There is a kind of panic in Jerusalem, and has been since early morning, notes Samir Abu Eid. Airplane alarms sound and muffled explosions are heard when he takes part in SVT’s live broadcast at 9 o’clock.
He notes that even the Israeli security apparatus has been surprised by Hamas’s sudden attack.
– They often have a pretty good grasp of what’s going on, when there are operations going on or something like that, but here they were caught on the bed.
Anders Persson, university lecturer at the Linné University, who is also in Jerusalem, states that Israel has been taken by surprise by “this unprecedented attack”.
On Saturday morning, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant also announced that Hamas had started a war against Israel, which Israel would win.