JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Previously 12 months within the Gaza Strip, Israel has bombed greater than 40,000 targets, discovered 4,700 tunnel shafts and destroyed 1,000 rocket launcher websites, the army mentioned on Monday’s one-year anniversary of the Hamas-led militant assaults that triggered Israel’s assault on the enclave.
Tallying troops whose names it obtained permission to publish, Israel’s army mentioned 726 Israeli troopers had been killed since Oct. 7, 2023. Of these, 380 died within the Oct. 7 assaults and 346 in Gaza fight beginning Oct. 27, 2023.
Injured troops numbered 4,576 since that date. Fifty-six troopers died on account of operational accidents, which the army didn’t outline.
In knowledge to mark the Oct. 7 anniversary, the Israeli army mentioned it enlisted 300,000 reservists for the reason that begin of the warfare – 82% males and 18% ladies and almost half of them aged 20 to 29.
Because the begin of the warfare, 13,200 rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza. One other 12,400 have been fired from Lebanon, whereas 60 got here from Syria, 180 from Yemen and 400 from Iran, the army mentioned.
It mentioned it killed greater than 800 “terrorists” in Lebanon, the place 4,900 targets have been struck from the air together with about 6,000 floor targets. Over the previous 12 months, Israel arrested greater than 5,000 suspects within the West Financial institution and Jordan Valley.
The army mentioned it killed eight Gaza militant brigade commanders, about 30 battalion commanders and 165 firm commanders over the previous 12 months.
The warfare in Gaza was triggered when Palestinian Hamas militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 individuals and taking about 250 as hostages, in line with Israeli tallies. Greater than 100 hostages stay held by Hamas.
Israel’s subsequent army assault on Gaza has killed almost 42,000 Palestinians, in line with Gaza’s well being ministry.
