A demonstrator prays throughout a pro-Palestinian rally on the eve of the primary anniversary of the Israel-Hamas battle, in Jakarta on October 6, 2024. Agence France-Presse
PARIS — After Palestinian militant group Hamas carried out the deadliest assault in Israeli historical past on October 7, 2023, Israel responded with a devastating navy marketing campaign within the Gaza Strip.
The air and floor operation has killed greater than 41,700 folks, based on the Hamas-ruled territory’s well being ministry, whose figures are thought of dependable by the United Nations.
Forward of the conflict’s first anniversary, AFP seems again at key moments.
Hamas assaults
At daybreak on October 7, a whole bunch of Hamas fighters infiltrate Israel.
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The unprecedented assault leads to the deaths of 1,205 folks, largely civilians, based on an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
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This toll contains hostages who subsequently died or have been killed in captivity within the Gaza Strip.
Hamas took 251 hostages again to Gaza, some as corpses. A yr later, some 64 are nonetheless detained, whereas 117 have been freed and 70 confirmed lifeless.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to destroy Hamas, which is blacklisted as a “terrorist” group by the European Union and the USA.
Floor offensive
Israel begins bombing Gaza and additional tightening its siege of the territory. On October 13, it tells civilians in northern Gaza to maneuver south.
The United Nations later estimates that just about all of Gaza’s inhabitants of two.4 million is ultimately displaced.
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On October 27, Israel launches a floor offensive.
On November 15, its troops raid Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, the place Israel says Hamas has a command centre, an accusation the militants deny.
Truce and hostage swap
On November 24, a weeklong truce between Israel and Hamas takes impact.
Hamas releases 80 Israeli hostages in return for 240 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. Twenty-five different hostages, primarily Thai farm employees, are additionally freed.
Israel permits extra help into Gaza by way of Egypt, however the humanitarian scenario there stays dire.
When preventing resumes, Israel expands its actions into southern Gaza.
Assist hitches
On February 29, Gaza’s well being ministry says 120 northern Gaza residents have been shot lifeless by Israeli forces as they rushed in direction of a convoy of meals help. Israel says troopers believed they “posed a risk”.
From early March, a number of international locations airdrop help into Gaza. A primary help ship from Cyprus arrives on March 15.
On April 1, seven help employees from the US charity World Central Kitchen are killed in an Israeli strike, which the navy calls a “tragic mistake”.
Israel-Iran tensions
On April 13, Iran kilos Israel with drones and missiles in retaliation for a lethal strike on its consulate in Damascus blamed on its arch-enemy.
A lot of the projectiles are intercepted.
Operations within the south
On Might 7, the Israeli military launches a floor offensive in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost metropolis, the place a majority of the territory’s folks have sought shelter.
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It takes management of the border crossing with Egypt, blocking a key entry level for help, and targets protected areas together with tent camps and colleges sheltering displaced folks.
On July 13, a strike in southern Gaza kills the chief of Hamas’s armed wing, Mohammed Deif, Israel says.
Regional flare-up feared
On July 20, Israel assaults Yemen in retaliation for a lethal drone strike on Tel Aviv by the Iran-backed Huthi rebels, who’ve repeatedly attacked Pink Sea and Gulf of Aden transport in solidarity with Gaza.
On the Israel-Lebanon border, virtually every day exchanges of fireplace between the Israeli military and Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah intensify.
On July 27, within the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, 12 kids are killed in a rocket strike. Hezbollah denies duty.
Hezbollah’s high commander, Fuad Shukr, is killed in a Beirut suburb on July 30 in a retaliatory strike.
The subsequent day, Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh is killed in a strike in Iran, blamed on Israel. Hamas names Yahya Sinwar, its chief in Gaza, to exchange him.
Truce talks
Washington on August 16 presents a brand new truce deal, which Hamas instantly rejects. Negotiations mediated by Egypt, then Qatar, resume on August 22.
On August 25, Israel says it has thwarted a large-scale Hezbollah assault with air strikes into Lebanon. Hamas says it efficiently launched a whole bunch of rockets and drones at Israel.
West Financial institution raid
On August 28, Israel launches a significant operation towards Palestinian militants within the occupied West Financial institution.
The UN requires an instantaneous finish to the raid.
After the navy recovers the our bodies of six hostages from Gaza on August 31, strain mounts on the Israeli authorities to safe the discharge of the remaining captives, however Netanyahu doesn’t budge over a truce.
Lebanon assaults
On September 17 and 18, hundreds of Hezbollah members’ pagers and walkie-talkies explode throughout Lebanon, killing a minimum of 39 folks and wounding virtually 3,000.
Israel had introduced it was increasing its Gaza conflict goals to incorporate securing the northern entrance with Lebanon, however doesn’t declare duty.
Amid a mounting collection of bombardments towards Hezbollah, on September 27, an Israeli strike on its south Beirut stronghold kills the group’s chief Hassan Nasrallah alongside an Iranian common within the Revolutionary Guards.
Iran’s Supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vows that Nasrallah’s loss of life “is not going to be in useless”.
On October 1, Iran launches a barrage of missiles at Israel in what the Revolutionary Guards say is a response to the killings of Nasrallah and Haniyeh.
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The assault comes the day Israel introduced restricted floor operations towards Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Greater than 1,900 folks have additionally been killed in Lebanon since Hezbollah and Israel started clashing final October, based on Lebanon’s well being minister.
