ਹਮਾਸ-ਇਜ਼ਰਾਈਲ ਯੁੱਧ, 2023: ਇੱਕ ਵਿਸ਼ਲੇਸ਼ਣ

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Authorities in Gaza have updated the death toll from Israel’s war on the enclave to 61,709, having added thousands who are missing and now presumed dead. The head of the Gaza Government Information Office told a news conference that the bodies of 76 percent of the Palestinians killed in the conflict have been recovered and brought to medical centres. However, at least 14,222 people are still believed to be trapped under the rubble or in areas inaccessible to rescuers.Speaking at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, Salama Maarouf told reporters that among the death toll are 17,881 children, including 214 newborn infants.“More than 2 million people have been forcibly displaced, some more than 25 times, under dire conditions lacking basic services,” the official added, noting that 111,588 people have also been injured.
The updated numbers come amid the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that last month halted, at least temporarily, 15 months of genocide in the enclave, which followed the assault by Hamas on southern Israel in October 2023 that saw the armed group kill about 1,200 and take 250 people back to Gaza as captives. The pause in fighting, set to continue until at least early March, has given room for Palestinian rescuers to reach parts of Gaza they could not reach before.
“Humanitarian and medical teams have shifted from rescue to recovery missions,” said Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzom, reporting from Gaza’s al-Rashid Street, a route many Palestinians are taking to head back to their northern hometowns. “Hundreds of homes have become graveyards.”
Maarouf also noted the heavy toll on health, humanitarian and media workers in the enclave. At least 1,155 medical personnel, 205 journalists and 194 civil defence workers are reported to have been killed during Israel’s onslaught.

Negotiations are about to get under way, moving to the second stage of the three-phase ceasefire. That envisages an approach to a permanent end to the war.
Mediators Qatar, Egypt and the United States will open those talks today, but if they cannot bring Israel and Hamas to an agreement, fighting could resume in March.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is in Washington, DC and plans to meet President Donald Trump, is under pressure from far-right allies to cut the ceasefire short and continue fighting.
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Israel partially withdrawing troops from Lebanon as deadline expires.

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The Israeli military is keeping troops at five southern Lebanese posts despite a Tuesday withdrawal deadline. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will, for the time being, remain at the outposts in Lebanon “so we can continue to defend our residents and to make sure there’s no immediate threat,” Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an IDF spokesperson, said on Monday. Israel’s military identified the handful of strategic locations in southern Lebanon overlooking northern Israeli communities.

The Israeli military is believed to have withdrawn from Lebanese population centers in recent days. The Lebanese military announced new deployments Tuesday morning to various towns in southern Lebanon.
Lebanon will consider any remaining Israeli presence on its territory as an “occupation,” the Lebanese Presidency said in a statement Tuesday, adding that it reserves the right “to employ all means” to ensure Israel’s withdrawal.

But signaling that Hezbollah is unlikely to launch an immediate fight against Israel’s remaining troops, the group’s Al Manar TV declared on Tuesday that southern Lebanon had “returned because of the blood of the martyrs.”

Israel and Hezbollah ended a year-long war in November, in a ceasefire brokered in part by the United States. A deadline for Israel to withdraw, originally set for January, was extended to February 18 at Israel’s request.

A Lebanese woman sits on the rubble of a house in Aita al-Shaab, a Lebanese border village, on January 26.
Around 60,000 Israelis were forced from their homes in the north of the country after Hezbollah attacked Israel in solidarity with Hamas, in October 2023. Few of them have returned to border towns that have been devastated by rocket fire. A year-long, low-level conflict culminated last fall with an Israeli invasion and bombing campaign that saw more than a million Lebanese civilians displaced from their homes.

“The most basic violation is the presence of Hezbollah activists south of the Litani River,” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, it continued to be the reality. Once Lebanon fully implements its side of the deal, there will be no need to hold these points.”

Israel has declined to say whether Lebanon’s government had agreed to the extension, saying only that the Israeli government had spoken with the ceasefire’s mediators, led by the US.

Publicly, Lebanese leaders had been scathing. Nabih Berri, the speaker of Lebanon’s parliament, said in a Thursday statement that the US had informed him of Israel’s plan, which he rejected on Lebanon’s behalf.

“I refused to talk about any deadline to extend the withdrawal period,” he said, according to Lebanon’s official news agency NNA. “And it is the responsibility of the Americans to impose the withdrawal.” He added that if Israel remains in those locations, it “means that the Israelis will practice freedom of movement and aggression in Lebanon, and this is unacceptable.”

Palestinians killed in Hamas war so far more than 48000 and more than one lakh injured

 

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Israel says it will send a delegation to the Qatari capital Doha, on Monday 10 March 2025 to try and advance the Gaza ceasefire and captive exchange talks. Hamas says there are “positive indicators” for the start of talks on the ceasefire’s second phase.
Six bakeries in Gaza’s Khan Younis suspend operations amid fuel shortages as Israel keeps up its blockade on all aid entering the Strip. Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed 48,453 Palestinian deaths in war, with 111,860 people wounded. The Government Media Office updated its death toll to at least 61,709, saying that thousands of Palestinians missing under the rubble are presumed dead. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks and more than 200 taken captive.

Israeli forces have been in Jenin for more than 40 days now and completely destroyed the three refugee camps in that area. There is now more focus on the Nablus area, which is quite a large governate. There are several large illegal Israeli settlements there as well where more stepped-up military action in Nablus and villages around Tubas. The Israeli army has been moving from the northern tip of the occupied West Bank further down to the south. The Israeli military has said this is going to be a prolonged and comprehensive military assault on the entire territory of the occupied West Bank.

 

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Israel Hamas Front 0n 12 March 2025
After more than 15 months of war, a ceasefire deal agreed between Israel and Hamas came into effect on January 19. The head of the Gaza Government Information Office told a news conference earlier today that the bodies of 76 percent of the Palestinians killed in the conflict have been recovered and brought to medical centres. However, at least 14,222 people are still believed to be trapped under the rubble or in areas inaccessible to rescuers.
The updated death toll from Israel’s war on the besieged enclave reaches 61,709, having added thousands who are missing and now presumed dead.
Here are the latest casualty figures in Gaza as of February 3, 2025:

Gaza​

• Killed: at least 61,709 people, including 17,492 children
• Injured: more than 111,588 people
• Missing and presumed dead: more than 14,222

The latest figures from the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the occupied West Bank are as follows:

Occupied West Bank​

• Killed: at least 905 people, including at least 181 children
• Injured: more than 7,370 people

In Israel, officials revised the death toll from the October 7 attacks down from 1,405 to 1,139.

Israel​

• Killed: 1,139 people
• Injured: at least 8,730

Devastation across Gaza​

According to the latest data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the World Health Organization and the Palestinian government as of January 15, Israeli attacks have damaged:

• Almost all of Gaza’s homes (damaged or destroyed)
• 80 percent of commercial facilities
• 88 percent of school buildings
• Healthcare facilities - 50 percent of hospitals are partially functional
• 68 percent of road networks
• 68 percent of cropland

Journalists killed​

By December 27, 2024, more than 200 journalists had been killed in the Israel-Gaza war that began on October 7, 2023. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 217 Palestinian, three Lebanese and two Israeli journalists have been killed in the ongoing conflict.

Forced displacement​

The Israeli military has issued more than 65 evacuation orders since October 7, 2023, leaving about 80 percent of the Gaza Strip under active evacuation orders.

Sixteen years of Israeli blockade​

The Gaza Strip has a population of about 2.3 million living in one of the most densely populated areas in the world. It is located between Israel and Egypt on the Mediterranean coast.
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.
Since Hamas's October 7 attacks in southern Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to turn Gaza into a “deserted island” and warned its residents to “leave now”.

How the Hamas attack unfolded​

About 6:30am (03:30 GMT) on October 7, 2023, Hamas fired a huge barrage of rockets into southern Israel. Sirens were heard as far as Tel Aviv and Beersheba.
The group said it launched 5,000 rockets in the initial barrage. Israel’s military said 2,500 rockets were fired.
About an hour later, fighters crossed into Israel in an unprecedented multipronged operation by land, air and sea. Most fighters entered through breaches in security barriers separating Gaza and Israel.

Hamas surprise operation recorded the attack with cameras
Hamas’s surprise attack came after Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and after a record number of Palestinians had been killed by Israel at that point in 2023.
At 9:45am (06:45 GMT), blasts were heard in Gaza, and at 10am (07:00 GMT), Israel’s military spokesperson said the air force was carrying out attacks in Gaza.
Gun battles continued between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters in several areas of southern Israel.
Israeli air attacks continued late into the night as did rocket fire into southern Israel.

Gaza's densely populated neighbourhoods​

The Gaza Strip comprises five governorates: North Gaza, Gaza City, Deir el-Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah.
North Gaza extends for 10km (six miles) and has a crossing into Israel through Beit Hanoon, also known as the Erez crossing.
North Gaza is home to the Jabalia refugee camp, the largest in the Gaza Strip.
Gaza City is the largest and most populous city with more than 750,000 residents. Remal, Shujayea and Tal al-Hawa are among its most well-known neighbourhoods.
At the heart of the Remal neighbourhood is al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip.
Deir el-Balah is one of Gaza’s largest agricultural producers. It is also home to four refugee camps: Nuseirat, Bureij, Maghazi and Deir el-Balah.
Gaza’s only operating power plant is located along the district’s boundary with Gaza City.
Khan Younis is home to about 430,000 people. At its centre is the Khan Younis refugee camp, where about 90,000 people live.
Rafah is the southernmost district of Gaza with a population of about 275,000. Rafah is also the name of the crossing with Egypt that is located there.
Both Israel and Egypt have kept their borders largely shut and are responsible for further deteriorating the already weakened economic and humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Source: Al Jazeera