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2023 was a historic year of violence and death for Israel and the Palestinian territories: The Islamist group Hamas has carried out the worst attack on Jews since
2023 was a historic year of violence and death for Israel and the Palestinian territories: The Islamist group Hamas has carried out the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust, the Gaza Strip is facing the deadliest war in its history, and the wave of violence in the occupied West Bank is the worst since the Second Intifada.
The morning of October 7 marked the before and after in the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: a massive Hamas attack that included the launch of 3,000 rockets and the simultaneous infiltration of an equal number of militias, killing about 1,200 people. people and kidnapped another 250 people in Israeli cities near the Gaza Strip.
“They took dozens of children, tied them up, burned them and executed them. They beheaded soldiers, shot young people attending the festival and kidnapped old women and babies, Israel’s still-shocked prime minister said. Benjamin Netanyahuin the first days after the attack.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.
“We have never seen such savagery in the history of the Jewish state,” created in 1948. nor “since the Holocaust” in World War II, he emphasized.
The kibbutzim surrounding Gaza became a disaster zone, with houses and cars burning and corpses scattered. Meanwhile, air raid sirens continue to sound in many Israeli cities, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, warning of missile launches.
Thus, about 200,000 people were forced to flee their homes in Israel, including residents of the far north of the country, as a result of constant attacks in southern Lebanon and Syria by militias expressing solidarity with Hamas.
General, 110 hostages were rescued alive from the Gaza Strip, 86 Israelis and 24 representatives of other nationalities. 129 people remained in the sector, but an estimated 21 of them died. The bodies of eight more hostages killed in the Palestinian enclave have been found, including three who were mistakenly killed by Israeli forces.
Israel counterattacked immediately after the Hamas coup, launching a powerful offensive by air, sea and land into the Gaza Strip, where more than 19,600 people have already been killed (70 percent women, children and the elderly), more than 52,500 wounded, and about 7,500 missing as a result coup. ruins and 1.9 million displaced people, 85% of the enclave’s population.
It is the deadliest war in Gaza’s history, with the number of children killed there, including premature babies, exceeding the annual number of children killed in conflict zones around the world since 2019, according to the non-governmental organization. Save the children.
More than 300 medical workers and 57 journalists were also killed in the Gaza Strip.
As of December 17, 64 journalists had been killed in the war, including four Israelis and three Lebanese, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, which describes the period as the union’s “deadliest” since the organization began documenting the events in 1992 .
Large areas of the Sector were left in ruins, families with children, the elderly or disabled moved – even on foot – from one place to another under the roar of explosions, unable to find a safe place, even in areas marked with the sign “humanitarian”…
Moreover, many of them are surviving in overcrowded conditions and outdoors in the middle of winter, in the midst of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis due to shortages of drinking water, food, medicine, electricity and fuel.
Hospitals directly attacked by Israeli forces are destroyed: women give birth under fire, the wounded are treated on site due to a lack of beds and without anesthesia, and one outbreak has infected more than 325,000 people.
Humanitarian aid is arriving little by little and in insufficient quantities, while international pressure for a ceasefire remains a dead letter, despite a UN Assembly resolution to this effect.
The occupied West Bank is experiencing its greatest round of violence since 2002, the deadliest year of the Second Intifada, with the Israeli army carrying out brutal daily raids that end in clashes with local militias, and cross-border attacks by Palestinians and Jews have become more frequent. The latter devastated entire villages.
In 2023 alone, 509 Palestinians were killed in violent events. More than half, 301 people, since the beginning of the war in Gaza, including more than 70 minors.
Added to this are more than 3,450 Palestinians injured and more than 2,400 detained, many of them without charge or trial.
Meanwhile, the Netanyahu government and its ultra-Orthodox and ultranationalist allies are promoting a policy of increasing occupation of the West Bank using an openly racist discourse that rejects the two-state solution to the conflict that the international community, including the United States, so advocates for its main ally.
Disagreements grew between the Israeli government and the American government, which backed it militarily and demanded that the Palestinian National Authority, which governs small parts of the West Bank and faces a political crisis, take control of the Gaza Strip in the post-war period. period.
(according to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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