[RD] War in Gaza News: Pas de Deux

Gorbles said:
Are you trying to attach a negative inference to the mere mention of "Muslim"?
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No. I am attaching negative inference to those governments and people who do not recognize Israel as a sovereign state.

Very negative, in fact.

Edit: Latest casualty figures according to Al Jazeera:
 
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It is indeed very negative, yet pales in comparison to having murdered tens of thousands of people. Fear of being destroyed tends to be less serious a state than being destroyed.
Palestinians are no saints either, of course (Hamas is an islamic terrorist group). But I wouldn't accuse them as (harshly as) if they sprung to support of such from thin air instead of decades of being killed by Israel.
 

Dozens killed and injured in Israeli attack on Gaza tent camp, Gaza agency says​

The encampment, a designated humanitarian zone, was hit by at least 4 missiles​

Israeli missiles set ablaze a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza, killing or wounding dozens of people, the enclave's civil emergency service said on Tuesday, in what the Israeli military called a strike on a Hamas command centre.

The Hamas-run Gaza government media office put the number of fatalities at more than 40. It said that at least 60 others were wounded in the strikes and many remained missing as rescue workers continued their searches early on Tuesday.

Residents and medics said the tent encampment near Khan Younis in the Al-Mawasi area, which Israel has designated a humanitarian safe zone for displaced Palestinians, was struck by at least four missiles. The camp is crowded with families ordered by the Israeli military to flee there from elsewhere in the territory.

The Gaza civil emergency service said at least 20 tents caught fire, and missiles caused craters as deep as nine metres. It said the victims included women and children but did not immediately provide a breakdown of deaths and injuries.

There was no immediate comment from the Gaza Health Ministry, which compiles casualty figures. Earlier, the Hamas-aligned Shehab News Agency said 40 Palestinians were killed.

"Our teams are still moving out martyrs and wounded from the targeted area. It looks like a new Israeli massacre," a Gaza civil emergency official said.

The official said that teams had been struggling to search for victims who might have been buried.

The Israeli military said it "struck significant Hamas terrorists who were operating within a command and control centre embedded inside the Humanitarian Area in Khan Younis."

"The terrorists advanced and carried out terror attacks against IDF troops and the state of Israel," the statement said, referring to the Israeli Defence Forces.

Hamas denies fighters in camp​

Hamas, the Islamist group that controlled Gaza before the conflict, denied Israeli allegations that gunmen were present in the targeted area, and rejected accusations it exploited civilian areas for military purposes.

"This is a clear lie that aims to justify these ugly crimes. The resistance has denied several times that any of its members exist within civilian gatherings or use these places for military purposes," said Hamas in a statement.

Ambulances raced between the tent camp and a nearby hospital, while Israeli jets could still be heard overhead, residents said.

Nearly all of Gaza's 2.3 million people have been forced from their homes at least once, and some have had to flee as many as 10 times.

Israel's assault on Gaza has killed more than 40,900 Palestinians, according to the local Health Ministry. Israel attacked the enclave after Hamas-led militants killed around 1,200 people and took another 250 hostage in a surprise attack on Oct. 7, according to Israeli tallies.

The two warring sides each blame the other for a failure so far to reach a ceasefire that would end the fighting and see the release of hostages.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/airstrike-al-mawasi-gaza-1.7318444
 
Yeekim said:
No. I am attaching negative inference to those governments and people who do not recognize Israel as a sovereign state.
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Why?

Plenty of countries don't recognise Palestine as a sovereign state. Should we make claims about the company you keep, in that context? It's not like it's unrelated, is it?
 
Yeekim said:
The company you keep does not give you any pause?
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About as much pause as historic collaboration with the Nazis by various Eastern European nationalists gives you in your support for E. European anti-imperialist struggles against Russia.
 
Lexicus said:
About as much pause as historic collaboration with the Nazis by various Eastern European nationalists gives you in your support for E. European anti-imperialist struggles against Russia.
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Just had to mix it with Ukraine invasion, you couldn't resist it! You know who collaborated very well with nazis...the communist soviets, even made a pact about it!
 
Ordnael said:
Just had to mix it with Ukraine invasion, you couldn't resist it! You know who collaborated very well with nazis...the communist soviets, even made a pact about it!
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And the US, to the extent that they even gave a bunch of them jobs and new lives in the US, after WW2.

Is there a point to this outrage?
 

Israeli forces accused of killing their own citizens under the 'Hannibal Directive' during October 7 chaos​

"Hannibal at Erez, dispatch a Zik [attack drone]," came the command on October 7.

Those words, reported by Israeli newspaper Haaretz in July, confirm what many Israelis have feared since the Hamas attacks on October 7 in southern Israel.

Israeli forces have killed their own citizens.

Israeli authorities say more than 800 civilians and around 300 soldiers were killed on October 7.

A number of Israeli hostages have since died in Gaza.

Israelis are still reeling from the horror and pain of the Hamas-led terror attack, which was the bloodiest single day in Israel's history.

But the Israeli military is coming under increasing pressure to reveal just how many of their own citizens were killed by Israeli soldiers, pilots and police in the confusion of the Hamas attack on southern Israeli communities.

Survivors and relatives have been asking not just "what went wrong", but whether the military invoked the controversial — and supposedly rescinded — "Hannibal Directive".

What is the Hannibal Directive?​

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the directive was named at random by a computer program, but Hannibal was the famous Carthaginian general who took poison rather than be captured by the Romans.

The doctrine, written in 1986 in response to the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers in Lebanon, gave permission for Israeli forces to fire on enemies holding their comrades hostage — even at risk to those hostages.

Its authors said the directive did not allow captives to be killed, but critics say that over time an interpretation spread through the military that it was better to kill comrades than to allow their capture.

"That is legally wrong and morally wrong and ethically wrong, it's wrong on all accounts."

In 2011, Hamas successfully used an Israeli hostage to secure a major prisoner exchange, swapping one Israeli soldier, tank gunner Gilad Shalit, for more than 1,000 prisoners, including the current Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar.

After October 7, there were some testimonies from Israeli civilians and military personnel that Israeli forces responding to the Hamas attack killed their own citizens.

Nevertheless, many Israelis and supporters of Israel condemned anyone who suggested it had occurred, before more testimonies and Israeli media reports confirmed it was true.

The IDF has not confirmed or denied a version of the Hannibal directive was applied on October 7, only saying it is one of many things from that day under investigation.

In response to questions from the ABC, the Israeli military provided a statement saying: "The IDF is currently focused on eliminating the threat from the terrorist organisation Hamas."

"Questions of this kind will be looked into at a later stage."

'This was a mass Hannibal'​

In July, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed commanders in the IDF gave the order to fire on troops who had been captured by Hamas at three separate locations, explicitly referencing the Hannibal Directive.

One former Israeli officer, Air Force Colonel Nof Erez, told a Haaretz podcast the directive was not specifically ordered but was "apparently applied" by responding aircrews.

Panicked, operating without their normal command structure and unable to coordinate with ground forces, they fired on vehicles returning to Gaza, knowing they were likely carrying hostages.

"This was a mass Hannibal. It was tons and tons of openings in the fence, and thousands of people in every type of vehicle, some with hostages and some without," Colonel Erez said.

Air force pilots described to Yedioth Ahronot newspaper the firing of "tremendous" amounts of ammunition on October 7 at people attempting to cross the border between Gaza and Israel.

"Twenty-eight fighter helicopters shot over the course of the day all of the ammunition in their bellies, in renewed runs to rearm. We are talking about hundreds of 30-millimetre cannon mortars and Hellfire missiles," reporter Yoav Zeitoun said.

"The frequency of fire at the thousands of terrorists was enormous at the start, and only at a certain point did the pilots begin to slow their attacks and carefully choose the targets."

Tank officers have also confirmed they applied their own interpretation of the directive when firing on vehicles returning to Gaza, potentially with Israelis on board.

"My gut feeling told me that they [soldiers from another tank] could be on them," tank captain Bar Zonshein told Israel's Channel 13.

Captain Zonshein is asked: "So you might be killing them with that action? They are your soldiers."

"Right," he replied, "but I decided that this is the right decision, that it's better to stop the kidnapping, that they won't be taken."
Investigative journalist Ronen Bergman wrote for Yedioth Ahronot newspaper that the military had enacted the Hannibal Directive at midday on October 7.

"The IDF instructed all its fighting units in practice to follow the 'Hannibal Directive', although without clearly mentioning this explicit name," he said.

"The instruction is to stop 'at all costs' any attempt by Hamas terrorists to return to Gaza, using language very similar to the original 'Hannibal Directive', despite repeated assurances by the security establishment that the procedure has been cancelled."

Bergman's investigation found 70 vehicles were destroyed by Israeli aircraft and tanks to prevent them being driven into Gaza, killing everyone inside.

"It is not clear at this point how many of the abductees were killed due to the activation of this [Hannibal] order on October 7," he wrote.

The original Hannibal Directive, while confidential, reportedly recommends small arms and sniper fire towards enemies holding hostages — and not to use bombs, missiles or tank shells.

In 2015, Israel's attorney-general said it specifically prohibited killing a hostage.

It wasn't just soldiers under fire on October 7, though.

Tank ordered to fire on house​

In two incidents, Israeli civilians survived Israeli forces firing on them and killing other hostages.

One survivor of Kibbutz Nir Oz, a Gaza border community, described being fired upon by the Israeli military as Hamas members tried to take her and other hostages across the border in an electric wagon.

"[An] IDF helicopter appeared above us. At some point the helicopter shot at the terrorists, the driver and the others. There was screaming in the wagon," Neomit Dekel-Chen told Israeli news site Ynet.

Ms Dekel-Chen said one woman, her friend Efrat Katz, was shot and killed.

Six months later, an Israeli Air Force investigation acknowledged that it was likely an attack helicopter, which had targeted the wagon, had killed Efrat Katz.

The probe found that the hostages could not be distinguished from terrorists.

Nevertheless, Air Force chief Major General Tomer Bar said he "did not find fault in the operation by the helicopter crew, who operated in compliance with the orders in a complex reality of war".

The military has also confirmed troops were ordered to fire at a home, despite knowing there were civilians being held hostage inside.

In Kibbutz Be'eri, where 101 Israeli civilians died, a tank was ordered to fire upon at least one house, after a prolonged firefight with around 40 Hamas gunmen who had been holding 15 hostages inside and outside.

The "Pessi's house" incident has become notorious in Israel, named after the resident, Pessi Cohen, who was killed along with other hostages being held there.

It was the two survivors who revealed the Israeli military had fired on the house.

"We know that at least one hostage was killed by one of the shells," relative and October 7 survivor Omri Shifroni told the ABC.
Three of Mr Shifroni's relatives were killed in Pessi's house while he was hiding on the other side of the kibbutz with his wife and children.

"There are a few others that we still don't know and we may never know what exactly killed them," he said.

Mr Shifroni's aunt Ayala and her grand-niece Liel and grand-nephew Yanai were all killed at Pessi's house — he believes by terrorists.

But he remains upset about the Israeli military's decision to use heavy munitions on homes in Be'eri.

"I think the real question, the moral question, is whether it's the right thing to do — to fire tank shells on a house with hostages — even though it's selective shooting," he said.

"I think it was not the right decision, not a good decision and not moral.

"But I can also understand there was great chaos in Be'eri and there was a lot of pressure to end the event there.

"I think they didn't intend to shoot and to kill hostages, but when you shoot a tank shell on a house, you need to take into account that that is likely to happen."

Israeli philosopher Asa Kasher told the ABC the directive did not apply to civilian hostages

"That's a new situation, and all the considerations are different," Professor Kasher said.

"Killing the civilian in order to foil the attempted abduction is really [wrong] … everyone understands that that's way outside of what is allowed in a democracy."

Professor Kasher said he was dismayed by reports soldiers had applied the Hannibal Directive on October 7.

"They acted on very low professional standards," he said.

"That's insane, it's not the nature of a democracy, it's not the nature of the IDF, it's not the nature of the command."

Military clears itself of wrongdoing​

In response to repeated requests from Be'eri survivors and relatives of those killed there, the IDF has opened an investigation into its actions in the kibbutz.

In July, it released its operational review, but many in Be'eri were not satisfied.

The military cleared Israeli forces of any wrongdoing, finding that a tank only fired "near" the house when negotiations to release the hostages had failed.

"The team determined that, based on the information reviewed and to the best of their understanding, no civilians inside the building were harmed by tank shell fire, except for an isolated incident outside the building where two civilians were harmed by shrapnel," the report stated.

"The team determined that most of the hostages were likely murdered by the terrorists, and further inquiries and reviews of additional findings are necessary."

Sharon Cohen, the daughter-in-law of Pessi Cohen, told Israeli radio she did not accept the investigation's conclusions.

"That's not really true [that hostages were not harmed by tank shells]," she told Israel's Radio Bet on July 14.

"Out of personal privacy issues, I can't really get into the details. These are details that we were told would be investigated again.

"In addition, I'll say that because the incidents in the kibbutz were so exceptional and strange and difficult, the whole issue of removing the bodies, and autopsies, and all those things — essentially were not done."

The IDF review also contradicts testimony from one of the two survivors of Pessi's house, Yasmin Porat, who told Israel's Kan radio on October 15 that the Hamas gunmen had not threatened the hostages and had intended to negotiate with police for their safe return to Gaza.

She said an Israeli police special unit had started the gun battle by firing upon the house, catching "five or six" kibbutz residents outside in "very, very heavy crossfire".

In the interview, she was asked: "So our forces may have shot them?"

"Undoubtedly," she replied.

"They eliminated everyone [in the house], including the hostages."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09...tive-kidnap-hamas-gaza-hostages-idf/104224430
 
Bonyduck Campersang said:
Purely an academic question: does in your view the illegallity of an occupation extend to the entire occupying country?
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It depends. A country isn't necessarily just its government. England isn't defined by the Tories in cultural terms, despite their modern (and historical) legacy. Blairism had more of a political impact, really.

But in Israel's case you have a very modern state defined by warfare, comprised of an increasingly nationalist populace (with mandatory military service before, not after, the widening of perspective that comes with university and / or a job).

A good litmus test I apply is "how would people react if another country did something like this". How would liberal Americans react if China regularly executed foreign citizens on illegally-occupied land? The joke here is they've probably actually done that, and guess what! They don't enjoy public support, a lobby dedicated to their political efforts in the US, or the millions in (international) military aid sent every year.

The hypocrisy is both on a personal level from Israel's supporters, and on a structural level r.e. preserving Western interests in the region. All of this exacerbates the cultural impact in Israel of extending punitive campaigns like this one. It continually puts their citizens under what they perceive as fight-or-flight. It compounds the ongoing dehumanisation of innocent Palestinians. Does it make people complicit? Maybe not directly, in every case. But that's a very technical line in the sand to draw when any Israeli who speaks out against the government on behalf of Palestinians gets accused of being a traitor, or the like.

(any frustration in this not aimed at you, just getting my thoughts on paper)
 
Broken_Erika said:

Dozens killed and injured in Israeli attack on Gaza tent camp, Gaza agency says​

The encampment, a designated humanitarian zone, was hit by at least 4 missiles​

Israeli missiles set ablaze a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza, killing or wounding dozens of people, the enclave's civil emergency service said on Tuesday, in what the Israeli military called a strike on a Hamas command centre.

The Hamas-run Gaza government media office put the number of fatalities at more than 40. It said that at least 60 others were wounded in the strikes and many remained missing as rescue workers continued their searches early on Tuesday.

Residents and medics said the tent encampment near Khan Younis in the Al-Mawasi area, which Israel has designated a humanitarian safe zone for displaced Palestinians, was struck by at least four missiles. The camp is crowded with families ordered by the Israeli military to flee there from elsewhere in the territory.

The Gaza civil emergency service said at least 20 tents caught fire, and missiles caused craters as deep as nine metres. It said the victims included women and children but did not immediately provide a breakdown of deaths and injuries.

There was no immediate comment from the Gaza Health Ministry, which compiles casualty figures. Earlier, the Hamas-aligned Shehab News Agency said 40 Palestinians were killed.

"Our teams are still moving out martyrs and wounded from the targeted area. It looks like a new Israeli massacre," a Gaza civil emergency official said.

The official said that teams had been struggling to search for victims who might have been buried.

The Israeli military said it "struck significant Hamas terrorists who were operating within a command and control centre embedded inside the Humanitarian Area in Khan Younis."

"The terrorists advanced and carried out terror attacks against IDF troops and the state of Israel," the statement said, referring to the Israeli Defence Forces.

Hamas denies fighters in camp​

Hamas, the Islamist group that controlled Gaza before the conflict, denied Israeli allegations that gunmen were present in the targeted area, and rejected accusations it exploited civilian areas for military purposes.

"This is a clear lie that aims to justify these ugly crimes. The resistance has denied several times that any of its members exist within civilian gatherings or use these places for military purposes," said Hamas in a statement.

Ambulances raced between the tent camp and a nearby hospital, while Israeli jets could still be heard overhead, residents said.

Nearly all of Gaza's 2.3 million people have been forced from their homes at least once, and some have had to flee as many as 10 times.

Israel's assault on Gaza has killed more than 40,900 Palestinians, according to the local Health Ministry. Israel attacked the enclave after Hamas-led militants killed around 1,200 people and took another 250 hostage in a surprise attack on Oct. 7, according to Israeli tallies.

The two warring sides each blame the other for a failure so far to reach a ceasefire that would end the fighting and see the release of hostages.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/airstrike-al-mawasi-gaza-1.7318444
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More provable war crime.

Just say 'Hamas ' every time you knowingly murder ppl (this time in self declared safe zone) doesn't change anything.

There's no fog of war or 'misunderstanding' here. Just straight up blow the horsehocky out of everyone. Pre school, hospital, UN aid.

So angry.
 
And again today another IDF obscenity.

Most number of UN workers ever killed at one time.

And yes.... once again "Hamas " by Israel.

There wouldn't be any Hamas left if IDF actually hit a Hamas 'command and control' centre every time they slaughtered a load of kids.
 

UN says Israeli strike on Gaza school killed six of its staff​

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) says six of its employees have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a school it runs in central Gaza.
Gaza's Hamas-run Civil Defence agency said a total of 18 people were killed in Wednesday’s strike on al-Jaouni school in Nuseirat refugee camp, which is being used as a shelter by thousands of displaced Palestinians.
Israel's military said it carried out a “precise strike on terrorists” planning attacks from the school, and that it had taken measures to avoid harm to civilians.
UN Secretary General António Guterres condemned the strike, saying: “What’s happening in Gaza is totally unacceptable.”

“These dramatic violations of international humanitarian law need to stop now,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Unrwa said the attack marked "the highest death toll among our staff in a single incident" since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in October.
It also noted that it was the fifth time the school had been hit over the past 11 months.
In July, 16 people were reportedly killed in a strike which the Israeli military said had targeted several structures at the school used by Hamas fighters.
Israel's ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, hit out at Guterres' criticism.
“It is unconscionable that the UN continues to condemn Israel in its just war against terrorists, while Hamas continues to use women and children as human shields,” he said.
Hamas - which is proscribed as a terrorist group by Israel, the UK and other countries - has denied using schools and other civilian sites for military purposes.
Israeli forces launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group's unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken back to Gaza as hostages.
More than 41,080 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.

Video of the aftermath of Wednesday’s strike showed hundreds of people inspecting the heavily damaged ground floor of one wing of al-Jaouni school, as well as the remains of an adjoining structure that appeared to have been destroyed.
Other footage showed ambulances bringing wounded men, women and children said to have been wounded in the strike to al-Aqsa hospital in the town of Deir al-Balah.
Survivors said they had to step over “shredded limbs” as they scrambled over the rubble.
“I can hardly stand up," one man holding a bag of human remains told AFP news agency.
"We've been going through hell for 340 days now. What we've seen over these days, we haven't even seen it in Hollywood movies, now we're seeing it in Gaza."
Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said on Wednesday night that 18 people were killed, including Unrwa staff members, children and women, and that 18 others were injured.
A Telegram post from the agency identified one of those killed as the daughter of one of its rescue workers, Momin Salmi. It said he had not seen Shadia for 10 months because he had stayed in northern Gaza while his wife and their eight children had fled southwards.
The BBC was not able to independently verify the death toll, but a medical source at al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat camp told AFP that a total of 15 people killed in the strike had been brought there and to al-Aqsa hospital.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said aircraft had “conducted a precise strike on terrorists who were operating inside a Hamas command and control centre” embedded inside al-Jaouni school.
“Numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence,” it added.
“This is a further example of the Hamas terrorist organisation’s systematic abuse of civilian infrastructure in violation of international law.”
Gaza’s Hamas-run government media office accused Israel of a “brutal massacre”.
Later, Unrwa said in a statement that two air strikes had hit the school and its surroundings, which were home to around 12,000 displaced people, mainly women and children.
"Among those killed was the manager of the Unrwa shelter and other team members providing assistance to displaced people," it said.
The agency insisted that "schools and other civilian infrastructure must be protected at all times", adding: "They are not a target."
"We call on all parties to the conflict to never use schools or the areas around them for military or fighting purposes."

Hours before the incident, Unrwa said in a situation report that almost 70% of its schools in Gaza had been hit during the war.
It also reported that 214 of its staff members had been killed, along with at least 563 displaced people who had been sheltering inside its schools and other installations.
Israel has previously accused Unrwa of supporting Hamas.
The agency has denied this, but the UN said in August that it had fired nine of Unrwa's 13,000 staff in Gaza after investigators found evidence that they might have been involved in the 7 October attack. Another 10 staff were cleared because of insufficient evidence.
Israel also alleged that hundreds of Unrwa staff were members of terrorist groups, but a UN review published in April found Israel had not provided evidence for its claims.
In a separate development on Wednesday, the IDF announced that two Israeli soldiers had been killed and eight others injured in a helicopter crash overnight in southern Gaza.
The helicopter was on a mission to evacuate a critically injured soldier to a hospital for medical treatment and crashed while landing in the Rafah area, a statement said.
“An initial inquiry conducted indicates that the crash was not caused by enemy fire. The cause of the crash is still under investigation,” it added.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyn400rm68o
 

Israel sets new war goal of returning residents to the north​

Israel has made the safe return of residents to the north of the country an official war goal, the prime minister's office has said.
The decision was taken by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet late on Monday.
About 60,000 people have been evacuated from northern Israel because of near-daily attacks by Iran-backed Hezbollah in neighbouring Lebanon.
Cross-border fighting escalated on 8 October 2023 - a day after the deadly attack on Israel by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip - when Hezbollah fired at Israeli positions, in solidarity with the Palestinians.

"The Security Cabinet has updated the objectives of the war to include the following: Returning the residents of the north securely to their homes," a statement from the prime minister's office said.
"Israel will continue to act to implement this objective," it added.
Earlier on Monday, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said the only way to return Israel's northern residents to their homes was through "military action", during a meeting with US envoy Amos Hochstein.
“The possibility for an agreement is running out as Hezbollah continues to ‘tie itself’ to Hamas, and refuses to end the conflict,” a statement from his office said.
"Therefore, the only way left to ensure the return of Israel’s northern communities to their homes, will be via military action.”
Gallant's comments came as speculation grew that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to replace him amid differences between the two men over the war in Gaza.
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin warned of the devastating consequences of further escalation.
In a statement from the US defence department, his office said he "reaffirmed the necessity of a ceasefire and hostage deal, and that Israel should give diplomatic negotiations time to succeed, noting the devastating consequences that escalation would have on the people of Israel, Lebanon, and the broader region."
Israel has repeatedly warned it could launch a military operation to drive Hezbollah away from the border.
Hezbollah is a Shia Muslim organisation which is politically influential and in control of the most powerful armed force in Lebanon.
The group has so far made no public comments on the issue.
The latest Israeli move marks an expansion of the country's previously stated war goals:
  • The elimination of Hamas and its military capabilities
  • The return of all the hostages taken during the 7 October attack
  • Ensuring that the Gaza Strip no longer poses a threat to Israel
Israeli forces launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group's unprecedented attack, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken back to Gaza as hostages.
More than 41,220 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cglkkrj94ldo
 
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