2023-10-11 06:59:50
JERUSALEM — Israel’s military said Tuesday it had regained effective control over the south and the border with the Gaza Strip four days after Hamas extremists swept into the country and brought gun battles to its streets for the first time. in decades.
Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sought to fulfill the government’s promise to hunt down extremists and intensify an attack on densely populated Gaza, the Palestinian territory ruled by Hamas and home to 2 million people.
The conflict has already killed hundreds of people on both sides. However, by Tuesday night the discrepancies in the official figures on both sides of the conflict were evident. An Israeli general said more than 1,200 people have been killed in Israel since Saturday’s raid. In Gaza and the West Bank, at least 919 people have died, according to authorities there.
THE NUMBER OF DEATHS INCREASES IN ISRAEL AND GAZA
The IDF spokesperson confirmed via a video briefing on
While in Gaza and the West Bank there are at least 919 deaths when combining the figures from the two health ministries in those regions.
At 3:06 pm ET, the Gaza Ministry of Health reported on its Facebook page that there were 900 dead, including 260 children and 230 women, and 4,500 injured.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health in the West Bank also reported on Facebook that there were at least 19 dead and 110 injured.
DEAD IN GAZA: 849
DEATHS IN THE West Bank: 19 dead AND 110 injured
West Bank Breakdown of the death toll according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the West Bank:
Jerusalem, 4 dead, including 2 children
Ramallah and Bira, 2 dead
Al Khalil, Hebron, 7 dead
Nablus, 2 muertos
Jericho, 2 dead
1 dead (a child)
ISRAELI DEATHS: 1,000 dead and 2,741 Israelis injured
123 soldiers
260 people killed at Tribe of Nova Music Festival
107 people killed in the small farming community of Kibbutz Be’eri
In Israel and beyond, families of more than 150 people kidnapped by Hamas and other extremist groups feared for the lives of their loved ones.
The armed wing of Hamas has warned that it will kill one of the hostages every time the Israeli army bombs civilian targets in Gaza without warning.
A look at certain key aspects of the war on its fourth day:
WHAT HAPPENS ON THE GROUND?
Israel expanded its mobilization of military reservists to 360,000 on Tuesday, according to the country’s media. The top military spokesman emphasized the unprecedented nature of the current campaign against Hamas and said that “all options are on the table.”
The army announced it attacked hundreds of Hamas targets overnight in Gaza. Tens of thousands of residents fled their homes as relentless airstrikes toppled buildings, including in the Rimal residential and commercial district of Gaza City.
In addition to bombing central Gaza City, Israeli airstrikes also targeted the crossing between Egypt and the city of Rafa in southern Gaza, the only passage out of the territory.
Tension grows in the region.
More than 137,000 Palestinians were crammed into United Nations shelters, and the World Health Organization reported that medical supplies it had previously placed in seven Gaza hospitals had already run out.
The head of Doctors Without Borders for the Palestinian Territories said he was concerned that the humanitarian medical team in Gaza would quickly run out of medical supplies now that the enclave’s borders have closed.
Leo Cans told The Associated Press he was particularly concerned about the supply of surgical equipment, bandages, antibiotics and fuel.
The Israeli army declared a state of war early this Saturday after a strong combined attack from the Gaza Strip that left dozens dead.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in a televised announcement on Monday that the offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip “has barely begun.”
“What we do to our enemies in the coming days will reverberate with them for generations,” he said.
Hamas leaders have not spoken publicly about whether they anticipated Israel’s fierce retaliation — and the potential risk of losing much of the group’s government infrastructure — when they launched the weekend attack.
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WHAT HAS BEEN THE RESPONSE OF THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER NATIONS?
The United States is already delivering ammunition and military equipment that Israel urgently needs, and the Pentagon is reviewing inventories to see what else it can send quickly to boost its ally in the war with Hamas, a senior Defense Department official said Monday.
The official briefed reporters on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential information about the shipments. The movement of weapons came as President Joe Biden announced that the American death toll in the war had risen to 11.
They were fired from Israeli Air Force planes this Saturday.
The war threatened to delay or derail a country-by-country diplomatic effort by the United States to improve relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
The Hamas attacks on Israel and much of the Arab world’s response to them raised questions about whether Palestinian ambitions for sovereignty could be set aside during the so-called normalization push.
Foreign governments attempted to determine how many of their citizens were dead, missing, or in need of medical help or flights home from Israel.
The Hamas terrorist group published the video of the moment of the attack on an Israeli target.
Japan’s top government spokesman vowed to do everything possible to protect the safety of a small number of Japanese citizens in the conflict zone.
Eighteen Thais are feared dead, according to reports from their employers, Thai Foreign Ministry spokesperson Kanchana Patarachoke said Tuesday. A first group of 15 evacuees were scheduled to board a flight to arrive in Thailand on Thursday.
The ambassador to Israel, Pannabha Chandraramya, said the Thai embassy was in contact with Israeli authorities about Thai citizens who were kidnapped by extremist groups, but has not been informed of their conditions or whereabouts.
The Austrian government said three dual Austro-Israeli citizens could be among those kidnapped by Hamas during its attack on Israel. Italy’s foreign minister said an Italian-Israeli couple living at Kibbutz Be’eri had been missing since the raid and “probably taken hostage.”
Arab foreign ministers planned to meet Wednesday in Cairo at the behest of the Palestinians. Hossam Zaki, deputy secretary general of the Arab League, said the ministers would discuss Arab efforts to “stop Israeli aggression” against Gaza.
WHAT HAVE BEEN SOME OF THE EXPANSIVE EFFECTS OF THE WAR?
Major airlines have suspended flights to and from Israel.
Dozens of flights arriving and departing from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport were canceled or delayed, according to the airport’s online flight dashboard, which also showed a steady trickle of flights, most operated by Israel’s national airline, El Al, along with others from regional airlines such as Pegasus Airlines, from Turkey, and Blue Bird Airways, from Greece.
Finnish airline Finnair on Tuesday followed the lead of American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and German airline Lufthansa by suspending service to and from Israel.
John Lee Ka-chiu, Hong Kong’s Principal Secretary for Administration, said the government had issued a red travel alert for Israel, joining governments asking their citizens to avoid non-essential travel to the country.
Spanish multinational clothing company Inditex, owner of Zara, Massimo Dutti and other fashion clothing brands, said it would temporarily close its 84 franchised stores in Israel for security reasons.
WHY DID THE ATTACK TAKE ISRAEL BY SURPRISE?
Israel appeared to have kept its eyes closed in the run-up to the Hamas attack that tore down Israeli border barriers and allowed hundreds of radicals into Israel.
“This is a huge failure,” said Yaakov Amidror, former national security adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “This operation actually shows that the (intelligence) capabilities in Gaza were not good.” Amidror declined to offer an explanation for the failure, but said lessons must be learned when the dust settles.
Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the military’s chief spokesman, acknowledged that the military owes the public an explanation. But he said now is not the time. “First, we fight. Then we investigate,” he added.
Some say it is too early to place blame solely on a failure of intelligence. They point to a wave of low-level violence in the West Bank, which shifted some military resources there, and the political chaos roiling Israel over moves by Netanyahu’s far-right government to reform the judiciary.
The controversial plan has threatened the cohesion of the country’s powerful military.
WHAT MOTIVATED THE ATTACK?
Hamas officials cited long-simmering tensions, including a dispute over the sensitive Al-Aqsa Mosque, a holy site for both Muslims and Jews.
Both sides’ claims to the site, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, have led to violence before, including a bloody 11-day war between Israel and Hamas in 2021.
In recent years, Israeli religious nationalists — such as Itamar Ben-Gvir, the minister of National Security — have increased their visits to the complex.
Last week, during Sukkot — the Jewish harvest holiday — hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews and Israeli activists visited the site, prompting condemnation from Hamas and accusations that Jews were praying there in violation of the “status quo” agreement. ”.
Hamas has also cited the expansion of Jewish settlements on land that Palestinians claim for a future state and Ben-Gvir’s actions to tighten restrictions on Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
Tensions have risen with recent violent Palestinian protests. In negotiations with Qatar, Egypt and the United Nations, Hamas has pushed for Israel to make concessions that could ease the 17-year blockade on the enclave and help stem a worsening financial crisis.
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