Terror reports shocked the world the day one of the most sophisticated and powerful armies was caught by surprise by a militia of a tiny territory. The answer was not long before and the conflict lasts two years ago and has already caused tens of thousands of dead. Now, the latest war between Palestinians and Israelites in Gaza may have entered a decisive phase, after Hamas agreed to negotiate the US Peace Plan. The world continues with eyes in the Middle East.
For decades no one strange war news, attacks, dead or hostages from Israel and Palestine, or their neighbors, but the events of October 7, 2023 were different and had brutal consequences. What happened on this day and why was it different?
Israel was born in a conflict in 1948 and has since remained at war.
- 1967 – Six day war against Syria, Egypt and Jordan
- 1973 – Yom Kippur War with Egypt and Syria
- 1978, 1996 and 2006 in Lebanon’s invasions
- Since 2008 – in the Gaza Strip, since Hamas controls the territory
But never an attack with such a boldness had happened. One of the most sophisticated and powerful armies in the world was caught by surprise by a militia of a tiny territory.
October 7, 2023
Palestinian militias led by Hamas entered Israel and attacked various locations and a multitude of young people who were at a festival while release thousands of rockets against Israel. More than a thousand people died and 251 were held hostage.
Massacre survivors reported the terror they lived, when dozens of Hamas militants opened fire on Israelites young people who had gathered for a night of electronic music. .
“My village no longer exists. It was totally burned, destroyed and looted. The terrorists passed home by home. They killed and kidnapped children and grandparents who walk with difficulty and took them to Gaza.”
This is just one of many hundreds of messages published social networks.
Blood, pain, shouts and bodies on the road
Sderot is one of the Israeli cities closest to the Gaza border and was one of Hamas’s first targets. A report from SIC’s international partner witnessed the overwhelming scenario of the hours following the attack.
This is a video that contains violent images.
What is Hamas?
Hamas is a Palestinian Islamic group, created in 1987, that governs the since 2007 and has sworn the destruction of Israel. It has been responsible for many suicidal attacks and other deadly attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers.
Hamas as a whole, or in some cases his military arm, Izzedine al-Qassam brigades, is designated as a terrorist group by Israel, the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom, as well as other powers. Hamas is supported by Iran, which finances it and provides weapons and training.
From 2007, when Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections against Fatah (the Yasser Arafat Movement), he established his dominion, particularly in the Gaza Strip, from which attacks against Israel are continuously launched.
Israel declares war and starts counterattack
In a reaction to Hamas’s attack, Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, said that since the burnt offering were not murdered in a single day so many Jews.
“Since the holocaust that we did not witness scenes of women, children and Jewish grandparents, including Holocaust survivors, to be moved in trucks and taken to captivity.”
The Israeli Prime Minister, on the other hand, stated that Israel was “at war” with Hamas and began a counterattack with air, naval and terrestrial forces on the Gaza Strip. Benjamin Netanyahu promised to annihilate Hamas.
Israel’s response has already caused more than 67,000 dead and 170,000 injured, according to Gaza Ministry of Health. The offensive also destroyed most of the infrastructure and forced hundreds of thousands of people to abandon their homes.
The United Nations announced that 78% of Gaza Strip buildings were destroyed or damaged and that 77% of the road network was damaged or impassable. Of the 36 hospitals 14 were only partially operating.
“I would like to be in heaven”
Gaza clinics “are almost silent” because “children no longer have the strength to speak or even cry in agony.” The complaint was made by the executive director of the non-governmental organization with the Security Council of .
As an example, Inger Ashing read a text written by a child from Gaza.
“I would like to be in the sky, where my mother is, where there is love, there is food and there is water.”
On the way to a Palestinian state
Several countries joined in September to most of the international community that recognizes Palestine as a state, including Portugal. A group of 10 nations, including some with critical governments of Israel’s performance, such as Spain, as well as the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Australia made this decision claiming to want to contribute to the resolution of the war and to the implementation of the proposal of two states.
Thus rose to 157 the number of countries between the 193 that are part of the United Nations to recognize Palestine as the State, a group from which the United States, Germany, Italy or Japan are outside, among others.
The War in Gaza has generated manifestations of solidarity and protest in many countries, as well as humanitarian fleets, the latest from which it was fought by Israel, which detained the more than 400 participants, including four Portuguese.
In recent days thousands of people have taken to the streets on various continents to demand the end of the war in Gaza and the liberation of humanitarian flotilla activists.
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A light at the bottom of the tunnel
The first round of negotiations between Hamas and Mediators in Egypt, to end the war in the Gaza Strip, is taking place in Sharm Elheikh, where an Israeli delegation has also arrived. The meetings aim to discuss the peace plan proposed by US President Donald Trump.
The plan foresees a ceasefire, the release of hostages and the creation of an independent Palestinian administration in Gaza, led by a peace committee chaired by Trump and with the participation of Tony Blair.
On Sunday, Hamas showed a desire to start hostage exchange and demanded the end of Israelite military operations.
How long will it miss the end of negotiations? How long will it miss for the end of the war in Gaza?
The president of the United States has already warned that Hamas will face the “total annihilation” if it refuses to give gaza control as it stipulates its .
