A month after the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas, the death toll now exceeds 11,000 – of them 4,000 Gazan children -, to which must be added 241 Israeli hostages, almost 30,000 wounded, 1,700,000 displaced, a strip of Gaza divided in two and devastated by bombings and aid from the international community that arrives in dribs and drabs.
On October 7, the Islamist group Hamas launched a surprise attack from Gaza, and in an unprecedented event, combined with the launch of 5,000 rockets and infiltrations into Israeli territory by land, sea and air with paragliders.
In parallel, Hamas elements burst into an electronic music festival that was being held near the Strip with gunfire, while kidnapping dozens of Israeli and foreign soldiers and civilians in Israeli territory with the intention of exchanging them for Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas militants also raided Kibbutz Beeri, a farming community four kilometers from Gaza, where they killed at least a hundred civilians.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a state of war against Hamas with the launch of Operation “Iron Swords” with constant bombings in the Strip that has plunged the Gazan population into an agonizing situation.
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These are the most notable dates:
October 7: Hamas launches a combined operation against Israel from Gaza by surprise with the launch of 5,000 rockets, infiltrations and incursions into Israeli territory by land, sea and air with paragliders. He also kidnaps the bodies of dozens of Israeli soldiers on the Gaza border and takes several Israelis and foreigners hostage.
– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declares a state of war and launches Operation “Iron Swords” with bombings of the Gaza Strip.
– Tehran celebrates the Hamas attack with fireworks and pro-Iranian Shiite groups, Lebanese Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi rebels, also support the Islamist group.
– The president of the United States, Joe Biden, supports Israel, while Egypt confirms contacts with both sides to stop the escalation.
October 8: Israel links Iran to the Hamas attack, which has helped plan it since August.
– At least 260 bodies are recovered by Israeli emergency services from the desert area near Kibbutz Reim, near the Strip where hundreds of young people were celebrating an electronic music festival when Hamas burst in with gunfire.
October 9: Brussels suspends humanitarian aid to Palestine. Spain and France at odds. although later the EU rectifies and promotes an air bridge with Egypt to bring this aid to Gaza.
– Israel bombs 500 targets in Gaza while Hamas threatens to execute the 239 hostages, whom Israel says it has in its possession, if the bombings continue without warning.
– Biden, Macron, Scholz, Meloni and Sunak condemn Hamas and express their support for Israel.
October 11th: Netanyahu forms an emergency government with Gantz, opposition leader and former army chief.
October 12: Israel denounces beheadings of babies during the Hamas attack on Kibbutz Beeri, about 5 kilometers from the Strip, while the United States Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, accuses the Palestinian group of using the civilian population as human shields.
October 13: Israel gives a 24-hour ultimatum to evacuate more than a million inhabitants in Gaza to the south, which it extends in the following days.
– The Lebanese Shiite guerrilla Hezbollah says it is prepared to enter the war, while Israel kills several militants who tried to infiltrate its territory from Lebanon.
– Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, meeting in Amman with Blinken, warns him that the displacement of the Gazan population would mean “a second Nakba” (Disaster).
October 14: Hamas asks Egypt to reopen the Rafah crossing for the entry of humanitarian aid and the exit of citizens.
October 17: The Israeli Army kills four Hezbollah members.
October 18: An attack on the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza leaves 471 dead according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Israel blames Islamic Jihad for accidentally launching a burst of rockets and Hamas blames the Jewish state.
October 19: Biden arrives in Israel where he supports that the attack on the hospital was from “the other party.”
– Netanyahu will only allow “food, water and medicine” into Gaza through Egypt.
October 21: Egypt opens the Rafah crossing with 20 trucks with strict humanitarian aid.
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– Hamas frees first two hostages, an American mother and daughter
– Cairo hosts a summit that ends without results.
October 22: Israel bombs Hamas and Islamic Jihad infrastructure in a West Bank mosque. On the other hand, Hizbula raises its casualties to 12 in the last 24 hours in crossed attacks with Israel.
October 23: London concludes that a missile launched from Gaza caused the massacre at Al Ahli hospital.
October 25: The Gaza Ministry of Health declares the “total collapse” of the health system.
– Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad agree to maintain the “coordination” during the climb.
October 27: The first foreign medical team and a convoy of ten trucks enter Gaza from Egypt.
October 28: Hamas calls for an exchange of all Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Israeli hostages.
October 30: Palestinian deaths in the West Bank rise to 118 after days of bombing.
October 31st: Israel targets Hamas tunnels of which the group claims to have built 500 kilometers.
November 1: Israel has struck more than 11,000 Hamas targets since the war began, as it encircles Gaza in its seventh day of a ground offensive.
– A second Israeli attack on the Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza, causes 195 deaths.
November 2: The siege of the Strip is tightened.
November 3: Blinken’s second visit to Israel while hundreds of Gazans who were in Israel with work permits are expelled and sent to the Strip.
– First public appearance of Hizbullah leader Hasan Nasrallah, who links the escalation of the conflict to “what Israel does in Gaza and Lebanon”.
– Netanyahu rejects a truce without first recovering the hostages.
November 4: At least 17 dead in northern Gaza in an Israeli attack on a hospital and school.
– The Palestinian deaths now amount to more than 9,700 according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
November 5: Meeting in Ramallah between Blinken and Mahmud Abbas, who indicates that he is willing to “assume responsibilities” for Gaza within the framework of a “comprehensive political solution”.
Source: Gestion
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