The Hamas-led assault that killed 1,200 people triggered a devastating Israeli military response in Gaza. Now the war has engulfed Lebanon and threatens to bring Israel and Iran into direct conflict.
A girl walks through the rubble of a collapsed building in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Oct. 2, amid the war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas.reflecting on Oct. 7, a year of war and how it has changed life across Israel, the Gaza Strip, the region and the world.
Although Israel and Hamas managed a brief cease-fire in November that allowed for the exchange of more than 100 hostages for nearly 250 Palestinian prisoners, the truce lasted just a week. Hamas did unilaterally release four hostages, and eight others were rescued by Israeli forces. Israel's military also recovered the bodies of several hostages.
Since the start of Israel's military response, the country's attacks have killed at least 41,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including 16,500 children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. Another 95,000 people have been injured, the ministry says.
An Israeli artillery unit, using a self-propelled artillery howitzer, fires toward Gaza near the border with it in southern Israel on Dec. 11, 2023.In the first few months of fighting, Rafah, near the border with Egypt in southern Gaza, was designated as a"safe zone" by the Israeli military — meant as a place where civilians could shelter and get access to desperately needed international humanitarian aid.
Meanwhile, public opinion in the U.S. has been split largely along partisan lines, with conservatives showing support for Israel, but some people, younger and more liberal, turning out for pro-Palestinian rallies on college campuses.Among Democrats, more than half say that Israel bears"a lot" of responsibility for the continuation of the war in Gaza, while only about 4 in 10 Republicans do, according to ain an effort to tip the election toward former President Donald Trump.
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