On October 7, Hamas terrorists attacked Israeli border towns. Israel responded with massive air strikes and a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. The extent can be seen from a few numbers.
On the 100th day of the Gaza war, the preliminary results are devastating. According to the Hamas-controlled health authority, 23,968 people are said to have been killed and around 60,600 others injured in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip. In the terrorist attack on October 7th last year, extremist Palestinian groups murdered more than 1,200 people in Israel. In the worst massacre in Israel’s history that triggered the war, terrorists also abducted around 250 people to the Gaza Strip.
Israel assumes that 136 people are still being held there or that their bodies will not be released. According to government figures, 25 people are believed to be no longer alive. A total of 105 hostages were released during a week-long ceasefire in late November as part of a deal between the Jerusalem government and Hamas. In exchange, Israel released 240 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons.
Gaza Strip becomes “uninhabitable”
The situation for the people in the Gaza Strip remains dramatic. After 100 days of war, only 13 of the 36 hospitals are still partially operational. According to the United Nations, there is also a risk of famine in the Palestinian territory. The heavily bombed coastal strip had become “uninhabitable”. Around 360,000 residential units were damaged or destroyed. This means that more than half a million of Gaza’s 2.2 million residents no longer have a home to return to after the war. According to UN figures, 1.9 million people in the Palestinian territory have been displaced one or more times as a result of the fighting.
According to government figures, more than 200,000 people in Israel had to leave their homes to seek safety from attacks by Hamas in the south of the country and from attacks by the Lebanese Hezbollah in the north. Around ten million people live in Israel. Deadly confrontations between the Israeli army and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia continue to occur on the border between Israel and Lebanon as a result of the Gaza war. In Israel’s northern neighbor, more than 76,000 people have been displaced due to tensions, according to the Organization for Migration (IOM).
Source: Stern
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