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THE WAR IN GAZA
FIRST HAMAS WAS BAD ... THEN ISRAEL BECAME WORSE!
AP: Half a year into the war in Gaza, here’s a look at the conflict by the numbers
FIRST HAMAS WAS BAD ... THEN ISRAEL BECAME WORSE!
AP: Half a year into the war in Gaza, here’s a look at the conflict by the numbers
The United Nations chief is blaming Israel’s military strategy and procedures for the killing of nearly
200 humanitarian workers and is calling for independent investigations to fix those failures and practices.
Original article: https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-war-statistics-95a6407fac94e9d589be234708cd5005
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
Peter Burgess
Written by JULIA FRANKEL ... Frankel is an Associated Press reporter in Jerusalem.
Updated 8:02 AM EDT, April 6, 2024
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israel-Hamas war has stretched on for half a year and become one of the most destructive, deadly, and intractable conflicts of the 21st century.
Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 cross-border attack, Israel has pummeled the Gaza Strip, displacing the vast majority of the population and causing many to flee to Gaza’s southernmost city, Rafah. Food is scarce, the U.N. says famine is approaching and few Palestinians have been able to leave the besieged territory.
FILE - People inspect the site where World Central Kitchen workers were killed in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
Meanwhile, Hamas continues to fire rockets into Israel from Gaza, and Hezbollah and other militant groups do so from southern Lebanon, prompting tit-for-tat fighting that has displaced thousands of civilians on both sides of Israel’s borders. Hamas is still holding hostages taken during the Oct. 7 raid, as well as the bodies of some who died in captivity. And cease-fire talks stretch on with no end in sight.
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After six months of war, Israel’s isolation grows with no end in sight A poster depicting Israeli hostage Noa Argamani, 26, is displayed next to a memorial in Tel Aviv on Thursday, April 4, 2024. Argamani was kidnapped to Gaza on Oct. 7 during the cross-border attack by Hamas militants at the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im, southern Israel. Half a year into Israel's war, agonized families are in a race against time. In November, a weeklong cease-fire deal saw the release of more than 100 hostages. But the war is dragging on, with no end in sight and no serious hostage deal on the table. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) For families of hostages, it’s a race against time as Israel’s war reaches six-month mark
Israel says its strike that killed aid workers was a mistake. Rights groups say it was no anomaly
Ashraf Abu Draz mourns over the bodies of his two daughters who were killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a hospital morgue in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, April 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)
FILE - Palestinians flee to northern Gaza as Israeli tanks block the Salah al-Din road in the central Gaza Strip on Nov. 24, 2023, as the four-day cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war begins as part of an agreement that Qatar helped broker. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman, File)
FILE - Palestinians pray over bodies of people killed in the Israeli bombardment who were brought from the Shifa hospital before burying them in a mass grave in the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip on Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman, File)
FILE - Islamic Group members known as Jamaa Islamiya carry the body of their comrade Mohammad Riad Mohyeldin, who was killed in an apparent Israeli strike, during his funeral procession in Beirut, Lebanon on March 12, 2024. AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)
FILE - Palestinians line up to receive free meals at Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Essa, File)
Here’s a look at the conflict by numbers, which mainly come from the Israeli military and prime minister’s office, the Gaza health ministry, the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and Associated Press reporting. TOTAL DEATHS
- Palestinians killed in Gaza: 33,137
- Children killed in Gaza: more than 13,000
- People killed in Israel: about 1,200
- Palestinians killed in the West Bank: 456
- People killed in Lebanon: at least 343
- Civilians and foreigners killed in Israel on Oct. 7: 780
- First responders killed in Israel on Oct. 7: 62
- Civilians killed since Oct. 7 in Israel along its northern border: 9
- Civilians killed in Lebanon: At least 50
- Aid workers killed in Gaza: 224, including at least 30 killed in the line of duty
- Health workers killed in Gaza: 484
- Journalists killed in Gaza: At least 95
- Militants killed by Israel in Gaza: more than 13,000, according to the Israeli military
- Israeli soldiers killed in the Gaza ground offensive: 256
- Israeli soldiers killed on Oct. 7: 314
- Israeli soldiers killed along Israel’s northern front since Oct. 7: 11
- Militants killed in Lebanon: About 280, mostly from Hezbollah
- Percentage of buildings likely damaged/destroyed: 55.9%
- Percentage of homes likely damaged: more than 60%
- Percentage of school buildings damaged: 90%
- Hospitals that are functioning: 10/36
- Palestinian civilians facing “catastrophic” food insecurity, according to the U.N.: 1.1 million
- Percentage of northern Gaza children under age 2 who are acutely malnourished: 31%
- Percentage of students out of school: 100%
- Mosques damaged: 227
- Churches damaged: 3
- Palestinians injured in Gaza since Oct. 7: 75,815
- Palestinians injured in the West Bank since Oct. 7: 4,750
- Israeli soldiers injured since the beginning of the ground offensive: 1,549
- Israeli civilians injured on Oct. 7: 4,834
- Palestinians currently displaced in Gaza: 1.7 million (70% of the population)
- Israelis currently displaced from border communities: 90,000 (under 1% of the population)
- Hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7: 253
- Hostages freed: 123
- Hostages who are alive or haven’t been confirmed dead: 98, including two who were taken before Oct. 7
- Hostages confirmed to have died in Hamas captivity: 36, including two taken before Oct. 7
- Palestinian prisoners freed during weeklong pause in fighting: 240