Impacts of Israel and Gaza war

The Israel-Gaza war has had a lot of lasting impacts on the areas involved 

Israel and Gaza have been at war for years now, causing widespread destruction, leaving the area in ruins, causing many civilians to die, and leading people to ask, “When will it end?” 

The war started when a terrorist group called Hamas launched an attack from the Gaza Strip, killing 1,195 people and taking 251 people hostage on October 7, 2023. Hamas is a militant Palestinian nationalist and Islamist movement that was founded in 1987, whose goal is to create an independent Islamic state in historical Palestine. Israel responded by carrying out multiple attacks on the Gaza Strip, causing many casualties and damage. These acts have severely affected civilian lives, with many of their homes being destroyed or damaged in these attacks. 

“Roughly 86,000 housing units have been destroyed and almost 300,000 more have been damaged in the Palestinian territories,” the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said in a ABC News article. 

It’s not just civilian houses that are being destroyed in these attacks 

“25,000 buildings have been destroyed, 32 hospitals forced out of service, and three churches, 341 mosques, and 100 universities and schools destroyed,” according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. 

Because of these attacks, many civilians have been accidentally killed. 

“Recorded at least 53,000 deaths from Israeli attacks, meaning that named fighters accounted for just 17 percent of those killed, with civilians at about 83 percent of the total death toll,” Gaza’s health authorities said in a Bing News article. 

People don’t know when this war will end, but they know it needs to stop soon. 

“Ending this human-made crisis demands that we act as if it were our mother, our father, our child, our family trying to survive in Gaza today,” Joyce Msuya, assistant secretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs, said in a UN article.