“October 7th will be remembered as the darkest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust,” said George Deek, Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan, APA reports.

“A war was launched by a surprise when Hamas terrorists launched rockets and invaded our towns in the south of Israel, in order to murder, rape, and kidnap our women and men, our sons and our daughters.

The toll of this aggression is staggering, with over 700 Israelis dead, over 100 individuals abducted, and over 2,000 more injured.

While the timing was a surprise, the cruelty wasn’t.

Hamas is a genocidal organization whose leaders openly speak about killing all Jews.

It’s written in their charter.

This culture of hate is the cause of this barbarism.

What happened today is unprecedented in Israel – and we will make sure it will not happen again,” the diplomat added.

According to him, the IDF will immediately use all its force to destroy Hamas’s capabilities: “We will eliminate the threat of Hamas.

This is war.

Unfortunately, it will not be the first warin Israeli history in which we must rise from tragedy.

We were attacked before, outnumbered, taken by surprise.

We just marked 50 years to the Yom Kippur war when the armies of the Arab world invaded Israel.

At the end the Israeli army was at the gates of Cairo and Damscus.

This time as well, we will change the reality of the Middle East.”

Source: Azeri-Press news Agency