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The latest conflict has now claimed the lives of nearly 2,000 people, with Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu stating on Monday that their bombardment of Gaza had “only started”.
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Israel declared a "state of war" with air retaliatory strikes and ordered a blockade on the Gaza Strip, which is located between Egypt and Israel and is home to more than 2 million Palestinians.
There hasn’t been electricity in days, and its largest hospital, Al-Shifa, is now a shelter for about 35,000 people, with men sleeping in the parking lot and women inside. There is little safety ...
An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups [ad] has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. It is the fifth war of the Gaza–Israel conflict since 2008, and the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War, in 1973. [132]
Dozens of people in Israel have been killed, according to a spokesperson for the country's emergency services, and nearly 200 people were killed in Gaza after retaliatory Israeli airstrikes there ...
According to the Gaza local authorities, 1,000 mosques have been destroyed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, with reconstruction costs estimated at $500 million. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Other reports indicate that 378 mosques were targeted during the conflict, although this number has not been independently verified.
“There is no safe place in Gaza right now. You see decent people being killed every day,” Gaza journalist Hasan Jabar said after three Palestinian journalists were killed in the Rimal bombardment.