At dawn on October 7, 2023, the armed wing of Hamas launched an unprecedented deadly attack against Israel. The Palestinian Islamist group then entered Israeli territory by crossing a border considered one of the most secure in the world. That day, at least 1,160 people were killed, according to the latest reports, and some 250 people were kidnapped by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
In the hours following the attack, the Jewish state declared itself at warpromised to ” make someone pay “ to Hamas “an unprecedented price” and launched a military offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has killed, to date, 33,037 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-administered health ministry. The victims are mainly women and children.
The destruction is colossal and the war has caused a humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, where the majority of the 2.4 million inhabitants are threatened with famineaccording to the UN.
The Jewish state is even accused by certain nations of committing acts of genocide. South Africa launched proceedings against Israel before the UN’s highest court, the International Court of Justice, which recognized on January 27 that there was a “real and imminent risk” of genocide and called for protecting the Palestinians.
On the eve of the six-month anniversary of the start of the war, while a UN resolution for the first time called for a “immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan” in front “bring to a lasting ceasefire”while demanding “the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages”, the Israeli army continues its military offensive and Hamas is still holding around a hundred hostages.
From 10 a.m., Rami Abujamus, Palestinian journalist currently in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, and Clothilde Mraffko, journalist for The world in Jerusalem, will answer your questions on the humanitarian and political situation in the Palestinian enclave, but also on the unprecedented aspects of this war. From 3 p.m., Louis Imbert, correspondent for World also in Jerusalem, will answer questions on the state of Israeli society since October 7, 2023 and in the context of the war policy pursued by the Jewish state.