Israeli Launches Ground ‘Incursion’ Into Gaza, Conducts Heavy Airstrikes And Severs All Telecommunications [UPDATED]

Chris Menahan

After three weeks of cutting off all power, food, water and energy to the over two million civilians in Gaza, blocking most aid convoys and bombing the hell out of the strip from the sky, Israel finally launched their first significant “ground incursion” on Friday night.

Footage for the unprecedented lsraeli air attacks hitting Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/CgLiAD2Etz

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 27, 2023

Heavily intensified lsraeli airstrikes hit Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/GvAJDuvDLB

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 27, 2023

Breaking: with the collapse of telecommunications in Gaza, paramedics are unable to identify the location of casualties.

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 27, 2023

Mass lsraeli air attack continues for four hours straight. pic.twitter.com/r0QP0NsZuB

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 27, 2023

Israeli air strikes reportedly hit near the vicinity of both Al-Shifa Hospital and the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza according to Al Jazeera’s correspondent.

Israel has targeted several hospitals across Gaza in there recent assault on the besieged strip pic.twitter.com/Gs8hrxnZLU

— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) October 27, 2023

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Which country turns off the electricity, water supply and the internet while bombing women and children?

Should that country be considered ANYONE’S greatest ally?

(Footage of Israel dropping phosphorus bombs on Gaza) pic.twitter.com/7MDRqfRtd1

— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) October 27, 2023

🇵🇸🇮🇱 We should be seeing a lot more videos out of Gaza right now.

Israel didn’t want their war crimes documented so they cut off the internet.@Israel The WORLD will remember this.

— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) October 27, 2023

After 3 weeks of carpet bombing a caged population of millions while cutting off water, electricity, food & medicine, Israel has severed all telecommunications. Now they can commit genocide without the annoyance of their victims telling the world about it

— Abby Martin (@AbbyMartin) October 27, 2023

“A senior Israeli official told Axios the IDF incursion that began on Friday is mostly taking place in the northern Gaza Strip,” Axios reports. “The official added that it is much bigger and more significant than the limited raids that have taken place in recent days.”

From Reuters, “Hamas vows ‘full force’ after Israel steps up Gaza ground operations”:

JERUSALEM, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Hamas said on Saturday its militants in Gaza were ready to confront Israeli attacks with “full force” after Israel’s military widened its air and ground attacks on the Palestinian enclave.

The Palestinian militant group that rules Gaza said earlier its fighters were clashing with Israeli troops in areas near the border with Israel after Israel reported intensified attacks in Gaza.

“In addition to the attacks carried out in the last few days, ground forces are expanding their operations tonight,” Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a televised news briefing on Friday evening, raising the question of whether a long-anticipated ground invasion of Gaza may be beginning.

He said Israel’s air force was conducting extensive strikes on tunnels dug by Hamas and other infrastructure.

The armed wing of Hamas said late on Friday its fighters were clashing with Israeli troops in Gaza’s northeastern town of Beit Hanoun and in the central area of Al-Bureij.

“The Al-Qassam brigades and all the Palestinian resistance forces are completely ready to confront (Israel’s) aggression with full force and frustrate its incursions,” Hamas said in a statement early on Saturday.

“Netanyahu and his defeated army will not be able to achieve any military victory,” referring to the Israeli prime minister.

There’s no word yet on how the invasion is going.

Palestinian resistance channels are claiming that the fighters are holding off the ground incursion. So far, I don’t see the Israeli liveblogs claiming any advances on the ground.

— Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) October 27, 2023

When the enemy army says “this isn’t the actual ground invasion”, they’re hedging their bets: if they fail, they’ll say it was just some “probing”, & if by some miracle make any kind of progress, they’ll say “we were bluffing, this is the real thing”.
Fail they will, of course.

— Ibn Riad – ابن رياض (@IbnRiad) October 27, 2023

UPDATE: Hamas is claiming they repelled the incursion using (Russian) Kornet missiles in addition to their own Yassin missiles.

BREAKING: STATEMENT FROM HAMAS LEADER ALI BARAKA ON THE GAZA GENOCIDE

“Bleeding for the people of the Arab nation.

The failure of the ground attack launched by the occupation forces on the Gaza Strip through three fronts, and there are heavy losses among the enemy’s ranks in… pic.twitter.com/rJnR3jin0I

— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) October 28, 2023

Hamas spokesperson Ali Bakara released the following statement on Friday night:

Bleeding for the people of the Arab nation.

The failure of the ground attack launched by the occupation forces on the Gaza Strip through three fronts, and there are heavy losses among the enemy’s ranks in terms of soldiers and equipment.

The enemy fell into ambushes prepared by the Palestinian resistance on a number of fronts, and since the beginning of the battle there have been defensive plans against any attempt.

Kornet missiles and Yassin missiles were used to repel the attack, and we expect the enemy to try again.

The Israeli occupation used helicopters to evacuate the wounded and dead from the battlefield.

This is allegedly video of a Kornet being used (take all these reports with a large grain of salt):

Palestinian forces fired a Kornet ATGM at an Israeli army vehicle in northern Gaza.

It was possibly al-Qassam brigades who launched it pic.twitter.com/8vNiVFstO7

— Verum Reports (@VerumReports) October 28, 2023

If this is true, you can be damn sure Likud’s Amir Weitmann is going to throw another fit!

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