Israel’s war on Gaza – six relentless months of death and destruction | Israel War on Gaza News

It has been six months since Israel launched its brutal assault on the Gaza Strip on October 7.

Israel exhibits no signal of stopping, as its allies proceed to offer it with extra weapons to make use of on Palestinians together with political help, and mediated talks haven’t led to a ceasefire.

The battle on Gaza, Israel says, is in retaliation for assaults on Israeli territory by armed teams, led by Hamas’s Qassam Brigades, from Gaza which killed 1,139 individuals and took about 250 captive.

Let’s check out the toll the Israeli assaults have taken on Gaza.

How many individuals have been killed or injured?

Not less than 33,137 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza for the reason that begin of the battle on October 7, the Ministry of Well being in Gaza says.

1000’s extra are lacking below the rubble of collapsed buildings and infrastructure, and are presumed lifeless.

Youngsters and girls comprise the overwhelming majority of these killed, with Save the Youngsters saying greater than 13,800 kids have been killed.

UNICEF, the United Nations fund for youngsters, estimated that at the very least 17,000 Palestinian kids are presently unaccompanied or separated from their mother and father in Gaza.

Not less than 75,815 individuals have been injured in Israeli assaults for the reason that begin of the battle – about 4 out of each 100 individuals in Gaza.

The Palestine Pink Crescent Society stated this week that some 1,000 kids in Gaza have misplaced one or each of their legs.

Dozens of individuals are nonetheless killed and injured on daily basis amid relentless Israeli assaults.

Are individuals ravenous?

The humanitarian scenario in Gaza has grown considerably worse in 2024 because the Israeli military blocks the arrival of help and has successfully imposed starvation as a weapon of battle.

Almost all 2.3 million individuals trapped in Gaza now face hunger, with the UN saying famine will take maintain in varied components of Gaza by Could.

Northern Gaza, which was the primary to be decimated by an Israeli floor invasion, is the worst-hit – Israel continues to severely prohibit entry to the north, blocking routes and subjecting help convoys to delays or cancellations.

Infants and younger kids have died from dehydration and malnutrition in northern Gaza, however Israel continues to be blocking many humanitarian missions.

Final week, Israeli forces deliberately killed seven foreign aid workers in three focused, consecutive strikes on a convoy of vehicles over a stretch of two.3km (1.4 miles), prompting some help organisations to droop providers.

How many individuals have been displaced?

The Israeli army ordered Palestinians to “go south” from the beginning of the battle as its floor forces invaded Gaza from the north.

No person has been in a position to return to their properties in northern Gaza since then as Israel has established a army hall reducing the Strip in half.

Some 1.9 million individuals, or greater than 80 p.c of Gaza’s inhabitants, have been internally displaced. Most are sheltering in UN installations reminiscent of faculties and hospitals, however, greater than 400 have been killed and at the very least 1,400 injured in these locations.

Greater than 1.5 million individuals at the moment are crammed into Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost metropolis on the border with Egypt. Many have been pressured to remain in makeshift camps or the streets, uncovered to Israeli air assaults.

Israel has insisted it’ll invade Rafah by land as nicely.

The UN company for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says greater than 350 Israeli army assaults have focused its buildings, with 161 installations broken. The best variety of UN employees in historical past – 176 – have been killed in Gaza since October 7.

How a lot of Gaza is in ruins?

The battle has broken or destroyed roughly 62 p.c of all properties in Gaza – 290,820 housing models – leaving greater than 1,000,000 individuals with out properties.

The $18.5bn in damage estimated by the World Financial institution and the UN has additionally been to public service infrastructure, with 26 million tonnes of particles and rubble left by the destruction.

Harm has been most in depth in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the place Israeli floor and air assaults destroyed hundreds of properties and infrastructure in a acknowledged effort to fight “terrorists”.

Eight of each 10 faculties in Gaza are broken or destroyed, in accordance with UNICEF. As many as 625,000 college students don’t have any entry to training.

Are hospitals functioning?

The Israeli military has centered its assaults on hospitals throughout Gaza regardless of their safety below worldwide legislation, claiming Hamas is working inside and beneath them.

All hospitals have suffered essential injury, with solely 10 out of 36 in a position to perform partially however they’re more and more overburdened.

A two-week-long siege in and round al-Shifa Hospital, the most important in Gaza, left it heavily damaged and burned by final week. The Israeli military killed at the very least 400 individuals on the compound throughout its siege and arrested a whole lot extra.

An acute scarcity of medication, together with exhausted and ravenous healthcare professionals, means most sufferers are unable to obtain therapy in Gaza. Many operations and amputations have needed to be carried out with out anaesthetic.

What number of journalists have been killed?

The Israeli military has killed the most important variety of journalists of any trendy battle and detained greater than 24.

On March 18, Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul was arrested for 12 hours and crushed by Israeli forces in al-Shifa Hospital.

Earlier than that, on January 7, Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Dahdouh, son of Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, was killed by an Israeli missile in Khan Younis. Hamza was in a car close to al-Mawasi with one other journalist, Mustafa Thuraya, who was additionally killed within the assault.

On December 15, 2023, Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abudaqa was hit in an Israeli drone assault that additionally injured Wael Dahdouh, in Khan Younis, Gaza.

Abudaqa bled to dying over 4 hours as emergency employees have been unable to succeed in him as a result of the Israeli military wouldn’t allow them to.

The Committee to Shield Journalists places the variety of journalists killed at 90, with the Authorities Media Workplace in Gaza saying some 140 have been killed.

Final week, an Israeli strike focused a journalists’ tent within the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, killing at the very least 4 individuals and wounding a number of journalists.