Israel-Hamas Struggle: Timeline and key developments

A barrage of rockets

Oct. 7, 6:30 a.m. in Israel

Air raid sirens begin sounding in Jerusalem round 6:30 a.m. native time, warning residents of the attack in progress and to instantly take cowl. An estimated 2,200 rockets have been fired towards southern and central Israel, together with Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, by the Hamas militants, in keeping with the Israel Defense Forces.

Armed Hamas terrorists, many on bikes, storm blockaded areas, capturing at and slaughtering individuals in kibbutzim and small cities. Video footage surfaces of Hamas militants taking Israeli residents — together with moms, babies and the elderly — hostage and carrying them throughout the Gaza border.

Oct. 7, shortly after the attack begins

Mohammed Deif, commander in chief of Hamas’ army arm, Al Qassam Brigades, releases a video assertion claiming accountability for the attack.

‘Israel is at struggle’

Israeli jet fighters launch retaliatory strikes in Gaza. Video surfaces of a high-rise residential building and the Al-Sousi Mosque in Gaza City being bombed and flattened.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells his nation, “Israel is at struggle.”

President Joe Biden tells Netanyahu in a telephone name that the United States “condemns” Hamas’ assault and has Israel’s again. In a televised handle from the White House, Biden says, “Israel has a proper to defend itself and its individuals.”

Oct. 8

At least 30 Israeli law enforcement officials are killed within the combating, primarily in Sderot, Israel, the place Hamas gunmen took management of the police station.

Israeli officers announce that combating is ongoing in six locations, together with Sderot — which sits simply 2 miles from the border with Gaza — and {that a} rocket injured 4 individuals.

Videos posted on-line present a packed all-night music competition in a desert in southern Israel close to the Gaza border being attacked by rockets and armed Hamas militants on the bottom. The footage reveals ladies and kids amongst these being dragged away in automobiles and pushed again into Gaza. Israeli rescue service Zaka says not less than 260 our bodies have been faraway from the venue following the attack.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells ABC’s “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos that the U.S. has pledged its full help to Israel and says, “The world needs to be revolted at what it is seen.”

Oct. 9, morning

Air sirens sound in northern Israel, prompting residents to hurry to protected rooms. The IDF claimed not less than two rockets have been fired towards northern Israel from Lebanon. One of the rockets, in keeping with the IDF, landed in Lebanese territory.

“The IDF neutralized quite a few terrorist infiltrators who crossed from Lebanon into Israel. We are defending our nation and stand prepared on all borders,” the IDF says in a press release.

An official with the U.S. National Security Council confirms there have been 9 Americans killed in Israel. The loss of life toll would proceed to climb.

The IDF publicizes its jet fighters struck 130 targets within the Gaza Strip, and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant orders a “full siege” of Gaza, chopping electrical energy to the area and blocking gasoline and meals from coming into the territory from Israel.

The IDF publicizes it has mobilized 300,000 reserves — the most important and quickest call-up in Israel’s historical past.

Hamas says it should begin killing Israeli hostages one after the other, threatening to movie the executions, until Israel instantly stops shelling properties in Gaza with out warning.

‘Pure, unadulterated evil’

Oct. 10

The U.S. confirms that an undetermined variety of Americans had been taken hostage by Hamas.

“I’ve directed my workforce to share intelligence and deploy extra consultants from throughout the United States authorities to seek the advice of with and advise Israeli counterparts on hostage restoration efforts. Because as president, I’ve no increased precedence than the protection of Americans being held hostage all over the world,” Biden says.

Biden says the atrocities dedicated by Hamas fighters included the “slaughter” of males, ladies and whole households, in addition to “stomach-churning stories of infants being killed.”

Gallant excursions southern Israel alongside the Gaza border, telling troopers they’re transferring to “a full-scale response” to Hamas’ shock attack and that he has “eliminated each restriction.”

“Hamas needed to see a change in Gaza — the truth is Gaza will make a 180. They will remorse [their actions],” Gallant mentioned.

Oct. 13

The IDF requires “all residents of Gaza City to evacuate their properties” and “transfer south for his or her safety.”

Israel begins warning greater than 1 million Palestinians to maneuver to a safer a part of the territory, in southern Gaza, as Israeli troopers ready what was anticipated to be an enormous floor marketing campaign towards Hamas fighters, lots of whom are believed to be hiding in a miles-long community of tunnels below residential neighborhoods.

Israeli Minister of Defense Gallant has mentioned the Israeli army is doing every part doable to stop civilian lack of life.

Blinken meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan and conveys the necessity to cool tensions throughout the West Bank and stop the battle from broadening. Blinken additionally expresses condolences to the households of these killed in Gaza.

Biden speaks with relations of Americans who stay unaccounted for after the attack in Israel.

The first chartered flight to evacuate Americans from Israel departs for Europe.

Attempted mass exodus from Gaza delayed at Egypt border

Oct. 14

Egypt, Israel and the United States agree to permit foreigners in Gaza to cross via the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, inflicting a chaotic rush to the southern border by Palestinians and foreigners hoping to flee. But no agency timeline is ready on when the border will open.

The IDF publicizes it’s getting ready to implement an “built-in and coordinated attack from the air, sea and land” with an emphasis on a “important floor operation.”

Oct. 15

Sari Bashi, program director for Human Rights Watch, tells ABC News Live that the scenario in Gaza is “about as unhealthy as it will probably get.”

“People are being pressured to drink brackish, untreated water as a result of the value of bottled water has gone up past what most individuals can afford,” Bashi says. “Food is brief, there is no such thing as a electrical energy. Even emergency turbines that hospitals have are operating low on gasoline, and provides are dwindling.”

The variety of U.S. residents decided to have been killed within the Hamas attack on Israel rises to 31. At least 13 American nationals are nonetheless lacking, a State Department spokesperson says.

Biden to go to the Middle East

Oct. 16

The Israel Defense Forces say the variety of hostages believed to have been taken by Hamas has climbed to 199.

Hamas says it’s holding between 200 and 250 hostages and releases video of one in all them, 21-year-old Mia Shem, who was kidnapped on the Supernova music competition attacked by the terrorist group.

Ronen Bar, director of Israel’s Shin Bet safety service, says in a letter that he takes accountability for the Israeli intelligence failure that aided within the success of the Hamas attack, saying, “We have been unable to generate a ample warning for [the] Hamas’ attack.”

The White House publicizes Biden will go to Israel.

Oct. 17

The Pentagon confirms that 2,000 U.S. troops have been placed on a heightened state of readiness for doable deployment to the Middle East, a Pentagon official mentioned Tuesday morning.

Overnight Israeli air raids killed not less than 71 individuals and injured not less than 50 others in Gaza, the Palestinian Health Ministry says.

The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says a whole lot of individuals are killed in an explosion outdoors the al-Ahli Hospital in the course of Gaza City, which was getting used to shelter hundreds of displaced residents.

Palestinian officers declare an Israeli airstrike hit the hospital. The IDF denies accountability for the blast, saying a failed rocket launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad induced it. Netanyahu says, “The barbaric terrorists in Gaza are those who attacked the hospital.” A senior U.S. official tells ABC News on the time that U.S. officers at this level “simply do not know the place the rocket got here from.”

Days later, on Oct. 24, U.S. intelligence officers confirmed a preliminary U.S. authorities evaluation “with excessive confidence that Israel was not chargeable for the explosion of the hospital and that Palestinian militants have been accountable.” The evaluation added “with low confidence” that Islamic Jihad “was chargeable for launching the rocket that landed on the hospital.” Some information retailers reported {that a} U.S. intelligence evaluation estimated between 100 and 300 individuals have been possible killed within the blast.

The incident led to anti-Israel and anti-American protests within the Arab world.

Biden arrives in Israel

Oct. 18

Under the specter of rocket strikes and heightened safety, President Biden arrives in Israel Wednesday morning and is greeted with an embrace by Prime Minister Netanyahu on the tarmac of Ben Gurion Airport close to Tel Aviv.

During a joint look with Netanyahu, Biden says he’s “proud to be right here.”

“I need to say to the individuals of Israel, their braveness, their dedication, their bravery is beautiful, it is actually beautiful,” Biden says, vowing to provide Israel with no matter it must defend itself.

In response, Netanyahu says, “Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you for standing with Israel at the moment, tomorrow and all the time.”

At the Vatican in Rome, Pope Francis appeals for peace within the Middle East.

“Today our ideas go to Israel and Palestine,” the pope says. “Casualties are rising and the scenario in Gaza is determined. Please do every part doable to keep away from a humanitarian disaster.”

Oct. 19

President Biden returns to the White House from Israel and plans to handle the nation Thursday evening, laying out the United States’ response to the Hamas assaults on Israel. During his flight again to Washington on Air Force One, Biden tells reporters he had “blunt” talks with Israeli and Egyptian leaders about offering humanitarian assist to civilians trapped in Gaza, saying he negotiated an settlement to open the Rafah crossing gate in southern Gaza to permit as much as 20 vehicles with assist via.

“I got here to get one thing performed — I acquired it performed,” he says, including that the help might begin rolling into Gaza as early as Friday.

In his prime-time handle Thursday night, Biden is predicted to put out the “second that we’re in” with wars raging within the Middle East and Ukraine, how they hook up with the lives of Americans at home, and the way the administration and Congress want to reply in order that assets from the United States proceed to help each Israel and Ukraine, deputy nationwide safety adviser John Finer says on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Meanwhile, the IDF says it has decided that the variety of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas is as much as 203.

Avi Dichter, a member of the Israeli safety cupboard, tells ABC News that Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in Gaza have a mixed 50,000 fighters and that the Israeli army, which has mobilized greater than 400,000 troopers, has the “inexperienced mild” to maneuver into Gaza and begin its mission of “destroying Hamas.”

Oct. 21

Americans Judith Raanan, 59, and her daughter, Natalie Raanan, 17, have been launched by Hamas to the Red Cross and are actually again in Israel, Israel Defense Forces says.

Oct. 23

The loss of life toll in Gaza has exceeded 5,000 to date within the struggle, which is now on its sixteenth day, in keeping with the Palestinian Health Authority.

Meanwhile, two hostages have been launched by Hamas, the Israeli Hostage Center confirmed. The hostages are two elderly ladies who’re each Israeli nationals, the middle mentioned. The launched hostages are 85-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz and 79-year-old Nurit Cooper, each from the Kibbutz Nir Oz, the middle mentioned.

The Red Cross mentioned it helped transport the hostages out of Gaza Monday night. The hostages have since arrived again in Israel, the hostage middle mentioned. The Israeli army mentioned Monday that not less than 222 hostages have been taken by Hamas since Oct. 7. Two American hostages, a mom and daughter, have additionally been launched.

The Family Forum of the Missing and Hostages mentioned in a press release, “Over 200 Israeli residents are being held in deplorable situations and have been ready to return home for 17 days. We name on the Israeli authorities and world leaders to deliver everybody home now.”

Netanyahu says struggle has entered ‘new part’

Oct. 28

Prime Minister Netanyahu publicizes that the struggle on Hamas had entered a “new part,” together with elevated aerial assaults and broader, sustained floor operations.

Oct. 30

The loss of life of Shani Luk, a 23-year-old German-Israeli lady who was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, is confirmed by each the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the German authorities.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz writes on social media, “The information of Shani Louk’s loss of life is horrible.”

“This reveals the complete barbarity behind the Hamas attack — who should be held accountable.” Scholz says. “This is terror, and Israel has the suitable to defend itself.”

Nov. 1

Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, probably the most populous refugee camp within the area, is hit by a second airstrike, in keeping with the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.

The Israel Defense Forces confirms that on Nov. 1, “based mostly on exact intelligence, IDF fighter jets struck a Hamas command and management complicated” in Jabalia, and that Hamas fighters have been killed within the strike.

“Hamas intentionally builds its terror infrastructure below, round and inside civilian buildings, deliberately endangering Gazan civilians,” the IDF says. “The IDF has been urging Gazans on this neighborhood to evacuate as a part of its efforts to mitigate hurt to civilians. The IDF continues to name on all residents of northern Gaza and Gaza City to evacuate southwards to a safer space.”

The IDF additionally takes accountability for the primary strike on Oct. 31, saying the blast killed a Hamas official who the IDF claimed was one of many leaders of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

The border crossing between Gaza and Egypt opens on Nov. 1, permitting some international nationals and injured Gaza residents to exit the enclave for the primary time because the Israel-Hamas struggle started on Oct. 7.

Seventeen ambulances, every transporting one injured Gazan, crossed the border into Egypt, ABC News has confirmed.

The Rafah border crossing, which is managed by Egypt, was anticipated to permit about 500 international passport holders to exit, in keeping with the Gaza Borders and Crossings Authority, which launched an inventory of names of those that can be allowed throughout. At least 110 twin nationals have crossed the Rafah border into Egypt, ABC News confirms.

Nov. 2 and three

Hamas releases two movies, one on every day, of what it claims are its fighters rising from tunnels to battle.

ABC News cannot verify when or the place the movies have been shot.

Nov. 5

Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters come collectively to name for a cease-fire and an finish to the siege on the Gaza Strip at a march in Washington, D.C.’s Freedom Plaza.

Nov. 6

Israeli Air Force planes continued their bombing marketing campaign all through Gaza, hanging some 450 targets in a single day, as different Israeli forces captured a Hamas compound, IDF officers mentioned in a press release.

The Hamas compound included an online of “underground terror tunnels,” in addition to coaching areas and commentary posts, the army mentioned in a publish on Telegram. Israel didn’t disclose the situation of the compound. ABC News was not instantly capable of confirm the IDF’s claims.

“During the operation, a number of Hamas terrorists have been killed,” Israel mentioned.

At least 10,022 individuals have died in Gaza because the Israel-Hamas struggle started on Oct. 7, the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry mentioned on Nov. 6.

As U.S. officers continued their requires humanitarian “pauses” to permit assist to achieve civilians caught in Gaza, Israel confirmed no indicators of slowing their advance.

Netanyahu, talking with ABC News “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir in an unique interview, once more rejected the thought of a cease-fire in Gaza until hostages are launched.

“What they’re proposing is a humanitarian pause, there will probably be no pause?” Muir pressed Netanyahu, shortly after he had spoken with Biden.

“Well, there will be no cease-fire, basic cease-fire, in Gaza with out the discharge of our hostages,” Netanyahu responded. “As far as tactical little pauses, an hour right here, an hour there. We’ve had them earlier than, I suppose, will test the circumstances to be able to allow items, humanitarian items to come back in, or our hostages, individual hostages to depart. But I do not assume there’s going to be a basic cease-fire.”

Israel implements 4-hour pauses

Nov. 9

Israel will begin to implement four-hour pauses in combating in areas of northern Gaza every day, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby publicizes.

“We’ve been advised by the Israelis that there will probably be no army operations in these areas over the period of the pause, and that this course of is beginning at the moment,” Kirby says.

IDF spokesman Richard Hecht says the pauses are already being held. Kirby says the pauses will probably be introduced three hours forward of time.

Kirby says the Israelis have additionally agreed to a second humanitarian hall that can enable individuals to depart hostile areas of northern Gaza.

Nov. 10

The combating round Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza intensifies, and a strike hits the courtyard outdoors the hospital. The hospital loses energy and ceases functioning as a hospital.

Nov. 12

At least 9 Americans stay unaccounted for, and U.S. officers consider they’re being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, White House nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan tells ABC News.

Nov. 14

The IDF publicizes the non permanent opening of evacuation corridors within the war-torn Gaza Strip to permit extra individuals within the north of the Hamas-run enclave to maneuver south.

A “protected passage” will probably be open “for humanitarian functions” by way of the Salah al-Din freeway towards the realm south of Wadi Gaza between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. native time, in keeping with the IDF.

Israeli Defense Minister Gallant says throughout a briefing that “Hamas has misplaced management of Northern Gaza.”

“We management Northern Gaza, particularly Gaza City,” Gallant says.

The IDF says it is finishing up a “exact and focused operation towards Hamas” in an space within the Al-Shifa Hospital.

Nov. 15

The IDF says its floor troops are persevering with to hold out “a exact and focused operation towards Hamas in a specified space” of the most important hospital within the Gaza Strip.

The director of Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital later says Israeli forces have now left the hospital complicated following an hourslong raid, however mentioned “tanks and forces are fully stationed in its environment.”

A gasoline truck crosses the Rafah border crossing from Egypt into Gaza, marking the primary time gasoline entered Gaza since Oct. 7, a spokesman for the Palestinian Crossings Authority mentioned, in keeping with The Associated Press.

Nov. 16

Israeli floor troops proceed to hold out a raid on Al-Shifa Hospital for a second day.

A spokesperson for the IDF tells ABC News that, as of 1 p.m. native time, troopers have been nonetheless contained in the hospital, some 34 hours after launching the raid.

The physique of Yehudit Weiss, a 65-year-old lady who was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, was discovered at a “construction adjoining” to Al-Shifa Hospital, the IDF says in a press release.

The Palestinian Telecommunications Group says “all telecom companies in Gaza Strip have gone out of service as all power sources sustaining the community have been depleted, and gasoline was not allowed in.”

Nov. 17

Israeli floor troops proceed to hold out a raid on Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza for a 3rd day.

A spokesperson for the IDF tells ABC News that, as of 1 p.m. native time, troopers have been nonetheless contained in the hospital, some 58 hours after launching the raid.

The Israeli authorities publicizes it should enable two gasoline vehicles per day to enter the Gaza Strip.

Telecommunications companies have been partially restored in Gaza due to gasoline reaching the area, the Palestinian Authority Communications Ministry says.

Nov. 19

IDF intelligence reveals that 19-year-old Noa Marciano, one of many hostages whose physique was discovered close to the Al-Shifa Hospital complicated, was initially taken into Gaza alive after the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, the IDF says throughout a briefing.

After being taken into Gaza “throughout ongoing fight, within the neighborhood of the place she was held captive, Noa’s Hamas captor was killed, and Noa was injured,” IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari says.

“An impartial pathological report has decided Noa’s accidents weren’t life-threatening,” he provides.

The IDF says that, “in keeping with the intelligence now we have in our fingers … Hamas terrorists took Noa into Shifa hospital the place she was murdered shortly.”

“We ship our heartfelt condolences to Noa’s household. We didn’t attain Noa in time. This has solely made the IDF extra decided to do every part, every part in our energy, to deliver all our hostages home,” Hagari provides.

Nov. 20

More than two dozen untimely, low-birthweight infants have been evacuated from Gaza to Egypt to obtain specialised care.

A joint mission between the United Nations and the Palestine Red Crescent Society, led by the World Health Organization, evacuated 31 infants from the embattled Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza to Al-Helal Al-Emarati Maternity Hospital in southern Gaza over the weekend.

Twenty-eight arrive in Egypt, whereas three others who have been in steady situation proceed to obtain care in Gaza, WHO officers mentioned.

Al-Qaida, citing Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, 9/11 and Benghazi, releases a brand new assertion calling for its followers to attack U.S. and Israeli targets, particularly embassies, and to attack the place they’re with out warning.

Netanyahu says struggle towards Hamas will not cease after a cease-fire

Nov. 21

The World Health Organization says not less than three hospitals within the war-torn Gaza Strip have requested assist with evacuating sufferers, and that planning is underway to evacuate Al-Shifa Hospital, Indonesian Hospital and Al-Ahli Hospital in northern Gaza — however that such an occasion was a final resort.

Three docs have been killed in a strike at northern Gaza’s Al-Awda Hospital, in keeping with Doctors Without Borders. The hospital says solely medical personnel, sufferers and the injured have been inside the ability on the time.

Netanyahu, talking forward of a Cabinet assembly and vote on a possible hostage deal, says Israel’s struggle towards Hamas won’t cease after a cease-fire.

Netanyahu says the struggle will proceed till Hamas is destroyed, all hostages are introduced home, and Israel has ensured “that there will probably be no aspect in Gaza that threatens Israel.”

Israel’s Cabinet votes to approve deal for hostage launch

Nov. 22

Israel’s Cabinet authorised a deal that may enable for the discharge of not less than 50 hostages over the course of a four-day pause in hostilities, Netanyahu publicizes. As part of this deal, 150 Palestinian prisoners will even be launched by Israel.

The “Israeli authorities has authorised the define to the primary part” of bringing hostages home, Netanyahu says in a launch, with not less than 50 being launched over the course of the four-day pause in combating.

The authorities of Israel, the IDF and the Israeli safety forces will proceed to battle the struggle for the return of all hostages, the elimination of Hamas and to make sure that Gaza won’t pose a risk to Israel, in keeping with Netanyahu.

Three Americans — together with a 3-year-old — are anticipated to be a part of the preliminary group of hostages that will probably be launched as a part of a deal negotiated between Hamas, Israel, Qatar and the United States, in keeping with a senior administration official.

President Biden releases a press release thanking Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani of Qatar and President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt for his or her “essential management and partnership” in serving to to dealer a deal between Hamas and Israel over the discharge of hostages. He additionally thanks Netanyahu for his dedication to the non permanent pause guaranteeing the deal could be carried out and “deliver home extra American hostages.” Biden says he “won’t cease till they’re all launched.”

Despite reaching an settlement with Hamas on a short lived pause in combating in trade for the discharge of dozens of hostages, the Israeli army continues to bombard the Gaza Strip later within the morning.

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