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The Israel–Hamas war began on 7 October 2023 when Hamas launched an unprecedented multi-faceted and sustained assault on Israel from the Gaza Strip. As of 21 May 2024, over 37,000 people (35,562 Palestinian and 1,478 Israeli have been reported as killed in the Israel–Hamas war, including 105 journalists (100 Palestinian, 2 Israeli and 3 Lebanese) and over 224 humanitarian aid workers ...
Hamas said that a British-Israeli hostage succumbed to wounds sustained from an Israeli airstrike. Israel announced that a soldier of the Nahal Brigade was killed in a gunfight with Hamas fighters in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza the day prior, bringing the IDF death toll in the Gaza Strip to 272. 12 May
Israeli and Palestinian deaths preceding the war before the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel. Most were civilians. In 1967, following the Six-Day War fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan), Israel occupied the Palestinian territories, including the Gaza Strip which had formerly been occupied by Egypt.
At 6:30 a.m. IST, air raid sirens were activated in southern and central Israel in response to Hamas missiles. Concurrently, Muhammad Deif, the leader of the Hamas' military wing, announced in a ten-minute recorded message published online the start of "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood", and that "the enemy will understand that the time of their rampaging without accountability has ended", urging ...
1 May. The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 33 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 34,568. [592] An overnight Israeli airstrike on a house in Rafah killed two children. [593] Two Jordanian aid convoys were attacked by Israeli settlers while on their way to Gaza. [594]
Tensions during the Israel–Hamas war. On 7 October 2023, Hamas, a Palestinian militant group partially funded by Iran, launched an attack on Israel resulting in the deaths of almost 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, and the outbreak of the Israel–Hamas war. Israel also skirmished with Iranian proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The Israeli government voted to approve a deal (mediated by Qatar, Egypt, and the U.S.) with Hamas to exchange 150 Palestinian prisoners for 50 hostages. It also approved an agreement for a four–day ceasefire in Gaza. Netanyahu clarified that Israel's war against Hamas would continue after the ceasefire.
The Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip is an ongoing part of the Israel-Hamas war. Immediately after the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, Israel began the bombing of Gaza Strip and by October 27 Israel had launched a full-scale invasion. The Israeli campaign, called Operation Swords of Iron, has killed 30,000+ Palestinians, most of them women ...