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The city of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip following the Israeli bombing on January 12
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As the war on Gaza enters its 100th day, Israel is still continuing its military campaign, which it launched after Hamas carried out an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on October 7, an attack that killed 1,200 people and held 250 hostage, 130 of whom are still held hostage. in Gaza.
On Saturday night, thousands of people in Tel Aviv commemorated the events of last October 7.
Since the start of the war, the Israeli army has destroyed a large part of the Strip, from Gaza City in the north to Khan Yunis in the south.
Israel says Hamas has been severely weakened and, according to the IDF, almost unable to function as an organized force in northern Gaza.
But the number of civilians killed in the Israeli bombing was enormous, with more than 24,000 people killed, according to the Ministry of Health in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, a large number of whom were women and children. Thousands more are believed to have died under the rubble.
Palestinian officials say 85 percent of Gaza’s population has been displaced. While more aid is now entering Gaza, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator described the situation as “unbearable.”
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Faten Abu Shehadeh now lives in a plastic tent with her family in Khan Yunis
Ms. Faten Abu Shehadeh is one of more than two million Palestinians living in Gaza. Faten needs regular dialysis, which is one of the reasons that prompted her and her family to move south. Faten and the children’s home is now a plastic tent in Khan Yunis, with the sound of an Israeli drone flying above their heads.
Faten says: “Gaza has been destroyed. There is no longer Gaza, no hospitals, no education. Our children have lost their school year, and Gaza is no longer alive.”
Israel is under increasing international pressure to consider a ceasefire, as the extent of civilian suffering increases.
Even its closest ally, the United States, which consistently defends Israel’s right to self-defense and prevent a repeat of what happened on October 7, has repeatedly told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the civilian death toll is “too high.”
US President Joe Biden spoke of the “indiscriminate bombing” carried out by Israel, and said that it means that Israel is losing support around the world.
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Writer Gideon Levy says that the war in Gaza will continue as long as the Americans allow it
Gideon Levy, a writer for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, says: “The war in its current form will continue as long as the Americans allow Israel to do so.”
He adds: “I do not think it will take several more weeks. But this does not mean that the war is over, because if Israel does not withdraw from Gaza, there will be resistance, and if there is resistance, there will be revenge.”
As Israeli forces continue to attack Hamas positions in central and southern Gaza, it seems that ending the war is far from Netanyahu’s intentions.
Israel says the fighting will not end until Hamas is completely defeated. The immediate future across the region, especially for the thousands of civilians living in appalling conditions in Gaza, looks particularly bleak.
The current war has become the longest war Israel has waged since 1948.
The following is a timeline of the most prominent stations in the war between Israel and Hamas during the past 100 days:
October 7, 2023: Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip stormed southern Israel and carried out an attack that killed 1,200 Israelis and took 240 hostage in Gaza, according to Israeli statistics.
Israel subsequently began launching retaliatory air strikes on the densely populated Gaza Strip, and imposed a comprehensive siege on it. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel is in a state of war.
October 8: The Lebanese Hezbollah, supported by Iran, entered the line and carried out attacks and bombings, in solidarity with the Hamas movement, across the border against Israel, and the latter carried out Israeli counter-strikes.
October 13: Israel asks the 2.3 million residents of Gaza City to evacuate and move south. Israel then pushed to evacuate the entire north. This prompted hundreds of thousands of Gaza Strip residents to be displaced and leave their homes, and often to flee several times as Israeli forces advanced.
October 17: An explosion at the Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza leaves hundreds dead and wounded and sparks global outrage. There was an exchange of accusations between Israel and the Palestinians about responsibility for the incident. Biden cancels a scheduled visit with Arab leaders and renews his support for Israel in “defending itself,” but he also asks Israelis not to be blinded by their anger.
October 19: A US Navy warship intercepted missiles and drones launched from Yemen towards Israel. The Yemeni Houthi Ansar Allah group pledges to attack Israeli ships in the Red Sea in what is described as solidarity with Gaza.
October 21: The first aid trucks entered Gaza from the Rafah border crossing from Egypt after days of diplomatic controversy and the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Strip.
October 27: Israel launches a large-scale ground offensive in Gaza, after a week of limited incursions, vowing to release all hostages and eliminate Hamas.
October 31: 15 Israeli soldiers were killed in fighting in Gaza, the largest loss suffered by the Israeli army in a single day during the war.
November 1: Evacuations began from Gaza via the Rafah crossing for approximately 7,000 foreign passport holders, dual nationals, their families, and people in need of urgent medical treatment. While the vast majority of Gazans are still unable to leave the Strip.
November 9: Israel accuses Syria of participating in the war after the launch of a drone, said to be from Syrian territory, that struck the southern Israeli city of Eilat. The next day, the Israeli army announced that it would attack the militia that launched the march.
November 15: Israeli forces stormed Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital and medical complex in Gaza, after a siege that lasted for several days, under the pretext that the hospital was used to hide an underground headquarters for Hamas fighters. This is denied by the hospital administration, whose medical staff announced the death of the patients. Including newborn babies, due to lack of electrical power and supplies. Weeks later, all hospitals serving the northern half of Gaza stopped working.
November 21: Israel and Hamas announce a truce and agreement to stop fighting for four days and exchange women and children hostage held in Gaza for Palestinian women and teenagers held by Israel in its prisons. The ceasefire was then extended for a total of one week, and 105 hostages were liberated in exchange for about 240 Palestinian detainees, before the agreement collapsed and the war resumed on December 1.
December 4: The Israeli army launched its first major ground attack in southern Gaza on the outskirts of Khan Yunis after the collapse of the truce. International organizations say that the expansion of the military campaign will significantly worsen the humanitarian situation.
December 12: A shift in US rhetoric in support of Israel following US President Joe Biden’s statements that Israel’s “indiscriminate bombing” of Gaza is costing it international support. Washington urges Israel to make more efforts to protect civilians, and to reduce the war to a campaign more targeting Hamas leaders.
December 15: Israeli forces mistakenly kill three hostages in Gaza.
December 22: The Israeli Defense Minister announced Iraq’s entry into the war in Gaza, following the announcement by the Islamic Resistance militia in Iraq of launching a long-range attack on Israel.
December 26: Israeli forces launched a major ground attack on areas in the central Gaza Strip, preceded by a campaign of air strikes.
January 1, 2024: Israel announces the start of withdrawing some of its forces from northern Gaza in a new, more targeted phase of its campaign, which it says will continue for several months. While fierce fighting continues in the southern regions.
January 11: American and British warplanes, ships, and submarines launched dozens of air strikes on several Yemeni cities in response to attacks carried out by the Houthis on ships in the Red Sea.
In its first session, the International Court of Justice hears opening statements in a case in which South Africa accuses Israel of committing a campaign of genocide against the Palestinian population. This is something Israel denies.
January 12: US Central Command announced the implementation of its latest strike on a Houthi radar site in Yemen using Tomahawk ground attack missiles.
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