Conflict in the Middle East, Live | Israel has stepped up attacks against Lebanon and Gaza and Hezbollah has launched nearly 200 projectiles in the past 24 hours. international

One year of war chronology

These have been the main events in the first year of the war in the Middle East

7 October 2023 -Hamas begins its attack against Israel, first with a wave of rockets and then with the infiltration of hundreds of Hamas fighters into Israeli territory. 1,200 people were killed and another 251 were abducted in the attack.,

8th October -Israel formally declared war.

9 October – Israel announces that it will completely occupy the strip. Defense Minister Yoav Galant assured that Israel would not allow entry of “electricity, food or fuel”.

17 October – At least 100 people died in an explosion at Al-Ahli hospital in central Gaza. Hamas accused Israel. Israel says it was a failed Hamas rocket.

27 October – Israel begins ground offensive against Gaza.

24 November – 1 December -The first ceasefire has been announced between Israel and Hamas. It allows for the exchange of 105 Israeli hostages held by Hamas for 240 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel.

4th December – Israeli forces expanded their ground incursion into southern Gaza and attacked Khan Yunis, the town where Israel had told Gazans to move during its northern offensive.

15th December – Israeli forces killed three Israeli hostages who had managed to escape with the white flag.

11 January 2024 – South Africa filed a lawsuit against Israel in the International Court of Justice and accused it of genocide.

26 January – The International Court of Justice ordered Israel to take more and better measures to protect the lives of civilians in Gaza, in response to South Africa’s lawsuit. The same day, UNRWA fired several workers accused of participating in the 7 October attacks.

1 April – Israel killed seven members of the NGO World’s Central Kitchen, an organization founded by Spanish chef José Andrés that distributed food in the Strip. The same day, Israel bombed the Iranian Consulate in Syria, killing seven members of the Revolutionary Guard.

13 April – Iran responded to the Damascus attack by launching hundreds of rockets and drones against Israeli territory. This is his first attack on Israeli soil.

22 may – Spain, Ireland and Norway recognize the State of Palestine.

June 6th – Israeli forces bombed a UNRWA school used as a refugee camp in Nussirat. Killed 37 people.

13th July – Mohammed Deif, commander of Hamas’s armed wing and mastermind of the October 7 attacks, was killed in an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis.

31st July – Ismail Haniya, leader of Hamas’s political wing, died in an explosion in Tehran.

17 and 18 September – After a month of escalating clashes between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and northern Israel, thousands of searches and walkie talkie A bomb used by Hezbollah exploded in Beirut, killing at least 37 people and injuring at least 3,200 more.

28 September – Israeli forces bombed six residential buildings in southern Beirut and killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

1 October -Israel invaded Lebanon. That night, Iran fired nearly two hundred ballistic missiles at Israel in its largest attack yet. The only Palestinian killed was a civilian. And two Hamas terrorists killed seven people and injured nine others at a Tel Aviv train station.

4th October – Israel carried out its biggest bombing against the West Bank in 25 years, killing 18 people in Tulkarem in the north of the territory.

7 October – One year has passed since the conflict. 41,909 people have been killed in Gaza.