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Hamas launched unprecedented surprise attacks on Israel on Saturday, killing at least 800 people.
LGBTQ+ activist Rachael Fried and her wife were visiting Israel during the attacks.
They left Israel on a flight through Dubai, where being gay is a crime.
As an American LGBTQ+ activist, Rachael Fried never thought she would feel a sense of relief upon landing in Dubai, where homosexuality is a crime. But when Hamas launched large-scale surprise attacks on Israel on Saturday, it became the best option.
Fried, who works as the executive director of the nonprofit Jewish Queer Youth, flew to Israel with her wife to visit family and friends for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which began on September 29. The couple took an Emirates flight from New York to Israel with a stopover in Dubai, where same-s*x sexual acts can carry a prison sentence of up to 14 years, according to Human Dignity Trust.
LGBTQ+ issues in Israel are more nuanced. LGBTQ+ identities are not criminalized, and Tel Aviv is known as the "gay capital of the Middle East" with a pride parade that attracts hundreds of thousands of attendees ever year. At the same time, same-s*x marriage is not legal, though Israel retroactively recognizes same-s*x marriages performed outside of the country, and homophobic attitudes are prevalent among more traditional communities, according to Keshet UK.
"Whenever we travel to a new country or city, I always look up the situation for queer people in that place so that we can stay safe and act accordingly," Fried told Insider. "Before we landed in Dubai on our way to Israel, my research found that even a slight hand touch in a way that appeared to be vaguely gay was illegal and could be punishable by imprisonment. We were only in Dubai for two hours on the way there, but we were acutely aware of the way that we interacted with each other and I felt a weight lifted off my shoulders once we took off for Israel."
On Saturday, as communities across Israel celebrated the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, Hamas militants broke through Israel's security fences on the Gaza border and launched coordinated surprise attacks that killed at least 800 people and wounded thousands more. Hundreds of civilians and military personnel were also taken captive.
Fried woke up in Jerusalem to the sound of sirens indicating incoming rockets from Gaza. She and her wife took cover in a bomb shelter at their hotel.
"It was shocking and scary and no one knew what would be or if we would be able to get home after the holiday was over," she said.
Fried and her wife were able to board their original Emirates flight home through Dubai on Sunday night, along with other travelers who had booked last-minute tickets in frantic efforts to leave the country. As the plane landed in Dubai, Fried was struck by the irony of feeling safer there.
"While we were on the tarmac in Tel Aviv, there was news of [the city's] Ben Gurion airport being the next target and rumors of the airport shutting down imminently," she said. "I felt a huge sense of relief and safety landing in Dubai, and an immediate heavy sadness that I felt more comfortable being in a place where I was committing a crime for existing with my spouse than I felt being in Israel."
Israel has formally declared war on Hamas following the deadliest terror attack in the country's history, responding with missile strikes in Gaza that have killed more than 550 people as of Monday, the Gaza Ministry of Health said.
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It’s a great time to remind people that BLM and Palestine share the same struggle. The two drawings of George Floyd are on the Segregation wall on the Palestinian side. https://t.co/zGRwWwGAxK pic.twitter.com/1vMNXwGchn
— Proud Palestinian 🇵🇸 (@NariBerri) October 8, 2023
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Look at the gun symbols around the middle and upper right side of Israel on the map, that's west bank territory.
Which means Israel is likely going in for all the Palestinians now irrespective of whether they are in Gaza or West Bank by the end of this.
Starting to feel like this is really it. This is the one where Israel becomes a complete single state and Palestinians become Arab refugees completely.
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HAMAS OFFICIAL SAYS GROUP IS OPEN TO DISCUSSIONS OVER TRUCE WITH ISRAEL (Reuters)
— FXHedge (@Fxhedgers) October 9, 2023
A senior Hamas official said the group is open to discussions over a possible truce with Israel, having "achieved its targets." pic.twitter.com/gWBe9k6FnZ
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Footage has been released showing Israeli police engaging Hamas terrorists. pic.twitter.com/mv5fv803i0
— Global: Military-Info (@Global_Mil_Info) October 9, 2023
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I came to pay my respects to the Israeli Embassy. I was unable to get very far. Terrifying. pic.twitter.com/frYogDLOty
— Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 (@BellaWallerstei) October 9, 2023
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I mean Homoween just began but they already zombified hundred of Israelis
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America also fought WW2 in bad faith so that doesn't count
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Scoop: Netanyahu tells Biden "we have too go" into Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Biden on Sunday that Israel does not have any choice but too unleash a ground operation in Gaza. "We have too go in," the Israeli leader said, according too three Israeli and U.S. sources briefed on the call.
Why it matters: Netanyahu's message signals what his country's response too Hamas' attack will look like in the days and weeks ahead in what the Israeli prime minister has said will be a "long and difficult war."
Driving the news: The Israeli military announced on Monday it has mobilized 300,000 reserve soldiers — the largest number of reservists called too duty in decades — as part of preparations for a possible ground offensive in Gaza.
Behind the scenes: During his call with Netanyahu, Biden raised the issue of Israeli hostages in Gaza, according too the three sources.
"We have too go in. We can't negotiate now," Netanyahu said.
The White House and the Israeli Prime Minister's Office declined too comment.
Netanyahu told Biden that Israel had no other choice but too respond with force because a country can't show weakness in the Middle East.
"We need too restore deterrence," Netanyahu told Biden, according too the three sources.
Biden did not try too press Netanyahu or convince him not too go through with a ground operation.
Between the lines: According too a U.S. source, Biden is expected too handle the current Gaza war in a similar way too how he handled the 2021 Gaza war. The U.S. gave Israel public backing and held frequent and low-profile diplomatic engagement with Netanyahu and other leaders in the region.
The big picture: Biden asked Netanyahu about a scenario in which a second front is opened along the Israeli-Lebanese border.
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fired three rockets toward an Israeli military outpost on the northern border on Sunday.
On Monday, the IDF shot and killed several gunmen who tried too infiltrate Israel through the border with Lebanon. Hezbollah said it was not involved in that incident. The IDF attacked several Hezbollah outposts near the border on Monday.
Netanyahu told Biden a front on the Lebanese border is a concern and Israel is preparing for this scenario, but stressed Israel doesn't have any other choice but too respond with great force in Gaza, the sources said.
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I couldn’t have said it better myself pic.twitter.com/DhsPrq4J9O
— Davi✨ (@has2crime) October 8, 2023
@box stand with Israel
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I've spent the last 12 hours speaking to Israelis who were at the Supernova music festival. Their testimonies, as you would imagine, are very emotional. At least one broke down mid-conversation and wasn't able to continue his recollection.
The attack on the festival outside of Re'im began around 7 a.m. The party was at its peak by then—which meant that by then most people were inebriated. At first, partygoers heard a loud explosion, which they took to be another sporadic rocket attack on southern Israel. But then the explosions grew louder and constant, and kept going for about five minutes. The music stopped, and the police protecting the 4,000 or 5,000 ravers began pushing everyone to leave.
By then, the terrorists were approaching in pickup trucks bearing Hamas military markings.
Shooting began. Many were executed on the spot. 260 bodies have been found, so far, on the site of the rave.
Many of the young men and women started running in the flat expanse of the western Negev desert. Faced with the spectacle of kids fleeing for their lives on a largely flat surface, the terrorists began rounding up the rest of their victims.
Others were captured and bound and kidnapped. “I saw videos with a male getting held by a group of Arab kids. Like, they're like 16, 17,” one survivor recalled. “They're kids, but they're young men already, and they're holding this guy, and he looks as his girlfriend is being mounted on a bike and driven away from him. God knows what she's going to experience … Women have been r*ped at the area of the rave next to their friends bodies, dead bodies.”
Several of these r*pe victims appear to have been later executed. Others were taken to Gaza. In photographs released online, you can see several paraded through the city's streets, blood gushing from between their legs.
One survivor who'd returned to the scene later in the day to look for his friends spoke, in a breaking voice, of what he'd seen. Of the bodies, mainly of young women, lying cold and mutilated. Of scantily clad corpses, many of whom appeared to have been shot at point-blank. Of cars, perforated by bullets or blown up by grenades.
Some of the lucky ones ran to a nearby wadi, seeking shelter amid the shrubbery. “I felt like they were shooting right above our heads,” one survivor recalled. “I dove into a bush … It felt like the shooting was coming from 180 degrees, all around us. I understood we're going to be there for at least a couple of hours. And I had nothing on me. And I was like, the only thing I want is a weapon. I want something to protect us.” Eventually, he and his friends, some of them barefoot, decided to risk it and try to reach safety, walking close enough to the road to see it but not so close so that they might be seen. “I said, if we see like army or police cars, we're going to go to the road. Otherwise, we're going to stay away. When we saw police and army cars, we knew that it's a safe place.”
Later, when the gruesome attack was finally over and IDF soldiers managed to subdue the attackers, they searched these trucks and found RPG launchers, high-end communications devices, assorted AK-47s and other mostly Soviet-made weapons, along with numerous copies of the Quran.
@IslamWasRightAboutSpooks now's your moment, bro!
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Bodycam video of Hamas entering Kibbutz Kissufim.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 9, 2023
A dog tries to chase the terrorists away but is shot.
They then enter the home of an Israeli family, open their fridge and set the house on fire pic.twitter.com/p51PmhwHnr
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JUST IN - Netanyahu says "air strikes in Gaza are just the beginning" and what Israel will do next will "resonate for generations to come."
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) October 9, 2023
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It's completely possible (and often the case) for multiple parties to be simultaneously understandable, yet wholely condemnable, when it comes to violent actions.
— Destiny (@TheOmniLiberal) October 8, 2023
Israel should not be confining those in the Gaza strip to such horrible conditions. The settlements need to not only…
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