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Minister said, according to The Times of Israel: \u201cI ordered a full siege on the Gaza Strip. No power, no food, no gas, everything is closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are fighting human animals and we act accordingly,\u201d Gallant added.<\/p>\n<p>The Israel Defense Forces has also said it is currently waging \u201cwidespread\u201d air strikes against Hamas targets throughout the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>The IDF\u2019s top spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that the military has mobilised 300,000 reservists over the past 48 hours, saying: \u201cWe have never drafted so many reservists on such a scale\u2026 We are going on the offensive.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2023\/10\/09\/israel-announces-complete-siege-of-gaza-strip-vows-to-destroy-military-capability-of-hamas\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to get very thirsty, sitting there in the dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamas The term &#8220;Hamas&#8221; is an acronym for Harakah al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah, meaning &#8220;Islamic Resistance Movement.&#8221; It &hellip; <a title=\"Israel Announces Gaza Siege, Vows to Destroy Hamas\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=148385\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Israel Announces Gaza Siege, Vows to Destroy Hamas<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":148386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-affairs","category-reality-check"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}