In the past year in the Gaza Strip, Israel has bombed more than 40,000 targets, found 4,700 tunnel shafts and destroyed 1,000 rocket launcher sites. The military said on the one-year anniversary of the Hamas-led terror October 7 attacks. The terror attack triggered Israel’s assault on the enclave.
Tallying troops whose names it received permission to publish, Israel’s military said 726 Israeli soldiers had been killed since October 7, 2023. Of those, 380 died in the October 7 attacks and 346 in combat in Gaza that started on October 27, 2023.
Injured troops numbered 4,576 since that date. Fifty-six soldiers died as a result of operational accidents, which the military did not define.
The Israeli military said it enlisted 300,000 reservists since the start of the war – 82% men and 18% women and nearly half of them aged 20 to 29.
Since the start of the conflict, 13,200 rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza. Another 12,400 were fired from Lebanon. Some 60rockets came from Syria, 180 from Yemen and 400 from Iran were fired since October 7, the military said.
It said it killed more than 800 terrorists in Lebanon, where 4,900 targets have been struck from the air along with about 6,000 ground targets. Over the past year, Israel arrested more than 5,000 suspects in the West Bank and Jordan Valley.
Israeli says it killed eight Gaza terror brigade commanders, about 30 battalion commanders and 165 company commanders.
The war in Gaza was triggered when Palestinian Hamas terrorists attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023. Over 1,200 people were killed in the attack and another 250 were taken hostage. More than 100 hostages are still in the custody of Hamas.
Israel’s subsequent military assault on Gaza has killed nearly 42,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Hamas run health ministry.
Team Bharatshakti
(With inputs from Reuters)
