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Israel’s war on Gaza has numbered to 200 days with no sight of the impasse getting to any meaningful resolution. The war started around October when Hamas attacked the Israeli’s territory killing and taking into custody scores of people. The Israelis in their hostile nature vow to uproot and take out anybody called Hamas including those sympathetic to their cause. Come let me show you what you need to know about the war.
The Gaza War started when Israel launched a large military campaign in the Gaza Strip on 27 December 2008, codenamed Operation “Cast Lead” (Hebrew: מבצע עופרת יצוקה), with the stated aim of stopping Hamas rocket attacks on southern Israel and arms smuggling into Gaza.
At least 34,183 Palestinians have been killed and 77,143 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139 with dozens still held captive in Gaza.
It began when Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip. After clearing the militants from its territory, the Israeli military embarked on an extensive aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip followed by a large-scale ground invasion beginning on 27 October. The war has entered 200 days.
During this attack, 1,139 Israelis and foreign nationals including 766 civilians and 373 security personnel were killed,[t] while 253 Israelis and foreigners were taken captive in the Gaza Strip. The attack has been described as a major Israeli intelligence failure. Hamas said its attack was in response to the continued Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, the blockade of the Gaza Strip, the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements, threats to the status of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the plight of Palestinian refugees and prisoners
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says “processes” are underway to look into allegations of rights abuses by the Israeli military but doesn’t confirm reports of imminent sanctions against a notorious army unit. Gaza medics continue to search for bodies in a hospital courtyard after Israeli soldiers raided the facility with at least 283 recovered so far from mass graves in Khan Younis.The war has scattered people’s activities for 200 days.
Hussein Azqul, who was with Hezbollah’s air defense unit, was killed in an early-morning attack on his vehicle, according to the military, which posted a video appearing to show the attack near the town of Aadloun.
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Muhammad Attiya, the Radwan Force member, was killed in an overnight attack near the town of Arzon, according to the military.
Protesters have disrupted traffic around both the Grammys and the Oscars, while artists at these award shows have made calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.
At the Berlinale Film Festival, multiple artists spoke out explicitly against Israel, calling out the killings of Palestinians in the occupied territory. More than 80 acts and speakers dropped out of the South by Southwest festival, citing the involvement of several weapons companies and agencies tied to the United States Department of Defense.
IRAN SRIKE ON ISREALIS TERRITORY, BEGINNING OF MORE UNREST IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
Russia and China on Wednesday vetoed a United States resolution that called for a humanitarian pause to allow humanitarian aid access, the protection of civilians, and a stop to arming Hamas and other armed groups in the Gaza Strip.
The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor, the United States opposed, and two abstentions, from the United Kingdom and Switzerland. U.S. allies France, Japan, and South Korea supported the resolution.
The resolution would have recommended that the 193-member U.N. General Assembly, where there are no vetoes, approve Palestine becoming the 194th member of the United Nations. Some 140 countries have already recognized Palestine, so its admission would have been approved, likely by a much higher number of countries.