The Palestinians in Gaza have been shown a superhuman level of patience - primarily because of the large number of anti-Semitic, hateful assholes there are in the world, today. The Israelis have exhibited extraordinary restraint and undeserved kindness towards the Palestinian people - in spite of the fact that these same people aid and abet a rabid group of terrorists whose sole purpose for existence is to murder, rape, and kidnap Israeli civilians, exterminate all Jews, and extinguish the State of Israel AND these same people are reviled by their own Arab neighbors for being untrustworthy, worthless troublemakers who are not welcome to set foot in their lands. Sorry, but it is way past time to simply scrape Gaza off the face of the Earth into the Mediterranean Sea. Save as many of the women and children as possible without exposing the military to added risk and exterminate anything else that moves along the way. Be done with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjQaEDqt0I
Hamas marks Oct 7 anniversary by targeting town attacked two years ago
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/07/hamas-rockets-israel-october-7-anniversary-gaza-war/
By Henry Bodkin & Iona Cleave
The Telegraph (UK)
October 7, 2025
Memorial events are being held across Israel to mark the second anniversary of the Oct 7 2023 attacks - Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg
A rocket fired from Gaza struck an Israeli town that Hamas terrorists raided on Oct 7 two years ago to the day.
While no one was injured when the projectile struck close to the small farming community of Netiv HaAsara on Tuesday morning, it was a reminder for many in Israel of the deadliest day in its history.
Hamas militants killed 20 of the town’s 1,200 residents when they stormed the Gaza fence in 2023 during a wave of murders and kidnappings.
As Israel braced itself to remember and relive the attacks, negotiators in Egypt were hashing out a deal that could end the war.
The anniversary events in Israel began at the site of the Nova festival massacre, where Israeli flags were fixed to portraits of the kidnapped and killed.
Orit Baron, 57, remembered her daughter Yuval, who was murdered there exactly two years ago, alongside her fiance Moshe Shuva, and 376 others.
Ms Baron said her daughter’s life with her boyfriend was “simply beautiful”. “They took small steps towards each other, they blossomed together,” she added.
Their bodies were recovered and buried next to each other a few months before they were due to be married on Valentine’s Day.
They were two of around 1,200 people murdered by Hamas and allied terror groups, most of whom were civilians.
Additionally, 251 people were taken hostage, of whom 47 remain in captivity. Israel believes with confidence that only 20 of these remain alive.
Although it is impossible to rank the cruelty of the multiple atrocities Hamas committed, for many the massacre at Nova and on the road to the site was the most symbolic because it was a youthful, peace-loving event.
The sombre ceremony – unofficial because of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot – mirrored numerous others that took place in the devastated communities of the Gaza envelope.
But the acts of remembrance were different this year. The talks that began in Cairo on Tuesday between Israel and Hamas are taking place against a backdrop of real hope for a breakthrough peace deal, driven by Donald Trump’s optimism and impatience.
Israel has publicly signed up to the US president’s 20-point plan, which Mr Trump revealed at a White House summit with Benjamin Netanyahu last month.
Hamas has expressed willingness to release all the hostages and relinquish power, but has been vague on the specifics that aim to extinguish the militant group as an armed presence.
The deal proposes that, in return for some of the Hamas prisoners that Israel hold, all Hamas-held hostages are released, the terror group disarms and Israel withdraws from the enclave.
On Monday, an official close to the talks said the initial technical session had taken place in a “positive atmosphere”.
Ron Dermer, the Israeli prime minister’s right-hand man, who leads Israel’s delegation, will join the negotiations on Wednesday, as will Jared Kushner, Mr Trump’s son-in-law, and Steve Witkoff, the US’s Middle East envoy.
Mr Trump has publicly demanded quick progress, but sources in Egypt have cautioned that this may take several days.
The coming days will reveal how serious the terror group’s initial expressions of “good faith” really were.
Israel’s retaliatory aerial and ground offensive in Gaza has reduced most of the coastal enclave to ruin and killed more than 67,000 people, according to health authorities in the Hamas-run Strip. Their data does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, but indicates that more than half of the dead are women and children.
The organised terror army that crossed the border on Oct 7 2023, and fought the IDF in Gaza for months after, was more or less destroyed by last summer.
However, its militants are fighting effectively as a guerrilla force, inflicting a steady stream of casualties on Israel.
As The Telegraph discovered on a visit to Gaza City last week, the site of the current main battle, the IDF are not able to screen the population leaving the combat zone because of timetables imposed by politicians, meaning Hamas fighters can escape among civilians and fight another day.
It raises the prospect of perpetual war – with ultimately Palestinian civilians, young Israeli soldiers, and the hostages paying the price – unless a deal can be struck.
Tuesday’s main memorial ceremony was organised by bereaved families in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, separate from a government memorial set to be held on the Hebrew calendar anniversary next week.
The split reflects profound societal divisions over Mr Netanyahu’s leadership.
Many say that, a year ago, the Israeli prime minister could have secured a deal similar to that being discussed but chose to prolong the war to secure his political position.
The families of hostages on Monday were pushing for Mr Trump to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to secure the release of their loved ones.
They have always gone out of their way to flatter publicly the president, gestures Mr Trump seems to have noticed, given his recent remarks about Israelis wanting an end to the war.
Whether the fighting in Gaza ends this month or not, the chain of events that started on Oct 7 2023 has changed the Middle East in Israel’s favour.
Hezbollah, a proxy for Iran, has been largely dismantled in Lebanon. The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria further diminished Tehran’s influence, with the ruling regime itself severely mauled by Israel’s 12-day offensive in June.
For Eli Sharabi, the freed hostage who survived 491 days of captivity only to discover that his wife and two teenage daughters had been murdered, his thoughts were closer to home.
He wrote on social media: “On 7/10/23 our peaceful and happy life became hell, mourning, an unimaginable loss that will accompany me every moment until my last day... A longing that is getting stronger for pure souls, my wife, Lianne, my daughters Noiya and Yahel, and Yossi my brother.
“However since my release, every morning I choose a life full of action and hope.”
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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