Israel’s defense minister announced that the Hamas militant group has started a war against Israel and pledged that "Israel will win.”

Following a security cabinet meeting at the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned that Hamas “made a grave mistake” in launching barrages of rockets into southern and central Israel in its surprise morning attack.

In one of the most serious escalations in years between Israel and the militant group that rules Gaza, Hamas gunmen crossed the border fence at several places and infiltrated Israeli communities.

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    I try not to pick a side as I have no connections to either sides whatsoever but one is a homophobic misogynistic religion nut terrorists and the other is secular(somewhat), democratic country.

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      the other is secular(somewhat), democratic country.

      That practices ethnic cleansing (this one is kinda dubious) and apartheid.

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      Both sides are really shitty, unfortunately. Hamas isn’t Fatah - Hamas is a bunch of far-right theocratic loons who maintain an iron grip on the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip. Israel has, since the 1980s, become increasingly right-wing and ethnonationalist, putting Palestinians under a regime that treats them as second-class, at best, and treating them as nuisances to be removed for Israeli settlements.