Israel finds itself in one of its most precarious situations in decades. Maybe not since the Yom Kippur war has the entire State of Israel been put in harms way with a majority of the country under hourly air raid sirens from Gaza. With civil war breaking out in her streets, and the threat of Hezbollah attack from Lebanon ominously hanging over its head, we are witnessing the grave potential for an unprecedented security nightmare for millions of Jews and Israeli Arabs.

Just before the nightly curfew began in the mixed city of Lod, three Jewish Israelis were injured as violence broke out while the sun still shone in the sky. An IDF soldier was seriously injured by rioters after he was beaten and reportedly shot. He suffered a skull fracture and a cerebral hemorrhage, Ichilov hospital says after the soldier drove to the hospital by himself. The incident reportedly took place in the Ganei Aviv neighborhood. In a separate incident, a man was stoned by Arab rioters in the industrial area of the city. He was treated for his injuries at the scene and went to Assaf HaRofeh hospital. On Exodus Street, a Magen David Adom EMT was shot in the legs. The EMT was taken to Assaf HaRofeh hospital by an ambulance and was admitted to the Emergency Room.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu informed the members of the high-level security cabinet on Wednesday night that Israel has rejected a Hamas offer of a ceasefire. Instead, the members of the cabinet approved a plan to increase attacks on Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups in the Gaza Strip who have been raining rockets on Israeli cities. The truce offer was made earlier on Wednesday through the Russian foreign ministry. According to a report by the Saudi news channel Al-Arabiya, a delegation of senior Egyptian security officials arrived in Tel Aviv on Thursday as part of an international effort to end the conflict between Israel and Gaza. “The campaign is still far from over,” a cabinet member said.

Jewish-Arab violence and riots have erupted in numerous cities that have a mixed population of Arabs and Jews across Israel. The violence comes at the end of the month of Ramadan and amid the escalated tensions between Israel and Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in Gaza. In Akko, a mob of Arab rioters attacked a Jewish man in his 30s and severely injured him.  The incident took place near Egged Square in the city and left the man in critical condition. Magen David Adom teams transported the man to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya and intubated and sedated him. According to a statement by the police, the man had been attacked while he was in his car and was beaten with rocks and sticks. Violence erupted once again in the city of Lod and a man was shot and seriously injured.

President Biden says he has spoken to Israeli PM Netanyahu about the conflict in the region: “My expectation and hope this will be closing down sooner than later. Israel has a right to defend itself when you have thousands of rockets flying into your territory.”
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A six-year-old boy was R”L killed by a direct rocket hit on a house in Sderot. At least three others were seriously wounded in the attack. Hamas says it fired 130 rockets at Israel a short time ago, including at the country’s center, in retaliation for a strike on a multi-story building in Gaza City. Meanwhile, Islamic Jihad released a message threatening to send another barrage of rockets towards Israel at 9:00PM. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Yaakov Bar Yochai who was one of the first responders at the scene relayed: “We arrived at the scene of the rocket strike together with a mobile intensive care ambulance from United Hatzalah and we found the boy in critical condition and the woman in serious condition.

The Israeli government declared a state of emergency and Border Police were called into Lod overnight Tuesday as rioting by Arab mobs in the mixed Israeli-Arab city reached new heights to levels never seen before in Israeli history. Defense Minister Benny Gantz ordered all Border Police companies who were aiding the IDF in the Shomron to assist in Lod and the neighboring city of Ramle. The order came after a request from Lod Mayor Yair Revivo, who asked Netanyahu to declare a state of emergency in the city as the situation is “too big for the police.” “This is Kristallnacht in Lod,” he said. “We’ve lost control of the city and the streets.

A joint ISA-IDF operation targeted senior members of the Hamas “General Staff Forum” including the Gaza City Brigade commander, the head of the cyber command and improving Hamas’s missiles and the head of its production network. Following are the four senior commanders who were targeted in the attack: 1. Bassem Issa – Gaza City Brigade commander since 2017 and senior military official in the city. Over the years he had been involved in many terrorist attacks and also served as a leader in the organization’s production network. He led previous rounds of fighting with Israel. Targeting him will significantly affect the functioning of the brigade and of Hamas’s military arm. 2.

Over 1,050 rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip since Monday evening, with a huge barrage of rockets launched by Hamas in the early hours of Wednesday morning. An Israeli was killed and three others were wounded later on Wednesday morning when Hamas fired a Kornet anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) from the Gaza Strip into Israel. Two Israeli-Arabs were killed after a rocket struck their vehicle at about 3:30 a..m. in an Arab neighborhood in Lod. The victims were a man, 52, and his teenage daughter, 16. The mother of the family was seriously wounded. “Hamas missiles do not differentiate between Jews and Arabs,” Lod Mayor Yair Revivo said.

Hamas fired a Kornet anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Wednesday morning, hitting a jeep and critically injuring four young Israelis near the border town of Netiv Ha’asara. Immediately afterward, emergency rescue services came under attack as Hamas terrorists fired mortar shells at the area in an effort to prevent the wounded from being evacuated. The wounded were evacuated to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, where one Israeli succumbed to his wounds and was pronounced dead. Another one is critically wounded and doctors are fighting for his life. A third Israeli was seriously injured and a fourth was lightly injured. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.