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Destroyed houses in Gaza City on 8 October 2023. The Gaza Strip has faced massive civilian casualties during the invasion. At least 31,000 Palestinians were reportedly killed between 27 October and 10 March, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. [365] Many were children; almost half of the people in Gaza are under 14 years old.
Legal scholars interpreted this as intention to destroy Gaza. [232] Far-right politician and former Knesset member Moshe Feiglin said: "There is one and only solution, which is to completely destroy Gaza before invading it. I mean destruction like what happened in Dresden and Hiroshima, without nuclear weapons."
Israeli attacks have destroyed more than 200 buildings of cultural and historical importance in Gaza, including mosques, cemeteries, and museums. UNESCO reported that at least 22 sites, including mosques, churches, historical houses, universities, and archives, were damaged or destroyed as a result of multiple Israeli attacks.
During the Israel–Hamas war, the Israeli military ordered mass evacuations in Gaza, resulting in one of the largest displacements of Palestinians since 1948. [4] [5] [a] On 13 October 2023, just one week after Hamas' attack on Israel, Israel instructed 1.1 million Gazans north of the Wadi Gaza, including those in Gaza City, to evacuate within 24 hours. [7]
Destroyed buildings in Gaza City, January 2009. The Gaza War [116] started when Israel launched a large military campaign in the Gaza Strip on 27 December 2008, codenamed Operation "Cast Lead" (Hebrew: מבצע עופרת יצוקה), [117] with the stated aim of stopping Hamas rocket attacks on southern Israel and arms smuggling into Gaza.
Israel occupied the Gaza Strip during the Six Day War, capturing it from Egypt along with the Sinai peninsula.In 1970, the first Israeli settlement was built. In 1993, as part of the Oslo Accords, the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel agreed to an outline for Palestinians to self-govern in the Palestinian territories.
The Gaza Strip (/ ˈ ɡ ɑː z ə / ⓘ; [10] Arabic: قِطَاعُ غَزَّةَ Qiṭāʿ Ġazzah [qɪˈtˤɑːʕ ˈɣaz.za]), also known simply as Gaza, is a small territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories, the other being the West Bank, that make up the State of Palestine.
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.