{"id":11961,"date":"2023-10-07T16:43:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T16:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/dozens-dead-hundreds-wounded-as-hamas-launches-attack-on-israel-and-takes-hostages\/"},"modified":"2023-10-07T16:43:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T16:43:30","slug":"dozens-dead-hundreds-wounded-as-hamas-launches-attack-on-israel-and-takes-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/dozens-dead-hundreds-wounded-as-hamas-launches-attack-on-israel-and-takes-hostages\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens dead, hundreds wounded as Hamas launches attack on Israel and takes hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V8U_q6_BqCA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched the biggest attack on Israel in years on Saturday in a surprise assault that combined a heavy barrage of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip and gunmen crossing into several Israeli towns \u2014 where the Israeli military said militants have taken Israeli civilians and soldiers hostage.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CBC News Online:<\/p>\n<p>For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage:<br \/>\nFind CBC News on Facebook:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Twitter:<br \/>\nFor breaking news on Twitter:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Instagram:<br \/>\nSubscribe to CBC News on Snapchat:<\/p>\n<p>Download the CBC News app for iOS:<br \/>\nDownload the CBC News app for Android:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb<br \/>\nFor more than 80 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched the biggest attack on Israel in years on Saturday in a surprise assault that combined a heavy barrage of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip and gunmen crossing into several Israeli towns \u2014 where&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[87,12461,12460,340,674,978],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}