October 7, 2023: Hamas militants cross the border from Gaza into Israel, becoming the deadliest attack in the country’s history. At the end of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, the militants launched their attacks from land, air and sea. The militants kidnapped 251 hostages on 7 October, 97 of whom are still held in Gaza, 33 of whom have been declared dead by Israeli forces.
Immediately after the attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, “We are at war.” He announced widespread military mobilization. “Not an ‘operation’, not a ’round’, but a war.” Israel attacked Gaza on October 8 after suffering its bloodiest attack in decades, when Hamas fighters ransacked Israeli cities, killing 600 and abducting dozens, as rising violence engulfed the Middle East. Threatened with a big new war. Israeli airstrikes targeted residential blocks, tunnels, a mosque and the homes of Hamas officials in Gaza, killing more than 370 people, including 20 children, as Mr Netanyahu vowed “powerful retribution for this dark day”. Had a ditch.
October 27, 2023: Internet and phone services collapse in the Gaza Strip due to intense bombardment, leaving largely 2.3 million people cut off from the outside world and each other, as Israeli forces step up their ground operations in the besieged territory. be extended. The army’s announcement signaled it was moving closer to a full-scale invasion of Gaza, where it has vowed to crush the ruling Hamas group after a bloody incursion into southern Israel three weeks ago. This screen grab from handout footage released by the Israeli military on October 26, 2023, shows a “targeted raid” with tanks and infantry in northern Gaza.
November 2023: Israeli forces attack near several hospitals in Gaza City as forces push deeper into dense urban areas in their battle with Hamas militants, causing increasing numbers of civilians to flee towards the south of the besieged area. Israel accuses Hamas fighters of hiding in hospitals and using the Shifa hospital complex as their main command center, which the terrorist group and hospital staff deny, saying Israel is using it as a pretext to attack. In this photo dated Nov. 6, 2023, a man walks among shrouded bodies of people killed in an Israeli bombardment in Deir Bala, in the central Gaza Strip, at the Shuhada al-Aqsa hospital in the same city.
November 24, 2023: After 48 days of shooting and bombing that left thousands dead, a four-day ceasefire begins in the Israel-Hamas war. Palestinian prisoners (wearing gray jumpers) celebrate after being released from the Israeli Ofer military facility in Beitunia, in the occupied West Bank, in exchange for hostages freed by Hamas in Gaza on November 24, 2023.
February 29, 2024: Israeli forces in war-torn Gaza opened fire on a crowd of Palestinians at an aid distribution point on February 29, killing at least 104 and wounding more than 700, according to Palestinian health officials. A witness told AFP the violence unfolded as thousands of people desperate for food rushed towards aid trucks at the city’s western Nabulsi intersection. This image, taken from a handout video released by the Israeli military, shows what the military is saying to Gazans surrounding aid trucks in Gaza City.
March 2024: The United Nations warned that Israel’s severe restrictions on aid and its military offensive in war-torn Gaza could amount to using starvation as a “weapon of war”, which would be a “war crime”. Nearly half of Gazans – about 1.1 million people – are facing “catastrophic” hunger because of the devastating war that has erupted since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, the assessment said. In this October 2023 photo, Palestinian children receive food at a United Nations-run school in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
March 2, 2024: US military C-130 cargo planes dropped food in pallets over Gaza. The airdrop was the first of several announcements by President Joe Biden. The aid was coordinated with Jordan, which has also carried out airstrikes to deliver food to Gaza. Since the war began on 7 October, Israel has barred the entry of food, water, medicine and other supplies, except for a stream of aid entering the south from Egypt at the Rafah crossing and Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing .
April 2, 2024: Six international aid workers from the World Central Kitchen charity and their Palestinian driver were killed in an Israeli airstrike just hours after bringing a new shipload of food to northern Gaza. The footage shows the bodies of the dead at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah. Many of them wore protective gear emblazoned with the charity’s logo. In this photo a man is showing British, Polish and Australian passports stained with blood.
April 13, 2024: Iran launches multiple drones toward Israel, marking the first time that Iran had launched a full-scale military attack on Israel, despite decades of hostility dating back to the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran had been threatening to attack Israel after two Iranian generals were killed in an airstrike in Syria last week. Israel has not commented on that attack, but Iran has accused it of being behind it. This photo shows an anti-missile system in action after Iran launched drones and missiles toward Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel.
May 7, 2024: Israeli tank brigades take control of the Gaza area of the Rafah crossing with Egypt as Israel advances an offensive into the southern city. Israeli tanks moved into the southern part of the city overnight, while warplanes bombed areas near the vital Rafah border crossing, killing at least 23 Palestinians and wounding several others. The offensive, described by the US as a “limited operation”, led Israeli forces to evacuate parts of the southern Gaza Strip city and relocate more than a million people seeking refuge in Rafah to an “expanded humanitarian zone” near Khan Younis. Came out a day after ordering it. , in preparation for an attack to “eliminate” Hamas. Photo shows Israeli military vehicles operating in the Gazan sector of the Rafah crossing.
July 27, 2024: Hours after an Israeli airstrike on south Lebanon killed three members of the militant Hezbollah group, a rocket attack on a soccer field in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights killed 12 children and injured several others. Went. The attack, the deadliest on an Israeli target since fighting between the two foes began in October 2023, has raised fears of a wider outbreak in the region. This photo shows mourners from the Druze minority surrounding the bodies of some of the 12 children and teenagers killed in a rocket attack on a football field in the village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights during their funerals.
July 31, 2024: Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, was killed in an Israeli strike in Iran, where he had gone to attend the inauguration of the country’s new president. Haniyeh was elected head of Hamas’s political bureau in 2017 to replace Khaled Meshaal, but he was already a well-known figure after becoming Palestinian prime minister in 2006. This photo shows Iranians following a truck carrying the coffins of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, center. and his bodyguard, during his funeral ceremony in Enqelab-e-Islami (Islamic Revolution) Square. On August 1, 2024 in Tehran, Iran.
August 28, 2024: Israel launches large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank. Hamas said 10 of its fighters were killed in various locations, and the Palestinian Health Ministry reported an 11th death, without specifying whether it was a fighter or a civilian. An Israeli vehicle drives on the road during an Israeli raid on the Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on August 29, 2024.
September 18, 2024: In a sophisticated, remote attack, pagers used by hundreds of Hezbollah members explode almost simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people – including an 8-year-old girl – and Thousands others were injured. A Lebanese army bomb disposal expert wearing protective gear, along with his partner, prepares to detonate a walkie-talkie that was found in the parking lot of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon.
September 27, 2024: Israel escalates attacks on Hezbollah after a massive attack on the Iran-backed movement’s command center killed the group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah, triggering a wave of airstrikes in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Went. The photo shows smoke rising over the southern suburbs of Beirut on September 27, 2024.
October 1, 2024: Iran attacks Israel with ballistic missiles in response to Israel’s campaign against Tehran’s Hezbollah allies in Lebanon. Iran has vowed to retaliate after attacks that killed the top leadership of its Hezbollah ally in Lebanon. The firing of the missiles came after Israel said its troops had launched ground attacks into Lebanon, although it described the offensive as limited. People are seen visiting the site of Iranian missile debris in the Negev desert near Arad, following the Iranian missile attack on Israel.
A joint photo shows Inas Abu Maamar, a 36-year-old Palestinian woman, embracing the body of her 5-year-old niece Sally, who was killed in an Israeli strike at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2023. (l). Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem won the prestigious 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award for this image. In the second image Inas visits a damaged cemetery where Sally was buried in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 11, 2024.
