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Bombing of the Gaza Strip (2023–present)
Air raids by the Israeli Air Forces in the Israel–Hamas war / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The bombing of the Gaza Strip is an ongoing aerial bombardment campaign on the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Air Force during the Israel–Hamas war. During the bombing, Israeli airstrikes damaged or destroyed Palestinian refugee camps, schools, hospitals, mosques, churches, and other civilian infrastructure.[2][3] by late April 2024 it was estimated that Israel had dropped over 70,000 tons of bombs over Gaza, surpassing the bombing of Dresden, Hamburg, and London combined during World War II.[4][5][6]
Bombing of the Gaza Strip | |
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Part of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip | |
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Location | Gaza Strip, Palestine |
Coordinates | 31°27′00″N 34°24′00″E |
Date | 7 October 2023 – present |
Attack type | Bombardment, War crimes |
Deaths | 15,797+ civilians[1] (estimated 25% men, 25% women, 50% children[1]) Unknown number of militants |
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Israel has faced accusations of war crimes due to the large number of civilian casualties and the large percentage of civilian infrastructure destroyed.[7] In its defense, Israel stated that it utilized a wide-scale evacuation notification system,[lower-alpha 1] and claimed that its targets were used by Hamas. By January 2024, researchers at Oregon State University and the City University of New York estimated that as much as 62% of all buildings in the Gaza Strip had been damaged or destroyed.[9][lower-alpha 2] In its defense, Israel has claimed only 16% of Gaza buildings were destroyed.[11]