Israel-Gaza updates: Netanyahu says war to continue 'on all fronts'
Netanyahu said Israel will "continue the war on all fronts and in all sectors."
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Last Updated: January 21, 2024, 5:07 PM EST
More than 100 days since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli military continues its bombardment of the neighboring Gaza Strip.
The conflict, now the deadliest between Israel and Hamas since Israel's founding in 1948, shows no signs of letting up soon and the brief cease-fire that allowed for over 100 hostages to be freed from Gaza remains a distant memory.
Here's how the news is developing. All times Eastern.
Mar 1, 6:03 am
What we know about the conflict
The latest outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that governs the Gaza Strip, has passed the four-month mark.
In the Gaza Strip, at least 30,228 people have been killed and 71,377 others have been wounded by Israeli forces since Oct. 7, according to Gaza's Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health.
In Israel, at least 1,200 people have been killed and 6,900 others have been injured by Hamas and other Palestinian militants since Oct. 7, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
There has also been a surge in violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israeli forces have killed at least 395 people in the territory since Oct. 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The ongoing war began after Hamas-led militants launched an unprecedented incursion into southern Israel from neighboring Gaza via land, sea and air. Scores of people were killed while more than 200 others were taken hostage, according to Israeli authorities. The Israeli military subsequently launched retaliatory airstrikes followed by a ground invasion of Gaza, a 140-square-mile territory where more than 2 million Palestinians have lived under a blockade imposed by Israel and supported by Egypt since Hamas came to power in 2007. Gaza, unlike Israel, has no air raid sirens or bomb shelters.
Jan 16, 2024, 3:08 PM EST
2 Israeli hostages who appeared in Hamas video confirmed dead: Kibbutz
Itay Svirsky, 35, and Yossi Sharabi, 53 -- two hostages who appeared in a video released by Hamas earlier this week -- have been confirmed dead, according to Kibbutz Be'eri.
Yossi Sharabi.
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"Their bodies are in the hands of Hamas, we will demand their return with the rest of our abductees," Kibbutz Be'eri, one of the communities attacked by the terrorist group on Oct. 7, said in a statement on Tuesday. "Our hearts are with the families in their immense pain. May they rest in peace."
Itai Svirsky.
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Svirsky was at his parents' home in the kibbutz when he was abducted, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
Hamas released a video on Sunday showing the two men, as well as 26-year-old Noa Argamani, while calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war on Gaza.
Following the release of the hostage video, the IDF said they told the men's families that "there is grave concern for their lives" and denied Hamas' claims that Israeli forces shot Svirsky.
Jan 16, 2024, 12:07 PM EST
Jordan accuses Israel of hindering aid delivery to Gaza
Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi said Tuesday that Israel is creating hurdles to the entry of aid into the war-torn Gaza Strip.
Jordan is working in coordination with the United Nations to deliver aid to Gaza, but only 10% of the total needs of the more than 2 million Palestinians who live there are currently being met, according to Safadi.
"The reality now is that Israeli measures are preventing sufficient aid from arriving and only a fraction is being delivered," Safadi said during a press conference in Amman.
-ABC News' Will Gretsky and Morgan Winsor
Jan 15, 2024, 1:27 PM EST
At least 1 dead, 17 injured in car-ramming attacks in Israel, police say
At least one person was killed and 17 others were injured on Monday afternoon in car-ramming attacks that took place in various locations across Ra'anana, Israel, authorities said.
Two suspects -- identified as a pair of Palestinian men from the Hebron area in the Israeli-occupied West Bank -- allegedly stole multiple vehicles before ramming them into crowds of pedestrians in Ra'anana, about 13 miles north of Tel Aviv, according to the Israel Police.
Israeli security officials respond to a suspected ramming attack in Raanana, Israel January 15, 2024.
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Both suspects have since been arrested. The incidents and the motive remains under investigation, police said.
The victim killed was an elderly woman, according to police.
Fourteen of the 17 injured remained hospitalized Monday evening, officials said. At least seven children were among the injured.
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1 dead, over a dozen injured in car-ramming attacks in Israel
At least one person was killed and 13 others were injured on Monday afternoon in car-ramming attacks in various locations across Ra'anana, Israel, authorities said.
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-ABC News' Jordana Miller, Bruno Nota, Dana Savir and Morgan Winsor
Jan 15, 2024, 11:59 AM EST
What life is like for displaced Palestinians in Rafah's tent city
Ahmad Ismael said his "whole world turned upside down" after Oct. 7.
The Palestinian father of four now lives with his family in a tent in Rafah, the southernmost region of the Gaza Strip. They are among the almost 1.9 million people -- 85% of Gaza's population -- who are displaced from their homes, nearly half of whom are crammed inside Rafah.
A Palestinian displaced by Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip arrives at a temporary tent camp near Kerem Shalom crossing in Rafah, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024.
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"We want the tragic situation we are living in to end," Ismael told ABC News in an interview Sunday. "We hope from God that the war will stop."
Ismael said Israel's intense bombardment forced him and his family to flee their home in northern Gaza. They have been living in Rafah's tent city for the past 70 days, he said.
"We fled with only our souls," he told ABC News. "We didn't bring anything with us."
Ismael showed ABC News around his family's makeshift shelter and explained what life is like there amid the latest outbreak of war between Israel and Gaza's militant rulers, Hamas.
General view of a tented camp for displaced Palestinians near the Egyptian border while seeking safety from Israeli air strikes, on Jan. 14, 2024, in Rafah, Gaza.
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"People wake up at 5 or 6 in the morning," he told ABC News. "You wake up to think about the situation of the tent. Is there water flowing or not? Because of the rain, how will we provide wood for the fire? How will we provide today's food for the children?"
Ismael said they receive some canned food from a U.N. agency's warehouse every two or three days. But it's not enough to feed his family, so they must try to buy other food and cook it over an open fire.
"Everything is expensive and scarce," he told ABC News. "We used to buy this oil for 7 or 6 shekels. Today, I buy this for 20 shekels. One day you find it and the next day you don't."
"Firewood is also very expensive, not cheap, and even I can no longer afford it," he continued.
"What I'm telling you is not just about my life," he added, "but the lives of all of us here."
-ABC News' Rashid Haddou-Riffi, Morgan Winsor and Sami Zayara
