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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dalvinder45" data-source="post: 226406" data-attributes="member: 26009"><p>Israel Hamas Front 0n 12 March 2025</p><p>After more than 15 months of war, a ceasefire <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/19/live-countdown-to-ceasefire-in-gaza-as-israel-continues-attacks" target="_blank">deal</a> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Here are the latest casualty figures in Gaza as of February 3, 2025:</p><h3>Gaza</h3> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed: at least 61,709 people, including 17,492 children</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Injured: more than 111,588 people</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Missing and presumed dead: more than 14,222</li> </ul><p>The latest figures from the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the occupied West Bank are as follows:</p><h3>Occupied West Bank</h3> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed: at least 905 people, including at least 181 children</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Injured: more than 7,370 people</li> </ul><p>In Israel, officials revised the death toll from the October 7 attacks down from 1,405 to 1,139.</p><h3>Israel</h3> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Killed: 1,139 people</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Injured: at least 8,730</li> </ul><p><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/INTERACTIVE-LIVE-TRACKER-GAZA__LEBANON_FEB5_2025_0900GMT-2025_1080x1350-GAZA-1738580900.jpg?w=770&quality=80" alt="INTERACTIVE-LIVE-TRACKER-GAZA__LEBANON_FEB5_2025_0900GMT-2025_1080x1350 GAZA-1738580900" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><h2>Devastation across Gaza</h2><p>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:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Almost all of Gaza’s homes (damaged or destroyed)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">80 percent of commercial facilities</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">88 percent of school buildings</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Healthcare facilities - 50 percent of hospitals are partially functional</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">68 percent of road networks</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">68 percent of cropland</li> </ul><p><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Interactive-Humanitarian-graphics-all_JAN15_2025.ai-1736922312.png?resize=770,962&quality=80" alt="Interactive-Humanitarian graphics-all_JAN15_2025.ai-1736922312" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><h2>Journalists killed</h2><p>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.</p><p><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/INTERACTIVE_Journalists_killed_Gaza_Israel_war_December27_2024_Black-01-1735287816.jpg?resize=770,1369&quality=80" alt="INTERACTIVE_Journalists_killed_Gaza_Israel_war_December27_2024" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><h2>Forced displacement</h2><p>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.</p><h2><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/INTERACTIVE-GAZA-israeli-evacuations-area-Nov21_2024-1732194268.png?w=770&quality=80" alt="INTERACTIVE-GAZA-israeli evacuations area Nov21_2024-1732194268" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></h2><h2>Sixteen years of Israeli blockade</h2><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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”.</p><p><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/INTERACTIVE-The-besieged-Gaza-Strip-opening-80-1696836252.jpg?w=770&quality=80" alt="INTERACTIVE - The besieged Gaza Strip opening-80-1696836252" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><h2>How the Hamas attack unfolded</h2><p>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.</p><p>The group said it launched 5,000 rockets in the initial barrage. Israel’s military said 2,500 rockets were fired.</p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/665003303001/80d4c91b-06f7-450e-bf52-aeaec127977d/b91cc056-269d-4d99-ae80-0fad9617fd24/1920x1080/match/image.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hamas surprise operation recorded the attack with cameras</p><p>Hamas’s <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/7/what-happened-in-israel-a-breakdown-of-how-the-hamas-attack-unfolded" target="_blank">surprise attack</a> came after Israeli settlers <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/4/israeli-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-mosque-complex-on-fifth-day-of-sukkot" target="_blank">stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound</a> and after a record number of Palestinians had been killed by Israel at that point in 2023.</p><p>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.</p><p>Gun battles continued between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters in several areas of southern Israel.</p><p>Israeli air attacks continued late into the night as did rocket fire into southern Israel.</p><p><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/INTERACTIVE-GAZA-ISRAEL-OCT9-2023-1696836729.png?w=770&quality=80" alt="INTERACTIVE - GAZA-ISRAEL-OCT9-2023-1696836729" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><h2>Gaza's densely populated neighbourhoods</h2><p>The Gaza Strip comprises five governorates: North Gaza, Gaza City, Deir el-Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah.</p><p><strong>North Gaza</strong> extends for 10km (six miles) and has a crossing into Israel through Beit Hanoon, also known as the Erez crossing.</p><p>North Gaza is home to the Jabalia refugee camp, the largest in the Gaza Strip.</p><p><strong>Gaza City</strong> 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.</p><p>At the heart of the Remal neighbourhood is al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip.</p><p><strong>Deir el-Balah</strong> is one of Gaza’s largest agricultural producers. It is also home to four refugee camps: Nuseirat, Bureij, Maghazi and Deir el-Balah.</p><p>Gaza’s only operating power plant is located along the district’s boundary with Gaza City.</p><p><strong>Khan Younis</strong> is home to about 430,000 people. At its centre is the Khan Younis refugee camp, where about 90,000 people live.</p><p><strong>Rafah</strong> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/INTERACTIVE-Gaza-North-map-80-1696847449.jpg?w=770&quality=80" alt="INTERACTIVE Gaza North map-80-1696847449" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/INTERACTIVE-Gaza-City-map-80-1696847442.jpg?w=770&quality=80" alt="INTERACTIVE Gaza Deir el Balah map-80-1696847436" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/INTERACTIVE-Gaza-Deir-el-Balah-map-80-1696847436.jpg?w=770&quality=80" alt="INTERACTIVE Gaza Deir el Balah map-80-1696847436" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/INTERACTIVE-Gaza-Khan-Younis-map-80-1696847430.jpg?w=770&quality=80" alt="INTERACTIVE Gaza Khan Younis map-80-1696847430" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/INTERACTIVE-Gaza-Rafah-map-80-1696847424.jpg?w=770&quality=80" alt="INTERACTIVE Gaza Rafah map-80-1696847424" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Source: Al Jazeera</p></blockquote><p></p>

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