Antony Blinken mentioned Sunday that Hamas terrorists kidnapped 100 folks from Israel, together with an aged Holocaust survivor in a wheelchair. Four Americans have additionally reportedly been killed within the bloodbath that started Saturday morning.

Washington: United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned Sunday that Hamas terrorists kidnapped 100 folks from Israel, together with an aged Holocaust survivor in a wheelchair. Four Americans have additionally reportedly been killed within the bloodbath that started Saturday morning, in line with CNN.

During an interview, Blinken described the Palestinian act of terror because the worst assault on Israel in 50 years, because the Yom Kippur War.

Blinken mentioned, “This is the worst attack on Israel since the Yom Kippur War in 1973, almost exactly 50 years ago. But there’s also a big difference. That was a state-on-state conflict, army against army with clear front lines. This is a massive terrorist attack targeting Israeli civilians, gunning people down in the streets of their towns, gunning them down in their homes, dragging Israelis – men, women, and children – across the border with Gaza. A Holocaust survivor in a wheelchair, women and children – all being taken hostage.”

He added that there’s a ‘elementary distinction’ between the 1973 conflict, which was ‘state to state, nation to nation, military to military,’ and the assault launched by Hamas on Saturday, which he described as ‘an enormous terrorist assault that’s gunning down Israeli civilians of their cities, of their houses.’

The high US official additionally confirmed that the administration believes a number of Americans have been killed within the ongoing battle. That quantity is now believed to be 4.

“We have reports that several Americans were killed. We’re working overtime to verify that,” he mentioned on CNN’s State of the Union.

“At the same time, there are reports of missing Americans, and there again, we’re working to verify those reports.”

Hamas terrorists have kidnapped about 100 folks – largely Israelis, however some Americans – because the assault started Saturday morning. Ron Dermer, the Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs confirmed the Americans are among the many ‘scores’ of civilians who’ve been kidnapped by Hamas.