The group said it launched 5,000 rockets in the initial barrage.
On Saturday morning, at about 6:30am (03:30 GMT), Hamas fired a huge barrage of rockets into southern Israel with sirens heard as far away as Tel Aviv and Beersheba. Since 2007, Israel has maintained strict control over Gaza's airspace and territorial waters and restricted the movement of goods and people in and out of Gaza.įollowing Hamas's attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to turn Gaza into a “deserted island” and warned its residents to “leave now”. Located between Israel and Egypt on the Mediterranean coast, the strip is about 365sq km (141sq miles). Gaza has a population of about 2.3 million people living in one of the most densely populated areas in the world. (Al Jazeera) Sixteen years of Israeli blockade Israel says it has dropped 6,000 bombs on the Gaza Strip since Hamas's attack on October 7, nearly matching the number of bombs the US used in Afghanistan in one year.Īfghanistan is almost 1,800 bigger than the besieged enclave. Israel drops 6,000 bombs on Gaza in six days Israel has attributed the explosion to a misfired rocket launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) armed group. The health ministry in Gaza said the blast at the hospital was caused by an Israeli air raid. Located in central Gaza, the al-Ahli Arab Hospital, which is run by the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, was struck while it was overwhelmed with thousands of Palestinians seeking shelter amid a campaign of brutal Israeli air attacks across much of the besieged Gaza Strip. On Tuesday night, an Israeli air raid on Gaza hospital killed at least 471 people, according to Palestinian officials in the besieged enclave.
Here is a list of infrastructure and other facilities that have been damaged or shut down in Gaza as of October 23. However, places of shelter have also not been free from Israeli attacks. Residents in Gaza have flocked to hospitals and United Nations schools for safety, hoping that Israel will abide by international law and not attack those coordinates. The figures have been reported by the Palestinian health ministry, Palestine Red Crescent Society and Israeli Medical Services. Here are the latest casualty figures as of October 24, 2.40pm local time (11:40 GMT): Gaza Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip for a 16th day in a row as the besieged Palestinian enclave faces a growing humanitarian catastrophe.
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