Houston Gragnani
October 7th 2023 -January 2024
On October 7, 2023, Hamas attacked Israel, which led Israel to declare war on Hamas while it furthered the conflict that has been going on since 1948. At 6:30 AM on October 7 Hamas, a Palestinian Islamic political and military group, sent rockets into Israel. Israel immediately launched into a Homefront Command which is Israel’s defense strategy when an emergency arises that commands citizens to stay in shelters and prevents entry and exits from Israel. A day later on October 8th, once Israel was able to regroup and stabilize from the attack, Israel declared war on Hamas. The Israeli Defense force immediately sent air strikes to the Gaza Strip and performed a complete siege of the strip. They surrounded and cut off all food and electricity which completely wrecked the Gaza Strip. After a month of war, from November 24-30th, a temporary ceasefire occurred between the Israeli and Hamas for a prisoner swap of around 300-400. The National Radio Report wrote an article in late December about the uncertainty of future ceasefire agreements possibly occurring into 2024. “It is unclear if Israel is willing to negotiate based on this proposal. Previous negotiations have been led by Qatar, which helped broker a week-long cease-fire in late November that led to the exchange of 105 hostages held by Hamas for some 240 Palestinians in Israeli jails”.(https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1221761431/gaza-israel-ceasefire-palestinians-war). Moving into December of 2023, President Biden, during an event for his reelection stated that Israel is losing international support due to the destruction of the Gaza strip and the mass casualties that have been a result. Biden states, “ Israel has had the overwhelming support of the vast majority of nations… But they’re starting to lose that support by indiscriminate bombing that takes place”. (https://www.britannica.com/event/Israel-Hamas-War). While Israel at first had a lot of international support, the supporting countries started to break ties with Israel because of the mass destruction that they had caused to the Gaza strip. The events after the October attacks such as temporary ceasefires and lots of international support have made progress but there is still a long way to go to resolve this conflict over the Gaza Strip.
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