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 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.
Nir Keidar/Reuters
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.
Hatem Ali/AP
"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.
Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images
"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
Jan 15, 2024, 10:52 AM EST
Another communications blackout in Gaza
NetBlocks, a London-based nonprofit that covers internet connectivity around the world, said Monday that the Gaza Strip has been "largely offline" for the past 72 hours.
"The disruption is the longest sustained telecoms blackout on record since the onset of the Hamas-Israel war, and is likely to significantly limit visibility into events on the ground," NetBlocks wrote in a post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
-ABC News' Will Gretsky and Morgan Winsor
Jan 15, 2024, 4:59 AM EST
Shots fired as crowd seeks humanitarian aid in Gaza
Gunshots rang out as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians sought food from humanitarian aid trucks in the war-torn Gaza Strip on Sunday.
Video of the incident in Sheikh Iljlin, a neighborhood in southern Gaza City, shows a large crowd gathering to receive flour from aid trucks parked near an Israeli military checkpoint. Then the sound of gunfire erupts and people are seen frantically running.
Humanitarian aid trucks enter the Gaza Strip from Israel through the Kerem Shalom border crossing in Rafah on Jan. 14, 2024.
Hatem Ali/AP
ABC News was not able to independently verify who fired the shots and whether anyone was killed or injured.
The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment on Monday.
-ABC News' Felicia Alvarez, Nasser Atta, Helena Skinner and Morgan Winsor
