2023-10-07 21:55:56
Israel and the Gaza Strip are at war after the start of a surprise and spectacular military offensive by Hamas on Saturday morning, which fired thousands of rockets, infiltrated fighters into Israeli territory and captured Israelis.
This eruption of violence left 80 dead on the Israeli side, according to Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, and 232 dead on the Palestinian side, according to local authorities.
This is the deadliest escalation since the 11-day war in May 2021 between Hamas, the Islamist movement in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007, and the Israeli army.
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