Incredible moment elite Israeli Navy commandos spray machine gun fire at Hamas boat as terrorists jump into the water
THIS is the incredible moment elite Israeli commandos spray Hamas terrorists with machine gun bullets during a high-speed sea battle.
Footage shows the Israeli Navy skilfully repelling a sea assault by the Palestinian militants during their bloody cross-border rampage on October 7.
In the video, recently released by the IDF, Israeli commandos with seamless efficiency shoot machine guns, throw grenades and chase down Hamas speedboats.
At one moment, a huge explosion can be seen as one of the Islamic militants' speedboats is destroyed.
The troops then ruthlessly pursue Hamas terrorists that jump into the water and hunt them down.
The team seem to successfully destroy the enemy's chances of infiltrating Israel from this stretch of sea.
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The insurgents on-board were thrown into the Mediterranean Sea and then attempted to swim toward the coast, the IDF explained.
"Israeli Navy 'Snapir' Unit opened fire on terrorists who were swimming toward the shoreline in an attempt to infiltrate Israel by sea."
"Soldiers thwarted a number of terrorists, preventing them from reaching the coastline," it added on Twitter/X.
The group responsible for such a fear was Israel's 916th Patrol Squadron using Dvora-class patrol boats, reports.
However, elsewhere along the coast - Hamas managed to evade or breakthrough Israeli defences and rage war.
The Israeli Navy will be bolstered by UK and US ships sent to the eastern Med this week to support Israel.
During last weekend's surprise three-pronged attack, the terrorists and their allies stormed across Israel's border by land, sea and air.
Rockets, paragliders and gunmen descended on Israeli border towns and unleashed pure hell on civilians in what has been dubbed Israel's 9/11.
They slaughtered 1,300 Israelis in their homes, in the street and at a music festival before dragging 150 hostages back into Gaza.
Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, said the attack was the deadliest single day for Jews since the Holocaust.
Today, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to "exterminate the bloody monsters that rose up against us".
"Hamas thought we would break up - we will break up Hamas," he raged.
It comes as Israel's expected ground offensive looms ever-nearer.
This morning, Israel's military announced it has surrounded the Gaza Strip - but its plans to launch a "coordinated" attack have been delayed due to bad weather.
Tens of thousands of its soldiers and tanks massing on the border are "ready" for what the military has described will be a major combined operation by land, air and sea.
Israeli army spokesperson Jonathan Conricus said its forces had Gaza surrounded with troops now "in formation... all around the Gaza Strip, in the south, in the centre and the north."
Meanwhile, the IDF accused Hamas of "stopping civilians trying to flee" and using them as "human shields" against Israeli airstrikes.
IDF spokesman, Jonathan Conricus said: "If that isn't the most sinister and vile use of civilians during war, I don't know what is."
Since Friday, there have been continued reports that Hamas dismissed Israel's countdown to flee as "fake propaganda" and has been ordering civilians to stay put.
Over 360,000 reservists have been called up to bolster Israel's 130,000-strong regular army that is preparing to crush Hamas's strongholds.
Israeli air strikes continued to hammer the Gaza Strip throughout the weekend as Israel's official deadline passed for Palestinians to get out ahead of the impending ground invasion.
At least 2,329 Palestinians have so far been killed during the retaliatory bombardment of densely-populated Gaza, including 600 children.
The UN estimated a million Palestinians have now been displaced by Israel's bombardment.
Thousands of panicked families travelling in trucks, donkey carts and on-foot have been streaming down roads attempting to flee safety under heavy fire and a siege.
On Saturday, the IDF announced that they had killed two senior Hamas commanders in air and drone strikes.
They claimed both Murad Abu Murad, who headed Hamas's aerial operations in Gaza and Ali Qadhi, a key commander who led the cross-border attack on Israel, had been assassinated.
Now, Israel has set its sights on a top Hamas leader who they have dubbed Palestine's Osama Bin Laden.
The IDF has vowed to wipe out Yahya Sinwar, 60, who is head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and said they will stop at nothing to find him.
Sinwar - who spent 24 years in Israeli prisons - is accused of masterminding and leading last weekend's cross-border massacre.
"Yahya Sinwar is the face of evil," said IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Richard Hecht.
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"He is the mastermind behind this, like bin Laden was.
"He built his career on murdering Palestinians when he understood they were collaborators. That's how he became known as the butcher of [southern Gaza]."