Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza: By the numbers
On October 7, 2023, Hamas-led militants attacked Israel, killing
approximately 1,200 people, and abducted around 250 others. Israel immediately
began attacking and invading Gaza, killing thousands of civilians and destroying
the Palestinian territory. Two years later, the Gaza War peace plan was signed,
and about 1,700 Palestinian detainees from Gaza who had been held by Israel
without charge were welcomed with tears when they were released in Gaza and the
occupied West Bank. They were freed as part of an exchange in which 20 living Israeli
hostages were released by Hamas after 738 days in captivity. According to Al
Jazeera, a global media network headquartered in Doha, Qatar, over 67,000 Palestinians,
including more than 20,000 children, were killed by Israeli forces. Thousands more
bodies were still under the rubble, and 170,000 were injured during the
two-year war, including medical staff and aid workers.
Wasn’t such use of force the only way to make Hamas disarm and
release the living hostages? Who will now help the Palestinians clean up the mess
and rebuild Gaza?
Read the article and learn how devastated Gaza has been in the last two
years.
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