In pictures: One year of war in Gaza

Mohammedal-Hajjar, Enas Rami

October 7, 2024

In the year since Israel declared its war on Gaza, at least 42,000 Palestinians have been killed, a little over half of them women and children.

According to Palestinian health officials, the death toll is likely to be far higher with thousands of people believed to buried under rubble or in areas inaccessible to medical teams.

The conflict erupted after the 7 October 2023 attacks on southern Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas, which, according to Israeli officials, killed 1,139 people and took around 250 captive.

Here Israeli fighter jets can be seen bombing a high-rise residential building in Gaza City on 7 October 2023 (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar).

‘A time of painful birth and major transformation’: a senior Hamas leader reflects on October 7 and its aftermath

Mondoweiss Editors

October 6, 2024

Editor’s Note: Mousa Abu Marzouk is a Palestinian politician and senior member of Hamas who served as the first chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from 1992 until 1996, and deputy chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from January 1997 until April 2013, where he was succeeded by the late Ismail Haniyeh. Abu Marzouk has been a key figure in Palestinian politics and within the Hamas movement for decades, and continues to play a central role in the group’s politburo.

 

 Palestinians breaking down the border fence with Israel from Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. (Photo: Stringer/APA Images)

‘Look at our suffering!’: Gaza’s message to the world after a year of genocide

Belal Awad, LeoErhadt and Ruwaida Amer

October 7, 2024

It’s been one year since Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza, following the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, and following 75 years of Israel’s Occupation of Palestine. More than half of the Gaza Strip’s buildings, businesses, roads, farms, hospitals, and schools have been completely destroyed. Over 41,000 people have been reported killed, with this number growing daily. To commemorate a year of what has been called “the most documented genocide in history,” TRNN asked some residents of Gaza to describe their year. This is what they told us.

The Electronic Intifada: Asa Winstanley – How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October

Asa Winstanley

October 7, 2024

One year ago today Palestinian fighters led by Hamas launched an unprecedented military offensive out of the Gaza Strip.

 

Taking a selfie at the Tekuma “car cemetery.” Israel says that more than 1,000 vehicles were destroyed — often with Israeli captives inside — on and soon after 7 October 2023. But the evidence shows that many of these bombings were carried out by Israel itself, under its deadly “Hannibal Directive.” Jim Hollander UPI

New Israeli Assault on North Gaza Signals Start of Ethnic Cleansing Plan

Dave DeCamp

October 6, 2024

The Israeli military has launched a fresh assault on northern Gaza and ordered all Palestinian civilians living in the north to head south, signaling Israel may be enacting an ethnic cleansing plan that has been reviewed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Displaced Palestinians make their way as they flee areas in the northern Gaza Strip following an Israeli evacuation order in Jabalia, October 6, 2024. REUTERS/Hussam Al-Zaanin