RALLY FOR HOSTAGES
Within the early hours of Oct 7, 2023, Hamas launched its assault by firing hundreds of rockets in direction of Israeli border communities.
On the identical time Hamas fighters stormed throughout the border and attacked practically 50 totally different websites, together with kibbutzim communities, military bases and the Nova music pageant.
Militants killed festival-goers en masse and went door-to-door in farming communities, capturing residents useless of their houses.
Hours later, Israel launched a blistering navy offensive on Gaza that has diminished swathes of the territory to rubble, and displaced practically all of its 2.4 million residents a minimum of as soon as amid an unrelenting humanitarian disaster.
Hamas’ Oct 7, 2023 assault resulted within the deaths of 1,205 individuals, largely civilians, based on an AFP tally primarily based on the newest official Israeli figures.
Some 251 individuals have been captured and brought as hostages to the Gaza Strip, of whom 97 are nonetheless held captive within the coastal territory, together with 34 the Israeli navy says are useless.
An Israeli marketing campaign group on Monday introduced the loss of life of a hostage held in Gaza named Idan Shtivi, 28, who was kidnapped on the Nova pageant.
In retaliation for the assault, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to crush Hamas and to carry dwelling all of the hostages.
“A yr in the past, we suffered a horrible blow. Over the previous 12 months, we’ve got fully reworked actuality,” Netanyahu mentioned on Sunday throughout a go to to the Lebanon border.
With Israel increasing the main focus of its warfare to Lebanon, Netanyahu has promised to make sure tens of hundreds of Israelis pressured to flee Hezbollah fireplace are capable of return to their houses.
Since final month, Israel has performed large strikes on Hezbollah strongholds round Lebanon and launched floor operations throughout the border.
The warfare has killed greater than 1,110 individuals in Lebanon and compelled a couple of million to flee their houses.
However Israel’s marketing campaign in Gaza is way from over. Within the north of the Palestinian territory, the Israeli navy mentioned it had encircled the Jabaliya space after indications Hamas was rebuilding there.
Rescuers mentioned 17 individuals, together with 9 youngsters, had been killed on Sunday by Israeli air strikes within the space.
