2023, the year the war between Israel and Hamas broke out

On October 7, 2023, the conflict between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) claimed the lives of 18,200 people in the Gaza Strip and injured at least 49,645 Palestinians, 70% of whom were women and children. In Israel, it killed at least 1,200 people and Hamas’s initial crackdown led to 240 kidnappings, some of whom were released, others killed in Israeli bombings.

This is one of the most important events of this year. Timeline To understand the conflict:

January 1st. – The Azedin al-Kasem battalions announce that they have ended the “silent period” with Israel.

January 25. Hamas wins the parliamentary elections with an absolute majority, with Ismail Haniye at the top.

Israel and Hamas, along with other militias, are involved in small-scale armed clashes and bombing the civilian population.

September 24. Israel attacks two Hamas military posts in the Gaza Strip for the third day in a row in response to another day of Palestinian protests at the separation fence.

– Palestinian militias from the Gaza Strip, led by the Islamist movement Hamaseles, will launch a combined operation involving the introduction of more than thousands of rockets and infiltration into Israeli territory, in a surprising and unprecedented attack. A group of militiamen from the Al-Qasam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, invaded several towns on the border with the Gaza Strip, where serious clashes with Israeli forces took place; They kidnapped soldiers and civilians

– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the state of war in his first public intervention after the surprise attack on Israel by Palestinian militiamen on land, sea and in the air.

– Israel responded with aerial bombardment of several Hamas facilities in Gaza, beginning Operation Iron Swords

– The Israeli army begins to recruit thousands of reservists. They do not rule out the possibility of an increase in conflict scenarios in the West Bank or up to the northern border, with attacks from southern Lebanon, where Palestinian and Shia Hezbollah militias operate.

– At least the first day of the conflict is responsible for 532 lives (300 among Israelis, 232 among Palestinians); The estimated number of injuries from the attacks is 1,600 in Israel and 1,700 in Gaza.

– US President Joe Biden urges Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to emphasize this fact. The United States “stands with Israel” and that it fully supports “their right” to “self-defense.”

– The international community, including Mexico, condemns Hamas’ attack on Israel; Iran celebrates this.

– The Lebanese militias of Hezbollah openly participate in the conflict between Hamas and Israel

– The number of deaths in the war rises to more than 1,100; More than 200,000 people were forced to leave their homes and go to emergency shelters.

– Hamas claims this is the case. More than a hundred hostages have been captured in Israel. “Our goal is to release all Palestinian and Jordanian prisoners held in Israeli prisons,” Mousa Abu Marzook said.

– Israel will completely stop supplying electricity, food and fuel to Gaza.

– More than 800 dead in Israel; 560 in Gaza.

– Continued Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip; More than 1,500 bodies of Hamas members are found in Israel and the death toll rises to more than 3,000.

– World Health Organization calls for the establishment of a humanitarian corridor to provide humanitarian assistance to the civilian population in the Gaza Strip.

– Israel regains full control over the territory invaded by Hamas.

– Human Rights Monitoring Complaint Israel’s use of white phosphorus in attacks on Gaza and Lebanon.

– Israel provides 24-hour care to approximately 1.1 million residents of Gaza. Evacuate the northern area. Leave the enclave and go south.

– Israel prepares a ground attack on Gaza as civilians flee south of the enclave.

– A bomb attack on a hospital in the Gaza Strip kills at least 500; Israel denies the attack and blames Islamic Jihad.

– Egypt confirms the opening of the Rafah border crossing for the provision of humanitarian aid; Three thousand tons of aid are waiting to reach Gaza.

– Gaza has confirmed more than 10,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israel since the start of the conflict.

– Trucks for humanitarian aid You enter Gaza through Rafah.

– Peace Summit An extraordinary event in Cairo comes to an end without a joint declaration for a ceasefire.

– The WHO guarantees this. Two-thirds of Gaza’s hospitals are closed, indicating a “critical health situation.”

– Death toll in Gaza exceeds 6,500; 1,142 injured.

– The Israeli army announced this Monday an “expansion of operations” in the Gaza Strip, noting that “additional forces” were entering the enclave, including infantry and armored vehicles.

– The Houthis in Yemen are joining the war between Israel and Hamas, which is being waged more than 1,000 miles from Sanaa with drone and missile attacks on Israel, highlighting the regional risks of the conflict.

– Israeli bombs Refugee camp north of Gaza, at least 90 dead.

– Dozens of injured people and people with foreign passports are evacuated via the Rafah border crossing.

– Deaths in Gaza rise to 8,800; Three thousand 648 are minors.

– The only hospital in Gaza with the infrastructure to care for cancer patients across the Gaza Strip is ceasing operations.

– Doctors Without Borders confirms this evacuation of all international staff.

– A month after the war, more than 10,000 deaths are confirmed in the Gaza Strip (four thousand, 237 children); 1,200 in Israel.

– Dozens of Jews invaded the Esplanade of the Mosques, located in the Old City of Jerusalem and called the Temple Mount by Jews, amid increasing violence linked to the recent open war between the Islamist group Hamas and Israel, which started on October 7 . . The action is considered a clear “provocation”.

– Greater Al-Shifao Hospital in Gaza, suspend operations

– Israel attacks Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza and calls on Hamas to surrender; They later confirmed that they had found a network of militia group tunnels beneath the building.

– You reach an agreement to release hostages and a temporary humanitarian ceasefire.

– Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners; Hamas Publications Dozens of Israelis were kidnapped in the attack over a month earlier.

– Israel denounces that Hamas is still holding 137 hostages.

– The import of humanitarian aid to Gaza will be stopped.

–Israel increases bombing in Gaza; Hamas reports the deaths of 700 people in 24 hours.

– Israel begins a ground offensive in the south of the Gaza Strip.

– Doctors Without Borders guarantees that Rafazona borders Egypt. There is no longer room to accommodate more displaced people. The UN says that almost half of the population in this small corner of the Strip is overcrowded.

– The number of deaths in Gaza as a result of the Israeli offensive exceeds 18,200 and 49,600 injured, the Palestinian Strip Ministry of Health reported.

– Israel announces short temporary humanitarian pauses in Rafah to facilitate supplies to the civilian population.