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Cargo entering Gaza at Kerem Shalom crossing. Kerem Shalom border crossing (Hebrew: מעבר כרם שלום, "Vineyard of Peace"; [2] Arabic: معبر كرم أبو سالم, Karem Abu Salem) is a border crossing at the junction of two border sections: one between the Gaza Strip and Israel, and one between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
At 6:30 a.m. IST, air raid sirens were activated in southern and central Israel in response to Hamas missiles. [1] Concurrently, Muhammad Deif, the leader of the Hamas' military wing, announced in a ten-minute recorded message published online the start of "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood", and that "the enemy will understand that the time of their rampaging without accountability has ended", [2 ...
Map 1: United Nations-derived boundary map of Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories (2007, updated to 2018) The modern borders of Israel exist as the result both of past wars and of diplomatic agreements between the State of Israel and its neighbours, as well as an effect of the agreements among colonial powers ruling in the region before Israel's creation.
On 7 October 2023, Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launched coordinated armed incursions from the Gaza Strip into the Gaza Envelope of southern Israel, the first invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The attack coincided with the Jewish religious holiday Simchat Torah.
It comes as Egypt’s foreign minister has said Israel is yet to take a stance which allows the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip to open, as hopes of a deal to enable aid to ...
Zikim attack. / 31.60778°N 34.52167°E / 31.60778; 34.52167. First Lt. Or Moses †. As part of the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip, a military engagement took place near Zikim, Israel between Hamas militants and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). According to Haaretz, Hamas's goal was to capture Zikim's military ...
On 18 November 2023, Israel held its first permitted anti-war protest in Tel Aviv. [61] Two activists in Haifa were arrested for quietly protesting against the war. [62] On 27 December, protesters from northern Israeli border towns protested in Tel Aviv, demanding to know when they would be allowed to return home. [63]
The Gaza–Israel barrier (sometimes called the Iron Wall [1] [2] [3]) is a border barrier located on the Israeli side of the Gaza–Israel border. [4] Before the Israel–Hamas war, the Erez Crossing, in the north of the Gaza Strip, used to be the only crossing point for people and goods coming from Israel into the Gaza Strip, with a second crossing point, the Kerem Shalom border crossing ...