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During the bombing, Israeli airstrikes damaged or destroyed Palestinian refugee camps, schools, hospitals, mosques, churches, and other civilian infrastructure. [2] [3] By late April 2024 it was estimated that Israel had dropped over 70,000 tons of bombs over Gaza, surpassing the bombing of Dresden, Hamburg, and London combined during World War II.
The Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip is a major part of the Israel–Hamas war.Starting on 7 October 2023, immediately after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, it began bombing the Gaza Strip; on 13 October, Israel began ground operations in Gaza, and on 27 October, a full-scale invasion was launched.
Black Friday refers to a series of military strikes that took place in Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, over a period of four days starting on 1 August 2014.The events are notable for their intensity and the high number of casualties, particularly within the context of the larger conflict known as the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict or Operation Protective Edge.
Since October 2023, multiple attacks during the Israel–Hamas war hit Palestinians attempting to leave northern Gaza City. On 13 October, an airstrike occurred after an evacuation directive from Israel, urging more than a million residents from northern Gaza to move to the southern part of the territory. The airstrike killed 70 people, mostly ...
The Israeli military has been operating in Gaza for 15 months, a response to the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack in which roughly 1,200 people were killed in Israel and around 250 people were taken ...
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]
While Israel had issued an order to evacuate Gaza, social media videos from late October show large numbers of civilians still remained. [10] Since the beginning of the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, the Jabalia refugee camp had been bombed four times prior to October 31. The first bombing destroyed a mosque and a marketplace. More than 150 ...
GAZA, RAFA, CAIRO (Reuters) -"My life, my eyes, my soul," a husband writes on the white shroud wrapped around his wife after the war devastating Gaza took her life. A bereaved son writes "my ...