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By the end of December 2023, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics estimated that the Palestinian economy had lost a total of $1.5 billion USD since the start of the conflict. [8] In February 2024, the World Bank reported that Gaza's economy had shrunk by 80 percent in the fourth quarter of 2023. [9]
[4] [10] [11] While airstrikes persisted in the south, Palestinians initiated evacuations from northern Gaza. According to Hamas officials' reports, these attacks led to the loss of lives primarily women and children. [10] [12] [13] According to the Hamas media office, these airstrikes were carried out on vehicles leaving Gaza City. These cars ...
The attack coincided with the Jewish religious holiday Simchat Torah. Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups codenamed the attacks Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, [g] [1] while in Israel they are referred to as Black Saturday [h] [26] or the Simchat Torah Massacre, [i] [27] and internationally as the 7 October attacks. [28] [29] [30]
The National March on Washington: Free Palestine was a demonstration held on November 4, 2023, at the National Mall, in Washington, D.C. The event was held in conjunction with similar protests across the United States and internationally.
The U.S. government said in an Oct. 13 letter Israel had 30 days to take specific steps to address the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which has been pummeled for more than a year by Israel's ...
The Israel–Hamas war, also known as the Gaza War, is an ongoing armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups. [ad] 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. [145]
October 7–31, 2023: 8,500 rockets and mortar shells launched at Israel. About 10% of them were failed launches that landed in the Gaza Strip and in the sea. [6] [citation needed] The 7 October rocket attacks included a strike on a putative nuclear missile site.
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