In the Re’im settlement, a crowd of people began the ceremony with a minute of silence at 3:29 GMT, the time the attack on the settlements around the Gaza Strip began.
On the first anniversary of the attacks launched by Hamas that resulted in an Israeli military campaign on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said that Israel hit more than 40,000 targets in the Strip during the past year, discovered 4,700 tunnel openings, and destroyed a thousand rocket launching sites.
Israeli army losses:
The Israeli army added that since October 7, 2023:
- 726 Israeli soldiers were killed.
- 380 of them were killed in the military campaign.
- 346 were killed in battles inside Gaza.
- 4576 soldiers were injured in battles.
- 56 soldiers were killed as a result of incidents during operations that the army did not specify.
- 300,000 reserve soldiers have been recruited since the start of the war.
- 82% of recruits are men and 18% are women.
Another statistic:
Statistics announced by the Israeli army indicate that since the start of the war:
- 13,200 rockets were launched at Israel from Gaza.
- Another 12,400 missiles were launched from Lebanon.
- 60 missiles were launched from Syria.
- 180 missiles from Yemen.
- 400 missiles from Iran.
Palestinian numbers:
During the past year, Israel arrested more than 5,000 people in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley that it says are suspects.
The army said that it killed 8 brigade commanders of armed factions from Gaza, about 30 battalion commanders, and 165 company commanders during the past year.
The Israeli forces have continued their aggression against the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, resulting in the killing of 41,870 citizens and the injury of 97,166 others, the majority of whom are children and women, in an infinite toll, as thousands of missing persons are still under the rubble, according to what was reported. Palestinian News Agency “Wafa”.
