Israel at War | Special Discussion

On October 7, 2023 at 06:30 am Israel woke up to a horrific nightmare. Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group based in the Gaza Strip, began a vicious and coordinated attack that shook southern and central Israel. Hamas launched a massive rocket attack targeting civilian areas, and simultaneously, infiltrated the Israeli villages surrounding the Gaza Strip with the goal of committing mass slaughter, abduction, rape, and other acts of brutality toward innocent Israeli victims. The results of this attack are beyond belief: Israeli babies were beheaded, and dismembered bodies burned, among them children. Other testimonies indicate that children were tied with their hands behind their backs and shot in the head. Between 120-150 Israeli hostages were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists to Gaza. In this podcast INSS researcher Adi Kantor sits down with Colonel (res.) Adv. Pnina Sharvit Baruch, INSS senior researcher and head of the INSS program on law and national security, and with Anat Shapira, Neubauer Research Associate in the INSS Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict Program and a PhD candidate in the Tel Aviv University Philosophy Department. Together they discuss the viscous and barbaric acts of Hamas toward innocent civilians in Israel. What is known thus far about Hamas’s plan? How has the international community reacted? How has Hezbollah in the north responded until now, and what will be Israel’s reaction?