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Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out war.
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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.
Blasts hit 2 Egyptian Red Sea towns near border with Israel
Blasts hit two Egyptian Red Sea towns on Friday, injuring at least six people, according to the Egyptian military and state media, with Israel blaming the incidents on an "aerial threat" in the region.
Egyptian army spokesman Col. Gharib Abdel-Hafez said an "unidentified drone" crashed Friday morning into a building near a hospital in the resort town of Taba, near the border with Israel, injuring six people.
Earlier on Friday, Egyptian state-linked TV channel Al-Qahera News said a missile fired as part of the escalation in the neighboring Gaza Strip had struck a medical facility in Taba.
The channel later reported that an "unidentified body" crashed near a power station in the South Sinai resort town of Nuweiba, some 45 miles to the south.
The Israeli military said the incidents were a result of an "aerial threat" in the Red Sea region and that there were no Israeli casualties from the strike near its border.
"An aerial threat was detected in the Red Sea region, and fighterjets were called in to deal with it," the Israeli military’s Arabic spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a statement. "We estimate that the harm to Egypt was caused by this threat," he said, adding that Israel will work with Egypt and the United States to "tighten defense in the region" against such threats.
Egyptian witnesses said fighter jets have roared above the two towns since dawn.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the two incidents.
Earlier this week, a number of Egyptian border guards were injured after being hit by fragments of a shell that Israel’s army said was accidentally fired from one of its tanks. The Israel Defense Forces quickly apologized for the incident.
The recent incidents highlight the risk Egypt faces from a possible regional spillover of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the militant group that rules Gaza.
-ABC News' Ayat Al-Tawy
At least 4 injured after rocket hits Israeli apartment building, authorities say
At least four people were injured on Friday when a rocket struck an apartment building in Tel Aviv, according to Israeli authorities.
Hamas allegedly fired a barrage of rockets from the Gaza Strip toward Tel Aviv on Friday afternoon and most were intercepted by Israel’s air defense system, but one hit a five-story apartment building.
The injured victims ranged in age from 20 to 78. Two were hospitalised in moderate condition while the others were in minor condition, according to Israel's rescue service MDA.
-ABC News' Dani Tene and Morgan Winsor
Hamas has taken 229 hostages, IDF says
The number of people believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas in Israel on Oct. 7 is now 229, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
As of Friday morning, the IDF said 229 hostage families have been notified.
-ABC News' Morgan Winsor
Israeli troops enter Gaza for 2nd straight night
A column of Israeli military tanks crossed into the northern Gaza Strip late Thursday for the second straight night to conduct a series of targeted raids.
The mission lasted several hours and included airstrikes from above. The Israel Defense Forces said Friday morning that 250 targets were struck in Gaza in the past 24 hours.
-ABC News' Morgan Winsor
US 'not drawing red lines for Israel': Kirby
The U.S. is "not drawing red lines for Israel" and is still in "active negotiations" to release hostages, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said during a virtual briefing Friday.
Asked whether the U.S. was given advance warning of the expanding ground incursion happening today, Kirby would not give any detail on conversations with the Israelis, but said President Joe Biden has been getting daily briefings from his national security team.
Pressed on whether the U.S. is confident that Israel has thought through what happens after the ground incursion, Kirby said it's up to the Israelis to answer questions about the "soundness of their planning and the effectiveness of the execution."
Kirby said Israel should support a humanitarian pause if it can allow for the release of hostages.
-ABC News' Selina Wang and Fritz Farrow