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It has been greater than two weeks since Hamas militants crossed into Israel on a murderous rampage, killing greater than 1,400 folks and taking hostages — the beginning of a bloody and unpredictable new chapter within the Israeli-Palestinian battle.
The Israeli navy has responded by pummeling the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip with airstrikes, killing greater than 7,000 Palestinians, and massing troops alongside the border in preparation for a floor offensive. Israel referred to as on 1.1 million Palestinians who reside in northern Gaza to go away the world, a directive that the United Nations stated was “not possible” and “might rework what’s already a tragedy right into a calamitous state of affairs.”
Broken areas
since Oct. 17
Inhabitants by municipality
Knowledge as of Oct. 24 at 11:45 p.m. Japanese
Sources: Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics,
U.N. Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA), injury evaluation of Copernicus Sentinel-1
satellite tv for pc information by Corey Scher of CUNY Graduate Heart
and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State College
Broken areas
since Oct. 17
Inhabitants by municipality
Knowledge as of Oct. 24 at 11:45 p.m. Japanese
Sources: Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, U.N. Workplace for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), injury evaluation of
Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite tv for pc information by Corey Scher of CUNY
Graduate Heart and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State College
Broken areas
since Oct. 17
Inhabitants by municipality
Knowledge as of Oct. 24 at 11:45 p.m. Japanese
Sources: Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, U.N. Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), injury evaluation of Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite tv for pc information by Corey Scher of
CUNY Graduate Heart and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State College
Broken areas
since Oct. 17
Inhabitants by municipality
Knowledge as of Oct. 24 at 11:45 p.m. Japanese
Sources: Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, U.N. Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA), injury evaluation of Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite tv for pc information by
Corey Scher of CUNY Graduate Heart and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State College
Satellite tv for pc pictures captured by Maxar present the influence of Israel airstrikes on Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza.
The battle has introduced concern, destruction and uncertainty for hundreds of thousands within the area. Right here’s how the occasions have been unfolding.
Early levels of Israeli floor assault
Israel has now launched what it’s calling the second part of its assault to destroy Hamas in Gaza, a battle Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as his nation’s “second conflict for independence.”
Extra Israeli troops entered Gaza
Israel stated it expanded its floor assault as extra troops entered the Gaza Strip. The World Well being Group recognized at the least 118 assaults on health-care employees or health-care operations within the West Financial institution for the reason that starting of the battle, based on the U.N. Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Israel introduced the second part of the conflict towards Hamas
Israel began its most intensive floor exercise within the Gaza Strip in three weeks Friday night time. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated the subsequent day that the operation represented the second part of the conflict towards Hamas.
Israeli airstrikes precipitated continued injury throughout Gaza
New evaluation of satellite tv for pc imagery reveals heavy injury throughout Gaza from Israeli airstrikes. For the reason that starting of this conflict, the Israeli navy says it has struck greater than 7,000 targets in Gaza, with the reported aim of going after Hamas infrastructure. Nevertheless, injury evaluation of satellite tv for pc information exhibits civilian infrastructure additionally being hit previously week — together with at the least three colleges, a cemetery, and a sewage remedy plant in jap Gaza Metropolis.
Knowledge as of Oct. 24 at 11:44 p.m. Japanese
Sources: Injury evaluation of Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite tv for pc information by Corey Scher of CUNY Graduate Heart and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State College, OpenStreetMap, Copernicus Sentinel-2
Knowledge as of Oct. 24 at 11:44 p.m. Japanese
Sources: Injury evaluation of Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite tv for pc information by Corey Scher of CUNY Graduate Heart and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State College, OpenStreetMap, Copernicus Sentinel-2
Knowledge as of Oct. 24 at 11:44 p.m. Japanese
Knowledge as of Oct. 24 at 11:44 p.m. Japanese
Sources: Injury evaluation of Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite tv for pc information by Corey Scher of CUNY Graduate Heart and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State College, OpenStreetMap, Copernicus Sentinel-2
Sources: Injury evaluation of Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite tv for pc information by Corey Scher of CUNY Graduate Heart and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State College, OpenStreetMap, Copernicus Sentinel-2
Knowledge as of Oct. 24 at 11:44 p.m. Japanese
Sources: Injury evaluation of Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite tv for pc information by Corey Scher of CUNY Graduate Heart and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State College, OpenStreetMap, Copernicus Sentinel-2
Israeli tanks conduct ‘focused’ raid
The Israeli navy stated it despatched tanks in to conduct a “focused raid” within the northern Gaza Strip in a single day, describing the transient raid as “a part of preparations for the subsequent levels of fight.”
Day 19 Wednesday, Oct. 25
Gaza deaths mount as Israel intensifies strikes
Israel continued to strike the Gaza Strip, concentrating on Hamas infrastructure, based on the Israel Protection Forces (IDF). In northern Israel, Israeli fighter jets attacked navy infrastructure and positions of the Syrian military in response to fireside towards Israel, and border fireplace continued between IDF and Hezbollah within the Israel-Lebanon border.
Gaza deaths mount as Israel intensifies strikes
Palestinian authorities stated Israeli strikes have killed at the least 5,791 folks in Gaza and wounded greater than 16,297. Israeli authorities stated greater than 1,400 folks have been killed in Israel and greater than 5,400 injured for the reason that Hamas assault on Oct. 7
IDF claims lots of of strikes in Gaza as U.S. braces for regional escalation
The Israel Protection Forces stated it attacked greater than 320 targets within the Gaza Strip previously day. As tensions rise within the Center East, Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned of a “probability” of “escalation by Iranian proxies” towards U.S. forces and stated that america is “taking steps to guarantee that we are able to successfully defend our folks.”
Israel intensifies bombing on a number of fronts
Israeli warplanes hit targets throughout the Gaza Strip in addition to two airports in Syria and a mosque within the occupied West Financial institution allegedly utilized by militants, whereas a second convoy of humanitarian help reportedly started crossing into Gaza from Egypt on Sunday afternoon.
First help convoy enters Gaza from Egypt
Help vans arrived in Gaza on Saturday for the primary time for the reason that begin of the conflict, getting into by means of Egypt’s Rafah border crossing as world leaders gathered in Cairo and Israel stated it was rising its assaults on Hamas.
Israel ranges Gaza district as invasion looms
An Israeli strike broken Gaza’s historic Church of St. Porphyrius on Friday. The church was sheltering lots of of Palestinians displaced by the conflict. Within the northern border, Israel’s Protection Ministry introduced the evacuation of a city that has an estimated inhabitants of about 20,000.
President Biden broadcasts Gaza help deal
Israel pounded Gaza with extra airstrikes on Thursday, as President Biden stated Egypt would permit as much as 20 vans with help by means of the Rafah border crossing.
Day 12 Wednesday, Oct. 18
U.S. says Israel ‘not accountable’ for hospital blast
In a press release Wednesday, White Home spokeswoman Adrienne Watson stated the present U.S. evaluation, primarily based on “overhead imagery, intercepts and open supply data,” discovered that Israel was “not accountable” for the blast on the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza.
Clashes throughout West Financial institution left a number of Palestinians lifeless. Protests erupted additionally outdoors the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and in Amman, Jordan.
Palestinian, Israeli leaders commerce blame for hospital assault
An assault on the al-Ahli Hospital in central Gaza Metropolis has killed lots of of individuals, based on the Palestinian Well being Ministry. Palestinian officers say an Israeli airstrike hit the hospital courtyard the place displaced Gazans have been taking shelter; the Israel Protection Forces blamed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group, saying “a barrage of rockets” was passing close to the hospital when it was hit.
100,000 nonetheless stay in Gaza Metropolis and the north
The U.N. company for Palestinian refugees estimates that 1 million folks have been displaced throughout the Gaza Strip. Roughly 100,000 nonetheless stay in Gaza Metropolis and the north regardless of Israel’s evacuation directive.
Evacuations in southern Lebanon
The Israeli Protection Ministry on Monday launched a listing of 28 communities alongside the northern border of Lebanon to start evacuating to state-funded lodging. The communities are principally inside 1.2 miles of the Lebanese border.
Israel has lengthy been enemies with Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah and the 2 sides have intermittently shelled one another. Skirmishes between the 2 have been routine for many years, however tensions have been excessive for the reason that Israel-Gaza conflict that started Oct. 7. The Israel Protection Forces stated earlier Monday that it had struck Hezbollah navy infrastructure in Lebanon in a single day in retaliation for an assault on Israeli territory Sunday.
Troops noticed close to the border
As a floor invasion looms, Israeli troops and armored automobiles have been seen in a number of areas close to the northern and jap borders with Gaza on Saturday and Sunday.
A number of automobiles amassed within the southern Israeli metropolis of Ashkelon. Tanks have been additionally noticed in Nahal Oz, an Israeli city close to Gaza Metropolis.
Gaza residents flee south
The primary roads operating north to south have been crowded for a second day Saturday after the Israeli navy referred to as for civilians to maneuver south of the Wadi Gaza wetlands by means of designated streets. Many fled on foot.
However some civilians refused to go away northern Gaza, fearing that escape routes are too harmful. Hamas’s media workplace stated airstrikes hit vehicles as they headed south from Gaza Metropolis, killing 70 folks.
Israel requires evacuations
Israel instructed the 1.1 million folks residing in northern Gaza to maneuver south inside 24 hours, a warning the United Nations referred to as not possible “with out devastating humanitarian penalties.” Included within the directive was Gaza Metropolis, the strip’s most densely populated space.
The decision got here as Israel continued to pummel the strip with bombs and the demise toll surged previous 1,500. The United Nations stated an estimated 600,000 persons are displaced to the southern half of Gaza, although this quantity is probably going an undercount.
With exits to Israel and Egypt closed, Gazans have nowhere to go. A mass evacuation “might rework what’s already a tragedy right into a calamitous state of affairs,” the United Nations stated.
Getting ready for a floor assault
Israeli tanks deployed on the border with Gaza on Oct. 12, whereas a military helicopter flew close to the northern border with Lebanon. (Video: Reuters)
Israeli tanks deployed to the border with Gaza, and reservists arrived for obligation on the Julis navy base close to Ashkelon.
In the meantime, the Israeli bombardment of Gaza continued.
Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the IDF, stated in a televised briefing that Israel would now not permit Hamas to exist subsequent door.
“In contrast to different operations, we’re collapsing the governance and sovereignty of the Hamas group,” he stated.
Deep underground, within the northern Israeli metropolis of Haifa, medics lined up hospital beds and braced for the potential of a wider regional escalation. After rocket fireplace from Syria earlier within the week, Israel launched missile strikes on two of the nation’s principal airports, authorities in Damascus stated.
Israeli strikes on Gaza intensified, many concentrated in closely populated areas within the north. The demise toll surpassed 1,100 folks, and greater than 263,000 folks have been displaced throughout the strip. The United Nations introduced 11 employees have been killed.
Explosions or airstrikes in northern Gaza
Explosion close to
Mashroo Amer
wal Isra’a
Notice: Not all occasions are included attributable to information availability.
Sources: U.N. Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA), Israel Protection Forces, Maxar Applied sciences,
Google Earth
Explosions or airstrikes in northern Gaza
Explosion close to
Mashroo Amer
wal Isra’a
Destroyed
al Gharbi mosque
Notice: Not all occasions are included attributable to information availability.
Sources: U.N. Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA), Israel Protection Forces, Maxar Applied sciences, Google Earth
Explosions or airstrikes in northern Gaza
Explosion close to
Mashroo Amer wal Isra’a.
Destroyed
al-Gharbi mosque
Airstrikes destroyed a number of
mosques in west Gaza.
Bombing considerably broken
hospitals in Gaza Metropolis.
Destroyed residential
buildings close to As Sabra.
Worldwide Eye Hospital
Notice: Not all occasions are included attributable to information availability.
Sources: U.N. Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Israel Protection Forces,
Maxar Applied sciences, Google Earth
Explosions or airstrikes in northern Gaza
Explosion close to
Mashroo Amer
wal Isra’a
Airstrikes destroyed a number of
mosques in west Gaza.
Bombing considerably broken
hospitals in Gaza Metropolis.
Islamic
College
of Gaza
Worldwide Eye Hospital
A few of the most devastating strikes Israel has carried out in Gaza
Palestinian authorities stated Gaza’s solely energy plant had run out of gasoline and was now not working.
Israel gives Gaza with energy in two methods. Gaza’s energy plant runs on imported diesel gasoline. There are additionally 10 direct energy strains from Israel to Gaza. Now, each sources have been reduce off.
The place Gaza will get its electrical energy
The Gaza Strip has a complete each day energy provide of 195 MWs.
Israel provides 120 megawatts each day to Gaza, that are delivered by means of direct energy strains.
Gaza’s energy plant provides 65 to 75 each day megawatts. The gasoline that powers this plant is bought from Israel and enters Gaza by means of the Karem Shalom crossing.
FROM GAZA’S
POWER PLANT
The place Gaza will get its electrical energy
The Gaza Strip has a complete each day energy provide of 195 MWs.
Israel provides 120 megawatts each day to Gaza, that are delivered by means of direct energy strains.
Gaza’s energy plant provides 65 to 75 each day megawatts. The gasoline that powers this plant is bought from Israel and enters Gaza by means of the Karem Shalom crossing.
The place Gaza will get its electrical energy
The Gaza Strip has a complete each day energy provide of 195 MWs.
Israel provides 120 megawatts each day to Gaza, that are delivered by means of direct energy strains.
Gaza’s energy plant provides 65 to 75 each day megawatts. The gasoline that powers this plant is bought from Israel and enters Gaza by means of the Karem Shalom crossing.
The place Gaza will get its electrical energy
Israel provides 120 megawatts each day to Gaza, that are delivered by means of direct energy strains.
Gaza’s energy plant provides 65 to 75 each day megawatts. The gasoline that powers this plant is bought from Israel and enters Gaza by means of the Karem Shalom crossing.
Complete each day energy
provide: 195 MWs
Scenes of extra destruction
Our bodies in Israel have been nonetheless being discovered. After 2½ days of intense preventing in Kfar Azza — one of many first cities attacked — troopers escorted journalists by means of scenes of utter break. Houses have been burned, vehicles have been smashed, and the air smelled of demise.
Israeli commanders stated that they had gained management of the border round Gaza, however Hamas continued to fireside rockets into Israel, whilst IDF airstrikes focused militant infrastructure and command posts. The navy stated it had carried out greater than 2,000 strikes throughout Gaza since Saturday, killing lots of of Palestinians.
Israel pledged to focus its fireplace on Hamas fighters and abide by worldwide legislation. Two members of Hamas’s political workplace have been killed.
Explosion in northern Gaza
al-Gharbi mosque in northern Gaza
al-Sousi mosque close to Rimal
Residential buildings close to As Sabra
Supply: Maxar Applied sciences
Explosion in northern Gaza
al-Gharbi mosque in northern Gaza
al-Sousi mosque close to Rimal
Residential buildings close to As Sabra
Supply: Maxar Applied sciences
al-Gharbi mosque
in northern Gaza
Explosion in northern Gaza
Residential buildings
close to As Sabra
al-Sousi mosque close to Rimal
Supply: Maxar Applied sciences
However mosques, hospitals, residential buildings and worldwide help teams have been additionally hit.
A ‘full siege’ of Gaza
Israeli Protection Minister Yoav Gallant ordered a “full siege” of Gaza, saying Israel would reduce off provides of energy, meals and fuel.
Gazans have lived for 16 years beneath an Israeli blockade supported by Egypt and are closely depending on Israel for electrical energy and different primary providers. Reducing off fuel and energy might depart many residents not solely with out electrical energy, but in addition with out clear ingesting water, correct sanitation and well being care.
Israel ordered a ‘full siege’ of Gaza. Right here’s what that appears like.
U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk would a day later condemn the siege, saying that depriving civilians of “items important for his or her survival is prohibited beneath worldwide humanitarian legislation.”
The 2 principal sources of electrical energy in Gaza are Israel’s electrical energy firm, which provides energy by means of 10 strains, and the Gaza energy plant, which continuously runs at partial capability due to its reliance on inefficient diesel gasoline. Gaza has not been capable of acquire electrical energy
from Egypt for a number of years.
Wastewater remedy plant
Wastewater pumping station
Electrical energy feed from Israel
Electrical energy feed from Israel
The 2 principal sources of electrical energy in Gaza are Israel’s electrical energy firm, which provides energy by means of 10 strains, and the Gaza energy plant, which continuously runs at partial capability due to its reliance on inefficient diesel gasoline. Gaza has not been capable of acquire electrical energy from Egypt for a number of years.
Electrical energy feed
from Israel
Wastewater
remedy plant
Wastewater
pumping station
Electrical energy feed
from Israel
Electrical energy feed
from Israel
The 2 principal sources of electrical energy in Gaza are Israel’s electrical energy firm, which provides energy by means of 10 strains, and the Gaza energy plant, which continuously runs at partial capability due to its reliance on inefficient diesel gasoline. Gaza has not been capable of acquire electrical energy from Egypt for a number of years.
Electrical energy feed
from Israel
Wastewater
remedy
plant
Wastewater
pumping
station
Electrical energy feed
from Israel
Electrical energy feed
from Israel
The 2 principal sources of electrical energy in Gaza are Israel’s electrical energy firm, which provides energy by means of 10 strains, and the Gaza energy plant, which continuously runs at partial capability due to its reliance on inefficient diesel gasoline. Gaza has not been capable of acquire electrical energy from Egypt for a number of years.
Wastewater
remedy plant
Wastewater
pumping station
Electrical energy feed from Israel
Electrical energy feed from Israel
As airstrikes on Gaza continued, fleeing Palestinians noticed their final hope erased. Strikes close to the Rafah crossing with Egypt, the final route out of the territory, closed the checkpoint indefinitely, leaving civilians with nowhere to go.
Combating continues, demise toll rises
Combating continued with militant holdouts inside Israel because the nation formally declared conflict on Hamas. Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group that’s allied with Hamas, fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel.
The Israel Protection Forces launched a punishing marketing campaign of airstrikes on Gaza, displacing 1000’s of individuals within the first 24 hours.
Israeli troopers on Oct. 8 stand on the web site of a broken police station that was seized by Hamas gunmen within the southern city of Sderot. (Video: Reuters)
In Israel, the demise toll continued to rise. Greater than 250 our bodies have been recovered on the web site of a trance music pageant held simply three miles away from the Gaza border. Survivors described drained festivalgoers operating for his or her lives in a wide-open discipline as militants gunned them down.
Early Saturday morning, beneath the duvet of 1000’s of rockets, Hamas militants breached Israel’s high-tech “good wall” and went on a killing rampage in small cities throughout southern Israel.
Cameras, radar and sensors
Underground
concrete barrier
Underground
sensors to detect
militant tunnels
Cameras, radar and sensors
Underground
concrete barrier
Underground
sensors to detect
militant tunnels
Cameras, radar and sensors
Underground sensors
to detect militant
tunnels
Underground
concrete barrier
Cameras, radar and sensors
Underground sensors
to detect militant
tunnels
Underground
concrete barrier
Cameras, radar and sensors
Underground sensors
to detect militant
tunnels
Underground
concrete barrier
Israel’s perimeter fence
and access-restricted space
Sand boundaries to
gradual intruders
300–100 M
Entry permitted
solely to farmers
on foot
The brand new border fence
has an underground
concrete barrier to an
undisclosed depth.
Israel’s perimeter fence
and access-restricted space
Sand boundaries to
gradual intruders
100–300 M
Entry
permitted
solely to farmers
on foot
The brand new border fence
has an underground
concrete barrier to an
undisclosed depth.
Israel’s perimeter fence
and access-restricted space
100–300 M
Entry permitted
solely to farmers
on foot
Sand boundaries to
gradual intruders
The brand new border fence
has an underground
concrete barrier to an
undisclosed depth.
Israel’s perimeter fence
and access-restricted space
100–300 M
Entry permitted
solely to farmers
on foot
Sand boundaries to
gradual intruders
The brand new border fence
has an underground
concrete barrier to an
undisclosed depth.
How Hamas breached Israel’s ‘Iron Wall’
The ambush took Israeli forces abruptly. Officers stated the attackers overran greater than 20 communities. It took the navy 10 hours to reach in some cities. By that time, lots of of civilians have been already lifeless. Militants are believed to have taken greater than 100 hostages into Gaza.
Maps and movies present how the lethal shock assault on Israel unfolded