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The war is referred to by different names. Israel calls it the 'War of Iron Swords' (Hebrew: מלחמת חרבות ברזל).[180][af] Palestinian militant groups refer to it as the 'Battle of al-Aqsa Flood' (Arabic: معركة طوفان الأقصى), in reference to Operation al-Aqsa Flood.[183][184] Western media outlets have variably described it as the 'Israel–Gaza War'[185] or the 'Israel–Hamas War',[186] while others use 'War on Gaza'.[187] Some have rejected 'war' as an appropriate framework and call it the 'Gaza genocide',[188][189] 'second Nakba'[190] or 'Nakba 2023.'[191][192]
Since 2007, Israel and Hamas, along with other Palestinian militant groups based in Gaza, have engaged in conflict,[200][198][205] including in four wars in 2008–2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021.[206][207] These conflicts killed approximately 6,400 Palestinians and 300 Israelis.[208][106][193] In 2018–2019, there were large weekly organized protests near the Gaza-Israel border, which were violently suppressed by Israel, whose forces killed hundreds and injured thousands of Palestinians by sniper fire.[209][210] Soon after the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis began, Hamas' military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, started planning the 7 October 2023 operation against Israel.[211][212] According to diplomats, Hamas had repeatedly said in the months leading up to October 2023 that it did not want another military escalation in Gaza as it would worsen the humanitarian crisis that occurred after the 2021 conflict.[203]
The attacks took place during the Jewish holidays of Simchat Torah and Shemini Atzeret on Shabbat,[224] and one day after the 50th anniversary of the start of the Yom Kippur War, which also began with a surprise attack on Israel.[217] At around 6:30a.m. IDT (UTC+03:00) on 7 October 2023,[225] Hamas announced the start of what it called "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood", stating it had fired over 5,000 rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel within a span of 20 minutes. Israeli sources reported that at least 3,000 projectiles had been launched from Gaza. At least five people were killed by the rocket attacks.[226][227][228] Explosions were reported in areas surrounding the strip and in cities in the Sharon plain including Gedera, Herzliya,[229]Tel Aviv, and Ashkelon.[230]
Hamas employed tactics such as using aerial drones to disable Israeli observation posts, paragliders for infiltration into Israel, and motorcycles, which was unusual for Hamas.[231] In the evening, Hamas launched another barrage of 150 rockets towards Israel, with explosions reported in Yavne, Givatayim, Bat Yam, Beit Dagan, Tel Aviv, and Rishon LeZion.[227] Simultaneously, around 3,000 Hamas militants[73] infiltrated Israel from Gaza using trucks, motorcycles, bulldozers, speedboats, and paragliders.[217][225][232] They took over checkpoints at Kerem Shalom and Erez, and created openings in the border fence in five other places.[233] Hamas militants also carried out an amphibious landing in Zikim.[230][234]
The 7 October attack was described as "an intelligence failure for the ages"[250] and a "failure of imagination" on the part of the Israeli government.[251] A BBC report on the intelligence failure commented that "it must have taken extraordinary levels of operational security by Hamas".[252] Israeli officials later anonymously reported to Axios that the IDF and Shin Bet had detected abnormal movements by Hamas the day before the attack, but decided to wait for additional intelligence before raising the military's alert level. They also did not inform political leaders of the intelligence reports.[253]
A briefing in The Economist noted that "the assault dwarf[ed] all other mass murders of Israeli civilians", reasoning that "the last time before October 7th that this many Jews were murdered on a single day was during the Holocaust."[239]
Hamas stated that its attack was a response to the blockade of the Gaza Strip, the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements, rising Israeli settler violence and recent escalations at Al-Aqsa.[150][151][213] Intelligence and security officials from multiple Western countries, along with Hamas political officials, claimed that the 7 October attack was a calculated effort to create a "permanent" state of war and revive interest in the Palestinian cause.[254][255]
Aftermath of a Hamas rocket hit on the maternity ward of Barzilai Medical Center, a hospital in Ashkelon, Israel, on 8 October 2023
Building in the Gaza Strip being destroyed by Israeli missiles
Wounded child and man receive treatment on the floor at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City
Remains of the Sderot police station, following recapture by IDF
Destruction of a residential building in Gaza by an Israeli airstrike
After the initial breach of the Gaza perimeter by Palestinian militants, it took hours for the IDF to start its counter-attack.[256] The first helicopters sent to support the military were launched from the north of Israel, and arrived at the Gaza Strip an hour after fighting began.[243] They encountered difficulty in determining which outposts and communities were occupied, and distinguishing between Palestinian militants and the soldiers and civilians on the ground.[243] The helicopter crews initially sustained a high rate of fire, attacking approximately 300 targets in four hours. Later on the crews began to slow down the attacks and carefully select targets.[243] According to Haaretz's journalist, a police source said that a police investigation indicated an IDF helicopter which had fired on Hamas militants "apparently also hit some festival participants" in the Re'im music festival massacre.[242] The Israeli police denied the Haaretz report.[257]
A subsequent Israeli investigation claimed that militants had been instructed not to run so that the air force would think they were Israelis.[243] This deception worked for some time, but pilots began to realize the problem and ignore their restrictions. By around 9:00am, some helicopters started laying down fire without prior authorization.[243]
A July 2024 Haaretz investigation revealed that the IDF ordered the Hannibal Directive to be used, adding: "Haaretz does not know whether or how many civilians and soldiers were hit due to these procedures, but the cumulative data indicates that many of the kidnapped people were at risk, exposed to Israeli gunfire, even if they were not the target." At 7:18a.m., an observation post reported someone had been kidnapped at the Erez crossing, close to the IDF's liaison office.[258]
At 6:40p.m. military intelligence believed militants were intending to flee back to Gaza in an organized manner from near Kibbutz Be'eri, Kfar Azza and Kissufim. In response the army launched artillery at the border fence area, very close to some of these communities. Shells were also fired at the Erez border crossing shortly thereafter. The IDF said it was not aware of any civilians being hurt in these bombardments.[258] 14 hostages were in the house of Pessi Cohen at Kibbutz Be'eri as the IDF attacked it, with 13 of them killed.[258]
Former Israeli Air Force officer Colonel Nof Erez said: "This was a mass Hannibal. It was tons and tons of openings in the fence, and thousands of people in every type of vehicle, some with hostages and some without." ABC News (Australia) said that not only soldiers but also Israeli civilians were targeted, citing testimonies from two incidents at Kibbutz Be'eri and Nir Oz.[259]
Six months later the IDF released a review exonerating itself, but it left many at Kibbutz Be'eri unsatisfied and contradicted the testimony from one of the survivors, Yasmin Porat, who told Israel's Kan radio on 15 October that Hamas gunmen had not threatened the hostages and instead intended to negotiate with police for their safe return to Gaza. She said an Israeli police special unit had started the gun battle by firing upon the house, catching "five or six" kibbutz residents outside in "very, very heavy crossfire". In the interview, she was asked: "So our forces may have shot them?" "Undoubtedly," she replied."[259]
The attack appeared to have been a complete surprise to the Israelis.[260]Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu convened an emergency gathering of security authorities, and the IDF launched Operation Swords of Iron in the Gaza Strip.[261][227] In a televised broadcast, Netanyahu said, "We are at war".[232] He threatened to "turn all the places where Hamas is organized and hiding into cities of ruins", called Gaza "the city of evil", and urged its residents to leave.[262][150]Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant conducted security assessments at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv.[235][230] Overnight, Israel's Security Cabinet voted to act to bring about the "destruction of the military and governmental capabilities of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad".[263] The Israel Electric Corporation, which supplies 80% of the Gaza Strip's electricity, cut off power to the area.[230] This reduced Gaza's power supply from 120 MW to 20 MW, provided by power plants paid for by the Palestinian Authority.[264]
On 9 or 10 October, Hamas offered to release all civilian hostages held in Gaza if Israel would call off its planned invasion of the Gaza Strip, but the Israeli government rejected the offer.[265]
The IDF declared a "state of readiness for war",[227] mobilized tens of thousands of army reservists,[225][230] and declared a state of emergency for areas within 80 kilometers (50 mi) of Gaza.[266] The Yamam counterterrorism unit was deployed,[267] along with four new divisions, augmenting 31 existing battalions.[217] Reservists were reported deployed in Gaza, in the West Bank, and along borders with Lebanon and Syria.[268]
Residents near Gaza were asked to stay inside, while civilians in southern and central Israel were "required to stay next to shelters".[230] The southern region of Israel was closed to civilian movement,[267] and roads were closed around Gaza[217] and Tel Aviv.[230] While Ben Gurion Airport and Ramon Airport remained operational, multiple airlines cancelled flights to and from Israel.[269]Israel Railways suspended service in parts of the country and replaced some routes with temporary bus routes,[270][271] while cruise lines removed the ports of Ashdod and Haifa from their itineraries.[272]
Aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal area of Gaza City, 9 October 2023
Following the surprise attack, the Israeli Air Force conducted airstrikes that they said targeted Hamas compounds, command centers, tunnels, and other targets.[227][266][273] Israel employed its artificial intelligenceHabsora ("The Gospel") software to automatically generate targets to be attacked.[274][275] Two days after the surprise attack, Israel said that 426 targets had been hit, including Beit Hanoun, homes of Hamas officials, a mosque, and the Watan Tower, an internet infrastructure hub.[273][276][277] Israel also rescued two hostages before declaring a state of war for the first time since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.[278][279]
On 9 October, Defense Minister Gallant announced a "total" blockade of the Gaza Strip, cutting off electricity and blocking the entry of food and fuel, saying "We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly".[280] This drew criticism from Human Rights Watch (HRW) who described the order as "abhorrent" and as a "call to commit a war crime" and accused Israel of using white phosphorus munitions over Gaza in violation of international law.[281][282] On 10 October, an Israeli airstrike on a house in Deir al-Balah killed 18 people.[283] Gallant backed down from implementing a total blockade under pressure from US President Joe Biden and a deal was made on 19 October for Israel and Egypt to allow aid into Gaza.[284] The first aid convoy after the start of the war entered Gaza on 21 October 2023,[285] while fuel did not enter Gaza until November.[286]
On 13 October, the IDF called for the evacuation of all civilians in Gaza City to areas south of the Wadi Gaza[287] within 24 hours. The Hamas Authority for Refugee Affairs responded by telling residents in northern Gaza to "remain steadfast in your homes and stand firm in the face of this disgusting psychological war waged by the occupation".[288] The statement by Israel faced widespread backlash with numerous agencies such as Doctors Without Borders, the World Health Organization, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and others condemning it as "outrageous" and "impossible" while calling for an immediate reversal of the order.[289]
As a part of the order, the IDF announced a six-hour window from 10a.m. to 4p.m. local time on 13 October, for refugees to flee south along specified routes within the Gaza Strip.[290] An explosion at 5:30p.m. along one of the safe routes killed 70 Palestinians. Israel and Hamas blamed each other for the attack.[291]
The IDF said Hamas set up roadblocks to keep Gaza residents from evacuating south and caused traffic jams.[292] Israeli officials stated this was done to use civilians as "human shields", which Hamas denied.[293] A number of countries and international organizations condemned what they called Hamas's use of hospitals and civilians as human shields.[294]
A man carries the body of a Palestinian child killed during the shelling of 17 October 2023
The impact crater
Aftermath of Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion
On 17 October, Israel bombed areas of southern Gaza.[295] Gazan Ministry of Health officials reported heavy overnight bombing killing over 70 people, including families who had evacuated from Gaza City in the north.[296] One of the airstrikes killed a senior Hamas military commander Ayman Nofal.[297] In the afternoon, an Israeli strike hit a UNRWA school in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, killing six and injuring 12.[298] Late in the evening, an explosion occurred in the parking lot of the Al-Ahli Arabi Baptist Hospital in the center of Gaza City, killing hundreds. The cause of the explosion was disputed by Hamas and the IDF, and the ongoing conflict prevented independent on-site analysis.[299] Palestinian statements that it was an Israeli airstrike were denied by the IDF, which stated that the explosion resulted from a failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad.[300] The PIJ denied any involvement.[301][302]
The cause of the explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital is contested. In the days after the blast, US, Canadian, French and UK defense and intelligence services concluded it was caused by an errant Palestinian rocket.[303] Channel 4 news cast doubt on Israeli claims of a misfired Hamas rocket being responsible for the blast.[304][305] The Associated Press,[306]CNN,[307]The Economist, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal[308] concluded a Palestinian missile was the most likely explanation for the blast. In late November, an analysis by Human Rights Watch indicated the evidence pointed to a misfired Palestinian rocket as the cause, but stated that further investigation was required.[309]Forensic Architecture's investigation, as reported by The New York Times, Bloomberg News, BBC News, and El País, disputed Israel's account, concluding instead that the blast was the result of a munition fired from the direction of Israel.[310] A second report by Forensic Architecture took into account the situated testimony of doctors, survivors, and journalists on the ground, as well as photogrammetry and 3D reconstruction, and gave additional credibility to the incident being an Israeli attack instead of a misfired Palestinian rocket.[311] In April 2024 The New Yorker, citing investigations from Earshot and Forensic Architecture, highlighted doubts about a Palestinian rocket involvement and noted the IDF's role in fostering uncertainty through misinformation.[312][313]
Invasion of the Gaza Strip until the truce (October–November 2023)
Israeli soldiers preparing for the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip on 29 October
Israeli military during ground operations on 31 October
Israeli military during ground operations on 1 November
Armored IDF D9R bulldozer around 16 November 2023
Israeli tanks during operations on 31 October
On 27 October, the IDF launched a large-scale, multi-pronged ground incursion into parts of northern Gaza. The IDF was building up a force of over 100,000 soldiers in the cities of Ashkelon, Sderot and Kiryat Gat. Clashes between Hamas and the IDF were reported near Beit Hanoun and Bureij.[314][315] Israeli airstrikes targeted the area around al-Quds hospital,[316] where around 14,000 civilians were believed to be sheltering in or near the hospital.[316] Associated Press reported that Israeli airstrikes also destroyed roads leading to Al-Shifa hospital, making it increasingly difficult to reach.[317] The following day, the IDF struckJabaliarefugee camp, killing 50 and wounding 150 Palestinians. Israel said a senior Hamas commander and dozens of militants in an underground tunnel complex were among those killed. Hamas denied the presence of a senior commander on the scene.[318][319][320] The nearby Indonesia Hospital's surgical director said they had received 120 dead bodies and treated 280 wounded, the majority of them women and children.[321] The attack resulted in several ambassador recalls.[322][323][324]
On 31 October, Israel bombed a six-story apartment building in central Gaza, killing at least 106 civilians including 54 children in what Human Rights Watch called an "apparent war crime."[325] On 1 November, the first group of evacuees left Gaza for Egypt. 500 evacuees, comprising critically wounded and foreign nationals, would be evacuated over the course of several days, with 200 evacuees already waiting at the border crossing.[326] On the same day, the Jabalia refugee camp was bombed for a second time.[327][328]
On 3 November, Israel struck an ambulance convoy directly in front of Al-Shifa Hospital, killing at least 15 people and injuring 60 more.[329][330] The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said one of its ambulances was struck "by a missile fired by the Israeli forces" about two meters from the entrance to al-Shifa hospital.[330] The PRCS said another ambulance was fired on about a kilometer from the hospital.[330] The next day, a UNRWA spokeswoman confirmed reports that Israel had conducted an airstrike against a UN-run school in the Jabalia refugee camp, killing 15 people.[331]
On 18 November Israeli strikes killed over 80 people in Jabalia refugee camp.[332] Israel also attacked a clearly marked Médecins Sans Frontières convoy, killing two aid workers.[333] On 22 November, Israel and Hamas reached a temporary ceasefire agreement, providing for a four-day pause[334] in hostilities to allow for the release of 50 hostages held in Gaza.[334][335] The deal also provided for the release of approximately 150 Palestinian women and children incarcerated by Israel.[335]
Following the introduction of a Qatari-brokered truce on 24 November, starting at 7:00am Israel time, active fighting in the Gaza Strip ceased and some of the Israeli and foreign hostages were released by Hamas in exchange for the release of some of the Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel. The truce was announced for a period of four days but was extended for a longer period.
From 24 to 30 November, Hamas released hostages and Israel released prisoners. On 27 November, Qatar announced that an agreement between Israel and Hamas to extend the truce by two days had been reached.[336] Both Israel and Hamas accused each other of violating the truce on 28 November.[337] On 30 November, in a "last-minute agreement", Hamas released eight hostages in exchange for the release of 30 imprisoned Palestinians and a one-day truce extension.[338]
Resumption of hostilities (December 2023 – May 2024)
Continuation of operations in Northern Gaza (December 2023 – January 2024)
Israeli soldiers operating in a Gazan neighborhood
The truce expired on 1 December, as Israel and Hamas blamed each other for failing to agree on an extension. The disagreement centered on "how to define soldiers versus civilians and how many Palestinian prisoners Israel would release for its hostages".[339][excessive quote] The remaining Israeli hostages include a year old baby, his 4-year-old brother and their mother, 13 women aged 18–39, and 85 men, some over 80.[340] Thousands of Palestinians remain in administrative detention.[341] A Hamas official said that after the exchange, the only remaining hostages were civilian men and soldiers, and refused to exchange them until "all our prisoners are freed" and there is a ceasefire.[342] US National Security Advisor Kirby said "Hamas agreed to allow the Red Cross access to these hostages" during the pause, which "didn't happen and is still not happening".[343] The Palestinian Prisoners' Club said that although 240 Palestinian prisoners were released as part of the ceasefire deal, another 240 Palestinians were incarcerated. Released Palestinian prisoners reported mistreatment including beatings, overcrowding, food deprivation, and suspension of access to the Red Cross.[344] Released prisoners were forbidden to speak with the media and threatened with fines.[341]
Israel adopted a grid system to order precise evacuations within Gaza, released a map, and dropped leaflets with a QR code. The grid-based evacuation system was criticized as inaccessible and confusing due to the lack of electricity and internet connectivity in Gaza. Some evacuation instructions were vague or contradictory,[345][346] and Israel struck "safe" areas it had told people to evacuate to.[347][348][349]
Law experts said they had not seen significant changes in how Israel waged war, calling its warnings to civilians ineffective and saying it was unclear if anywhere in Gaza was safe.[350] Amnesty International said "US-made weapons facilitated the mass killings of extended families". Amnesty found no evidence of military targets at the sites of the strikes, or indication occupants were affiliated with Hamas, prompting it to request airstrikes be investigated as possible war crimes.[351] Decomposed babies were found in Al-Nasr Children's Hospital in north Gaza, two weeks after its forced evacuation.[352][353]
On 6 December Refaat Alareer, a prominent professor and writer in Gaza, was killed by an Israeli airstrike.[354] His poem, "If I Must Die" was widely circulated after his death.[355]
Advance into Central Gaza (December 2023 – February 2024)
In December, the IDF reported its troops had reached the centers of Khan Yunis, Jabalia, and Shuja'iyya.[356] Intensified bombing pushed Palestinian civilians south to Rafah.[357] On 7 December, Israel detained 150 men in the Gaza Strip, with dozens more detained on 10 December. According to Israel, the detentions followed a mass surrender of Hamas militants.[358][359] This account was disputed by several publications.[360][361][362] Amnesty International described the treatment of those detained on 7 December as a violation of international law.[363]
On 13 December, the IDF said that, since it designated a humanitarian zone for civilians in the Gaza Strip on 18 October 116 rockets had been fired from there toward Israel, including 38 falling inside Gaza.[364] The Pentagon announced on 9 December that the Biden administration had authorized the sale of around 14,000 rounds of tank ammunition to Israel without congressional authorization, using emergency powers.[365] On 29 December, it did so again with $148million worth of artillery shells and related items.[366]
On 15 December, the IDF announced it had killed three Israeli hostages by friendly fire. They "mistakenly identified three Israeli hostages as a threat" during operations in Shuja'iyya.[134][367][368] The same day, an IDF tank fired at the Convent of the Sisters of Mother Teresa, displacing the 54 disabled people sheltering there and leaving some without respirators that they needed to survive. Later that day, an IDF sniper killed two women sheltering in the compound. Pope Francis condemned the attack, calling it "terrorism."[333]
Withdrawal from Northern Gaza (January–February 2024)
Rocket attacks on Israeli cities by Hamas decreased during this period with attacks on New Year's Eve and 29 January 2024.[371][372] On 8 January, an Israeli tank fired at a MSF facility housing 100 aid workers and their families, killing a 5-year-old girl.[333] On 15 January, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the most intense fighting in the north of the Gaza Strip had ended, and a new phase of low-intensity fighting was about to begin.[373] On 13 January, an Israeli tank fired at a convoy of Paltel repair workers returning to Rafah from the Paltel central offices in Khan Yunis. Two were killed. The job they completed and the route they took were pre-approved by COGAT.[374]
By 18 January, the IDF stated that Hamas had begun to rebuild its armies in formerly occupied parts of North Gaza and that their fighting strength had been significantly restored. The IDF had previously said that Hamas control over North Gaza was "dismantled" without providing any evidence.[375] An Israeli airstrike hit a residential compound housing aid workers with the International Rescue Committee and Medical Aid for Palestinians in Al-Mawasi. Because of the destruction of the compound, six frontline medical workers had to leave their posts and IRC and MAP surgeons were forced to suspend their work at Nasser Hospital.[333]
On 22 January 24 IDF soldiers died in the deadliest day for the IDF since the invasion began. Of these, 21 died when Palestinian militants fired an RPG at a tank, causing adjacent buildings that soldiers were rigging to demolish to collapse prematurely.[376][377][378]
On 29 January, Israeli forces killed Hind Rajab and six of her family members when the car they were driving was struck by an Israeli tank and machine gun fire. The IDF later killed two rescue workers who attempted to retrieve Rajab from her family's car.[379] The Red Crescent released the audio from Rajab's phone call with rescue workers, causing international outrage over her death.[380] On 31 January, Israeli forces bombed the offices of the Belgian development agency Enabel, completely destroying the building, after Belgium announced earlier that day that it would not suspend funding for UNRWA.[333]
Preparations for the attack on Rafah (February–March 2024)
During February to early May 2024, Israeli preparations to invade Rafah became a dominant issue in Israeli officials' public rhetoric. On 12 February, Israel started a bombing campaign on Rafah.[381] On 5 February, Israeli gunboats shelled a clearly marked UNRWA convoy, forcing UNRWA to suspend its operations for almost 3 weeks, affecting 200,000 people.[333] On 15 February, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported that Egypt was building a refugee camp for over 100,000 people south of Rafah, surrounded by five-meter-high concrete walls.[382][383] Mohamed Abdel-Fadil Shousha, governor of North Sinai Governorate, denied these rumors in a statement published by Al Arabiya.[384] On 20 February 2 family members of MSF staff were killed when Israel shelled a clearly marked MSF shelter.[333]
On 29 February, over 100 Palestinians were killed and 750 wounded during the flour massacre when Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City. Some of the victims were run over by trucks as panic spread.[385] Survivors described it as an ambush, stating that Israeli forces opened fire as people approached the aid trucks, resulting in a rush away from the gunfire that added to the death toll.[386][387] On 1 March, the US announced they would begin an operation airdropping food aid into Gaza.[388] Some experts called the airdrops performative and said they would not alleviate the food situation.[389] During his State of the Union Address, Biden announced a new initiative for providing food and medications to Gaza by sea, setting up a temporary port on Gaza's coast to enable aid delivery.[390]
By 6 March, Israel had completed a new road in Gaza running from east to west. The IDF reported the road was an "active logistical route, constantly maintained". It was intended to be used for mobilization of troops and supplies, to connect and defend IDF positions on al-Rashid and Salah al-Din streets, and prevent people in the south Gaza Strip from returning to the north.[391] On 9 March, an Anera employee and his six-year-old son were killed along with several neighbors when their home was hit by an airstrike.[333]
Second raid on al-Shifa Hospital and withdrawal from southern Gaza (March–April 2024)
Israeli forces raided al-Shifa hospital again between 18 March and 1 April. The IDF clashed with Hamas in the area.[392] Israeli forces killed Faiq al-Mabhouh, who they said was head of the operations directorate of Hamas' internal security service. Hamas said al-Mabhouh was in charge of civil law enforcement and had been engaged in "purely civil and humanitarian activity,"[393] coordinating aid deliveries to north Gaza.[394][395] The IDF assaulted and detained Al-Jazeera correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul and over 80 others, including medical staff and journalists, and confiscated and destroyed media equipment.[396][397] Al-Ghoul was released the following day and could not verify the whereabouts of his colleagues.[398][399] The Committee to Protect Journalists said it was "deeply alarmed and outraged by reports of the assault of Ismail Al-Ghoul and other journalists".[399]
According to the IDF, senior Hamas leaders were killed during the hospital fighting.[400] Survivors of the events reported that workers in Gaza's civil government were receiving their salaries at the hospital before it was raided, and that claims of militants organizing on hospital grounds were not supported by evidence.[401] The IDF said it killed 200 people in and around the hospital. Time Magazine said it provided "no evidence that all were militants."[402] The Gaza media office reported that Israeli forces had killed 400 Palestinians around the hospital, and rendered the medical facility out of use, according to Reuters.[403] Photos of the hospital after Israeli withdrawal showed its "walls blown out and frame blackened" by fire.[404] Hundreds of bodies were found on hospital grounds, with Palestinian witnesses describing massacres.[405] According to a Forensic Architecture report, Israeli forces desecrated makeshift burial grounds within the hospital compound and buried Palestinians killed during the second invasion in mass graves using military bulldozers.[406]
On 10 March, a deputy Hamas military commander, Marwan Issa, was reportedly killed in an airstrike.[407] On 23 March, 19 Palestinians were killed by the IDF while waiting for humanitarian aid at the Kuwait roundabout in Gaza City.[408] On 25 March, the UN Security Council passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, to last for the remainder of Ramadan. The US abstained; all other delegates voted in favor.[409] IDF activities in the Gaza Strip remained unchanged following adoption of the resolution.[410] On 28 March, the IDF shot and killed two unarmed men in central Gaza, before burying them in sand with bulldozers.[411] The Council on American-Islamic Relations called for a UN investigation into the "heinous war crime."[412]
On 1 April, seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen, including British, Polish, Australian, and Irish nationals, were killed in an Israeli airstrike south of Deir al-Balah.[413][414][415] World Central Kitchen said their vehicles were clearly marked and their location known to Israel. World Central Kitchen, ANERA and Project HOPE suspended their operations in Gaza. 240 tons of aid from World Central Kitchen was not distributed due to its withdrawal.[414][416] On 4 April, Israel opened the Erez Crossing for the first time since 7 October after US pressure.[417]
On 7 April, Israel withdrew from the south Gaza Strip, with only one brigade remaining in the Netzarim Corridor in the north.[418] Palestinians displaced from that city began to return from the south of the Gaza Strip.[419] Israel planned to initiate its ground offensive in Rafah around mid-April, but postponed to consider its response to the Iranian strikes on Israel.[420] On 25 April, Israel intensified strikes on Rafah ahead of threatened invasion.[421][422] On 5 May, Hamas launched a rocket attack from Rafah towards Kerem Shalom, killing 3 Israeli soldiers.[423]
On 6 May, the IDF ordered civilians in eastern Rafah to evacuate to Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Yunis, affecting about 100,000 people.[424] Later that day, Hamas announced that it had accepted the terms of a ceasefire brokered by Egypt and Qatar.[425] The deal included a 6-week ceasefire and exchange of prisoners.[426] However, Israel rejected this deal.[427] Israel said that it found the terms unacceptable, but that it would continue to negotiate while the military operation on Rafah was ongoing to "exert military pressure on Hamas".[428][429]
Israel ordered a series of airstrikes on Rafah, while the Israeli war cabinet voted to invade Rafah.[430][431] Later that day, the IDF entered the outskirts of Rafah and approached the Rafah Crossing and Egyptian border.[430][432][433] On 7 May, the IDF seized control of the Gaza side of the Rafah Crossing bordering Egypt.[434][435]Haaretz reported that as talks continued, Israel committed to Egypt and the US that it would limit fighting to the Rafah Crossing and transfer control of the area to an American security company. However, the State Department and White House denied any knowledge of this commitment.[436] The previous week, the US had paused a shipment of bombs to Israel over concerns about the offensive.[437] On 11 May, the IDF ordered more residents to evacuate eastern and central Rafah.[438] By 15 May, an estimated 600,000 had fled Rafah and another 100,000 from the north, according to the United Nations.[439] On 24 May, the International Court of Justice ruled that "Israel must immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the Rafah Governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part."[176][440]
On 24 May, the United Nations said only 906 aid truckloads had reached Gaza since Israel's Rafah operation began.[441] On 26 May, Hamas fired a barrage of rockets towards Central Israel. Israel bombed the Tel al-Sultan displacement camp in Rafah in an area designated by Israel as a safe zone, killing at least 45 people. The IDF said the strike killed two senior Hamas officials.[442][443][444] The bombing provoked a skirmish between Egyptian and Israeli soldiers at the Gaza border in which one Egyptian soldier was killed.[445] Despite global outrage and calls from government officials to halt its Rafah offensive, less than 48 hours after the Tel al-Sultan attack, the Al-Mawasi refugee camp, another designated civilian evacuation zone, was bombed, killing at least 21 people, 13 of them women and girls.[442][446][447] The IDF denied involvement in the attack.[448] On 31 May, the United States announced a ceasefire framework for ending the war.[449]
On 13 July, at least 90 people were killed and 300 were injured in an Israeli strike on Al-Mawasi and 22 people were killed in an Israeli strike targeting people gathered to pray in the Al-Shati refugee camp.[462][463][464] On 15 July, Israeli air raids destroyed the UNRWA's Gaza headquarters.[465] Israeli forces destroyed the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, prompting calls for an investigation from the Turkish government.[466] On 31 July, Al Jazeera journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and his cameraman were killed in a targeted strike in the west of Gaza City. They were reporting on the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, which occurred earlier that day, from the area near Haniyeh's home in Gaza.[467]Rawhi Mushtaha and two other Hamas officials were killed in an Israeli airstrike.[468][469] On 1 August, Israeli strikes killed at least 15 in a shelter in Gaza City.[470][471] On 3 August, at least 17 Palestinians were killed in two Israeli airstrikes on a school turned shelter in Gaza City.[472][473] On 4 August, Israel bombed tents outside Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, killing 5 Palestinians,[474][475][476] and airstrikes targeting shelters in Gaza City killed at least 30.[477] Two days later, at least 80 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Al-Tabaeen school.[478] On 20 August, Israel struck the Mustafa Hafiz school in Gaza City, killing at least 12.[479][480] On 29 August, an Israeli airstrike on an Anera aid convoy en route to the Emirati Red Crescent Hospital killed four Palestinians.[333]
Second and third battles of Khan Yunis (22 July – 30 August)
On 22 July, the IDF began a second invasion of Khan Yunis.[481][482] Israel ordered the evacuation of the eastern part of Khan Yunis,[483]73 people were killed during the first day of the attack.[482][484][485] Footage from an Israeli drone surfaced showing the destruction of the Grand Mosque in Khan Yunis.[486] On 30 August, The IDF withdrew its 98th battalion from Khan Yunis and Deir el-Balah after its month-long operation, saying it killed over 250 Palestinian militants.[487]
Polio vaccination campaign
On 16 August, a 10-month-old contracted Gaza's first case of polio in 25 years.[488] Polio vaccinations began on 31 August at Nasser Hospital.[489][490] On 4 September, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that vaccinations would continue at "four fixed sites in central Gaza for three more days".[491] On 6 September, the Gaza Health Ministry said that Israel was hindering polio vaccinations by refusing to coordinate the entry of medical teams into the southern Gaza Strip.[492] On 9 September, UN staff working with the polio vaccination campaign were detained by Israeli soldiers in northern Gaza, who held them at gunpoint and damaged UN vehicles with bulldozers.[493] On 16 September, Lazzarini said that first phase of polio vaccination was a success and it reached 90% of the children.[494] On 12 October, the WHO was able to begin its vaccination campaign in Central Gaza despite strikes on al-Aqsa Hospital.[495][496][497] Strikes on the Mufti school in Nuseirat also delayed the distribution of polio vaccines.[498] On 17 October, the vaccination campaign in central Gaza was completed.[499] On 23 October, vaccinations in northern Gaza were postponed due to Israeli bombardment, mass displacement and lack of access.[500] On 2 November, the WHO began its vaccination campaign in northern Gaza. An Israeli quadcopter fired on the Sheikh Radwan clinic, injuring six people. The IDF denied responsibility for the attack.[501][502] On 6 November, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that polio vaccination campaign in northern Gaza was completed a day prior. He said that up to 10,000 children could not be reached for receiving a second dose and added that "efforts will continue to reach more children through regular health services".[503]
Ground operation in Rafah
On 1 September, Israel bombed a school sheltering displaced Palestinians, killing 11 people.[504] The IDF claimed to have killed 200 militants and discovered dozens of weapons in Tel al-Sultan in one week in its operation in Rafah.[505] On 10 September, Israeli missile strikes on a tent encampment in Al-Mawasi killed 19 to 40 people.[506][507][508] On 11 September, an Israeli airstrike on a family home in eastern Khan Yunis killed at least 13 Palestinians.[509] An IAF UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Rafah while trying to evacuate a critically injured combat engineer, killing two Israeli soldiers and injuring seven others.[510]
Attacks in central Gaza
An Israeli airstrike on a UNRWA-run school-turned-shelter in Nuseirat refugee camp killed at least 18 people.[511][38][512] In September, an Israeli strike on a home in Nuseirat refugee camp killed 10 Palestinians.[513][514] An Israeli air strike on Zeitoun school in Gaza City killed at least 21 Palestinians.[515][516][517] Israel returned 88 bodies to Gaza in a container truck, providing no personal or location information where the victims had been killed. Nasser Hospital health officials refused to bury the bodies until they were identified.[518] An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Jabalia killed at least 15 Palestinians.[519][520] Israeli forces bombed two houses on the Nuseirat camp, killing at least 13 people.[521][522]
In October, Israeli airstrikes on Shuhada al-Aqsa mosque in Deir el-Balah and a school in central Gaza killed at least 26 Palestinians and injured over 93.[523][524][525] Palestinian journalist Hassan Hamad was killed in an airstrike on his home after receiving threats from an Israeli officer over WhatsApp.[526] Video of a fire at a tent camp outside Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital showed a person burned alive in the flames, and at least four others were killed.[498] An Israeli air strike on a residential building in the Maghazi refugee camp killed at least 10.[527][528] Israeli tank shelling on a school which serves as shelter for displaced people in Nuseirat killed at least 22 people and injured 80 others.[529][530] An Israeli strike on Rufaida school which was serving as a shelter for displaced people in Deir el-Balah killed at least 28 people and injured 54 others.[531][532][533]Oxfam condemned the killing of four engineers working with one of its partners, Coastal Municipalities Water Union near Khuzaa by an Israeli airstrike, despite prior coordination of their activities with Israeli authorities.[534] Israeli missile strikes on Shuhadaa al-Nuseirat school serving as a shelter for displaced families in Nuseirat refugee camp killed at least 18 Palestinians and injured at least 52 others.[535][536][537]
In November, Israeli bombardment in Deir Al-Balah, the Nuseirat refugee camp and Al-Zawayda killed 47 Palestinians and injured dozens of people.[538] An Israeli strike on the entrance of a school serving as shelter for displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp killed at least 14 Palestinians.[539] An Israeli strike on a car in Khan Yunis killed 10 people.[539] An Israeli strike on a school serving as shelter for displaced people in the Al-Shati refugee camp killed 12 people.[540][541] An Israeli drone strike on a small cafe in Israeli designated humanitarian zone in al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis killed 11 people and injured dozens of people.[542][543] Israeli air strikes killed at least 20 Palestinians in Nuseirat refugee camp.[544] An Israeli strike on a group of Palestinians waiting for aid killed 12 people and injured several others.[545] An Israeli airstrike on Abu Assi School used for housing displaced families in Al-Shati refugee camp killed at least 10 people and wounded at least 20 others.[546][547]
In December, an Israeli air strike targeted a home in Nuseirat refugee camp that was evacuated before the strike, killing at least 26 Palestinians and injuring over 60 others in nearby houses.[548][549][550] An Israeli air strike on a residential home in Bureij refugee camp killed at least 11 people.[551] Israeli strikes hit a post office serving as shelter for displaced Palestinians and nearby homes in a residential area in Nuseirat refugee camp killing 36 people and injuring approximately 50 others.[552][553][554] An Israeli airstrike in the vicinity of the municipality building in Deir al-Balah killed at least 10 Palestinians and wounded several others.[555][556][557]
On 8 October, the IDF began to encircle Jabalia camp and said it had killed about 20 Palestinian militants in air strikes and street battles. Casualties also included at least seven Palestinian civilians.[558][559] On 10 October, the IDF issued evacuation orders for three hospitals in northern Gaza, threatening that they would meet "the same fate as al-Shifa hospital, with destruction, killing and arrest."[558] After an initial 14 October strike on the Alsayed family home in Jabalia, an American member of the family passed the home's coordinates to the Israeli military through the White House to coordinate an ambulance dispatch. However, the Alsayed family home was bombed again, killing several members of the family and the doctor sent to aid them.[560] The IDF said that an Israeli airstrike on a Hamas base in Jabaliya killed at least 12 Hamas and PIJ commanders.[561] The IDF said that it killed 20 Hamas militants in the Jabalia refugee camp in the past 24 hours.[562] The IDF said that its air force killed dozens of militants in Jabalia on 17 October.[563] On 28 October, the IDF said that it continued air and ground operations in Jabalia, killing dozens of fighters.[564]
In October, Israeli strikes on Jabalia killed at least 152 people. Strikes included the bombardment of Jabalia refugee camp on 6 October,[565] Al-Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital on 9 October,[566] an evacuation center in the western part of Jabalia on 10 October,[567] a multistory building on 11 October,[568][569] a food distribution center on 14 October,[570] the al-Faluja area on 15 October,[571] the UNRWA-run Abu Hussein school on 17 October,[572][573][574] and houses in the vicinity of Nassar Junction on 18 October.[575][576][577]
Strikes on Jabalia in November killed at least an additional 95 people. Strikes included the bombardment of a house on 7 November,[578] another house on Old Gaza Street on 10 November,[579][580][581][582] a strike on another home on 13 November,[583] shelling on 14 November,[584] and a strike in Jabalia al-Balad on 20 November.[585][586]
On 10 December, the IDF said that it killed 10 Hamas operatives who were involved in the killing of three Israeli soldiers and injuring of 12 others in Jabalia one day prior in an air strike.[587] On 30 December, the IDF said that it killed dozens of militants in Jabalia.[588]
On 16 October, IDF ground forces killed Yahya Sinwar in a shootout in Tal as-Sultan.[589] The conscript soldiers who participated in the shootout were initially unaware that one of the militants they had killed was Sinwar, and he was identified the following day by his dental records.[590] Sinwar's death while participating in ground battles alongside a small group of militants ran counter to the Israeli defense establishment's assumptions that he would be hiding underground, surrounded by hostages. There were no hostages in Sinwar's vicinity at the time of his death,[591] and no civilian casualties were reported.[592] Joe Biden urged Israel to end the war citing victory as a result of Sinwar's death.[593]
On 13 October, senior IDF officials told Haaretz that the government was not seeking to revive hostage talks and that political leadership was pushing for the annexation of parts of the Gaza Strip.[594] In the later weeks of October, Israel's siege on North Gaza intensified and daily aid shipments dropped significantly. Eyewitnesses reported the shelling of hospitals, razing of shelters, and abductions of men and boys by the Israeli military, leading to speculation that Israel had decided to implement a plan by a group of retired generals to turn the northern Strip into a closed military zone and declare all who refuse to leave as combatants.[595] On 19 October, Israel bombed al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia and Kamal Adwan and the Indonesian hospitals in Beit Lahiya.[596] The IDF continued its encirclement of Jabalia by sending tanks to Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun and issuing evacuation orders to residents. Israeli Colonel Ehsan Daxa was killed on 20 October during fighting in Jabalia when his tank squadron was hit with explosive devices.[597] Civilian sources also told Mondoweiss that on 20 October, Israel detained over 700 people at the UN-run Abu Hussein school in Jabalia camp. The army then forced the detainees to huddle together in a ditch and made each person stand in front of a camera that scanned their faces, revealing detailed personal information about them. Suspected members or relatives of members were taken to an unknown location and may have been executed.[598] On 24 October, an IDF attack destroyed at least 10 residential buildings in the al-Hawja residential area inside the Jabalia refugee camp. According to an assessment by Gaza Civil Defense, 150 people were killed or injured.[599] Gaza's civil defense ministry said that since the start of Israel's siege of north Gaza, at least 770 people had been killed there in total.[600] On 25 October, Gaza Civil Defense said that an Israeli drone strike on a group of Palestinians receiving aid near Shati refugee camp killed 12 people.[601] The WHO said it had lost contact with Kamal Adwan hospital that night, and UN human rights chief Volker Türk called recent developments in North Gaza the "darkest moment" in the war so far. In his statement, Türk invoked the international obligation to prevent genocide, marking a departure from UN hesitancy to use that word regarding the war.[602] Food aid to Gaza reached a new low in October at an average of 30 trucks per day, or less than 6% of the daily pre-war average.[603] Residents of northern Gaza have said no aid has reached its cities since 5 October.[604]
Israeli strikes on Beit Lahia in October killed at least 270 people. Israel struck several homes and a multistory building on 20 October,[605][606][607] a residential area on 26 October,[608] a building housing displaced people on 27 October,[609] a residential building on 29 October where over 100 people were killed,[610][611][612] and another residential area the same day,[613][614] as well as a market on 30 October.[615]
An Israeli airstrike on the UN-run Asmaa school sheltering displaced families in Al-Shati refugee camp killed at least 11 people and injured several others.[616][617][618] On 1 November, two Israeli strikes on buildings in northern Gaza killed 84 Palestinians.[619] The UN warned that the situation had become "apocalyptic" and that "The entire Palestinian population in North Gaza is at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence".[620] On 2 November, UNICEF said that over 50 children were killed in Israeli strikes in Jabalia in the past two days.[621] On 5 November, Israeli Brigadier General Itzik Cohen told reporters that "there is no intention of allowing the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return" and that no food aid had entered northern Gaza because there were "no more civilians left".[604] On 7 November, the IDF said that it killed an estimated 50 militants in Jabalia and Beit Lahia and killed a number of militants in Rafah one day prior.[622] On 9 November, the IDF said that its 162nd Division killed dozens of militants in Jabalia in the past day.[623] On 12 November, aid in Gaza fell to its lowest level in 11 months despite a US ultimatum that it be restored.[624]
In November, Israeli strikes on Beit Lahia killed at least 248 people. Strikes hit a home on 4 November,[625] a building serving as a shelter on 6 November,[626] a multi-story building on 17 November,[627][628][629] a home near Kamal Adwan Hospital on 18 November,[630] a residential neighborhood near Kamal Adwan on 20 November,[631][632][633] and another residential building on 29 November.[634][635] Hamas said an additional 112 people were killed in Israeli attacks on 22 November.[636]
Attacks on Gaza City in November killed at least 58 people. Targets included the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood on 20 November,[637] al-Tabin school on 27 November,[638][639][640] a home in the Abu Iskandar neighborhood on 29 November,[641][642] and Al-Hurreya School, which served as a shelter for displaced people, on 26 November.[643][644][645]
On 16 November, PIJ said it destroyed an Israeli army vehicle in Beit Lahia.[627] On 23 November, Hamas said an Israeli hostage had been killed in northern Gaza in an area where Israel was operating. On 24 November, Israel issued a new wave of evacuation orders, triggering another round of displacements in Jabalia.[646] UNRWA said that Israel had rejected nine attempts to deliver aid to north Gaza in the month of November and obstructed an additional 82 attempts; they added that the survival conditions were diminishing for the 60,000 to 70,000 civilians remaining in north Gaza.[647] On 30 November, more than 40 people were killed in an Israeli air raid on the Tel al-Zataar area of Jabalia which caused the collapse of a six-story building and trapped several others under the rubble.[648][649][650] Al-Aqsa TV journalist Mamdouh Qanita was killed by an Israeli quadcopter in Gaza City.[651] On 1 December, an Israeli strike on a home in Beit Lahia killed 25 people.[652][653] Mahmoud Almadhoun, a chef who founded the Gaza Soup Kitchen, was targeted and killed by an Israeli quadcopter near Kamal Adwan hospital.[654] On 5 December Israeli Army Radio announced that 18,000 Palestinians were evacuated from Beit Lahia and that soldiers killed approximately 20 militants during fighting on the previous day.[655]
Attacks on northern Gaza in December killed at least 211 people, excluding the attacks on Kamal Adwan hospital. Targets included residential buildings in Beit Lahia on 3, 5, 11 and 17 December,[656][657][658][659][660][661][662] four multi-story buildings in Sheikh Radwan on 4 December,[663][664][665] a building sheltering displaced people and another multistory building in Beit Hanoun on 10 December,[666][667] The Khalil Oweida school on 15 December,[668][669][670] homes in Jabalia on 18 and 20 December,[671][672][673][674] a home in Sheikh Radwan on 27 December[675][676] and a home in Beit Hanoun on 28 December.[677]
On 1 January, an Israeli strike hit a house sheltering displaced people in Jabalia, killing at least 15 people and injuring over 20 others.[678][679]
Attacks on Kamal Adwan Hospital
On 6 December, Israeli shelling around the Kamal Adwan Hospital killed at least 33 people and dozens were injured.[680][681] On 13 December, Israeli tank fire killed Dr. Sayeed Joudeh, the last orthopedic surgeon in northern Gaza.[682] On 26 December, an Israeli air strike hit a building in the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital, killing about 50 people, including five staff.[683] On 27 December, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital said that Israel had razed parts of the facility after forcibly evacuating and detaining some of the hospital staff.[684] The World Health Organization announced that Kamal Adwan hospital had been put out of service by Israeli attacks and the hospital's director, Hussam Abu Safiya, had been abducted. The IDF raided the hospital's courtyard with tanks and bulldozers and forced patients to evacuate to the Indonesian Hospital, which had already been destroyed, by cutting off their oxygen.[685] The IDF claimed to have killed over 20 militants during its raid.[679][686]
After several incidents of aid convoys at the occupied Kerem Shalom crossing being looted by armed gangs, an internal UN memo concluded that gangs in Israeli occupied areas of Gaza "may be benefiting from a passive if not active benevolence" or "protection" from the IDF. WHO teams were shot at by Israeli forces during several attempts to clear an alternative route for aid convoys, leading to allegations that the IDF was deliberately steering convoys into the path of the looters.[687]
On 16 November, 98 out of 109 food trucks carrying UN aid from Kerem Shalom crossing were looted in Israeli-controlled areas of the Gaza strip.[687][688][689] An Israeli strike on a home in Bureij refugee camp killed at least 10 Palestinians including a child and injured several others including children.[690][691][629] On 30 November, a strike on a World Central Kitchen vehicle transporting supplies along Salah al-Din Road near Khan Yunis killed three aid workers.[692][693][694] Israel alleged that one of the workers was affiliated with Hamas, a claim WCK denied.[695] World Central Kitchen announced it would suspend its operations in response to the killing of its aid workers.[696] An Israeli airstrike on a group of Palestinians waiting for receiving food from an aid convoy in Khan Yunis killed at least 12 Palestinians and injured several others.[697] On 1 December, the UN suspended its aid shipments to Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing, blaming Israel for failing to "ensure safe conditions for delivering relief supplies."[698] On 12 December, two Israeli strikes on an aid convoy in southern Gaza killed 13 people and wounded at least 30 people, including several of them seriously.[699][700][701]
On 4 December, two consecutive Israeli strikes in Israeli designated humanitarian safe zone of al-Mawasi killed at least 21 Palestinians, injured at least 28 others.[702][703][704] On 9 December, an Israeli strike hit people who lined up for buying flour in Rafah, killing 10 people.[705] An Israeli strike on UNRWA-run Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz school sheltering displaced people in Khan Yunis, killed at least 20 people and injured many others.[706][670][707] On 15 December, Al Jazeera photojournalist Ahmad Al-Louh was killed in a strike on an office of Gaza's Civil Defense while covering their attempts to rescue a family that had been wounded in an earlier bombing.[708] On 16 December, an Israeli strike in Shuja'iyya killed 10 people.[158][709] On 17 December, an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Daraj neighbourhood, east of Gaza City killed at least 10 people.[710][711] On 25 December, an Israeli strike on a home in the Maen area of southern Khan Younis killed at least 10 people and injured several others.[712]
Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and the Houthi movement in Yemen have launched limited attacks against Israel, raising fears of a wider regional military conflict. Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria have also traded attacks with the US and IDF.[713] Israel has bombed targets in and around Damascus throughout the war,[714][715][716] with an attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus on 1 April leading to a direct Iranian response.[717] Iran launched a series of retaliatory airstrikes on Israel.[717][718] Over 100 Palestinians have been killed in confrontations with Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank since 7 October. The IDF has condemned some acts of Israeli settler violence.[719][720]
Amnesty International released a report[721] on 5 February 2024 stating that Israel is carrying out unlawful killings in the West Bank and displaying "a chilling disregard for Palestinian lives" and that Israeli forces are carrying out numerous illegal acts of violence that constitute clear violations of international law.[722][723]
Even before the war, 2023 was the deadliest year for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 20 years. Violence in the West Bank has increased since the war began with more than 607 Palestinians and over 25 Israelis killed.[724][725] At the same time, Israeli settler violence further increased to around 1,270 attacks, against 856 for all of 2022.[726] About 1,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced by settlers since 7 October and almost half of clashes have included "Israeli forces accompanying or actively supporting Israeli settlers while carrying out the attacks" according to a U.N. report.[727] According to the West Bank Protection Consortium, since the 7 October attacks six Palestinian communities have been abandoned due to the violence.[728]
By 10 October, confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli forces had left 15 Palestinians dead, including two in East Jerusalem.[729] On 11 October, Israeli settlers attacked the village of Qusra, killing four Palestinians. A 16-year-old child was fatally shot by the IDF in Bani Na'im, while another person was shot dead by the IDF near Bethlehem.[730] On 12 October, two Palestinians were killed after Israeli settlers interrupted a funeral procession for Palestinians killed in prior settler attacks and opened fire.[731][732][733]
On 18 October, protests broke out over the al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion, with clashes reported in Ramallah.[734] In Jenin, a 12-year-old girl was shot dead by crossfire from Palestinian Authority security forces, and another youth was injured by PA forces in Tubas. One Palestinian was killed in confrontations with Israeli forces in Nabi Salih, and 30 others were injured across the West Bank.[735] On 19 October, more than 60 Hamas members were arrested and 12 people were killed in overnight Israeli raids across the West Bank. Those arrested included the movement's spokesperson in the West Bank, Hassan Yousef.[736]
On 22 October, Israel struck the al-Ansar Mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, saying that it had killed several "terror operatives" from Hamas and Islamic Jihad who were planning attacks inside without providing evidence.[737] Within a few days Ayser Mohammad Al-Amer, a senior commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad was killed during a clash with IDF in the Jenin refugee camp.[738] On 31 October, the IDF engaged Hamas around Shuweika.[739]
On 20 April 14 Palestinians were killed in clashes during an Israeli raid in the West Bank. Palestinian sources identified one of the victims as a militant,[740] while Israel said that 14 gunmen were killed.[741]
In July 2024, Israeli authorities approved the seizure of 12.7 square kilometers of land in the occupied West Bank. According to Peace Now, this was the largest single appropriation approved since the 1993 Oslo accords."[742] On 4 July, Israeli authorities approved plans for almost 5,300 new houses in occupied West Bank.[743]
On 7 August, Wafa reported that Israeli forces destroyed the regional headquarters of Fatah in the Balata Camp.[744][745]
On 14 August, the Israeli government approved new settlements in the occupied West Bank.[746][747]
On 28 August, Israel launched the largest military operation into the northern West Bank in more than 20 years. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said that the operation was a "full-fledged war".[748] Israeli forces carried out simultaneous operations in Jenin, Tubas, Nablus, Ramallah and Tulkarem. In Jenin, Israeli forces devastated civilian infrastructure with anti-tank munitions and armored bulldozers, set fire to the Jenin farmers' market, and carried out mass arrests of men and boys. Civilians were trapped in their homes and denied access to food, water and medicine. Members of the press were denied access to the city while the operation was ongoing. Eyewitnesses also reported the use of Palestinian detainees as human shields and the use of attack dogs against civilian families. The army blocked access to hospitals and ambulances.[749] On 29 August, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres demanded a halt to the operations.[750] EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the operations "must not constitute the premises of a war extension from Gaza, including full-scale destruction."[751] On 3 September, Israeli media reported that the IDF had classified the West Bank as a "combat zone" and now viewed it as the second most important front in the war.[752][753] Yoav Gallant said that Israel was "mowing the lawn" with its West Bank operations, but that it would eventually need to "pull out the roots".[754] On 6 September, Turkish-American protestor Ayşenur Eygi was killed by an Israeli sniper at a demonstration near Nablus.[755]
On 13 November, Smotrich said that with Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 United States presidential election, Israel was "a step away" from "sovereignty in Judea and Samaria." Later comments by Mike Huckabee, chosen by Trump as the next ambassador to Israel, corroborated the possibility of an Israeli annexation of the West Bank.[758]
Israeli settlements
Israeli settlers have taken advantage of the ongoing war to expand settlement activity supported by a far-right Israeli government,[759][726][760] including land seizure and large scale settlement plans.[761] In 2024, Israeli land seizures exceeded the combined total of the previous 20 years.[762]
Attacks in Israel
During the war, civilians in Israel have been subjected to intermittent killings and other violence. For example, on 30 November, two Palestinian gunmen killed three and wounded eleven Israeli civilians at a bus stop on the Givat Shaul Interchange in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility.[763] On 16 February 2024, a Palestinian gunman shot and killed two Israeli civilians and injured four others in Kiryat Malakhi, Israel. The shooter was killed by an off-duty IDF reservist at the scene.[764] On 12 April a 14-year-old Israeli shepherd was killed and on 16 April two Palestinians were killed by Israeli settlers in Aqraba.[765] On 13 May, at the Tarqumiya checkpoint, a convoy of trucks carrying food supplies to Gaza was attacked by Israeli settlers, who damaged the trucks and threw supplies on the ground.[766]
Israeli prisons and detention camps
Israel has increased its administrative detention of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, as well as Palestinian citizens of Israel, since the start of the war. Administrative detention was already at a 20-year high before October 2023.[767] More than 11,000 Palestinians are held in Israeli jails, not counting detainees taken from Gaza during the war.[768] At least 60 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention since 7 October.[769]
In December 2023, a military base at Sde Teiman in the Negev Desert was converted to a detention camp by the IDF. Whistleblowers and detainees reported beatings and torture of Palestinian detainees at the camp, as well as amputations of limbs due to injuries sustained from handcuffing, medical neglect, arbitrary punishment and sexual abuse. Prisoners have been coerced to make confessions that they are members of Hamas.[770][771][772] After conditions in the camp came to light in May 2024, the Supreme Court of Israel held a hearing and the IDF began transferring 1,200 of the prisoners to Ofer Prison.[773] Detainees have reported severe instances of violence during transfers between prisons.[769][774]
Several Palestinian healthcare workers have been abducted from Gaza hospitals during sieges by Israeli forces.[774] On 5 December, Israeli forces abducted the adult men present at Al-Awda hospital and took them to Sde Teiman camp. Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh was detained and later died in Israeli custody.[775] In March, Israeli forces abducted Khaled Alser, lead author of the first Lancet paper on trauma among Gazan ER patients and doctors, from Nasser Hospital. As of 31 August, he remains in detention and his whereabouts are unknown.[776]
Al-Araby TV correspondent Mohammed Arab was abducted from the Gaza strip in March 2024 and transferred to Ofer prison in July. After reports of his treatment were leaked to al-Araby, he was beaten, threatened and tortured. According to Arab's testimony, prison guards used dogs and fire extinguishers to enact sexual violence on other prisoners.[768]
In July 2024, military police raided Sde Teiman to arrest ten soldiers "suspected of the serious sexual abuse" of a Palestinian detainee. Itamar Ben-Gvir and other members of the Otzma Yehudit party condemned the arrests.[770] Supporters of the arrested soldiers including Ben Gvir, Amihai Eliyahu, Zvi Sukkot, and Nissim Vaturi stormed Sde Teiman that night in protest. Hours later, protestors broke into Beit Lid where the soldiers were being held.[777]
On 7 October 2024, American journalist Jeremy Loffredo and three other international and Israeli journalists were detained at a checkpoint in the West Bank on suspicion of "assisting an enemy in war" for their reporting on the October 2024 Iranian strikes against Israel. The journalists' cameras and phones were confiscated. Loffredo was released after four days in detention, and barred from leaving the country until 20 October.[778]
A series of border clashes with Hezbollah along the Israel–Lebanon border began shortly after the 7 October attack. In 2024, Israel escalated its assault on Lebanon, carrying out explosive device attacks, assassinations of Hezbollah and Hamas leaders, and expanding its bombing campaign. On 1 October, Israel began a ground invasion of Lebanon. More than 2,500 people have been killed and 20% of Lebanon's population has been displaced.[779]
Clashes
On 8 October, Hezbollah launched an artillery attack on Israeli positions in Shebaa Farms; this was met with immediate retaliation.[780][781] Skirmishes have occurred every day since, spilling over to the occupied Golan Heights.[782][119] more than a million people in Lebanon and over 96,000 more in Israel have been displaced.[783][784][779] On 13 October, Reuters journalist Issam Abdullah was killed by Israeli tank fire while reporting on the border skirmishes.[785] The inability of Israelis to return to settlements and homes in the north of the country led to Antony Blinken stating that Israel had effectively "lost sovereignty in the northern quadrant of its country".[786] On 27 July 2024, the Majdal Shams attack occurred, killing 12 children in the Golan Heights area.[787][788] The attack, which Israel and the US said was carried out by Hezbollah, marked an escalation in hostilities and opened discussion about a broader war with Lebanon. Hezbollah denied responsibility for the attack.[789]
Escalation
While the Biden administration publicly urged Israel to reach a negotiated solution with Hezbollah, senior white house officials including Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk privately assured Israel that the US backed its decision to escalate militarily.[790] On 17 September 2024, at least 12 people were killed and thousands of others including Hezbollah members and civilians were wounded across Lebanon and Syria following multiple explosions blamed on pagers used by Hezbollah to prevent their members being targeted by mobile phone signals. Among those reported injured was the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani.[791][792][793] On 18 September 2024, a second series of explosions involving Hezbollah communication devices occurred across Lebanon.[794] On 20 September, Israel launched an airstrike in Dahieh, Beirut targeting Hezbollah's operations commander Ibrahim Aqil. At least 45 people were killed[795] including Aqil, senior Hezbollah commander Ahmed Mahmoud Wahabi.[796][797][798] Between 19 and 22 September, Hezbollah launched multiple rocket attacks against Israel causing injuries and damage.[799][800] Hezbollah also said that it targeted Israeli airbases, intelligence bases and a tank.[801] On 23 September, Israel conducted over 1,600 strikes in its deadliest attack on Lebanon since 2006,[802] killing at least 558 people and injuring over 1,835.[803][804][805] Hezbollah launched over 300 rockets at Israel on the same day.[806][807] On 26 September, an Israeli strike on a building in Younine killed at least 20 people.[808][809]
On 27 September, the IDF struck Hezbollah's central headquarters in Beirut, targeting Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.[810] Al-Manar reported that four buildings collapsed in the attack. At least six people including Nasrallah died and at least 100 were injured.[811][812] On 28 September, the IDF struck civil defense centres and a medical clinic in Taybeh and Deir Siriane killing 11 people.[813] On 29 September, an Israeli air strike on a home in Dahr-al-Ain killed at least 11 people.[814][815] The Lebanese National News Agency reported that at least 17 members of a family were killed in an Israeli air strike in Zboud.[816] An Israeli strike in Ain El Delb killed 45 people.[817][818] Another strike in Bekaa killed 12 people.[817]
On 1 October, the IDF confirmed that it was conducting a "limited, localized" ground operation into southern Lebanon.[819] An Israeli strike on a house in Al-Dawoudiya killed at least 10 people and injured five others.[820] On 2 October, Israeli forces were ambushed by Hezbollah fighters in Odaisseh and forced to retreat while attempting to dismantle militant infrastructure. Six soldiers from the Egoz Unit were killed and several others were injured, including five seriously. Two soldiers of the Golani Brigade were killed. The IDF said that 20 Hezbollah militants were killed during the clash.[821][822] An Israeli air strike destroyed three houses in the Bekaa Valley killing 11 people.[823] On 3 October, an Israeli strike on the municipality building in Bint Jbeil killed 15 people.[824] On 7 October, two Israeli airstrikes in towns south of Beirut killed at least 12 people.[825] Israeli warplanes struck a fire station affiliated with the Islamic Health Authority in Baraachit, killing ten people.[826][827] On 10 October, an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut killed at least 22 people and injured 117 others. Israel said it was targeting Wafic Safa, but Safa reportedly survived.[828][829] On 12 October, four Israeli soldiers were killed and 61 were wounded in a drone strike on an army base near Binyamina.[830] On 14 October, an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in Aitou in northern Lebanon killed at least 21 people.[831][832][833] On 15 October, the UNHCR said that over 25% of Lebanon was under evacuation orders of Israel.[834] Israeli air strikes in Qana killed 15 people.[835] On 16 October, an Israeli airstrike on the municipal building of Nabatieh killed at least 16 people, including the town's mayor Ahmad Kahil and injured 52 others.[836][837] Israeli forces also detonated explosives throughout the town of Muhajbib, home to the tomb of the prophet Benjamin, destroying nearly all of it. Videos surfaced of soldiers laughing and celebrating as they watched the destruction from a distance.[838][839] On 19 October, a drone struck Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Caesarea. Netanyahu was not in the residence at the time and no casualties were reported.[840] Hezbollah later claimed responsibility for the attack.[841] On 22 October, an Israeli airstrike on a house in Teffahta killed 19 people.[842] An Israeli airstrike near the Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut killed at least 18 people, and injured at least 60 others.[843][844][845] On 23 October, the IDF said that it killed three Hezbollah sector commanders and 70 other Hezbollah militants.[846] Air attacks on Dahieh resumed in what was called one of the worst nights of bombing in the neighborhood to date. Six buildings, including the offices of Al Mayadeen, were destroyed in seventeen raids.[779] On 24 October, the IAF attacked over 160 targets in Lebanon.[847] On 27 October, the IDF claimed to have killed 70 Hezbollah fighters.[848] On 29 October, nine people were killed in an Israeli airstrike southeast of Sidon.[849][850] Another airstrike in Sarafand killed 10 people.[851][852] On 30 October the IAF hit more than 100 targets in Lebanon.[853] Israeli airstrikes in Sohmor killed 11 people.[854] Israeli strikes killed 19 people in two towns in Baalbek District.[855][856] On 1 November, an Israeli airstrike on a home in Amhaz killed at least 12.[857][858] On 5 November, an Israeli strike on a residential building in Barja killed at least 30 people and injured several others.[859] On 7 November, the IAF said that it struck about 20 sites in the Bekaa Valley and north of the Litani River killing approximately 60 Hezbollah operatives one day prior.[860][861] On 10 November, an Israeli strike on a civil defense centre affiliated to the Islamic Mission Scouts Association in Ras al-Ain, Lebanon killed 15 people and injured two others.[862][863] An Israeli strike on a home in Almat, Jbeil district killed 23 people and wounded six others.[864] On 11 November, an Israeli airstrike on a building in Ain Yaaqoub killed at least 14 people, injured 15 others and trapped some people under the rubble.[865] On 12 November, an Israeli air strike in Joun killed 15 people and wounded 12 others.[866] On 14 November, an Israeli airstrike on a civil defense center in Duris, Lebanon killed at least 15 people.[867][868][869] On 23 November, an Israeli airstrike on a building in Basta area of Beirut Central District targeting Hezbollah official Muhammad Haydar killed at least 29 people and injured 67 others.[870][871][872] The target was reportedly not present in the building.[873] On 26 November, Israel approved a ceasefire with Hezbollah.[874] On 27 November, the IDF estimated that it killed several dozens of Hezbollah operatives in its strikes on a Radwan Force base in the Bekaa Valley in the night leading up to the truce.[875] The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect at 4:00a.m. UTC+02:00.[876] On 2 December, Hezbollah launched two mortars towards Shebaa Farms, claiming that it was responding defensively to repeated ceasefire violations by the IDF.[877] In response, the IDF struck dozens of Hezbollah members and rocket launchers, including the one used in the mortar attack.[878] Six people were killed in Haris and four others in Talloussah.[879][880]
Houthi attacks on commercial ships in the Bab-el-Mandeb strait
Houthi militants in Yemen have launched strikes against Israel and commercial ships in the Red Sea.[881][882][883] On 19 October 2023, the United States Navy destroyer USS Carney shot down several missiles that were traveling north over the Red Sea towards Israel.[884] On 31 October, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said that the group had launched ballistic missiles and drones towards Israel, and that they would continue to do so "to help the Palestinians to victory."[12] On 19 November, the Galaxy Leader, a cargo ship chartered by a Japanese logistics company with 25 individuals on board, was hijacked by the Houthis using a Mil Mi-17 helicopter.[885]
On 3 December, the Houthis said that they had attacked two ships, the Unity Explorer and Number 9 in order "to prevent Israeli ships from navigating the Red Sea".[886][887] Any ship destined for Israel, according to the group, was a "legitimate target". Saree announced in a post on X that the "horrific massacres" against the Palestinians in Gaza was the reason for this decision and that they will not stop until the Gaza Strip is supplied with food and medicine. Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi called this development a "global issue" and that Israel is "giving the world some time to organize in order to prevent this" otherwise, the country would "act in order to remove this naval siege".[888]
On 19 July, a Houthi drone strike killed one person and wounded 10 near the US embassy in Tel Aviv.[889] On 20 July Israeli planes struck military facilities and oil depots at the port of Hodeidah in response, killing at least 6 people and wounding at least 83 people.[890] On 29 September, the Israeli Air Force struck power plants and port facilities in al-Hudaydah and Ras Issa killing at least six people and injuring 57 others.[891][892][893] The Ministry of Information claimed that the group had emptied the facilities used to store fuel prior to the attack.[894] On 19 December, 14 Israeli warplanes dropped dozens of munitions on five locations in Yemen in two waves of airstrikes. The first wave saw four strikes hit Hudaydah Port, two hit the Ras Isa oil terminal,[895] and other strikes hit the Port of Salif. The second wave targeted two power stations north and south of Sanaa.[896][897] The IDF said that the strikes hit targets "used by Houthi forces for their military operations."[898] Houthi-affiliated media outlet Al Masirah reported that Israeli attacks killed at least nine civilians and wounded three others.[895][899] On 26 December, 25 IAF jets carried out airstrikes in Yemen against Houthi targets, hitting the Sanaa International Airport, where an air traffic control tower, the departure lounge and runway were damaged; the Hezyaz power station near Sanaa; as well as infrastucture in Al Hudaydah, As-Salif, and Ras Qantib ports, including a power plant. At least six people were killed and at least 40 others were wounded in the attacks according to the Houthis, with Director-General of the World Health OrganizationTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was visiting Yemen to negotiate the release of UN staff members as well as employees of diplomatic missions and NGO workers arrested by the Houthis, narrowly escaping being killed, and an employee of the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service being seriously wounded.[900][901][902]
Iraq
Since November 2023, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq has claimed responsibility for drone and missile attacks against targets within Israel in retaliation for Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians in Gaza. The group stated it would continue to "strike enemy strongholds". Strikes claimed by the group were recorded in multiple locations.[903]
In late January, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced it had entered its second phase of operations which included blockading the Mediterranean maritime routes to Israeli ports and disabling the ports.[904]Kiryat Shmona,[905] Since then, the group has launched joint military operations on Israel with the Houthis targeting ships in Haifa port.[906][907]
On 3 October 2024, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq launched a kamikaze drone attack on a military base in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, killing two IDF soldiers and injuring 24 others.[908] By late October, the Iraqi resistance had launched drones on an average of around five times a day.[909]
There have been numerous attacks claimed by or blamed on Israel since the start of the war in Gaza. In roughly the first year of the war, Israel struck Syria more than 220 times, killing 296 people.[910] On 10 October 2023, Israel exchanged rocket and mortar fire with forces in southern Syria. On 12 October, Israel bombed Damascus International Airport and Aleppo International Airport ahead of a visit to Syria by Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.[714] Since 2024, Israel has continued to launch airstrikes at targets in Syria, including in Damascus[716] and Aleppo.[911] A January 2024 strike on Damascus may have killed Iranian general Sadegh Omidzadeh, though the IRGC did not officially corroborate the news of his death.[912] In April, Israel bombed the Iranian consulate in Damascus.[913][914] On 13 July 2024, one soldier was killed and three other people were injured in Israeli strikes in and around Damascus.[915] On 8 September, Israeli airstrikes on targets in Masyaf reportedly killed at least 27 people including six civilians and injured 43 others.[916][917] On 27 September 2024, Israeli forces struck the Lebanon-Syria border, killing five Syrian soldiers.[918] On 30 September, several people including a state television presenter were killed in an Israeli strike on Damascus.[919][920] On 4 October, two Israeli soldiers were killed and 24 were wounded in a drone attack by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq on an Israeli base in the Golan Heights.[921] However, the group denied responsibility for the attack.[922] On 8 October an Israeli airstrike on Damascus killed 13 people.[910] On 14 October, two Israeli tanks crossed into Syria, positioning themselves south of Quneitra.[923] On 20 October, a guided missile attack on a car killed two people near the Golden Mazzeh hotel in Damascus.[924] On 31 October, SANA reported that Israeli strikes hit a number of residential buildings in Al-Qusayr, damaging its industrial zone and killing 10 people, including civilians.[925][926] The IDF said that it struck Hezbollah command centers and weapon depots.[927] On 14 November, an Israeli strike on a residential building in Mazzeh and another Israeli strike on a residential building in Qudsaya killed 23 people including seven civilians. Israeli Army Radio said that the strikes targeted assets and headquarters of PIJ.[928][929][930] PIJ confirmed the death of two of its leaders and a group of its cadres.[931] On 20 November, Israeli strikes in Palmyra killed 92 Iran-backed fighters, including four from Hezbollah, and injured 21 others including seven civilians.[932][933]
On 24 November 2023, a suspected Iranian drone attacked the CMA CGM Symi, owned by Eastern Pacific Shipping, whose principal is Israeli, in the Indian Ocean, according to a US defense official. An anonymous source said the drone was suspected to have been a Shahed-136 drone. The attack caused damage to the ship but did not injure any of the crew.[934]
In December, the US military was reportedly looking to build a maritime task force to protect trade against Iranian harassment.[935]
On 23 December, a suspected Iranian drone attacked the Israel-affiliated oil tanker MV Chem Pluto in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Gujarat. The attack did not harm any of its 20 crew members, but caused a fire that was extinguished. The vessel was reportedly carrying Saudi oil to Mangalore, India.[936]
On 31 July, Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, where he had traveled to attend the inauguration of President Masoud Pezeshkian. Iranian media said an Israeli strike took place at 02:00 and targeted a residence for war veterans in North Tehran, where Haniyeh was staying.[939]
On 1 October 2024, Iran began firing missiles at Israel in at least two waves,[943][944] with sirens being heard across the country. Explosions were heard overhead across Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.[943] The IDF confirmed over 100 missiles were fired by Iran.[945]
Israeli response
On 12 October, the United States authorized the deployment of THAAD missile defense systems and American crews to man them to Israel in anticipation of an Iranian response to the planned Israeli retaliation for Iran's 1 October strikes.[946][947] Massive cyberattacks were reported on nuclear facilities and government agencies of Iran.[948] Leaked US intelligence documents revealed that Israel was conducting covert drone operations over Iran in preparation for a strike. The documents also showed that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency was monitoring Israeli weapons movements, ground forces, air defenses, navy, air and special forces, and nuclear weapons, but that it lacked the intelligence to anticipate an Israeli strike. US intelligence did not find any indication that Israel was planning to use nuclear weapons in its response.[949][950] On 23 October, Gholamreza Jalali, the head of Iran's National Organization for Passive Defense said that Israeli cyberattacks against Iranian interests are continuing, but they are facing a "layer-by-layer" defence strategy that have kept them at bay.[951] On 24 October, IRGC chief Hossein Salami claimed that THAAD systems will not be enough if Israel prompts an Iranian attack by attacking Iran.[952] On 26 October, the IDF carried out airstrikes in Iran in response to its attacks against Israel.[953][954] An Iranian civilian and four Iranian soldiers were killed in the strikes.[955][956]
UN analysis covering only killed Palestinians verified by at least three independent sources over six months between November 2023 and April 2024, with the most frequent age among the victims being 5–9 years old.[957][958]
As of 10 December 2024[update], over 46,000 people – 44,786 Palestinian[959] and 1,706 Israeli[966] – have been reported killed in the Israel–Hamas war, as well as 141–156 journalists and media workers,[969] 120 academics,[970] and over 224 humanitarian aid workers, a number that includes 179 employees of UNRWA.[971] In Nov 2024, the UN published its analysis covering only victims verified from at least three independent sources over 6 months span between Nov 2023 and April 2024 found that 70% of Palestinian deaths in Gaza are women and children.[958]
The majority of casualties have been in the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Health Ministry (GHM) total casualty count is the number of deaths directly caused by the war. The demographic breakdown is a subset of those individually identified.[33][972] On 17 September 2024, the GHM published the names, gender and birth date of 34,344 individual Palestinians whose identities were confirmed. This reflects over 80% of the casualties reported so far; of these, 60% were not men of fighting age.[33] The GHM count does not include those who have died from "preventable disease, malnutrition and other consequences of the war".[973] An analysis by the Gaza Health Projections Working Group predicted thousands of excess deaths from disease and birth complications.[974] According to a PCPSR report, over 60% of Gazans have lost family members since 7 October 2023.[975][976] Indirect deaths[977][49] are likely to be multiple times higher.[50][51] Thousands of more dead bodies are thought to be under the rubble of destroyed buildings.[161][162] The number of injured is greater than 100,000;[163] Gaza has the most amputated children per capita in the world.[164]
According to the Israeli Ministry of Defense's Rehabilitation Division, about 1,000 soldiers are wounded every month.[982] On 14 August 2024, the ministry predicted that it would have to account for 100,000 disabled IDF veterans by 2030 due to the war.[983] In November 2024, Hamas said it killed 20 armed young men from local Bedouin tribes who were stealing humanitarian aid.[984]
Residents inspect the ruins of an apartment in Gaza destroyed by Israeli airstrikes
The Gaza Strip is experiencing a humanitarian crisis as a result of the Israel–Hamas war,[985][986] including a hunger crisis, in which famine-like conditions occurred in some areas of the strip and a high risk of famine persists as of October 2024,[987][160] as well as a healthcare collapse. At the start of the war, Israel tightened its blockade on the Gaza Strip, resulting in significant shortages of fuel, food, medication, water, and essential medical supplies.[985][988][989] This siege resulted in a 90% drop in electricity availability, impacting hospital power supplies, sewage plants, and shutting down the desalination plants that provide drinking water.[990] In July 2024, available water worked out to 4.74 litres per person per day, just under a third of the recommended minimum in emergencies.[991] Doctors warned of disease outbreaks spreading due to overcrowded hospitals.[986] A polio epidemic was the target of mostly-successful vaccination campaigns.[992]
Heavy bombardment by Israeli airstrikes caused catastrophic damage to Gaza's infrastructure, further deepening the crisis. Direct attacks on telecommunications infrastructure by Israel, electricity blockades, and fuel shortages caused the near-total collapse of Gaza's largest cell network providers.[993][994][995] Lack of internet access has obstructed Gazan citizens from communicating with loved ones, learning of IDF operations, and identifying both the areas most exposed to bombing and possible escape routes.[993] The blackouts impeded emergency services, making it harder to locate and access the time-critical injured,[993] and have impeded humanitarian aid agencies and journalists.[993] By December 2023, 200,000 Gazans (approximately 10% of the population) had received internet access through an eSIM provided by Connecting Humanity.[996]
The Gaza Health Ministry reported over 4,000 children killed in the war's first month.[997] UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated that Gaza had "become a graveyard for children."[ag][1000][1001] Indirect Palestinian deaths are expected to be much higher due to the intensity of the conflict, destruction of healthcare infrastructure, lack of food, water, shelter, and safe places for civilians to flee to, and reduction in UNRWA funding, with one Lancet study stating that the death toll in Gaza, including future deaths indirectly caused by the war, might exceed 186,000.[1002][1003]
The Guardian reported that the scale of destruction has led international legal experts to raise the concept of domicide, which it describes as "the mass destruction of dwellings to make [a] territory uninhabitable".[1005] In October 2024, after monitoring and analyzing Israel's war conduct in Gaza for more than a year, Forensic Architecture published a cartographic map platform detailing Israel's campaign in Gaza titled "A Cartography of Genocide", accompanied by an 827-page text report that concludes that "Israel's military campaign in Gaza is organised, systematic, and intended to destroy conditions of life and life-sustaining infrastructure".[1018]
On 7 June 2024, both Israel and Hamas were added to the list of shame, an annex attached to an annual report submitted by the UN Secretary-General documenting rights violations against children in armed conflict. While past reports accused Israel of grave rights violations against children, the country was never included in the annex.[1031][1032][1033]
The June report found that the military wing of Hamas and six other Palestinian armed groups were responsible for the war crimes of intentionally directing attacks against civilians, murder or willful killing, torture, inhuman or cruel treatment, destroying or seizing the property, outrages upon personal dignity, and taking hostages, including children.[1037][1038] In relation to IDF operations and attacks in Gaza, the commission concluded that Israeli authorities are responsible for the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare, murder or willful killing, intentionally directing attacks against civilians and civilian objects, forcible transfer, sexual violence, torture and inhuman or cruel treatment, arbitrary detention and outrages upon personal dignity. It also found that Israel committed numerous crimes against humanity, including carrying out the extermination of Palestinians and gender persecution targeting Palestinian men and boys.[1039][1040][1041] The commission said that they had submitted 7,000 pieces of evidence to the ICC related to crimes committed by Israel and Hamas, as part of the International Criminal Court investigation in Palestine.[1042]
In another report published in October 2024, the commission accused Israel of "committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination with relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities" as well as accusing the IDF of deliberately killing and torturing medical personnel, targeting medical vehicles, and restricting patients from leaving Gaza. The report also addressed the detention of Palestinians in Israeli military camps and facilities, finding that thousands of child and adult detainees, many arbitrarily detained, faced widespread abuse, including physical and psychological violence, rape and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence, and conditions amounting to torture, highlighting that deaths resulting from such abuse or neglect constituted war crimes and violations of the right to life. Israel refused to cooperate with the investigation, contending that it had an "anti-Israel" bias.[1036][1043]
On 5 December 2024, Amnesty International published a report concluding that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.[189][1044]
On 19 December 2024, Human Rights Watch published a 179-page report concluding that Israel is responsible for the crime of genocide by intentionally depriving Palestinians in Gaza of access to safe water for drinking and sanitation needed for basic human survival.[1045]
The war sparked a diplomatic crisis, with countries around the world reacting strongly to the conflict that affected the momentum of regional relations.[1046] At least nine countries withdrew their ambassadors and cut diplomatic ties with Israel.[1047][1048] The war has also resulted in a renewed focus on a two-state solution to the broader conflict.[1049][1050] Global public opinion of Israel dropped during the war; a Morning Consult poll published in January 2024 indicated that the United States was the only remaining wealthy country in which Israel had net positive approval.[1051]
Following talks mediated by China, on 23 July 2024, Palestinian groups including Hamas and Fatah reached an agreement to end their divisions and form a unity government for Gaza, which they announced in the Beijing Declaration.[1056]
At the UNGA, Saudi Arabia announced a global alliance to seek a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said almost 90 countries were at the launch of The Global Alliance for the Implementation of a Palestinian State and a Two-State Solution.[1057][1058][1059] On 29 September, Saudi Arabia said they would send aid to the Palestinian Authority, $60million in six installments according to a senior PA official. The aid is seen as means of keeping the PA solvent and keeping the push for a two state solution alive notwithstanding Israeli financial restrictions.[1060]
Settler expansions and officials' remarks heightened unrest, leading to protests in Israel. The Knesset's law criminalizing "terrorist materials" consumption drew criticism.[1061]
In an interview to the Wall Street Journal on 25 December, Netanyahu said that Israel's objectives were to "destroy Hamas, demilitarize Gaza and deradicalize the whole of Palestinian society".[1062] There was broad support in Israeli society for military operations in Gaza.[1063][1064] Public opinion poll conducted in December 2023 by the Israel Democracy Institute found that 87% of Jewish Israelis supported the war in Gaza.[1065]
Palestinian territories
Initially, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asserted the Palestinian people's right to self-defense against the "terror of settlers and occupation troops"[1066] and condemned the orders by Israel for residents to evacuate north Gaza, labeling it a "second Nakba".[1067] Later, Abbas rejected the killing of civilians on both sides, and said that the Palestinian Liberation Organization was the sole representative of the Palestinian people.[1068]
Significant geopolitical divisions emerged during the war. Much of the Western world provided strong diplomatic and military support to Israel,[1069] including the United States,[1070]United Kingdom,[1071] and Germany,[1072] however several European nations have been less supportive of Israel's actions, most notably Spain, Norway, and Ireland who formally recognised the State of Palestine in a coordinated move in June 2024.[1073] Spain and Ireland have also supported South Africa's genocide case against Israel.[1074][1075] This has led to retaliatory action by Israel, who recalled its ambassadors to all three countries and later announced that it would be closing its embassy in Dublin.[1076][1077][1078] Hugh Lovatt of the European Council on Foreign Relations says that during the Cold War, Israel sided with the West against the Arab countries supported by the Soviets, and Western leaders generally see Israel "as a fellow member of the liberal democratic club" and that this partially "explains the continued strong Western support for Israel – which has now largely become reflexive".[1069] At least 44 nations denounced Hamas and explicitly condemned its conduct on 7 October as terrorism, including a joint statement by the US, UK, France, Italy, and Germany.[1079]
In contrast, the Islamic world and much of the Global South denounced the actions of Israel and its allies, criticizing the "moral authority of the West" and alleging that it holds double standards surrounding human rights.[1069][1080] The double standards, in their view, is condemning an illegal occupation in Ukraine while standing firmly behind Israel that has occupied Palestinian lands.[1081]Bolivia has cut all ties with Israel as a result of the conflict, while Colombia and Chile recalled their ambassadors to the country.[323][1080]
The United States, United Kingdom, and Germany have supplied Israel with substantial military and medical aid.[1071][1082][1083]
The Israeli government's response prompted international protests, arrests, and harassment.[1084]
Brazil announced a rescue operation of nationals using an air force transport aircraft.[1085]Poland announced that it would deploy two C-130 transport planes to evacuate 200 Polish nationals.[1086] Hungary evacuated 215 of its nationals from Israel using two aircraft on 9 October, while Romania evacuated 245 of its citizens, including two pilgrimage groups, on two TAROM planes and two private aircraft on the same day.[1087] Australia also announced repatriation flights.[1088] 300 Nigerian pilgrims in Israel fled to Jordan before being airlifted home.[1089]
On 12 October, the United Kingdom arranged flights for its citizens in Israel; the first plane departed Ben Gurion Airport that day. The government had said before that it would not be evacuating its nationals due to available commercial flights. However, most commercial flights were suspended.[1090] Nepal arranged a flight to evacuate at least 254 of its citizens who were studying in Israel.[1091] India launched Operation Ajay to evacuate its citizens from Israel.[1092] Ukraine facilitated the evacuation of ~450 of its citizens from Israel as of 18 October, with additional evacuation flights planned for the near future.[1093]
According to Daniel Byman and Alexander Palmer, the attack showcased the decline of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the rise of Hamas as a power center in Palestinian politics. They predicted the PLO's further decline if the status quo held.[1094] Laith Alajlouni wrote that the immediate effect of the Hamas offensive was to unite Hamas and PLO.[1095]
Amit Segal, chief political commentator for Israel's Channel 12, said that the conflict would test Benjamin Netanyahu's survival as prime minister, noting that past wars had toppled the governments of several of his predecessors such as that of Golda Meir following the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Menachem Begin following the 1982 Lebanon War, and Ehud Olmert following the 2006 Lebanon War.[1096] Citing the Israeli intelligence failure, which some observers attributed to the incumbent government focusing more on internal dissent, the judicial reform, and efforts to deepen Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories,[1097] some commentators criticized Netanyahu for putting aside the PLO and propping up Hamas,[1098] and described him as a liability.[1099][1100]
In an analysis by The Times of Israel, the newspaper wrote, "Hamas has violently shifted the world's eyes back to the Palestinians and dealt a severe blow to the momentum for securing a landmark US-brokered deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia."[1101] Andreas Kluth wrote in his Bloomberg News column that Hamas "torched Biden's deal to remake the Middle East", arguing that the deal that was being discussed between Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the US would have left Palestinians in the cold, so the group decided to "blow the whole thing up". He added that viewed from Gaza, things were only going to get worse, considering that Netanyahu's coalition partners opposed a two-state solution. He suggested they would prefer to annex the entirety of the West Bank, even at the expense of turning Israel into an apartheid state.[1102]
The Bank of Israel estimates that by 2025, the war will have cost the country US$67billion, notwithstanding a $14.5billion US aid package, part of the $22.76billion the U.S. has so far allocated for military assistance.[1103][1104]
As early as 9 November 2023, the Bank of Israel reported that the drop in labor supply caused by the war was costing the Israeli economy $600million a week, or 6% of weekly GDP. The bank also stated that the estimate did not include damage caused by the absence of Palestinian and foreign workers.[1105] In the final quarter of 2023, the Israeli economy shrank by 5.2% quarter-to-quarter due to labour shortages in construction and from the mobilization of 300,000 reservists.[1106] While Israel did still see economic growth of 2%, this was down from 6.5% growth in the year before the war. Consumer spending declined by 27%, imports declined by 42% and exports declined by 18%.
Israel's high-tech factories reported in December that recent bureaucratic obstacles with electronic imports from China had led to higher import costs and delayed delivery times.[1107] Israeli officials also reported that China had refused to send workers to their country during the war against the backdrop of a worker shortage in Israel's construction and farming sectors.[1108] China's actions were described as a de factosanction.[1109][1107]
The 3,500-member Water Transport Workers Federation of India said it would refuse to operate shipments carrying weapons to Israel.[1110] The declaration came a few months after one Indian company halted production of Israeli police uniforms due to the war in Gaza.[1111]
About 9,855 Thai workers in the agricultural sector, 4,331 workers in the construction sector and 2,997 in the nursing sector left Israel following the 7 October attack. In addition, the prevention of 85,000 Palestinian workers from entering Israel created a shortage of about 100,000 foreign and Palestinian workers.[1112]
It has been calculated that the carbon cost in terms of climate impact of rebuilding Gaza would exceed the annual greenhouse emissions of 135 countries.[1113]
In reporting on the conflict, foreign media have limited access to Gaza and only in the presence of Israeli soldiers. Vox reported that the news organizations "have to submit all materials and footage to the IDF for review before publication".[1114] The conflict has also seen large numbers of journalists wounded or killed in action. On 14 December, CBS reported on a statement from the International Federation of Journalists that "the number of journalists killed in the past two months in the war in Gaza has surpassed the amount killed in the Vietnam War, which lasted two decades".[1115]Reporters Without Borders filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court under section 8.2.b of the Rome Statute, accusing Israel of committing war crimes against 8 journalists.[1116][1114] It also lodged a complaint against Hamas, under section 8.2.a of the Rome Statute for the killing of a reporter covering the 7 October attack.[1116] The Committee to Protect Journalists accused Israel of targeting journalists reporting from Gaza and their families, saying that in at least two cases, "journalists reported receiving threats from Israeli officials and Israel Defense Forces officers before their family members were killed".[1117]
^Fired by Netanyahu as defense minister on 5 November 2024.
^The combined forces of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad add up to 37,000.[23][24] Estimates for Hamas alone are highly variable, from 20,000 to over 40,000.[25][26]
^Including 169,500 active personnel[27] and 360,000 reservists[28]
9,000–12,000 militants (as of 6 June 2024)[46][47]
^In addition to direct deaths, armed conflicts result in indirect deaths "attributable to the conflict". Mortality due to indirect deaths could be due to a variety of causes, such as infectious diseases.[48]
Estimated 51,000 natural deaths, natural death rate has gone up from 3.5/1000 to 22/1000 (late June 2024).[52]
At least 45 deaths confirmed due to starvation and malnutrition only and deaths were also confirmed due to dehydration,[53][54][55][56] but the true figure is likely to be far higher.[57][58]
^With 521 Hezbollah deaths confirmed as of 18 November 2024,[1] including 67 in Syria,[2]Archived 14 January 2024 at the Wayback Machine[3] a total of 449 were confirmed to have died in Lebanon
^(per Hezbollah, Hamas, PIJ and Lebanese Health Ministry)[74]
449+ Hezbollah members in Lebanon[u] (including 2 Saraya personnel)[75]
40 Palestinian militants 25 killed (8 Oct 2023–31 March 2024; on the border),[4] 7 killed (2 Jan 2024; in Beirut),[5] 7 killed (3 April–15 June 2024; on the border),[6][7][8][9][10] and a Hamas official assassinated on 9 August,[76] total of 40 reported killed
232 Syrian refugees killed by Israeli Armed Forces[97]
^Total is derived from taking the current number of killed in Gaza, the current number of killed in West Bank, the current number of militants killed inside Israel, the current number of killed in Lebanon and the current number of killed in Syria.
^Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan responded directly to Guterres, stating, "Shame on [Guterres]... More than 30 minors – among them a 9-month-old baby as well as toddlers and children who witnessed their parents being murdered in cold blood – are being held against their will in the Gaza Strip. Hamas is the problem in Gaza, not Israel's actions to eliminate this terrorist organization."[998][999]
^By December 2023, the percentage of buildings damaged or destroyed in Gaza exceeded Dresden and Cologne during World War II and approached the level of destruction seen in Hamburg.[1008][1010]
^In northern Gaza, including Gaza City, the number of buildings damaged or destroyed is as high as 80 percent.[1013]
^In October 2024, The New York Times estimated 168,000 buildings in Gaza had been damaged or destroyed.[1014]
^ ab"US troops arrive in Israel". Telegraph. 15 October 2024. Retrieved 18 October 2024. Around 100 American military personnel in total will be sent to operate the system – the first time US troops have been deployed in combat in Israel during the current crisis.
^"How Israel is using 'Lavender' and 'Daddy' to identify 37,000 Hamas operatives". The Economic Times. 9 April 2024. Retrieved 12 June 2024. The "Lavender" system is designed to identify individuals suspected of being part of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), even targeting those with lower ranks for potential aerial bombardments. In the initial stages of the conflict, the military heavily relied on Lavender, leading to the system labeling up to 37,000 Palestinians as militants, along with their residences, for potential airstrikes.
^Fayyad, Huthifa (17 September 2024). "Nearly 1,000 Palestinian health workers killed by Israeli forces in Gaza named". Middle East Eye. Archived from the original on 4 October 2024. Retrieved 21 October 2024. Israeli forces have killed 1,151 Palestinians working in Gaza's health sector [...] At least 165 of those killed were doctors, 260 nurses, 300 management and support personnel, 184 health associate professionals, 76 pharmacists and 12 other health workers.
^"Israel kills top northern Gaza doctor". Al Jazeera. 12 December 2024. Retrieved 12 December 2024. The Gaza Health Ministry says an Israeli quadcopter drone has killed Saeed Jouda, a top physician in the north of the territory. The ministry said the drone "shot directly" at Jouda while he was heading from Kamal Adwan Hospital to al-Awda Hospital, bringing the number of medics killed in the war to 1,057.
^"Gaza has highest rate of child amputees anywhere in world: UN". Al Jazeera. 6 December 2024. UNRWA – the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees – has released its latest assessment of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank: 251 UNRWA staff have been killed since Israel's war on the Palestinian territory was launched in October 2023.
^ abGeneva Declaration Secretariat (2008). Global Burden of Armed Violence(PDF) (Report). Geneva Declaration Secretariat. p. 4. The ratio of people killed in war to those dying indirectly because of a conflict is explored in the chapter on indirect deaths (INDIRECT CONFLICT DEATHS). Studies show that between three and 15 times as many people die indirectly for every person who dies violently.
^ abKhatib, Rasha; McKee, Martin; Yusuf, Salim (2024). "Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential". The Lancet. 404 (10449). Elsevier BV: 237–238. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(24)01169-3. ISSN0140-6736. PMID38976995. In recent conflicts, such indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths. Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Using the 2022 Gaza Strip population estimate of 2,375,259, this would translate to 7.9% of the total population in the Gaza Strip.
^Rowlands, Lyndal; Varshalomidze, Tamila; Rasheed, Zaheena; Quillen, Stephen; Gadzo, Mersiha; Najjar, Farah (20 November 2024). "Eighty-five patients at risk as Kamal Adwan Hospital under Israeli attack: Director". Al Jazeera. The hospital's director, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, has been giving us regular updates on the situation there. Here are his latest comments to Al Jazeera: An elderly man has died of starvation in the northern Gaza Strip.
^"Israel killed over 12,800 Palestinian students since October 2023: Ministry". Al Jazeera. 24 December 2024. Retrieved 24 December 2024. The Palestinian Education Ministry says 12,820 students have been killed and 21,351 injured since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on Gaza and the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.
^Rasheed, Zaheena; Regencia, Ted; Uras, Umut; Mohamed, Edna (8 October 2024). "War in Gaza especially hard on those with special needs: WHO". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 8 October 2024. It added that 24,090 of the wounded in the war on Gaza have life-changing injuries, with 180 women giving birth every day.
^"Many wounded in Gaza have 'life-changing injuries', UN bodies say". Al Jazeera. 3 December 2024. At least a quarter of those injured in Gaza have "life-changing injuries", the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says. It cited the World Health Organization as saying that thousands have lost a limb in the past 14 months, since Israel launched its deadly offensive in the Strip, as a result of bombing and shelling. "Together with partners, UNRWA supports people with disabilities by providing assistive devices, mental health and psychosocial services, and rehabilitation," the agency said in a post on X.
^ ab"Israeli army raids Balata refugee camp 4 times in 24 hours". Anadolu Agency. 28 July 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024. Simultaneously with its onslaught on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army intensified operations in the West Bank, resulting in 592 deaths and approximately 5,400 injuries, according to official Palestinian data.
^"Israeli army arrests 16 Palestinians in occupied West Bank: Prisoners' group". Al Jazeera. 16 December 2024. The people arrested overnight and in the morning included former prisoners, according to a statement by the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner's Society. The number of arrests of Palestinians by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since the start of Israel's war on Gaza has surpassed 12,100, the report said.
^ ab"Death toll rises in Israel's war on Lebanon". Al Jazeera. 4 December 2024. Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed 4,047 people and wounded 16,638 others, Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said in a televised address.
^"Lebanon death toll from Israeli attacks nears 4,000". Al Jazeera. 28 November 2024. Another 78 people were killed across Lebanon on Tuesday and 266 were wounded, according to the country's health ministry. This brings the death toll since the start of the war on Gaza and before the ceasefire early Wednesday to 3,961 people, it said, adding that 16,520 people were injured. At least 248 children and 736 women have been killed, with Tuesday's death toll mostly coming as a result of Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon. At least 222 health workers have been killed since October last year, with 330 others wounded and 94 hospitals impacted by attacks.
^Robinson, Lou (24 August 2024). "Hezbollah: What weapons does it have? A visual guide". CNN. Archived from the original on 24 August 2024. Retrieved 24 August 2024. Around 150 civilians have been killed in Israeli strikes, according to CNN's analysis of publicly available figures.
^McCready, Alastair; Rasheed, Zaheena; Marsi, Federica; Najjar, Farah (24 September 2024). "Death toll in Israeli attacks on Lebanon rises: Health Ministry". Al Jazeera. Archived from the original on 24 September 2024. Retrieved 24 September 2024. The death toll from Israeli attacks across Lebanon since Monday has risen to 558, including 50 children and 94 women, according to Lebanon's Health Minister Firass Abiad. He added that at least 1,835 people were wounded in Israeli air raids that hit Beirut and southern Lebanon.
^Rowlands, Lyndal; McCready, Alastair; Uras, Umut; Siddiqui, Usaid; Adler, Nils (22 October 2024). "Latest casualty figures from Israeli attacks on Lebanon". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 22 October 2024. These are the latest casualty figures issued by the Lebanese Health Ministry: At least 1,952 people have been killed since Israel escalated its attacks on Lebanon in mid-September. At least 2,546 people in Lebanon have been killed, including at least 140 children and 270 women, and 11,862 wounded since the start of Israeli-Hezbollah cross-border attacks in October last year.
^Rowlands, Lyndal; Regencia, Ted; Jamal, Urooba; Uras, Umut; Adler, Nils (15 October 2024). "Lebanon says 41 killed in Israeli attacks on Monday". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 15 October 2024. The newest figures bring the overall death toll since Israel on September 23 launched an intense air campaign in Lebanon to 1,356.
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^"More than 13,500 Israelis 'wounded from the war' since October 7, 2023: Report". Al Jazeera. 31 December 2024. Retrieved 31 December 2024. The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation has reported that the rehabilitation department of Israel's Defence Ministry receives about 1,000 new people each month who have been "wounded from the war". Since October 7, 2023, more than 13,500 Israelis have been injured and admitted for treatment at the rehabilitation department, the broadcaster reported in a post on social media. Of those wounded, 51 percent are under the age of 30 years and 43 percent of the total are dealing with "psychological reactions", the broadcaster said.
^Fulton, Adam; Yang, Maya; Bayer, Lili; Ratcliffe, Rebecca (14 October 2023). "Bodies of several Israelis retrieved in Gaza raids – IDF". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 14 October 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2023. Israel's military said earlier this morning that it has confirmed that more than 120 civilians are being held hostage in Gaza by Hamas.
^"Israel: Starvation Used as Weapon of War in Gaza". Human Rights Watch. 18 December 2023. Archived from the original on 19 December 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2024. The Israeli military's repeated, apparently unlawful attacks on medical facilities, personnel, and transport are further destroying Gaza's healthcare sector, thereby affecting the population's ability to access life-saving treatment, including to prevent diseases, wasting, and deaths linked to malnutrition, exacerbating the dire ramifications of starvation.
^Ahmed, Kaamil (4 February 2024). "'Everything beautiful has been destroyed': Palestinians mourn a city in tatters". The Observer. ISSN0029-7712. Archived from the original on 8 October 2024. Retrieved 27 March 2024. A recent report by the Palestinian culture ministry into Israeli damage to Palestinian heritage said Israel's bombardment of Gaza had destroyed 207 buildings of cultural or historical significance, including 144 in the old city and 25 religious sites.
Nebehay, Stephanie (13 September 2011). Graff, Peter (ed.). "U.N. experts say Israel's blockade of Gaza illegal". Reuters. Archived from the original on 15 June 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2023. A panel of five independent U.N. rights experts [said] the blockade had subjected Gazans to collective punishment in 'flagrant contravention of international human rights and humanitarian law.'
"Hamas hardliner Yahya Sinwar elected as Gaza leader". BBC News. 13 February 2017. Archived from the original on 22 October 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023. Israel and Egypt maintain a blockade around Gaza aimed at preventing attacks by militants there, though the measure has been condemned by rights groups as a form of collective punishment.
^Ackerman, Seth (4 January 2024). "There was an Iron Wall in Gaza". Jacobin. Archived from the original on 5 January 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2024. The unemployment rate soared to "probably the highest in the world", four-fifths of the population were forced to rely on humanitarian assistance, three-quarters became dependent on food aid, more than half faced "acute food insecurity", one in ten children were stunted by malnutrition, and over 96 percent of potable water became unsafe for human consumption.
^"Where We Work. Gaza Strip". United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Archived from the original on 12 October 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
^"A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid". B'Tselem. 12 January 2021. Archived from the original on 8 May 2021. Retrieved 6 November 2023. A regime that uses laws, practices and organized violence to cement the supremacy of one group over another is an apartheid regime. Israeli apartheid, which promotes the supremacy of Jews over Palestinians, was not born in one day or of a single speech. It is a process that has gradually grown more institutionalized and explicit, with mechanisms introduced over time in law and practice to promote Jewish supremacy. These accumulated measures, their pervasiveness in legislation and political practice, and the public and judicial support they receive – all form the basis for our conclusion that the bar for labeling the Israeli regime as apartheid has been met.
^St. Felix, Doreen (15 July 2024). "How Lawrence Abu Hamdan Hears the World". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 10 September 2024. Retrieved 11 September 2024. Forensic Architecture published its full investigation, demonstrating that all seventeen Palestinian rockets had finished burning their propellant while in flight. The investigation was not meant to prove that Israel had destroyed Al-Ahli Arab Hospital. It is still unclear what caused the explosion. What the investigation did was show that the I.D.F. had fostered an environment of uncertainty by putting out misinformation about a misfired Palestinian rocket.
Alghoul, Fares; Khraiche, Dana; Altstein, Galit (7 May 2024). "Israel Says a Cease-Fire Plan Backed by Hamas Falls Short". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 8 May 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2024. The Palestinian militant group Hamas said it had agreed to a cease-fire proposal for the Gaza Strip, but Israel's war cabinet unanimously rejected it as 'far from Israel's necessary demands,'...
"Israeli strike on Gaza school kills more than 100: Report". Al Jazeera. 10 August 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024. Without providing evidence, the Israeli military said in a separate statement that it had intelligence indicating there were 20 Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters, including senior commanders, operating from the school.
^Quillen, Stephen; Uras, Umut (20 August 2024). "Death toll from Gaza City school strike rises to 12". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 20 August 2024. However, others are still missing under the building's rubble, with rescuers unable to reach them due to a lack of equipment, it said.
^"Israeli strike on Gaza school kills 7, injures 15". The Times of India. 20 August 2024. ISSN0971-8257. Retrieved 20 August 2024. After an Israeli plane dropped a bomb on the second floor of the (Mustafa Hafiz School) building housing thousands of displaced people," The agency's spokesman, Mahmud Bassal told AFP, adding, that the bodies of five adult males and two children were recovered from the rubble.
^Jamal, Urooba; Uras, Umut (15 October 2024). "Gaza polio campaign starts well despite Israeli strikes, WHO says". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 15 October 2024. The World Health Organization says it was able to begin its polio campaign in central Gaza and vaccinate tens of thousands of children despite Israeli strikes in the designated protected zone hours before. As part of an agreement between the Israeli military and Palestinian militant group Hamas, humanitarian pauses in the year-long Gaza war had been due to begin early on Monday to reach hundreds of thousands of children. However, hours before then, the UN humanitarian office said Israeli forces struck tents near al Aqsa hospital, inside in the zone, where it said four people were burned to death.
^"WHO chief says up to 10,000 children could not be reached for polio vaccination". Al Jazeera. 6 November 2024. Retrieved 6 November 2024. Polio vaccination in northern Gaza concluded yesterday with 105,558 children receiving their second dose and 83,876 children receiving vitamin A supplements – amid ongoing hostilities. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said polio vaccination concluded in the north of Gaza where vaccination rates were slightly lower at around 88 percent coverage because up to 10,000 children could not be reached to receive a second dose. Those children are still "vulnerable to polio", the WHO chief said, adding that "efforts will continue to reach more children through regular health services".
^Mccready, Alastair; Rasheed, Zaheena; Marsi, Federica; Varshalomidze, Tamila; Jamal, Urooba; Siddiqui, Usaid (11 September 2024). "Israel bombs home near Khan Younis, kills at least 13: Reports". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 11 September 2024. Three generations of the same family were residing there, including the grandparents, parents and children.
^Rowlands, Lyndal; Rasheed, Zaheena; Jamal, Urooba; Siddiqui, Usaid (23 September 2024). "Most victims of Saturday's school attack were women and children: Rights group". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 23 September 2024. It said 13 children and six women were among the 21 Palestinians killed in the assault. Health officials said earlier that 22 people had been killed. Euro-Med, which sent a field and legal team to the site of the attack, said the victims included a woman who was three months pregnant. At least 30 others were wounded, including nine children who had to have their legs amputated.
^Mohamed, Edna (26 September 2024). "Israel's military confirms attack on Jabalia school". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 26 September 2024. Israel's military claims the Hafsa al-Faluja School in Gaza's Jabalia that it targeted was being used as a Hamas "command and control centre". Without sharing any evidence, the military said it targeted Hamas members who had previously planned attacks against Israel.
^Mccready, Alastair (1 October 2024). "Death toll rises following Israeli attack in central Gaza". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 1 October 2024. At least 13 people are now confirmed killed, including women and children, following an attack on two houses in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the Wafa news agency reports. Dozens of people have also been injured in the attack, which struck homes belonging to the Abu Ataya and Abu Shamis families in the Nuseirat camp.
^Mccready, Alastair; Rasheed, Zaheena (6 October 2024). "Death toll rises to 21 in Israeli attack on Gaza mosque". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 6 October 2024. Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting that at least 21 people are now confirmed dead following Israel's attack on the mosque in Deir el-Balah. Israel's military bombed the mosque, which was sheltering many displaced Palestinians, claiming it was being used as a Hamas "command and control complex". It offered no evidence for these claims.
^Mccready, Alastair; Rasheed, Zaheena (6 October 2024). "At least 24 Palestinians killed, 93 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza mosque, school". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 6 October 2024. Gaza's Government Media Office accused Israeli forces of committing "two brutal massacres" overnight by bombing a mosque and a school-turned-shelter and killing at least 24 Palestinians. Some 93 others were wounded in the attacks in central Gaza, it said on Telegram. The targeted buildings were identified as Al Aqsa Martyrs Mosque and the Ibn Rushd School. Both were housing hundreds of displaced people, the media office said.
^Gostoli, Ylenia; Mohamed, Edna (17 October 2024). "Nine people killed in Israeli air raid on Gaza's Maghazi refugee camp: Report". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 17 October 2024. At least nine people, including women and children, have been killed during an Israeli air attack on a residential building in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.
^Adler, Nils; Pietromarchi, Virginia (17 October 2024). "Death toll from Israeli strike on Maghazi camp rises to 10". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 17 October 2024. At least 10 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli air strike on a house that belonged to the Talibani family in the Maghazi camp in central, the Palestinian Civil Defence says.
^Pietromarchi, Virginia (14 October 2024). "Death toll goes up in Israeli attack on Gaza shelter". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 14 October 2024. Gaza's Government Media Office is now reporting that the death toll in Israeli attacks on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians has gone up to 22. Another 80 people were wounded in the attack, it added.
^Pietromarchi, Virginia (14 October 2024). "At least 13 Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Gaza shelter". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 14 October 2024. We're getting reports that at least 13 Palestinians have been killed and several wounded in an Israeli tank shelling of a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Nuseirat, central Gaza.
^Motamedi, Maziar; Gostoli, Ylenia (10 October 2024). "PRCS says death toll from shelter attack has risen to 27". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 10 October 2024. "Palestine Red Crescent teams responded to 27 fatalities and 54 injuries following the Israeli occupation army's targeting of Rafida School, located near the Palestine Red Crescent Society headquarters in Deir Al-Balah," PRCS said on X.
^Motamedi, Maziar; Gostoli, Ylenia (10 October 2024). "Women and children among the victims in Deir el-Balah attack". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 10 October 2024. Israeli claims Hamas has been using civilian shelters for Gaza's war-displaced as "command and control centres". Hospital officials say, however, the vast majority of victims in the latest Israeli strike in central Deir el-Balah are women, children, and young men.
^Motamedi, Maziar; Milisic, Alma; Siddiqui, Usaid (24 October 2024). "Nuseirat school 196th to be hit by Israeli military since start of war". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 24 October 2024. The Government Media Office in Gaza has announced that the direct Israeli air strikes on the Shuhadaa al-Nuseirat school in the central part of the enclave brings the number of displacement centres hit since the start of the war to 196. At least nine children are among the 17 people confirmed killed so far, the office said in a statement, adding that 52 wounded Palestinians have arrived at hospitals in the area.
^"Death toll rises from Israeli attack on school-turned-shelter in Gaza". Al Jazeera. 7 November 2024. Retrieved 7 November 2024. Gaza's civil defence agency says that 12 people have now been killed in the Israeli air strike on a school housing displaced people in the Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City.
^"Palestinians in northern Gaza cannot cope with the Israeli seige". Al Jazeera. 7 November 2024. Retrieved 7 November 2024. The Israeli forces just targeted a school and a shelter in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, where at least 11 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed.
^"Death toll rises in al-Mawasi attack". Al Jazeera. 11 November 2024. Retrieved 11 November 2024. The Israeli drone strike west of Khan Younis city in southern Gaza has now killed 10 people with dozens wounded, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report. The Israeli military designated the al-Mawasi area as a humanitarian zone.
^"Many killed since dawn in Israeli attacks across Gaza". Al Jazeera. 12 November 2024. Retrieved 12 November 2024. Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud, reporting from central Gaza's Deir el-Balah, says at least 11 people were killed in the Israeli bombardment of a tent housing displaced people in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. "The deaths included two children and three minors who were inside a cafe watching their favourite team playing football," he said.
^"Nine wounded in Israeli attack on Gaza's Nuseirat". Al Jazeera. 11 November 2024. Retrieved 11 November 2024. As we reported earlier, ground and air attacks killed at least 20 Palestinians in Nuseirat on Monday as Israeli tanks stormed the camp without warning. Israeli tanks rolled into the central Nuseirat refugee camp amid air raids that killed at least 20 people.
^"Two newborn babies among six killed in Gaza's Deir el-Balah". Al Jazeera. 12 November 2024. Retrieved 12 November 2024. Two newborn babies were among six people killed in air raids in the western part of Deir el-Balah. Israeli forces have also targeted a group of Palestinians waiting for aid to arrive, killing 12 people. The number is likely to increase because there are critically injured people.
^"Death toll in Israeli airstrike on home in central Gaza rises to 24". Al Jazeera. 7 December 2024. The bodies of seven more Palestinians have been recovered from the rubble today, raising the death toll from an Israeli airstrike on a home in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza to 24. Medical sources told that the bodies of seven Palestinians were pulled from the debris of a house belonging to the Al-Nadi family, which was hit by Israeli forces on Friday night. In addition to the 24 deaths, more than 50 others – mostly women and children – were injured in the attack, according to medical sources.
^"Death toll in Israeli airstrike rises again". Al Jazeera. 7 December 2024. Twenty-six Palestinians have been killed, and over 60 injured, in Israeli shelling which targeted homes in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, according to Al-Awda Hospital.
^Rasheed, Zaheena; Regencia, Ted; Uras, Umut (8 October 2024). "Dozens of bodies on Jabalia's streets with heavy combat ongoing". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 8 October 2024. The Israeli military said it killed about 20 Palestinian fighters in air strikes and street battles in Jabali. At least seven civilians, including women and children, were also killed in the besieged camp, sources from the nearby Kamal Adwan Hospital said.
^"Iran Update, October 10, 2024". Institute for the Study of War. Retrieved 11 October 2024. The IDF Air Force struck a Hamas command-and-control site previously used as a medical center in Jabaliya on October 10. The IDF reported that at least 12 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) commanders were killed in the strike.
^Uras, Umut; Pietromarchi, Virginia (12 October 2024). "Israeli army says it killed 20 Hamas fighters". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 12 October 2024. The Israeli army has said in a statement it killed 20 Hamas fighters in the past 24 hours in Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp. The army added it killed so far about 200 fighters in the area, without specifying the timeframe. The statement also said the army killed an unspecified number of fighters in the southern city of Rafah.
^Uras, Umut; Gadzo, Mersiha (18 October 2024). "Israeli warplanes attack 150 targets in Gaza, Lebanon in one day: Military". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 18 October 2024. Israel's military said its air force carried out an estimated 150 attacks on sites in the Gaza Strip and in Lebanon on Thursday, including munitions warehouses, rocket launch sites, and sniper and observation posts. Attacks by the air force on Thursday in Jabalia had "eliminated dozens of terrorists", the military added.
^Uras, Umut; Milisic, Alma (28 October 2024). "Israel's army says operations continue across Gaza". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 28 October 2024. The military says its forces have pressed on its air and ground operations in Jabalia in northern Gaza, killing dozens of fighters.
^Doyle, Kevin; Rasheed, Zaheena; Pietromarchi, Virginia; Motamedi, Maziar; Adler, Nils (10 October 2024). "What is Jabalia refugee camp and how has it been targeted by Israeli forces?". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 10 October 2024. At least 15 people have been killed by an Israeli strike on Al-Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital in Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
^Mccready, Alastair; Rasheed, Zaheena (10 October 2024). "Israeli forces delivering 'knock-out punch' in northern Gaza". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 10 October 2024. Some 64 people have been killed, 47 of them in Jabalia town and Jabalia refugee camp after the Israeli military attacked the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital as well an evacuation centre located in the western part of Jabalia town. That attack killed at least 16 people.
^McCready, Alastair; Uras, Umut; Motamedi, Maziar; Adler, Nils; Pietromarchi, Virginia (12 October 2024). "Death toll rises in Jabalia attack, more killed in strike on Gaza City". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 12 October 2024. At least 22 people are now confirmed dead as a result of an Israeli air strike in Jabalia, northern Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency. We previously reported that Israeli fighter jets bombed a multistorey apartment block in Jabalia, hitting four inhabited homes. Women, children and elderly are among the dead, while 30 more are injured, and 14 people are still missing under the rubble, according to Wafa.
^Motamedi, Maziar; Uras, Umut (12 October 2024). "Live: Israel targets UN in South Lebanon, turns Northern Gaza to ruins". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 12 October 2024. In a statement on Saturday, Hamas condemned what it described as Israeli "Nazi occupation's massacres" that targeted a residential area in Jabalia late on Friday, killing at least 22 people and wounded more than 90.
^Jamal, Urooba; Uras, Umut (14 October 2024). "10 killed, at least 30 injured at food distribution centre in Jabalia". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 14 October 2024. Palestinian medics report 10 people were killed and at least 30 wounded in Israeli air attacks on a food distribution centre in the besieged Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. Casualties included women and children.
^Jamal, Urooba; Uras, Umut (15 October 2024). "The latest on deadly Israeli attacks on Gaza". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 15 October 2024. Palestinian health officials said at least 11 people were killed by Israeli fire near al-Faluja in Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's eight historic refugee camps.
^Gostoli, Ylenia; Mohamed, Edna (17 October 2024). "At least 15 people killed in Israeli attack in Jabalia". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 17 October 2024. Reporting from Deir el Balah, Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud said about 15 people have been killed, with the majority of casualties children and women, according to journalist Moath Kahlout, who is at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.
^Gostoli, Ylenia; Mohamed, Edna (17 October 2024). "Israeli military says Jabalia school air raid a 'precise strike'". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 17 October 2024. The Israeli military has provided the names of 12 fighters that it claims were at the site of an air raid that hit a school-turned-shelter in Jabalia, killing at least 19 people. The army said in a statement on Telegram it had conducted a "precise strike on an operational meeting" for Hamas and Islamic Jihad (PIJ). "These terrorists were involved in rocket attacks against Israeli territory, as well as in planning and committing terrorist attacks against IDF troops and the state of Israel in recent days," it said, without providing evidence.
^Mccready, Alastair; Uras, Umut; Gadzo, Mersiha; Adler, Nils (19 October 2024). "Al-Awda Hospital overwhelmed after Israeli military raid on Jabalia". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 19 October 2024. Dr Mohamad Salha spoke to Al Jazeera from al-Awda Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip, where he is treating people who were injured in the newest Israeli raid on Jabalia, which killed at least 33 people. He said as many as 70 people, the majority of whom are women and children, are being treated at the hospital but that there are many still trapped under the rubble.
^Mccready, Alastair (19 October 2024). "Israeli military attacks house in Jabalia camp, killing at least 4". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 19 October 2024. Earlier, we reported an Israeli attack on several houses near the Nassar Junction in the Jabalia camp that killed at least 33 Palestinians, including 21 women, and wounded dozens. More people remain under the rubble.
^"What is happening in Gaza right now?". Al Jazeera. 7 November 2024. Retrieved 7 November 2024. Twenty-seven people killed and a number of others wounded in an Israeli air strike that targeted al-Mabhouh family home in Jabalia camp.
^"Israeli attack on northern Gaza kills 32 Palestinians". Al Jazeera. 10 November 2024. Retrieved 10 November 2024. Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that at least 32 Palestinians have been killed in an Israel attack on a house on Old Gaza Street in northern Jabalia.
^"Death toll in Jabalia rises, includes 13 children". Al Jazeera. 10 November 2024. Retrieved 10 November 2024. The Wafa news agency is reporting that at least 33 people were killed and that 13 of the victims were children. A large number were wounded and many are still missing, it reported. The bombing of the Alloush family home, which was packed with residents and displaced people, resulted in "the complete destruction" of the building, it reported. The wounded are being transferred to the Baptist Hospital, Wafa added.
^"Israeli attack on house kills 10 in northern Gaza's Jabalia". Al Jazeera. 13 November 2024. Retrieved 13 November 2024. At least 10 Palestinians, including children, have been killed in an Israeli air attack on a house in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. That's according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
^"A look at Israel's deadly attacks across the Gaza Strip today". Al Jazeera. 20 November 2024. At least 12 people are killed in an Israeli strike on a house in the area of Jabalia in northern Gaza, and at least 10 people remain missing as rescue operations continue.
^"If you're just joining us". Al Jazeera. 20 November 2024. Israeli forces pounded Gaza, killing 12 Palestinians in an attack on Jabalia al-Balad in northern Gaza and a rescue worker looking for survivors following a deadly attack on the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City. Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat, who was also wounded in the attack on Sabra, said Israeli forces deliberately targeted him when he arrived at the scene to report on the earlier attack.
^Mccready, Alastair (25 October 2024). "More than 150 casualties following Israeli 'massacre' in Jabalia: Report". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 25 October 2024. As we have been reporting, Gaza's Civil Defence agency has said the Israeli military has carried out a "major massacre" in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza in recent hours, levelling at least 10 residential buildings. The Wafa news agency, citing local sources, reports that around 150 people, including women and children, have been killed and injured in the attack. It did not specify how many have been killed and how many injured. The final death toll could rise, with ambulance and rescue crews facing difficulty reaching the site of the attack in the al-Hawaja area in the centre of the Jabalia camp due to restrictions imposed by Israeli forces who laid siege to northern Gaza for three weeks. Wafa reports that the bombed buildings belonged to the following families: Al-Najjar, Abu Al-Auf, Salman, Hijazi, Abu Al-Qumsan, Aql, Abu Rashid, Abu Al-Tarabish, Zaqoul, and Shaalan.
^Wen, Philip; Chao-Fong, Léonie; Sedghi, Amy; Belam, Martin (24 October 2024). "Israeli airstrike reported in south Beirut; Gaza is 'dying', aid group chief says – as it happened". the Guardian. ISSN0261-3077. Retrieved 4 December 2024. "Since the start of the military operation in northern Gaza more than 770 people have been killed," said Mahmud Bassal, spokesperson for the territory's civil defence agency, adding that the toll could rise as there were people buried under the rubble.
^Uras, Umut; Milisic, Alma (20 October 2024). "87 people killed or missing in Beit Lahia: Health ministry". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 20 October 2024. A total of 87 people have been killed or missing under the rubble after an Israeli attack on the town in northern Gaza, according to the Palestinian enclave's health ministry. More than 40 others were injured, it added.
^Gostoli, Ylenia (26 October 2024). "At least 35 killed in bombing of homes in Beit Lahiya". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 26 October 2024. At least 35 Palestinians in besieged northern Gaza were killed in an attack on a residential area that destroyed several buildings in Beit Lahiya. An unknown number of people are trapped in the rubble.
^Uras, Umut; Mohamed, Edna (29 October 2024). "Death toll in attack in Beit Lahiya rises to 109". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 29 October 2024. Medical sources in Gaza tell Al Jazeera that 115 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since dawn. The number includes 109 killed in the air strike on a residential building in Beit Lahiya that was hosting about 200 people.
^"Death toll rises to 77 from Israeli attack in Beit Lahiya". Al Jazeera. 29 October 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2024. The death toll has increased with 77 people confirmed dead in the attack on a residential building in Beit Lahiya in the north of the Strip. The images we are seeing show that more bodies are being pulled from under the rubble, including women and children.
^Adler, Nils (29 October 2024). "More on Israel's attack on Beit Lahiya". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 29 October 2024. According to our colleagues on the ground, 10 people have been killed in an Israeli air raid on a residential area in Beit Lahiya, north of the Gaza Strip. This comes after an earlier Israeli air strike destroyed a five-storey residential building sheltering displaced families in Beit Lahiya, killing at least 109 Palestinians, including children, and wounding dozens.
^Pietromarchi, Virginia; Motamedi, Maziar (30 October 2024). "Gaza's Beit Lahiya declared 'disaster' area amid Israeli siege". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 30 October 2024. While people were still searching for bodies under the rubble – and there's so many who have gone missing because it is believed that their bodies were pulverised by the intensity of the attack on the Abu Nasr family home in Beit Lahiya – another attack late at night killed at least 19 people.
^Motamedi, Maziar (30 October 2024). "Ambulance driver in central Gaza finds mother dead in Israeli attack". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 30 October 2024. Earlier, Israeli fighter jets targeted one of the main markets in Beit Lahiya – 10 Palestinians were killed and 20 wounded, according to medical officials.
^Rowlands, Lyndal; Rasheed, Zaheena (28 October 2024). "'Horrifying' situation in north Gaza as Israeli siege, attacks continue". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 28 October 2024. Israeli forces began by targeting at least five houses in Beit Lahiya, where at least dozens of Palestinians remain under the rubble till this point. They also targeted a UN shelter school, where at least nine Palestinians were killed, among them three journalists and a nine-year-old child.
^Rowlands, Lyndal; Rasheed, Zaheena (28 October 2024). "Death toll from Israeli raid on Shati rises to 11". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 28 October 2024. As we've been reporting, the attack targeted the Asmaa School housing displaced Palestinians in the Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza. The Wafa news agency said 11 people were killed in the attack.
^"Fifty children killed in Israeli attack on northern Gaza". Al Jazeera. 1 November 2024. Retrieved 1 November 2024. Two Israeli attacks on residential buildings in northern Gaza have killed 84 Palestinians, including more than 50 children, Gaza's Government Media Office says.
^"Israeli military says fighter jets hit Lebanon, Gaza more than 110 times". Al Jazeera. 7 November 2024. Retrieved 7 November 2024. Israeli troops laying siege to Jabalia and Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza claimed to have killed an estimated 50 "terrorists" on Wednesday, as troops in southern Gaza's Rafah city "eliminated a number of armed terrorists".
^"Israeli military says it has killed 'dozens of terrorists' in Jabalia". Al Jazeera. 8 November 2024. Retrieved 8 November 2024. The Israeli military has said its 162nd Division is continuing to operate in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, where its forces have "eliminated dozens of terrorists" and "destroyed a weapons warehouse" over the past day.
^"Gaza's Beit Lahiya death toll rises to 25". Al Jazeera. 4 November 2024. Retrieved 4 November 2024. The death toll from an Israeli air attack on the al-Masry family home in the town of Beit Lahiya in besieged northern Gaza has risen to 25, according to the Wafa news agency. The report citing medical sources said the victims included 13 children and that more people are still under the rubble.
^"At least 15 people killed in Gaza's Beit Lahiya". Al Jazeera. 6 November 2024. Retrieved 6 November 2024. That's according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. The Israeli attack targeted a building housing displaced people in the al-Manshiyya area in Beit Lahiya.
^"Israeli attacks kill dozens across Gaza". Al Jazeera. 18 November 2024. Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that an Israeli raid on a house near Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip has killed at least 17 people.
^"Israeli attack kills 30, wounds 100 near Kamal Adwan Hospital". Al Jazeera. 20 November 2024. Al Jazeera Arabic's correspondent in the Gaza Strip reports that 30 people have been killed and more than 100 others wounded, in an Israeli attack on a residential neighbourhood in Beit Lahiya near the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip.
^"Most victims of Israel's attack on Beit Lahiya are women, children". Al Jazeera. 20 November 2024. Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, told Al Jazeera Arabic that the bodies of dozens of people have been brought to the hospital following Israel's attack on the northern town. Most of the bodies are that of women and children, he said, adding that many more were people were still buried under the rubble. But there is no way to save those trapped in the rubble, he said.
^"Several disabled people trapped under rubble in Gaza's Beit Lahiya". Al Jazeera. 20 November 2024. As we've been reporting, Palestinians in Beit Lahiya are reeling from a huge Israeli bombardment that killed at least 66 people, many women and children. Residents are frantically working to pull dozens of injured people out from the rubble of collapsed buildings, many using their bare hands, reports Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum. Among those still trapped are three people with disabilities, including a blind girl, according to Abu Azzoum. "The rescue operation might take a very long time due to the lack of essential equipment," he said.
^"'Families obliterated': Death toll in Beit Lahiya rises to 75". Al Jazeera. 29 November 2024. We earlier reported on an Israeli attack that struck a residential building in northern Gaza's Beit Lahiya. Gaza's civil defence spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal says there has been another attack, and the death from both now stands at 75. In a statement, Bassal said it is difficult to know what is happening on the ground in the besieged and battered north, where Israeli forces are pressing ahead with a brutal ground and aerial assault. "Entire families are being obliterated in northern Gaza and we do not know anything about them. There are many who survive attacks under the rubble and there are no civil defence workers there to help," he said. Bassal added there are an estimated 10,000 wounded individuals in northern Gaza who have sustained wounds over the past 50 days when Israel's renewed assault on the area began.
^"Hamas decries Beit Lahiya attacks that killed 75 Palestinians". Al Jazeera. 29 November 2024. Hamas condemned Israel's "brutal crime" after Israeli forces launched attacks on two residential homes in northern Gaza's Beit Lahiya, killing at least 75 people and wounding dozens more. The group said the attacks killed mostly women and children.
^"Israel claims to have killed five Hamas fighters in Gaza's Beit Lahiya". Al Jazeera. 22 November 2024. Avichay Adraee, an Israeli military spokesman, says the army and the Shin Bet internal security service have killed five Hamas fighters in northern Gaza's Beit Lahiya town. He claimed the air attack that killed them came in the early hours of Thursday. Hamas said on Thursday afternoon that the Israeli attacks in Beit Lahiya killed 112 people, including 64 children and women, in "four brutal massacres by bombing a residential neighbourhood around Kamal Adwan Hospital and other areas".
^"Death toll from attack on Gaza City rises to 22, including 10 children". Al Jazeera. 20 November 2024. Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that 22 people have been killed in an Israeli bombing in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of the city in the north of the Gaza Strip. Earlier, we reported that Gaza's civil defence said its teams were rushing to a house that had been bombed there.
^"Death toll from Gaza City school attack rises to 12, more casualties near Khan Younis". Al Jazeera. 27 November 2024. At least 12 people have now been confirmed killed from the Israeli military's early-morning strike on Gaza City's al-Tabin school, according to the Wafa news agency. Women and children are among the victims, it said, citing local medical sources.
^"Death toll in Gaza City attack rises". Al Jazeera. 29 November 2024. Earlier, we reported eight people had been killed in an Israeli attack on the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood. Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are now reporting that 10 people have been killed in the attack on a house in the Abu Iskandar area.
^McCready, Alastair; Quillen, Stephen; Jamal, Urooba; Siddiqui, Usaid; Najjar, Farah (29 November 2024). "'Apocalyptic': Death toll mounts from intense Israeli attacks on Gaza". Al Jazeera. Also, we are getting reports that another residential house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood ... was targeted. At least 10 civilians were killed in that strike.
^Rowlands, Lyndal; Rasheed, Zaheena; Quillen, Stephen; Najjar, Farah (26 November 2024). "Death toll in Israeli strike on Gaza school rises to 13". Al Jazeera. Earlier, we reported Israeli forces had launched a deadly attack in Gaza City, this one hitting a school sheltering displaced people in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, killing nine people. That number has now risen to 13. More than 40 others were wounded in the strike on al-Hurriya School.
^"Many trapped under rubble after deadly Israeli attack on Jabalia". Al Jazeera. 1 December 2024. The Wafa news agency is reporting that the targeted building in the Tall az-Zaatar area was housing displaced Palestinians and that the 40 people killed included women and children. The agency, citing its correspondents on the ground, said that "a large number" of people remain trapped under the rubble, "but it is difficult to rescue them due to the lack of ambulance and emergency workers".
^"At least 10 people killed in Israeli bombing of Beit Lahiya". Al Jazeera. 1 December 2024. Al Jazeera's correspondent on the ground in the Gaza Strip reports that at least 10 people have been killed when the Israeli army bombs a house in the northern part of the territory.
^"Death toll in Israeli strike on Beit Lahiya residential building rises". Al Jazeera. 3 December 2024. More deaths and more destruction across the northern part of the strip. We have a confirmed report that the number of people who were killed in the residential building in Beit Lahiya this morning has gone up to 12. And it's all because of the lack of proper medical care inside the hospitals. Many of the wounded were transferred on foot or by civilian vehicles or carts pulled by animals.
^"Israeli attack on residential building in Gaza kills 15". Al Jazeera. 5 December 2024. One of the latest reports that we managed to get from our witnesses, and even our sources on the ground in the city of Beit Lahiya, was that a residential building was massively targeted just half an hour ago. Fifteen Palestinians were confirmed killed based on medical sources.
^"At least 15 killed in Beit Lahiya attack". Al Jazeera. 17 December 2024. We've just received confirmed reports that 15 Palestinians were killed in Beit Lahiya where they were sheltering in a house. There are still Palestinians still trapped under the rubble.
^"At least 10 people killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City". Al Jazeera. 4 December 2024. At least 10 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City. Local sources told Wafa news agency that Israeli fighter jets targeted a house belonging to the ad-Dalu family in the neighbourhood.
^"Entire family still trapped under wreckage in Gaza City". Al Jazeera. 4 December 2024. Our team member on the ground says an entire family is still under a huge pile of rubble from a residential building hit overnight in the northern part of Gaza City. Civil defence crews are unable to remove any of the members of this family. Twenty-five people have been confirmed killed in this attack. They were transferred overnight to al-Ahli Hospital. Many of those injured arrived at the hospital in bad shape. The attack flattened a four-story building people were sheltering in.
^"'I wonder why the Arab states have abandoned us'". Al Jazeera. 4 December 2024. An Israeli attack in Gaza City has killed at least 25 Palestinians. The strike reduced a residential square to ruins. The bodies of children were among those pulled out from the rubble. "Last night, we felt what seemed like a massive earthquake. Four multistorey buildings were flattened by Israeli warplanes. Many were killed and injured. I suffered this injury in the head," said Ashraf Heriz, a resident.
^"Death toll rises from Israel's attack on school in Beit Hanoon". Al Jazeera. 16 December 2024. The spokesperson for the Government Media Office in Gaza says at least 43 people have been killed after Israeli forces stormed the Khalil Oweida School in Beit Hanoon early on Sunday morning.
^"At least 14 people killed in overnight attacks on northern Gaza". Al Jazeera. 18 December 2024. In northern Gaza, at least 14 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in overnight Israeli attacks on two homes, our colleagues on the ground are reporting. In Jabalia, 10 people were killed during an Israeli raid on a house. Four people were also killed in a raid on another house near al-Tabin School in the Daraj neighbourhood.
^"15 bodies recovered after dawn attack in northern Gaza: Civil defence". Al Jazeera. 27 December 2024. Retrieved 27 December 2024. A family house that was destroyed by an Israeli attack in the Sheikh Radwan area overnight was sheltering about 40 people who were displaced from other family homes, according to Gaza's civil defence. The bodies of the 15 people killed have been recovered, and the rest are now missing under the rubble, the agency's spokesperson said on Telegram. "Our crews have been unable to recover them due to lack of heavy machinery and equipment," it added.
^"No 'single intact body' found after Israeli strike on Gaza City neighbourhood". Al Jazeera. 27 December 2024. Retrieved 27 December 2024. A resident of Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, Sobh Halawa, told Al Jazeera of the attack in the area on Friday morning by Israeli forces which had killed many. "Since the early morning, we have been working without any tools or equipment, using only our hands to pull out remains – not even whole bodies," Halawa said. "We are collecting pieces of human flesh so that they won't be eaten by cats and dogs," he said. "We haven't found a single intact body. They are all human remains. Little children and women."
^"International team forced to leave Kamal Adwan Hospital due to Israeli bombing: WHO". Al Jazeera. 7 December 2024. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that the international medical team, deployed by the UN body just five days earlier after five Israeli denials, has now been forced to leave after 33 people were reported killed just outside the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya. Displaced Palestinians, caregivers and many injured patients had to flee amid panic, leaving only 90 patients and 66 medical staff inside the "minimally functional" hospital in northern Gaza, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
^"Five killed as Israeli forces attack Gaza's Bureij". Al Jazeera. 17 November 2024. Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that at least five Palestinians have been killed, including a child, in an Israeli attack on a house in the Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip. Several people were also wounded.
^"'Everyone is a target': A dozen killed waiting for food in Gaza". Al Jazeera. 30 November 2024. In Khan Younis, an Israeli air strike targeted a group of Palestinians waiting to receive food from an aid convoy, killing at least 12 people and wounding an unknown number of others. Video showed health workers at Nasser Hospital rushing to treat wounded victims as they arrived at the emergency department.
^"Israel kills 13 security guards tasked with securing aid: Gaza authorities". Al Jazeera. 12 December 2024. Retrieved 12 December 2024. The Gaza Government Media Office says the Israeli military has committed a "massacre", assassinating 13 officers who helped secure aid convoys "as part of the starvation policy against civilians". The office added that Israel has killed 722 members of the security forces since the start of the war.
^Jhaveri, Ashka; Moore, Johanna; Tyson, Kathryn; Carter, Brian; Ganzeveld, Annika; Carl, Nicholas (31 October 2023). "Iran Update, October 31, 2023". Institute for the Study of War. Retrieved 1 November 2023. The al Quds Brigades and the Tulkarm Battalion of the al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades conducted a combined small arms attack on Israeli forces in Shuweika near Tulkarm, indicating growing coordination between the two groups. This was the first combined attack between the al Quds Brigades and al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in the West Bank since October 19.
^Rowlands, Lyndal; Rasheed, Zaheena; Motamedi, Maziar; Jamal, Urooba (22 September 2024). "Beirut attack toll rises". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 22 September 2024. Lebanon's Health Ministry has just published a statement saying that the death toll from Friday's Israeli attack on southern Beirut has risen to 45.
^Mccready, Alastair; Regencia, Ted; Jamal, Urooba; Marsi, Federica; Siddiqui, Usaid (21 September 2024). "Death toll in Beirut attack goes up". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 21 September 2024. Lebanon's Health Minister says at least 31 people, including three children and seven women, were killed in the Israeli attack on southern Beirut yesterday. Another 68 people were wounded in the attack, he added. The three children among the 31 killed in Israel's attack on southern Beirut yesterday were aged four, six and 10, Lebanon's Health Minister said during a press conference.
^Siddiqui, Usaid; Najjar, Farah (20 September 2024). "Injuries, electricity damage after intense Israel, Hezbollah crossfire". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 20 September 2024. Later in the night, Hezbollah launched three huge rockets towards the Israeli town of Metula. We saw pictures of huge fires and there are reports of damage to electricity infrastructure.
^Jamal, Urooba (21 September 2024). "What happened between Israel and Hezbollah on Friday?". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 21 September 2024. Hezbollah has also named Ahmad Mahmoud Wahabi, a senior commander, among the casualties. Hezbollah said it carried out 16 attacks against targets in northern Israel, firing about 140 rockets as it targeted air defence and intelligence bases, as well as an Israeli tank. It claimed it struck the Meron IDF base in the occupied Golan Heights with "volleys of Katyusha rockets". No casualties have been reported.
^Marsi, Federica (24 September 2024). "Death toll in Israeli attacks on Lebanon rises: Health Ministry". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 24 September 2024. The death toll from Israeli attacks across Lebanon since Monday has risen to 558, including 50 children and 94 women, according to Lebanon's Health Minister Firass Abiad. He added that at least 1,835 people were wounded in Israeli air raids that hit Beirut and southern Lebanon.
^Rowlands, Lyndal; McCready, Alastair; Quillen, Stephen; Mohamed, Edna; Siddiqui, Usaid; Najjar, Farah (27 September 2024). "Death toll revised in Israeli attack on Syrian workers". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 27 September 2024. The state news agency initially reported that 23 people were killed. The Lebanese Health Ministry later announced 19 Syrians and one Lebanese died – one of the deadliest single strikes in Israel's intensified air campaign.
^Jamal, Urooba; Marsi, Federica (28 September 2024). "Eleven medical staff killed in Israeli attacks on south Lebanon". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 28 September 2024. The country's state-run National News Agency reports that 11 doctors, nurses and paramedics were killed and 10 others were wounded in Israeli army attacks on civil defence centres and a medical clinic. These attacks were carried out on the towns of Taybeh and Deir Siriane, close to the Israeli border.
^Jamal, Urooba; Motamedi, Maziar; Mohamed, Edna (29 September 2024). "Israeli attack kills 17 members of a family in Lebanon's Bekaa". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 29 September 2024. Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that at least 17 members of one family were killed in an Israeli air strike that hit the town of Zboud in the country's northern Bekaa Valley. The search for survivors under the rubble is still ongoing, NNA said.
^ abJamal, Urooba; Mohamed, Edna; Siddiqui, Usaid; Varshalomidze, Tamila (30 September 2024). "At least 45 people killed in Israeli attack on southern Lebanon". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 30 September 2024. Lebanon's Health Ministry says the death toll from an Israeli raid on the southern town of Ain al-Delb, east of Sidon, has risen to 45. At least 75 people have been wounded. Separately, the ministry said 12 people were killed and 20 wounded after an Israeli raid on Bekaa town on Sunday night.
^Marsi, Federica; Varshalomidze, Tamila (3 October 2024). "Israeli army claims deadly strike on municipality building in south Lebanon". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 3 October 2024. The Israeli army says it struck the municipality building in the town of Bint Jbeil, in southern Lebanon, killing 15 people. The military claimed those killed were Hezbollah fighters and the building was used to store weapons.
^Mccready, Alastair; Rasheed, Zaheena (7 October 2024). "If you're just joining us". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 7 October 2024. Lebanon's Ministry of Health has said at least 12 people have been killed, including several children, as a result of two Israeli air raids on towns south of Beirut.
^Uras, Umut; Milisic, Alma; Mohamed, Edna (7 October 2024). "Death toll in Israeli attack on fire station rises to 10: Lebanese ministry". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 7 October 2024. Ten firefighters have been killed after Israeli fighters targeted a fire station affiliated with the Islamic Health Authority in the town of Baraachit, according to officials.
^Jamal, Urooba; Uras, Umut (15 October 2024). "Many victims of Israeli strike on north Lebanon were women and children: UN". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 15 October 2024. Spokesperson Jeremy Laurence told a Geneva news briefing that "12 women and two children" were among those killed in the attack in the Christian-majority town of Aitou.
^Adler, Nils (14 October 2024). "Aitou death toll rises". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 14 October 2024. Lebanon's Health Ministry says the death toll in Israeli attack on Aitou has gone up to 21 with eight people also wounded. It added that DNA tests are being conducted to determine the identity of the remains that were removed from the site of the attack.
^Jamal, Urooba; Uras, Umut (15 October 2024). "25% of Lebanon under Israeli evacuation orders: UN". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 15 October 2024. The UN refugee agency's Middle East Director Rema Jamous Imseis says new Israeli evacuation orders for 20 villages in southern Lebanon mean more than one-quarter of the country is now affected.
^Siddiqui, Usaid; Pietromarchi, Virginia (16 October 2024). "Death toll from Israeli attack on Qana rises to 15". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 16 October 2024. The death toll from an Israeli strike on the Lebanese southern town of Qana has risen to 15, Lebanon's civil defence agency says. At least 15 others were wounded.
^Osgood, Brian (16 October 2024). "Death toll from Israeli strike on Nabatieh rises to 16". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 16 October 2024. Lebanon's health ministry has provided updated casualty figures from an earlier Israeli strike on the city of Nabatieh in the south of the country, saying that the attack killed 16 people and injured 52. The strike targeted a local municipal building, with the town's mayor among those killed.
^Adler, Nils (22 October 2024). "Death toll in Beirut attack near hospital rises". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 22 October 2024. Lebanon's Health Ministry says at least 18 people have now been confirmed killed, including four children, in the Israeli attack near a southern Beirut hospital late on Monday. The number of wounded in the attack close to the Rafik Hariri University Hospital now stands at 60, the ministry said.
^Pietromarchi, Virginia; Motamedi, Maziar (30 October 2024). "Death toll from Israel's attack on Lebanon's Haret Saida rises to 10". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 30 October 2024. So far, nine bodies have been pulled from the rubble. An 18-year-old survived and is now in hospital. She was pulled out alive, but what people here are telling us is that a girl who they believe to be 17 is still stuck underneath the rubble and believed to be dead. So in this strike alone, 10 killed.
^Pietromarchi, Virginia (30 October 2024). "Israel says more than 100 targets attacked across Lebanon, no mention of civilian casualties". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 30 October 2024. Israel's military said its jet fighters hit more than 100 targets throughout Lebanon on Tuesday, claiming that dozens of "terrorists" were eliminated. Hezbollah rocket launch sites were among the targets hit, the Israeli military said in a post on social media that did not mention civilian casualties resulting from its widespread bombing of civilian areas in Lebanon.
^Mccready, Alastair; Rasheed, Zaheena; Pietromarchi, Virginia; Motamedi, Maziar; Adler, Nils (30 October 2024). "Death toll rises in Lebanon's Baalbek region". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 31 October 2024. Israeli strikes have killed 19 people, including eight women, in two towns in the Baalbek region, the Lebanese Health Ministry announced.
^"At least 12 killed in Israeli air strike on eastern Lebanon's Amhaz town". Al Jazeera. 1 November 2024. Retrieved 1 November 2024. Israel has launched an air strike on a house in the town of Amhaz, north of the Baalbek city in eastern Lebanon, according to the footage verified by Al Jazeera's fact-checking agency, Sanad. The footage showed moments of the arrival of an ambulance at the targeted location in the town amid heavy smoke rising into the sky in the area.
^"Israeli military says fighter jets hit Lebanon, Gaza more than 110 times". Al Jazeera. 7 November 2024. Retrieved 7 November 2024. Israeli jets hit approximately 20 sites in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and north of the Litani River, while dozens of other sites were attacked across southern Lebanon as Israeli ground forces destroyed "terrorist infrastructure".
^"Israeli forces escalate attacks in southern Lebanon". Al Jazeera. 10 November 2024. Retrieved 10 November 2024. 15 people were killed in an Israeli raid on the civil defense centre affiliated to the Islamic Mission Scouts Association in the town of Derqim Ras Al-Ain. Israeli forces raided a house in Ain Baal, injuring five civilians who were taken to hospitals in Tyre for treatment. After midnight Israeli forces raided Sarifa, causing serious and moderate injuries to civilians being treated in Hiram Hospital in Abbasiya, and severely damaging the hospital's equipment.
^"More on Israeli attack on northern Lebanon town". Al Jazeera. 11 November 2024. Retrieved 11 November 2024. Earlier we reported on a deadly Israeli air strike on the northern Lebanese town of Ain Yaaqoub. Mayor Majed Drbes says at least 14 people were killed and 15 others wounded. The strike on Ain Yaaqoub – which marks the northernmost point in Lebanon hit by Israeli forces since the war began in October 2023 – hit a building where 30 people were residing. Some people are still trapped under the rubble, said Drbes.
^"Death toll in Mount Lebanon town attack rises". Al Jazeera. 12 November 2024. Retrieved 13 November 2024. The death toll from the Israeli air strike on the town of Joun in the Chouf district has now risen to 15, including eight women and four children, the Lebanese Health Ministry has said. The attack also injured 12 others, the ministry said.
^"At least 15 rescuers killed in Israeli attack on southern Lebanon". Al Jazeera. 15 November 2024. The number of civil defence workers killed in yesterday's Israeli attack on Lebanon's Baalbek Regional Civil Defence Centre in the Douris village, at the entrance to the city of Baalbek, has risen to 15, according to a local official.
^"Death toll rises in Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon's Haris". Al Jazeera. 3 December 2024. We reported yesterday, based on information from Lebanon's Health Ministry, that five people were killed and two others injured in renewed Israeli attacks on the town of Haris in southern Lebanon. The ministry now reports that six people were killed and two injured in the town, according to the country's official National News Agency (NNA).
^Siddiqui, Usaid; Varshalomidze, Tamila; Najjar, Farah (30 September 2024). "Death toll in yesterday's Israeli attacks on Yemen rises". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 30 September 2024. Al Jazeera's correspondent reports, citing Yemen's Houthis, that six people were killed and 57 others wounded when Israelis bombed Hodeidah and Ras Issa yesterday.
^Quillen, Stephen; Marsi, Federica (12 September 2024). "Israeli air strike kills 2 in southern Syria: War monitor". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 1 January 2025. The attack comes days after raids blamed on Israel killed 18 people in the central province of Hama, according to Syrian authorities. The Syrian Observatory said those strikes killed 27 people, including six civilians, and targeted a "scientific research area" and other sites in the province's Masyaf area.
^Marsi, Federica; Varshalomidze, Tamila (3 October 2024). "IRGC consultant dies from injuries after Israeli attack on Syria's capital: Report". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 3 October 2024. Iran's Student News Network reports that a consultant working for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has died from injuries sustained in an Israeli air attack on Damascus on Monday.
^Motamedi, Maziar (31 October 2024). "Israel strikes Syrian town near Lebanon border: State media". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 31 October 2024. An "Israeli aggression" hit a number of residential buildings in the area of Qusayr in the southern countryside of Homs province, in central Syria, the country's news agency (SANA) reports. The attack caused "material damage" to the industrial zone of Qusayr and some of the city's residential neighbourhoods, according to the state media.
^"Israeli strikes on Syria's Palmyra kill 36, state media say". BBC News. 20 November 2024. A UK-based monitoring group put the death toll at 41 and reported that the strikes hit a weapons depot and other locations in and around an area inhabited by families of Iran-backed militia fighters. The SOHR reported that 41 people were killed, including 22 foreign nationals and seven Syrians, and seven civilians were among the injured.
^Pietromarchi, Virginia; Motamedi, Maziar (23 October 2024). "Israeli cyberattacks failing, Iran localising infrastructure: Official". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 23 October 2024. Iran's top cyber defence official has said online Israeli attacks against Iranian interests continue, but are facing a "layer-by-layer" defence strategy that have kept them at bay. "The offensive units of the enemy suffered big hits in the October 7 attacks, and Unit 8200 also took a hit," Gholamreza Jalali, the head of Iran's Passive Defense Organization, told reporters in reference to the Israeli military's top intelligence unit during a press conference in Tehran. He said the explosions of the pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah showed that "we cannot rely on sensitive and security-related foreign technologies" as they could provide avenues of access to enemies. "The best solution is to employ indigenous systems and infrastructure," Jalali said.
^Motamedi, Maziar; Milisic, Alma; Siddiqui, Usaid (24 October 2024). "Iran's IRGC chief cautions Israel not to rely on 'limited' THAAD capabilities". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 24 October 2024. The commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has suggested advanced US missile defence systems will not be enough if Israel prompts an Iranian attack by hitting Iran. "Do not trust the THAAD systems. They are limited, and you have relied on a limited power," Hossein Salami is quoted as saying by the IRGC-linked Tasnim news website.
14 in the West Bank and Israel by 11 August 2024 (per OCHA oPt)[106] not including 1 mistakenly killed by Israeli forces in Jerusalem[107] and 3 killed by militants (2 near Ofra[108] and 1 near Kedumim),[962] bringing the total to 18 conflict-related deaths for the period
^In addition to direct deaths, armed conflicts result in indirect deaths "attributable to the conflict". Mortality due to indirect deaths could be due to a variety of causes, such as infectious diseases.[48]
^Gaffney, Adam (30 May 2024). "Don't Believe the Conspiracies About the Gaza Death Toll". The Nation. For instance, the Geneva Declaration Secretariat's review of prior conflicts found that indirect deaths have, for most conflicts since the 1990s, been three to fifteen-fold higher than direct deaths, and suggest a ratio of four to one as a "conservative" estimate. There are reasons to think this ratio could be on the low end in Gaza given, among other things, the protracted and brutal siege.
^Abdulrahim, Raja; Rosales, Helmuth; Shbair, Bilal; Singhvi, Anjali; Solomon, Erika; Abuheweila, Iyad; Abu Bakr, Bashir; Harouda, Ameera; Khurana, Malika; Penney, Veronica; Reinhard, Scott (7 October 2024). "Gaza in Ruins After a Year of War". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
^ abcBusari, Stephanie; Ebrahim, Nadeen; Al Lawati, Abbas (19 January 2024). "Israel's war in Gaza has exposed a deepening global divide". CNN. Archived from the original on 11 February 2024. Retrieved 9 February 2024. Beyond the courtroom drama, experts say divisions over the war in Gaza symbolize a widening gap between Israel and its traditional Western allies, notably the United States and Europe, and a group of nations known as the Global South – countries located primarily in the southern hemisphere, often characterized by lower income levels and developing economies... Israel sided with the West against Soviet-backed Arab regimes during the Cold War, and Western countries largely view it "as a fellow member of the liberal democratic club", he added. "Some of this explains the continued strong Western support for Israel – which has now largely become reflexive."
^ abZomer, Navit (25 December 2023). "Israeli high-tech factories have difficulties importing components from China". Ynetnews. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 18 January 2024. The Chinese are imposing a kind of sanction on us. They don't officially declare it, but they are delaying shipments to Israel," a senior figure in one of the factories told Ynet. "They have various excuses and pretexts, such as requiring suppliers from China to obtain export licenses to Israel that did not exist before. Additionally, they demand that we fill out numerous forms, causing significant delays. This has never happened to us before.
^Lakhani, Nina (6 June 2024). "Revealed: repairing Israel's destruction of Gaza will come at huge climate cost". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 June 2024. The carbon cost of rebuilding Gaza will be greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 135 countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the unprecedented death toll, new research reveals. Reconstructing the estimated 200,000 apartment buildings, schools, universities, hospitals, mosques, bakeries, water and sewage plants damaged and destroyed by Israel in the first four months of the war on Gaza will generate as much as 60m tonnes of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e), according to new analysis by researchers in the UK and US. This is on a par with the total 2022 emissions generated by countries such as Portugal and Sweden – and more than twice the annual emissions of Afghanistan.
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