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The Iron Swords –
The war in the south of Israel
Updated to 1 p.m., October 9, 2023

During the past 24 hours, Israeli security forces carried out massive activity in the Gaza Stripon land, in the air and at sea; several hundred targets were attacked from the air. The forcescontinued searching for and clashing with terrorists who still remained in Israel. In themeantime, Gaza continued firing rockets …

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Lessons from Israel’s Wars in Gaza

For more than a decade, Israel has clashed with Hamas in Gaza, with cycles of violence defined by periods of intense fighting followed by relative lulls. This brief summarizes a report focusing on a five-year period of this conflict — from the end of Operation Cast Lead in 2009 to …

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The Hamas Einsatzgruppen Attack – October 7, 2023

On a Shabbat morning and a religious holiday, on October 7, Hamas operatives invaded Israel and carried out a Hamas Einsatzgruppen attack.[1] This war should not to be compared to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when Israel was surprised by invading armies of Arab states. Hamas’s operatives cannot also not …

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