2023-10-10 22:42:00
“Israel has the right to defend itself, it has the right to take action against the terrorists who launched this brutal attack and killed Israeli civilians and American civilians (…),” the official told the press.
On October 7, the Palestinian movement Hamas launched thousands of missiles from the Gaza Strip in an unprecedented attack and carried out an armed incursion into Israel’s southern border areas, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare that the country “is at war.” In response to the Hamas surprise attack, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Iron Swords and in the first four waves of airstrikes launched some 2,000 ammunition and more of 1,000 tons of bombs about Gaza.
According to the latest available data, the escalation of violence has caused some 1,000 deaths and more than 3,400 injuries in Israel, and some 830 deaths and 4,250 injuries in Gaza, as well as more than 100 people, both military and civilians, who were kidnapped during the attack and are held captive in the Palestinian enclave.
In addition, the new spiral of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has displaced some 200,000 of the 2.2 million residents of the Gaza Strip, according to United Nations spokesman Farhan Haq.
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