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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. [358] Many were children; almost half of the people in Gaza are under 14 years old.
However, Israel has been continuously imposing a blockade of the Gaza Strip since 2007. At the beginning of the Israel–Hamas war, Israel made it clear that controlling the Gaza Strip was one of the main goals. [10] In late January 2024, Benjamin Netanyahu said that he "will not compromise on full Israeli control" over Gaza. [11]
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.
A group of Palestinians living in Gaza and the U.S. as well as human rights organizations, are suing President Joe Biden and other state officials because they allege the U.S. is not taking “all ...
The Gaza infrastructure decimated by the Israel military operation against Hamas has set back human development in the area by almost 70 years, according to a new UN report. After Hamas launched ...
Legal scholars interpreted this as intention to destroy Gaza. [228] 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."
In response to Hamas’ October 7 attacks on Israel, when militants killed more than 1,200 people and took some 250 others hostage, Israel launched its war in Gaza with the primary goals of ...
Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Mustafa shared an image of an Israeli soldier reading a book in the library of the Al-Aqsa University in Gaza while a bookshelf burns behind the soldier. Mustafa stated that "Israel has targeted all universities in the Strip, with some being completely destroyed". [148]